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

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    Click through before it's gone

     
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    Then what makes it different than a hunting rifle? The picture wasn't clear.
     
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    Do you think they were calling for a ban on tripods?
     
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    The imagery is crazy here:

     
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    I have no words anymore. I'm not desensitized, I'll always be pissed... But what is happening now is just... I'm speechless. The last month... Wtf.
     
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    Instant everything and social media and their platforms overload is what is causing these.
    What has changed is how we communicate. Forums, texts, news from google headlines, etc.
    THIS is the elephant in the room no one wants to tackle. Kids running around with phones and the craziness they have access to. This is what has changed over the last two decades. Not guns, and not politics. Blaming this on a party is a shortsighted and short minded copout for what is readily evident and apparent in every day life compared to that of the pre 90’s… if we only take the political blunders off and see things for what they are in every day life and the behaviors of the average individual.

    Said and pathetic.

    Too many people want a resolution to this increased madness but cant see past their political viewpoint to understand this is not a party issue. This is a community and cultural issue.
     
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    Every industrial nation has access to the same social media platforms as we do. Same social media, same games, same music, yet we crush them in shootings.
     
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    I don't know for sure, but I bet we crush them in children under 15 owning phones too. I also bet we crush them in amount of time children under 15 spend isolated in bedrooms vs doing family function events in the evenings, etc.
    And average hours of television viewing a week. I bet we crush them on that too for children under 15.
    Guns are part of the problem, but the foundation is our cultural behavior. No gun law or restriction is going to change this, until we change our family and community behavioral patterns. Seems those who just blame guns and republicans are the ones not wanting to address the real issues.
     
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    Two more? Jesus
     
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    But we dont have access to the same healthcare or judicial systems they do. And they don't have the war on drugs to contend with...
     
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    That's very misleading. That's an average of people who died when all of the mass shootings are added together and divided by the total in said country in a 6 year span.

    There are far more mass shootings in the US and more...many more have died here as a result. Not to mention the smaller populations of these other countries would skew those results.

    Also we have seen more mass shootings here in the six years following that then we ever have.
     
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    Strenuus, Jul 4, 2022
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