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[-] 5C5C5C@programming.dev 171 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Countries ranked in descending order by number of school shootings from 2009-2018:

  • United States: 288
  • Mexico: 8
  • South Africa: 6
  • Afghanistan: 3
  • Brazil, Canada, France: 2
  • Azerbaijan, China, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Kenya, Russia, Turkey: 1

One of these is not like the others. This isn't exactly a fact of life in other parts of the world.

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[-] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago

That's all just shooting, right, not generally a violence situation in a school?

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago
[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Population of the US: 330m

Brazil: 200m

South Africa: 62m

Afghanistan: 40m

Mexico: 100m

Still not looking so great.

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Per gun? Guns are people too, right?

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[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 98 points 1 week ago

“‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens”

[-] cabbage@piefed.social 90 points 1 week ago
  1. Force unwanted children into this world
  2. Give no childcare support
  3. Send them to underfunded schools
  4. Offer no mental healthcare programs
  5. Make guns readily available
  6. "Facts of life"
[-] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

In the US...yes. Those are facts of life.

Trump gets shot at and the country says there is no room for political violence, we wish him well. Children get shot every single day, that’s just a matter of life, child-sized coffin sales sky-rocket.

But really, why aren’t more politicians being shot? I think if they were the targets instead of innocent children, gun reform would be both swift and severe.

Now, I’m not saying that political violence is acceptable, but I’m certainly not not saying it.

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Becauss the people who go out and try to solve their problems with violence on a scale that would give us that pattern are the republican base. There are plenty of examples outside of that group, obviously, but even the guy who tried to shoot Trump had been a republican until very shortly before the attempt.

[-] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 68 points 1 week ago

Children get slaughtered en masse in their classrooms: 😴

A drag queen reads a children's book to children: 😡

[-] Choco1ateCh1p@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The state of everything is so fucked for my brain to even go this direction... But your comment made me think the following:

Well, in their (the conservative's) heads, yes. A dead kid isn't one that will grow up and eventually vote against them and their hateful ideologies after being around the same things that conservatives demonize.

Edit: Not implying that conservatives want children dead. (That is clearly not the case given their stance on contraception and women's reproductive rights.) But, that they don't care about kids dying to gun's, because "MUh 2nD amendmEnT RigHTS shAn't be INFRIngeD uPoN", and that they view children that have attended these drag events as having been indoctrinated and mentally harmed/abused. That scares them more.

[-] triptrapper@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Comedian Geoffrey Asmus said something like, "I don't understand why Republicans are anti-abortion. Isn't abortion just dead liberals?"

[-] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago

Notice how Vance and the other right-wing pricks don't apply the same reasoning to abortion. Nope, in THAT case they can come up with law after law after law to address the issue. When it comes to the lives of children already here? Pfffttt... perish the thought and the child.

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, in the United States. Not in other western countries. Wonder why, JD? Maybe because it's a "fact of life" that's created and sustained by people like you...

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago

Conservatism is a deadly cancer that needs to be eradicated to save humanity. There is no place in a modern culture for toxic, hate-based ideologies like conservatism. That's just a fact of life.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

JD Vance is a couch fucking sociopath.

[-] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 34 points 1 week ago

A fact of American life because of idiotic gun policy.

[-] KaiReeve@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

School shootings (and JD Vance) are symptoms of a diseased society.

[-] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No, no it isn't.

-residents of like 98% of the rest of the world

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 week ago

Just as natural as love between a man and a couch.

[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

.... in America. Fixed that for you

[-] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 week ago

“You cat ladies just need to make more babies to replace the children killed by gunfire in schools,” said the not insane guy who wants to rule the country and women’s bodies under Project 2025.

Jokes aside, Trump is clearly falling apart. The Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society have gone all-in on Vance. He’s the real would-be dictator. Once elections become rigged at the federal level, he will be President and your vote won’t matter.

[-] simplejack@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Fact of American life.

[-] Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

How about this.

Take JD Vance saying that this is just a "fact of life" and start playing that on political ads all over Georgia. I don't like the idea of exploiting tragedy for political purposes but I think people who are considering voting for this waste of oxygen should know that he considers their kids nothing more than collateral damage.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

at a time like this, a leader should use their pulpit to rally people, make them believe in progress, and cushion the blow.

this guy just blows the cushion.

[-] xenoclast@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

He's unfortunately correct. For the wrong reason tho

[-] uienia@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

It is an inherent part of US life. But the rest of the world is proving that it is definitely not part of life in general.

[-] ATDA@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

So are corrupt, do nothing, hot air spewing politicians. Weird coincidence?

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

This can only improve Harris's odds in Georgia, right? I mean this certainly a renewed sense of purpose to turn out and vote for Georgian Democrats who we know if they turn out they win.

So my take away here is that JD Couchfucker here is saying neither he or Trump are powerful enough to do anything. Is that really the message you want to be sending during your campaign for the highest office in America?

[-] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I'd say "what the fuck" but I'm not even surprised that he said this. Bro is scum.

[-] rayyy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

"Fact of life", Shay Dee Vance is a mentally underdeveloped humanoid. Another, "fact of life" - there is a lot of profit and money to grease politician's hands in those look-alike military gun sales for LARPERS.

[-] Resol@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Can... you do something about it?

[-] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

They have a comprehensive two-pronged approach, they start with thoughts and immediately follow up with prayers, but for the sake of efficiency, they don't actually think or pray.

[-] pachrist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

No, no, the thought is "They're just a liberal crisis actor trying to take away the one thing that makes me feel cool and powerful because my life is a heap of dogshit," then they pray for you to go to hell. Easy!

[-] paf0@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Queue the 1980s TV "Facts of Life" theme song parodies.

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[-] GarrulousBrevity@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

If you're down voting a fact checker, you might want to do some self reflection on why you're upset that Salon doesn't have a perfect rating

[-] OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

If you can't tell the difference between a "fact" and the random opinion of some bot, you might want to do some self reflection in general.

[-] GarrulousBrevity@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's not really a bot's opinion though? It's reporting on salon in general, and letting you know that the reporting has a bias, which means generally, it might promote parts of the story that show Vance in a bad light compared to other reporting, and the. The Ground News link shows that reporting on this topic across several sources tends to be pretty non biased and factual. That's all good information to have, and saying otherwise means you want to let yourself be misled.

And everything other than joining the topic and the source is written by humans who are trying to keep people informed.

[-] OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It's the opinion of one person.

[-] GarrulousBrevity@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I mean, it's pulling from MBFC and ground news, which are not both owned by Dave Van Zandt, and he doesn't work alone. Also, when compared to other fact checking organizations, MBFC performs well, from what I've read. Well enough that if you find their output uncomfortable, you should be second guessing yourself.

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

In case anyone still had doubts that all of their "won't somebody think of the children!" bullshit was just political theater.

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Maybe Lindsay "no joy in real life" Graham is so joyless because of all the JD Vance-sponsored school shootings.

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

What a coward.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago

JDV is a scumback prick. That's just a fact of life. Our country is an anomaly among developed nations and there's absolutely no way to change it. Just wait until a school shooting happens where one of these assholes sends their kids. Will it still be a fact of life?

Jk. None of these pricks send their kids anywhere where these things happen.

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