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[-] Zip2@feddit.uk 68 points 1 month ago

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 1 month ago

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 1 month ago

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

[-] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

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

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