It's just a thousand monkeys at typewriters in there.

Occasionally you get a work of Shakespeare in all the gibberish.

Green texts that reach the outside are usually pretty astute, political comment, alternative humor or sharp social commentary. See !4chan@lemmy.world

It's quite the coincidence, many other highly religious countries tend to be extremely violent.

Ah but you see, statisticians are part of the conspiracy. Anyone with an education who can actually read and interpret trends is just in on it! I haven't personally experienced a mass shooting, therefore my state is the safest in the nation!

Either that or we simply aren't Christian enough to ban all other religions yet and God tests his most faithful, yadda yadda

God bless America everyone!

I appreciate your perspective on this. What you describe is about more than just 'assholes don't get guns', although that is a crucial aspect. The way your family owns just 'a' gun, trained for a long while before shooting, respect for following gun laws. This is the opposite of the usual experience around guns in the US. We as a culture in the US are careless and wanton with guns in general from what I've seen.

I was shown how to use a gun when I was 6 years old, my parents were responsible though so it was only an air pistol, but heavy duty, not airsoft. We had a shotgun, 9mm pistol and a .22 rifle in the house never locked up, didn't even have a safe to lock them if my dad wanted to, and the shotgun was often stored loaded. When people here get together to shoot, it's not odd to hand a loaded gun to someone that has never been to a range or even seen one fired before. Plenty of people are much safer than this, but I would guess my experience is the more common from what I've seen.

From what I can tell, most gun safety training in the US is a single sentence: Always treat it like it's loaded, and keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to shoot.

Absolute bullshit, nobody is shooting a duck mid-air with a rifle. Your story is fake and lame.

What is the penalty if you are caught with a gun you are not qualified to have?

Thanks for the interesting read. Really goes to show how mad we are in the US for handing out guns like candy

You shot a 308 round into the air? Isn't that unsafe? If you missed the bullet could go anywhere.

Healthcare is unobtainable for most, housing is now a pipe dream for most, prosperity falling apart, working until you die. "We need to incarcerate all the drug addicts and kill the crazy people".

If only the mass shooters would just target the rich instead of the general public, but I agree with you. A Thanos snap on a good chunk of the conservatives would fix a ton of shit.

The "funny" thing about the police shooting people for having guns is that it essentially means Americans don't actually have the right to own/carry guns. They only have the right to buy them.

no

Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Norway all had a culture of gun ownership, went through a mass shooting, put severe restrictions on gun ownership, and had dramatic drops in gun violence. All those other countries have similar mental illness rates and other things people blame mass shootings on.

Genocide is part of our culture

You can ABSOLUTELY make a good point about mass shootings being the result of mental health disorders or domestic violence, and we should ABSOLUTELY be doing what we can as a society to fix those problems... but we can't ignore the 100% common denominator in literally every mass shooting... which is guns.

I think this is a good problem to solve, however in tandem with other problems enabling access to weapons and subsequent deaths of many innocent people.

You obviously haven't met our cops.

When seconds count, police are minutes away.

Well according to the Supreme Court, police have no duty to protect nor serve the public. Literally, they can watch you get murdered, watch the murderer get away, and still be 100% fine.

Police protect the govt. Period. Nothing else.

I think saying they can deal with even one issue is pretty generous.

They're related thanks to party politics. The party that talks about trans people in sports also rails against gun control.

Also, no one automatically knows what you mean when you say fair. Because of the nature of the debate, you don't deserve the benefit of the doubt where people assume that when you say "fair" you only mean "trans women who have experienced male puberty need to undergo hormone therapy before being allowed to compete in women's sports." And even the people who politically advocate for that invariably wind up also supporting a ban on puberty blockers, or trans men in men's sports, or never allowing trans women to compete no matter how thoroughly physically transitioned they are, or whatever other nonsense.

Bans are just not something that needs to be legislated. Sports organizations can self police in that regard. If anything, we need legislation to ensure trans people CAN compete in the gender category they identify as, with the sole exception of trans women who haven't yet been able to medically transition.

Take chess, for example. FIDE just passed an insane set of rules around when trans women can compete in women's tournaments, and how trans men have to give up any titles they earned while they were still presenting as female, but the gender divisions in chess are completely unrelated to inherent ability. The lack of women in chess is a cultural issue, like in STEM fields, not related to physical ability at all, and the women's division ostensibly exists as an attempt to draw women to the game. What FIDE is doing is purely anti-trans, and there should be legislation keeping them from implementing that. I've no idea how that would work internationally, but the point is trans people need protection, not bans.