• LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    They’ve become so common, they’re mostly unreported now unless they’re unusual in some way, like the Maine shooting by a Guardsman who was watched by law enforcement for months in advance.

    Yes, mass shootings in the US have become mundane.

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      9 months ago

      I’m starting to feel like I was right by not wanting to move to the USA. Like, sure, the tech salaries here are 2-3x lower, but I’m more than 2-3x less likely to die in a shooting so I think it balances out a little bit.

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        9 months ago

        Emotions are a bitch aren’t they?

        Your odds of dying in a shooting are virtually zero unless you hang out in schools for fun. Media wants you to feel this way. Stop being played by the media.

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          8 months ago

          Well the car deaths being on the rise is also a policy failure. We’re letting car makers make cars that are better at killing pedestrians. Kind of sounds familiar…

          And sure the odds are small I would get involved in a mass shooting, my kids who go to school however literally have school shooting drills.