OT Mass shooting at Highland Park, IL 4th of July parade

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    If you are talking about Taiwan, Riverman who knows the culture there is telling you differently. Guns haven't changed there. Kids still can't get them there.

    If you are talking about here, yes technology has caused changes. When I was a kid game systems were just becoming big, computers in the home were still in the infant state. There was no playing online with friends then.

    Video games and computers are far more accessible now. Streaming, YouTube, etc has more things for us to watch than ever. The internet has evolved.

    It's easy to say the answer is to make parents watch what their kids are doing and restrict their kids from watching or playing certain games or going to certain places online. Parents should be doing that by the way, but there is no way to make sure all the millions of parents do that. That's more impossible than getting rid of some guns.

    Restricting access to guns for young people, holding parents responsible for their gun storage, and cracking down on hateful websites that are espousing these terrible ideologies is a good start.
     
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    That's a failure of epic fucking proportion right there.
     
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    The gun store clerk who sold this freak a gun should be charged with a crime or sued, even though he did pass the "universal background check".

    They need to allow for the discretion of the seller to deny selling a gun because the buyer..... just looks like a school shooter. I mean, come the fuck on.

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    I am speaking of both here and there and how by and large technology is monitored and used by youth much differently than here. Monitored by parents mostly.
    There is a major difference in early childhood education of our country compared to most others. Everything from daycare to careless parents who use technology as a babysitter.
     
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    Remove guns will certainly impact gun crime but there is no evidence it impacts overall crime.

    Many countries with much more strict gun laws have far higher violent crime and murder rates than we do here in the US.

    The ones that don't generally have far better social safety net and gini coefficient than we do.
     
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    You mean, when you live in a failed state, the laws fail to protect you? Shocking!

    Let me get this straight: are you saying "we're too poor of a country to be safe from guns? If only we were rich, like, y'know, most of Europe and the Commonwealth?" Wow, that's certainly a new one.
     
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    truly heartbreaking….
     
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    We should probably fix that before we think about restricting the rights of law abiding citizens to defend themselves.

    No, I didn't say anything about wealth at all.

    I did mention the gini coefficient. Are you unclear on the gini index?
     
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    Yeah but he was just a Supreme Court justice. We know better here in the S2 Blazer forum
     
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    Fucking brutal. So damn sad.
     
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    Shooter was taken alive.
    In Akron unarmed man shot 60 times.
    The difference between them?

    Oh, we can't talk about things that make white people uncomfortable.
     
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