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[+] ProcurementCat@feddit.de 120 points 11 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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[-] Grayox@lemmy.ml 41 points 11 months ago

I dont think you are advocating for violence, but there was a shooting at a Congressional baseball game and it didnt push the Republicanw towards passing legislation to control guns at all. It is extremely disturbing how little of a fuck they give.

[-] 6daemonbag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 10 months ago

The one who was shot? Steve Scalise, the other Louisiana Speaker candidate. He didn't change his stance at all

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I think they went with, "See, it's the democrats who are violent."

It's a cruel world, friends.

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 10 months ago

Hell and that's a Fox "News" poll, so that would likely have their own flavor of bias trying to make it as much in their own favor as possible.

I don't see this as advocating for violence, more as pointing out how a specific group of people only care about things that personally affect them so they currently don't care about the issue.

Hell the NRA cared about gun control when the Black Panthers started advocating for buying guns back in the day. Why? Because they saw it as a personal threat to their well-being.

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[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago

I own several guns as well and I'm greatly in favor of better gun control laws. I'm a bit odd as well in that regard lol

[-] Grayox@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I used to be an avid gun owner till my father used one of his guns to take his life, he carried one his whole life to protect our family, and it ended up causing more harm than any mugger or home invader ever could imagine. If you ever have suicidal ideations please leave your firearms with a trusted comrade till you get help. I had ideations almost my whole adult life and thought i could resist them till the day I died, which was technically true, but not in the sense I thought. I pawned my guns, shortly after his death, and haven't had those ideations since. The vast majority of gun deaths are self inflicted and get swept under the rug by families and the news.

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months ago

I agree whole heartedly that if you have suicidal thoughts you shouldn't own firearms. It's a recipe for disaster if you do. And if you have those thoughts you should seek help. There's people in your life who will miss you dearly when you're gone, even if you don't think so.

And I'm sorry for your loss, I know how hard it is when someone you care about commits suicide. I've known 4 people who have. Though none of them used firearms to do so I'll never forget them.

Personally I'll never own pistols as I've had too many bad experiences with pistols. The why is a bit of a doozy.

Trigger warning Child Abuse, Breaking and Entering, and Attempted Murder.

On a number of occasions my dad held a pistol to my head screaming at me to tell him where his drugs that he had already done were. He did this a lot to my siblings and I before he finally got clean. I still refuse to speak with him as there's just too much pain there. My siblings tell me he's a lot different now, that he's back to the way he was when they were young, but I've only ever known him as the abusive drug addict that he was.

Him and some of my other relatives are why I own firearms really as a number of them have said that they "can't wait to get the order to hunt people like me in the streets." And one went to prison for kicking my door in to try. That was when that relative found out I was a gun owner. They didn't get shot, we just patiently waited for the police to arrive while they sat in my entry way.

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[-] Truck_kun@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago

That their local representative was anti-gun control before this shooting affected his own local area, only proves your point more. That he changed his opinion is a good thing, but too little too late.

Very impressed that he publicly came out to accept responsibility for the Maine shooting with his previous opposition to gun control though, and is now advocating for it.

Unfortunately, it may take several shootings in all the representatives' and senators' home towns that are in opposition to actually flip them (even then, it wouldn't change many of their minds, unless it actually personally affected them), and the country shouldn't have to suffer that. It likely will literally take a constitutional amendment to prevent the supreme court from overturning any legislation enacted (or at least stripping it down to become fluff legislation with little meaning, or effect).

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[-] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

However, as long as it is "only" school children and ordinary civilians dying, Republicans will not change their stance on gun control in the slightest.

So, you're saying we should start shooting unborn fetuses?

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 5 points 10 months ago

Who or what are "flag people"?

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

'Flag people who are danger to self' is an action.

They want those who are likely to commit suicide with a gun to be marked in the system for gun control.

Edit: Or they have ideas about this store The Flag People

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[-] bunnyfc@kbin.social 25 points 10 months ago

I know people who are left leaning democrats and they're for gun control. But gun control doesn't solve the problem entirely.

The problem is the entire culture around guns and toxic 'me and my gun and my truck' self sufficiency culture in the US and the lack of a social net.

[-] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes it is. I was downvoted to shit last time I said we should have the mandatory 10 days waiting period and background checks. Had nothing but what ifs.

People treating firearms as fuckin toys should be banned. Your firearm was on unattended and your child killed himself or an other person? Straight to jail. Fuckin hate that people have lost the respect of the tool they are using.

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[-] uis@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Sounds more like asshole culture

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[-] Grayox@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

100% will use the term Terrorist Mass Shooter from now on.

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[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

He was in a militia, but ok

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[-] SchoolPsychologist@lemmings.world 9 points 10 months ago

Technically, he was part of a militia.

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title10/subtitleA/part1/chapter12&edition=prelim#:~:text=(a)%20The%20militia%20of%20the,the%20United%20States%20who%20are

[-] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

But was it well regulated?

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[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 months ago

Was the man not in the national guard? Seems he was exactly a part of a well regulated militia. That doesn't just automatically stop gun crime.

[-] Grayox@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago

That's the point. It isn't well-regulated.

[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The National Guard is not well regulated? Im gonna wager your definition of well regulated is a body in which nothing bad ever happens, which is not what well regulated means, that's called perfection.

If the national guard isnt considered well regulated then nothing is, and clearly the writers of the bill didnt intend for 'well regulated' to be an impossible standard. So if well regulated is going to mean something it didnt mean from the authors then that phrase no longer has bearing on the right, and shockingly enough the US Judicial system agrees with and upheld that.

This was a shooting by a member of a well regulated milita. That phrase or organization structure is not a magic spell that stops crime. The authors would have written 'crime free' instead of well regulated if that's what they meant.

[-] Grayox@lemmy.ml 20 points 10 months ago

If a memeber of said Militia can spend 2 weeks in a psychiatric ward for hearing voices in his head telling him to shoot up the said Militia he is a part of and still keep the means to carry out the will of said voices it isn't well-regulated, sorry not sorry. The term Well-Regulated doesnt automatically mean it is going to be regulated.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

Here's the thing though:

can spend 2 weeks in a psychiatric ward for hearing voices in his head telling him to shoot up the said Militia

They can't, it is already a federal law that people who are IVC'd (this guy) are prohibited purchasers and they are supposed to take the guns and input that into NICs, but someone didn't do their fucking job. Has nothing to do with the weekend warrior ~~militia~~ branch of the US military either, that applies to everyone, federally, as it is a federal law.

[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Between active and reservists there are well over one million national guard memebers. The crimes of one of them hardly imply that the regulation is not good. Mistakes are possible, and considering he was let out of the psych hospital is it impossible to think the mistake even could have come from the profit driven org who makes the absolute thinniest proft margins from mental health care? What about the police, did they not also drop the ball, they could have seen this coming, this person was known publicly for his gun lust and extremism. Or is all the blame only on the one orginazation that makes your opinions the most correct looking?

[-] Grayox@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

There is plenty of blame to go around, the problem is systemic. Putting the blame on one institution makes it a scapegoat, we need publicly funded mental health care as much as we need gun control.

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[-] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago

If the national guard isnt considered well regulated then nothing is

Ignoring the fact that this is obviously a false dichotomy........ Have you ever served in the guard or active duty military? The guard especially from certain states, is usually known for being an unorganized shit show. Active duty has its obvious issues, but they also have a lot more control over their personnel, including who they keep and promote.

In the guard, as long as you show up for roll call and pass your test you're pretty much promoted until you want to leave. Which is why the last few military pr blunders were committed by officers or NCO in the reserves.

I doubt you would find many people who served in the reserves that would claim they were well organized or well regulated.

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[-] Kjatten@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

*terrorist

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