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They're happening so often you don't even notice them most of the time.
This is what dystopia looks like.
We don't notice them most of the time because they are street crimes happening a thousand miles away that have no impact on our daily lives.
A bunch of thugs shooting each other outside of a club in Houston have no impact on someone living in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Amazes me how many Americans justify systemic bullshit by writing people off as "thugs".
Yawn, got anything better than middle school ad hominem?
More observation than ad hominem, unless of course you identify with what is observed.
How many have you seen happen? How many people do you know that were shot?
Your change in attitude is going to be so funny when it happens in your little circle. You’ll even be angry at me because you were wrong in advance and knew it.
I had a friend killed last year, another friend with him survived with 8 bullet wounds. It's fucking infuriating. We don't even know who did it. Just a couple assholes walking up to a couple guys playing DND at the park and unloading on them.
I can't say mass shootings, but I personally have been shot at once. And at the walmart I used to work at 2 different people were shot by police in the 5 years i was there. I also saw someone pull a gun while I was there but luckily the cop was already coming back because of the fight. There was also an incident while i was there where a guy pulled a gun on the OGP guy because he took to long to get the groceries out to the car.
Oh yeah ive been held up at gunpoint. Literally almost forgot that one.