• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    Columbine kicked off an epidemic of school shootings because of the attention it got. Some people need a focus for their misery and I am not ashamed to say that I would rather see heartless corporate executives fear for their safety instead of school children gunned down as they hide in a closet. Just putting that out there.

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      21 hours ago

      It really would be a strange kind of uniquely American poetry if our school shooting problem inverted itself into a megacorp CEO shooting solution.

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        20 hours ago

        If a few more CEOs gets off’d, they’ll ram gun control legislation through congress faster than Trump can wolf down a Big Mac.

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          3 hours ago

          Given that the guy used a (partially) 3D-printed gun, I just can’t fucking wait to see how the overbroad knee-jerk restrictions are going to impact the hobbyist maker space.

        • Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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          17 hours ago

          A papercut that draws blue blood is a bigger issue to these freaks than a river of poor corpses.

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          20 hours ago

          Historically it’s been threats to the owner / controller class that have produced serious gun control legislation in the US, so you are probably right! But if you mean actual confiscation a la Australia, pretty sure that’s off the table here. Sincerely think it’d spark a war no matter who sincerely attempts it or why.

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          20 hours ago

          The cat is out of the bag, no? 3d printing guns is a bit of a Pandoras box in regards to gun control. Especially in America where it has been legal for so long

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            16 hours ago

            Federally legal. I didn’t realize it but like 14 states outlaw them and others have prohibitions on parts of them. Honestly, I’m impressed it didn’t break. The idea of making one makes me nervous over safety. I haven’t even been brave enough to print a stock or foreguard simply out of concern. I also don’t trust aluminum casings (if a shell splits it’s likely damaging the barrel or receiver).

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      22 hours ago

      Hello lonely young men with something to prove, have you seen how much positive attention Luigi got

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        22 hours ago

        Only in America. Where there’s guns, there’s accidental death.

        I say ban the guns so the vigilantes need to use cricket bats. Sell the surveillance tapes for PPV.

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          20 hours ago

          Take it else where to do this circle jerk.

          Stay on topic please. Brian was a prasite. Nothing to do with us fire arm laws.

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          School shootings are very intentional, not accidental.

          Banning guns isn’t going to make 500 million firearms disappear, it’ll just take them out of the hands of law-abiding citizens.

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            21 hours ago

            “Nothing can be done to prevent this.”
            -The only country where this regularly happens

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                  20 hours ago

                  Of course something can be done to prevent it, but just blanket banning things is a horrible policy, and always has been. Or do you think the war on drugs was a smashing success? Drugs went away, and so did all the problems associated with them. Right? Right guys? Right?

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                    At this point I wish to congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs.

                    Given how this, the War on Christmas, the war on Poverty and the War on Terrorism went…

                    If we start a war on the rich, that should make everyone in the world richer than God.

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      19 hours ago

      In this regard, all the media attention might be a good thing. I haven’t seen this much coverage since that runaway bride horse shit 15 years ago.