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After more than 280 mass shootings, it's not about the shooter: we need change

After more than 280 mass shootings, it's not about the shooter: we need change | "PRAYERS ARE WELCOME, THOUGHTS CERTAINLY WELCOME, BUT THAT'S NOT ENOUGH."; JACOB FREY, MAYOR OF MINNEAPOLIS | image tagged in guns,thoughts and prayers,mass shooting,change,gun control | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
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5 ups, 4mo
We need more politicians like Jacob Frey!
4 ups, 4mo,
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made w/ Imgflip meme maker
4 ups, 4mo,
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So, even if that is this year, that a miniscule percentage of the mass shooters. Where's your meme that announces that more than 99% of mass shooters are CIS?
1 up, 3w
Most of that is a lie anyway. The Colorado Springs shooter was not only extremely anti-gay, but they never said anything about being non-binary until their lawyers made that claim after they were arrested.

And about half of the other people on that list who were said to be transgender were never actually confirmed to be.
1 up, 3w
More lies
4 ups, 4mo
What do you expect when the MAGA haters target a minority group for bullying?
5 ups, 4mo,
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This from the mayor who left antifa run his city and burn businesses down, costing $2 billion dollars to the taxpayer.
No, it's about mental health.
4 ups, 4mo
The Trump administration says it will stop paying out $1 billion in federal grants that school districts across the country have been using to hire mental health professionals, including counselors and social workers.
4 ups, 4mo
What a slimeball
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1 up, 4mo,
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So, you're saying that we've had a series of 286 tragic, coincidental one-off mass shootings during the first 8 months of the year in this country, because each one was about the shooter. In Great Britain, where people are just as ornery as Americans, there have been 3 mass shootings since 2000.

The difference is the gun laws.

We can't make sure that all people are content and mentally healthy all the time, but we can make sure that when people snap, guns are less likely to be on their hips or in their handbags. Canada is a good example to look to for this. People own guns, as they do here, but there is enough of a hedging around the way the guns are registered and restricted that they don't have mass shootings multiple times a week.

This is a classic behavioral health problem. It's just like cigarettes, or seatbelts.
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0 ups, 3mo
I'm going to delete my previous comment because I'm sorry to have come in so hot and I sympathize with your argument.
However, in the USA we do not have divine rights constitutionally guaranteed to cigarettes or seatbelts, but we do to arms with which we could fend of another tyrannical government should one arise.
Because of this right we also must suffer the downstream effects of freedom which is consequences such as gun deaths. The question I want people to ask is not "how can we disarm the population" which will leave us vulnerable to even more violence and increase the amount of people dying, but "how can we lower the rate of gun deaths as much as possible while still protecting our God-given right to protect ourselves".
0 ups, 3w
They hate my thoughts and my prayers. #stupidliberals
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I'm not taking the shooter's side: shooting people is wrong; even brandishing a gun at them is a crime. I'm just noting that if we try to solve this problem shooter by shooter, we are failing. There will always be a person who has a mental health need or crisis; there will always be a person having a Very Bad Day. If those people have easy access to guns, particularly ones with large magazines and rapid fire rates, we will have mass shootings. It's been more than one a day so far this year.
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