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      You just made me realize how much I’d love to live in a country where there was no such thing as a “normal shooting”.

      Gun culture in America is absolutely fucked.

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      They’re so goddamn brain rotted that they don’t even realize how completely fucked that is.

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        The “normal” number of people getting shot is 0.

        They want you to sweep gun violence under the rug. You don’t need to ask why, it’s because gun sales bring in millions in profits for the gun-lobby and the Republicans they purchase.

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            I didn’t claim the number could be 0, I claimed the acceptable number is 0.

            Following every one of those shootings you linked, people demanded to know how it happened. Why did they have a gun? Was there warning signs that were missed? Was anybody negligent? How can we stop it from happening again and limiting the damage if it does?

            That is the reaction of a society that finds any number above 0 unacceptable. They treat mass shootings as a failure of the system.

            Meanwhile in America, they don’t bother to ask those questions.

            They had a gun because it’s trivial to get your hands on semi-automatic rifles and handguns, even if you can’t pass a background check, because there are millions of unsecured weapons and no universal background checks.

            The police and politicians are deliberately negligent, staunchly opposing red flag laws despite most mass shooters having multiple red flags.

            No effort is made to prevent it happening again, because the murder of 20 children is shrugged off as some kind of inevitability, no more preventable than an earthquake or tornado – much the same as you’re doing right now.

            Limiting the damage isn’t just staunchly opposed by the pro-gun community, many of them fully support making more dangerous weaponry available.

            These are not the actions of people who find all gun violence unacceptable and the only reason the Ulvade police are criticized and the Newtown police are given a pass is because the Ulvade police didn’t bother to pretend they cared.