americans are likely viewing the criticism as a threat to themselves and their country and are responding with emotionally fueled responses instead of logic based responses

americans should learn to meditate because it can help with the issue of wanting to respond to percived threats emotionally

[–] UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You're speaking pretty large for an American for not being a school shooter yourself

But as an American who meditates, that is not the answer lol.

We have a bigger issue with the media trying to make us feel like everything outside is scary first. A lot of fear mongering to keep the scared gun owners to buy and advocate for more until a mentally deranged one goes too far and ruins it for everyone else. The media can now sensationalize that shooting and you get either people buying more guns or people advocating for no guns and neither side wants to hear each other anymore. It's one big crazy chain reaction loop we're stuck in and the politicians got the crazies advocating for things that would just make the politicians more money. Sigh.

[–] Funkytom467@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Yes saying we can do something about it and do better is stupid. Same here in Europe btw, no one has the power to do anything about media and capitalism fucking us over.

However i still think we can joke about it as a way to communicate our problems and relieve ourselves from the tragic.

(Of course that requires some empathy and a shared humour to overcome our cultural differences.)