Politics Thread

[GoMuskies]

If you weren't a joke before you get into politics, politics will make you one. This Tennessee clown. Hilarious.

https://twitter.com/robsmithonline/s...024957443?s=20

[STL_XUfan]

One other constant is these people all have mental issues. Have their been any mass shooters where you can say the shooter has no mental issues at all?

I am going to be honest, I am not actually sure we have good data on what mass shooters had/have a (diagnosed) mental disease and which ones do/did not. I think we all just assume, rightfully so, that you are not committing a mass shooting unless you are fucked in the head (I believe that it is a clinical term).

Eddie Izzard had a good joke on this from back in 1999: "The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill people, uh, people do." But I think, I think the gun helps. You know? I think it helps. I just think just standing there going, "Bang!" That's not going to kill too many people, is it? You'd have to be really dodgy on the heart to have that."

For the psychopaths that did have a diagnosed mental disorder, nothing stopped them from legally obtaining firearms. I think we can all agree that there should be background checks presale to avoid selling guns to mentally disturbed people and strong red flag laws to remove legally purchased guns from those people that develop serious mental disorders.

[paulxu]

If you weren't a joke before you get into politics, politics will make you one. This Tennessee clown. Hilarious.

https://twitter.com/robsmithonline/s...024957443?s=20

I don't do twitter, but why do all those accounts on your link have Chinese characters by them?

[xuwillie]

Ah and here comes the finger pointing. Precisely why nothing ever gets done. Well done guys, you’re a direct reflection of our current repugnant political climate

Not finger pointing just stating facts. Us gun deaths have hit new highs every year since 2020. Unless you had your head in the sand, most predicted a mental health issue in this country would happen due to covid lockdowns.

[Xville]

Not finger pointing just stating facts. Us gun deaths have hit new highs every year since 2020. Unless you had your head in the sand, most predicted a mental health issue in this country would happen due to covid lockdowns.

Link??? Attributing increase of gun deaths to Covid lockdowns is a bit of a stretch considering the numbers have gone up about every year for a very long time. probably a good idea to keep people away from guns and give them mental health resources instead of finger pointing

[xuwillie]

Link??? Attributing increase of gun deaths to Covid lockdowns is a bit of a stretch considering the numbers have gone up about every year for a very long time. probably a good idea to keep people away from guns and give them mental health resources instead of finger pointing

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USAfacts.org. And no gun deaths haven't been going up drastically year to year for a very long time. How do you suggest keeping guns away from people who have normally been sane and just recently lost their minds? Background checks wouldn't catch any of that. I'm trying to say we all knew it was coming but we chose to ignore. Oh well if you consider that fingerpointing

[Xville]

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USAfacts.org. And no gun deaths haven't been going up drastically year to year for a very long time. How do you suggest keeping guns away from people who have normally been sane and just recently lost their minds? Background checks wouldn't catch any of that. I'm trying to say we all knew it was coming but we chose to ignore. Oh well if you consider that fingerpointing

Gunviolencearchive.org you can see that gun violence has gone up just about every year since 2013, actually went down in 22.

You’re attributing one thing to the rise in gun deaths and mass shootings. Imo that’s a little ridiculous. Not saying Covid didn’t cause some mental issues, I’m sure that it did but we have had problems with gun violence way before that.

Not going to completely keep guns away from people, but I do believe there are measures we can take as a country to highly decrease the number of gun related deaths and mass shootings. The us far and away exceeds every other first world country in gun violence deaths. Why do you think that is?

[Strange Brew]

77% of the country were on the side of Reagan and Ford and Carter in wanting that law passed.

Absent the filibuster, the congress would even today reflect the will of the voters, instead of the lobbyists.

And a ban was passed and all of the gun violence ceased. Oh wait, that didn’t happen.

When you go for bans you become the world’s greatest gun salesman. Also, crapping on cops and allowing riots riots didn’t make people feel any safer which equals more gun sales.

[GoMuskies]

I don't do twitter, but why do all those accounts on your link have Chinese characters by them?

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[Xuperman]

And a ban was passed and all of the gun violence ceased. Oh wait, that didn’t happen.

When you go for bans you become the world’s greatest gun salesman. Also, crapping on cops and allowing riots riots didn’t make people feel any safer which equals more gun sales.

Man,
THAT was a harsh dose of reality right there.