• Arsen6331 ☭
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    2 years ago

    Another day, another shooting. This place needs to be destroyed.

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    I’ve heard right-wing dipshits saying to arm the teachers. How about the liberal teachers that may not want to use a firearm? What about the cost of arming AND training every teacher? Who is the lowest level employee with access to firearms at work? What happens when, not if, but when a larger student charges the teacher and takes their gun? Isn’t the main thing that’s stopping most potential school shooters the fact that they don’t have access to a gun easily? Well, that just puts a new gun into the mix that the kid wouldn’t be able to use.

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      All cons know how to do is victim blame. When they “suggest” things like teachers should be armed or kids should have bullet proof backpacks, what they really mean is that “Bad things wouldn’t happen if the sheep weren’t so weak.” The sheep being anyone whose not a self righteous nutjob like them.

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        And it also feeds into a market. Think about it, the bulletproof backpack companies may be getting some new purchases, godforbid they actually do the guns in class thing, the gun lobbies will be raking it in. Body armor and other accessories for police will be sold more bc the only thing being talked about on the right about these shootings is the need for MORE police budgets, despite the fact that we spend nearly twice as much on police budgets as China, we spend 428 Billion and we have about 1 billion less people than them. More policing doesn’t change the fact that we have so many police officers murdering innocents and brutalizing people who could be de-escalated

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      They don’t even pay the teachers enough to teach, let alone double as security.

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        Actually, giving firearm training to a group of underpaid and underappreciated members of the working class might not be too bad of an idea.

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      That’s the ingenuity of capitalism! Make your populace infinitely worse, tell yourself self affirming notions of capitalist realism, and finally, any solution that follows is super reactionary.

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    The only response I see from the Right is that the solution is to “armor up” schools. Nothing about gun laws or mental health, the problem is that schools aren’t fortresses with students wearing kevlar.

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      This isn’t a mental health problem it’s a hyper-reactionary in the imperial core problem

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      The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is 10 meters of tungsten plating and rail guns.

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    Aside from a gun problem, this country also has a not valuing human life problem. It’s so much bigger than just guns.

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      Another thread said he was not wearing body armor, the cops called swat in and just waited and gave that as the reason, but he had none.

      Even then bulletproof vests don’t make you immune to bullets lol just makes them less lethal.

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    Number 12 in 7 days.

    Number somewhere between 200-300 this year.

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    Lol, poor OP posting a timely and relevant piece of news only to have it downvoted to hell a year later because of a lemmy bug.

    Sorry, muad dibber, if you’re still here.

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          Did I claim to? Knowing a potential reason for something doesn’t mean I do it myself. I know the most likely way a child will die in America as well, does that insinuate I’m out there shooting children?

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            In that case, I asked a question, I didn’t insinuate anything. You don’t need to answer if you don’t want to though

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    The reason (or a reason, at least) fundamentalist right-wing Christian Republicans don’t care about coming up with a solution to this is because of their brand of Christianity. They believe that the apocalypse is coming soon, Jesus will return soon, and that all the shittiness in the world (gun violence, poverty, climate change, etc.) is due to that and because in Christianity the apocalypse is a good thing (Christians will go to heaven), they want to hasten it. Fundamentalist American Christianity and the reactionary thought that accompanies it must be destroyed if any of us want to survive even the next decade.

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      As an outside observer, I cannot fathom how this sort of evangelical doomsday cult has actually formed many decades before the US-American social fabric irreversibly went down the shitter. Like how tf do you have a regular childhood, go to a regular school, have regular hobbies, work a regular job, get married, buy the same groceries every week for 60 years, and afford a cookie-cutter house in the suburbs; all the while believing, in your heart of hearts, that the end of time is nigh and that God will possess and abduct your and every other Christian’s naked body within mere days, and believing this shit hard enough to motivate you towards political action?

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      I think thats more of a back of the mind sort of thing, I haven’t seen anything that would make this reason so. Although I would not be surprised if this were the case.

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        I agree, I don’t think many (or any?) of them are consciously thinking “I Must Hasten The Apocalypse As Foretold By The Book Of Revelations,” but it’s something embedded within fundamentalist Christianity here. My mom and I were discussing it yesterday.

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    Beware of extreme adds. The site this links to gave my phone aids.