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[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 68 points 2 months ago (19 children)

As a non-American, can I just say: get your shit together and ban guns as you clearly can’t be trusted with them as a country.

Fully expecting to get downvoted by the “but it’s mah hobby” brigade. Get a new hobby, there’s peoples lives at stake.

[–] BobTheDestroyer@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We've been arguing about this in the US for my whole life, and I'm not young. At this point it should be obvious neither of the two faces of our government has any interest in doing anything more about guns than using the topic as a wedge to divide us and as a source of campaign funding. So you want to ban guns. Is that the hill you want your children to die on? How about instead of insisting that's the only way, we enact a solution that keeps kids alive and that both the red and blue team can agree on, like, say, mandatory armed guards (a paid job, not volunteers) at school entrances. Is it in conflict with our ideal vision of a peaceful society? Maybe, but it works. Other countries have done it and it stopped school shootings entirely.

[–] gressen@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I think the two-party system you've got there has got you by the balls. No offence.

[–] BobTheDestroyer@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

No offence taken. You're right. And one of the few things the two parties cooperate on is working to insure it never changes.

[–] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Our two party, first past the post system is fucking awful.

[–] p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world -4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

We dont like the two party system. Our democracy is broken. Dont need some smug outsider telling us what we already know. Thanks, though.

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