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Ahh yeah the shootings only happen in 1 country so that must be the meds that are used world wide. Just say that you don't care and be honest about it. As long as it's not your kids getting shot you couldn't care less. (25)

It seems like an impossible challenge for leftists to understand how to argue.Convincing others that your position is superior is a lot easier when you're not telling them they are horrible people.A large campaign in your local community and a couple of safe companies had a positive impact where I live, but I'll try telling other FUDs they just want to kill children.Bold strategy, seems to be playing out great. (-13)

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Most of us care. But a loud regressive well funded minority of buttholes pump propaganda about guns and freedom. (44)

The second amendment is propaganda? (-14)

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Because some people care about guns more than children's lives. (110)

Everyone cares when kids lose their lives. I have 2 young kids and I have several guns and I hunt. If you think people don't care then you have been captured by propaganda. At this point making guns illegal is not realistic in this country. People don't support outlawing guns because it won't fix the problem. Older guys I know would go to school with hunting rifles in their truck back window. No one got shot. There is a big movement to do more research on school shooters and SSRIs but then again if we do that it would cause a stigma on pharmaceuticals and some people would lose a lot of money. So the counter argument would be why do Americans love their prescriptions more than kids lives? (-15)

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I'll give you some lee way since you put "Seem to" but as most questions on here, the question comes loaded by design. How come past America older teens actually purchased guns out of catalogs and were allowed to bring them to school and store them until the end of the day and there was not 1 school shooting, yet now in more modern times guns are banned from schools, and there's more school shootings. Anybody going to look into that or no? Got to ask why and what factors contribute to such a shift. Idk why everyone pretends it's the guns or perhaps they believe it is incorrectly but has done zero historical research on America and guns. We have more guns in USA than people, YET this issue of school shootings is new, and it's still not as high as you would think it is for a country with more guns than people. We have 365 Million plus population, and more guns than that. Also, Canada is not America, the formulation of a country and it's foundational laws and rights matter. Canada did ... (0)

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I'm going to get shit on for this, because Reddit is full of Leftoids and Leftoids love gun control. America has always had guns, but it didn't always have a mass shooting problem. At one point in time, schools had shooting ranges, and kids would bring guns to school so they could go hunting after school. At some point in our nation's history, something happened to our people. I don't know what it is, but, for some reason, Leftoids seem pathologically adverse to looking into what changed.In as little words as possible, what I believe to have happened is a mix of quotes from Jordan Peterson and ShortFatOtaku.It's revenge against God for the crime of being. Someone has to pay for my misery, and God is out of reach. Seems like the further away from homesteading we got, and the better our conditions got, the more unhappy with existence we became. Bitter. Angry. Resentful. That guy has more than me. His wife is prettier. He has nicer things. A bigger house. A better life. I de... (1)

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Because some people care about guns more than children's lives. (110)

So sick of reading this misguided take. Time and time again, people such as yourself imagine a world "if only people cared about kids more by removing constitutional rights, we'd be safe!" and "Shouldn't one kids life be worth that effort?"OK. Shouldn't kids lives be worth physical security? The immediate response to that is "OMG why have schools be like prisons! We cannot have that!" What happened to "Isn't it worth one kids life?"We have physical security in all areas of society. Corporate offices, banks, government buildings, airports, sports arenas, concert venues, bars, etc. So you're totally cool with having controlled ingress/egress and scanners for contraband there, but not at schools? Explain why kids lives are less important, I'll wait.Now onto the gun debate. Let's assume we all agreed if we had zero guns there wouldn't be school shootings (similar to "you can't drown in the backyard if there are no pools" argument). OK there's probably 400,000,000 firearms in this countr... (1)

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I always just drop a fat, juicy "my right to self defense is more important than your children's lives" in arguments like this and watch the pearls clutch themselves.

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Why do u need a gun to defend yourself?

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Because my r*pe whistle is in the shop for a software update.

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Mine got too far up my butt and now I can't reach it :marseygiveup:

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because I'm racist

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because these dam schoolkids keep trying to attack me whenever I go hunting in a school

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BIPOCs.

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bring out a whip

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Because a knife has a limited area of effectiveness https://i.rdrama.net/images/17435514583GWIjcjRWJ_qJQ.webp

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Get a spear nig

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I have a habit of overpulling aggro

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Because some people care about guns more than children's lives.

It feels nice when reddit acknowledges my views instead of pretending they don't exist.

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Frick them kids


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if they were working in the mines theyd be safe from these problems :marseyindignant:

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It's so goddarn annoying seeing all the whining about DeSantis allowing kids to work overtime. I worked 12-hour shifts as a kid and it taught me important lessons, like that working 12-hour shifts kind of sucks.

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Did it motivate you to get a better job where you didn't have to work 12s

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Redditors agree with this.

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You got it doc


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There's like a hundred million :marseysamhyde2: people in America :marseyusa: and mass shootings kill about 100 people in a year. It's so insignificant :marseynothingburger: that the only reason people care is that the "news" over reports it because they hate you having rights :marseymicrosoftpride:

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Also we've always had tons of guns yet school shootings really only because a bigger thing since Columbine. Heck my dad used to keep a gun in his truck back when he went to high school

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It's because they literally became a meme.

Also it's interesting how back when you could drop out of school and get a job school shootings weren't a thing

!nooticers Ever notice that?

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Lots of people are killed in mass shootings. The vast amount of mass shooting perpetrators are :marseyblack: unless you weirdly define it as 5+ homicides instead of casulties

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We just need to get a license and register our weapons and have them locked up/secured (no conceal and carry). Why do Americans buck any sort of gun registry or control at all when these things clearly work?


then your right to bare arms can be restricted by licensing laws and background checks.


why do redditors think there are zero restrictions or laws about guns? that you can just walk in to any store and get a gun with zero paperwork or registration or anything. they talk about guns so fricking much but they don't know anything at all about it. :uhuh:

Because some people care about guns more than children's lives.

:quote: oh, you don't want to ban all guns because a kid died? THAT MEANS YOU CARE MORE ABOUT GUNS THAN CHIDLREN'S LIVES!!!! :quote:

every fricking time. i hate redditors so god darn much.

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Let's make it illegal for students to bring a gun into a school

:#marseyfsjal:

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if we had one more law there would never be another shooting period. they wouldn't want to break that new law! the problem isn't people or guns or video games or rock and/or roll music. it's that there aren't enough laws. anyone who disagrees loves dead kids. :hmph:

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BUT WHAT ABOUT GUN SHOWS AND WHERE DO YOU THINK ILLEGAL GUNS CAME FROM? IF WE MADE GUNS ILLEGAL THERE WOULD BE NO MORE ILLEGAL GUNS

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illegal guns come from mexico it's why we need to build the wall!

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Any gun information is literally antithetical to the libshit worldview

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Alexa, how many of those 9 school shootings in 2025 involved a gun that the perpetrator was legally able to carry?

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>/r/AskUS

"America bad?"

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"Why are conservatives horrible people?"

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All these subs are populated by kids who hate America.

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>4 school shooting this year

how many of those were gang/rowdy related?

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Didn't see any news coverage about them, so probably all of them

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4 whole events in a population of 340 million people absolutely warrants massive sweeping changes to the foundation of a society via ignorant and hastily conceived legislation.

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its the same reason why "people dont care about kids dhing in car accidents". About as many children die in car accidents every year. Driving a car is not a fundamental right or even a right in any regard, so it would be very easy to create mpre refulations/legislation on it. If they passed a law that all children under age 16 lets say have to wear a helmet in the car it wpuld save at least hundreds if not tjousands of children's lives. They dont do that tho bc such lehislation would be burdensome and unpopular and the politic8ans who forxed that on people wpuldnt get reelected. Why does no one virtue signal about rhe children by going after the "evil auto manifacturers" killing thousands of cjildren every hear with their products?

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Because killing things isn't the purpose of a car

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That doesnt counter anything I just said. The purpose of lawn darts wasnt to kill peple butt that didnt stop regulators from banning them.

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Comparing school shootings to car accidents is a genuinely r-slurred comparison. Even lawn darts is fricking dumb. Cars serve an important practical non-violent purpose for society but sometimes things happen with them to cause harm. Guns exist for the purpose of shooting things. Lawn darts are a purely leisure item whose usefulness didn't outweigh the danger they caused.

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Guns being prevalent in America is the only reason the cops here don't go full boot-on-face mode like in Eastern Europe and Australia.

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I'm not even being anti-gun. I just think it's r-slurred to compare car accidents to shootings

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guns serve an important practical violent purpose for society but sometimes things happen with them (this is "a car drove into a crowd" language :marseydisgust:)

sometimes people kill each other

guns exist for the purpose of shooting things,

however shooting things is no less practical or important a purpose than getting from A to B :marseyindignant:

the usefulness IS the danger they cause

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Lawn darts are a purely leisure item whose usefulness didn't outweigh the danger they caused.

and they still got banned, unlike guns :hmm:

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Im comparing preventable deaths to even more preventable deaths. You cant regulate or ban guns nearly as easy as you could regulate cars. If saving lives were a concern they could pullout more regulations on cars to save lives butt theh dont bc it would be impractical/unpopular. Youre argument seems to come down to some type of philosphy pertaining to the intent of rhe killing, like a child who dies in a car accident is somehow more moral than a kid killed by a gun, butt at the end of the day a death is a death and legally its much easier to save lives by regulating cars than by regulating guns bc their is no constitutional protection or right to drive a car. Any politician more concerned with regulating/banning guns than refulating cars to make them safer is clearly a powerhungry hippocryt

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maybe not the one YOU built

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It is when I'm behind the wheel!

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And the vast majority of civilian-owned guns are not being bought by someone who wants to maximize their body count. Apart from a few gangbangers and psychos people own guns in the hope that they won't have to actually shoot anyone.

You could just as easily say that the "purpose" of nuclear weapons is to kill people, but none of the countries with nuclear weapons actually built them hoping to use them someday.

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America is a fricking huge nation. Despite how often you see mainstream media coverage of school shootings, it is an extremely statistically insignificant risk to any given child. There are ton of other things in this country that kill way more children that the US also just doesn't acknowledge.

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Also we can't even have an actual conversation about it because lefties like to conflate different things because they're high on sniggering their straggy intersectional farts.

They'll start talking about total number of "mass shootings" but refuse to acknowledge 99% of them are nogs cappin other nogs with gang shit. They use bullshit like that "number of weapon discharges in a school zone" article and ignore most of those are just self inflicted gunshot wounds from someone making brainstem spaghetti who happens to live 2 blocks away from a school.

I actually "respect" the ones that say frick you were coming for guns more than the other cute twinks who kittyfoot around it. Once they start actually being honest I'll listen. I wont concede shit to them because I'm not a Fudd, but I'll at least listen out of respect for them finally acknowledging reality.

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They dont even happen that much, lazy butt kids.

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Why do so many of these people think there were literally no school shootings before 1999?

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If I was the gun in a school shooting. I'd jam and wouldn't fire until my barrel was leveled straight at the head of a person who'd complain about school shootongs

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Why would I want to remove my rights because Federal Agents do heinous things?

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It's not that we don't care, it's that we recognize that it's a horrifically-overblown issue which is only raised by people who are already motivated to find some sort of excuse to hate America. The same people who will call you a racist if you talk about urban crime.

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Why do Europeans not take steps to prevent trucks of peace from driving through their Christmas markets every year?

Why do British people not seem to care about stabbings?

Why do swedish people not care about bombings in their capital every week?

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when the school near me got shot up, there was way less traffic in the mornings. unfortunately they only stayed closed for like 2 weeks and when they reopened i was late for work

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!oolschayootershays there are more shootings in general in the US than everywhere else. Attacks against schools happen in other Western countries but in different forms (also probably differences in the school environment) Russia has a decent amount of school shootings and shooting deaths as well but they don't care. :marseyputin:

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Gun violence is more prevalent in the US than in certain regions in Africa and the Middle East that live in a perpetual state of war? Is gun more violence more prevalent here than it is in Haiti right now?

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Jaded.

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Guns and child murder are bad butt

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>Because some people care about guns more than children's lives.

I didn't consent to having any of those kids :marseyindignant:

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Same reason bongs don't care about paki male feminists - they are an unavoidable consequence of our core values

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It seems like an impossible challenge for leftists to understand how to argue.Convincing others that your position is superior is a lot easier when you're not telling them they are horrible people.A large campaign in your local community and a couple of safe companies had a positive impact where I live, but I'll try telling other FUDs they just want to kill children.Bold strategy, seems to be playing out great.:

The second amendment is propaganda?:

Everyone cares when kids lose their lives. I have 2 young kids and I have several guns and I hunt. If you think people don't care then you have been captured by propaganda. At this point making guns illegal is not realistic in this country. People don't support outlawing guns because it won't fix the problem. Older guys I know would go to school with hunting rifles in their truck back window. No one got shot. There is a big movement to do more research on school shooters and SSRIs but then again if we do that it would cause a stigma on pharmaceuticals and some people would lose a lot of money. So the counter argument would be why do Americans love their prescriptions more than kids lives?:

I'll give you some lee way since you put "Seem to" but as most questions on here, the question comes loaded by design. How come past America older teens actually purchased guns out of catalogs and were allowed to bring them to school and store them until the end of the day and there was not 1 school shooting, yet now in more modern times guns are banned from schools, and there's more school shootings. Anybody going to look into that or no? Got to ask why and what factors contribute to such a shift. Idk why everyone pretends it's the guns or perhaps they believe it is incorrectly but has done zero historical research on America and guns. We have more guns in USA than people, YET this issue of school shootings is new, and it's still not as high as you would think it is for a country with more guns than people. We have 365 Million plus population, and more guns than that. Also, Canada is not America, the formulation of a country and it's foundational laws and rights matter. Canada did ...:

I'm going to get shit on for this, because Reddit is full of Leftoids and Leftoids love gun control. America has always had guns, but it didn't always have a mass shooting problem. At one point in time, schools had shooting ranges, and kids would bring guns to school so they could go hunting after school. At some point in our nation's history, something happened to our people. I don't know what it is, but, for some reason, Leftoids seem pathologically adverse to looking into what changed.In as little words as possible, what I believe to have happened is a mix of quotes from Jordan Peterson and ShortFatOtaku.It's revenge against God for the crime of being. Someone has to pay for my misery, and God is out of reach. Seems like the further away from homesteading we got, and the better our conditions got, the more unhappy with existence we became. Bitter. Angry. Resentful. That guy has more than me. His wife is prettier. He has nicer things. A bigger house. A better life. I de...:

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