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0 pointsdelaminator2mo ago0 comments

If you’re going to use “school shootings” as your “muh capitalism”, the counter argument is the millions of people who don’t do school shootings despite access to guns.

There are common factors between all of the school shooters from the last decade - pharmacology and ideology.

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AmbroseBierce2mo ago

it's not the mental issues they had, its the drugs they were taking for it right? Please. Look at what Australia did after their 1996 shooting, the main reason they have so few of them, but I know you won't, as millions of Americans you will forever do all sort of mental gymnastics to justify keeping easy access to semi-automatic guns.

> From the information obtained, it appears that most school shooters were not previously treated with psychotropic medications - and even when they were, no direct or causal association was found https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31513302/

delaminatorOP2mo ago

If you like, but I'm not American.

Millions of Americans believe the right to bear arms is not a right the govt. should be able to take away.

Obesity kills 10x more Americans than guns.

Australia locked up millions of people in their homes and forced them into dangerous medical procedures.

nutjob22mo ago

> Australia locked up millions of people in their homes and forced them into dangerous medical procedures.

Your comically bad faith description of Aus covid measures is pure nonsense.

> Obesity kills 10x more Americans than guns.

And? Obesity kills roughly the same number of people in other countries but guns kill 40 times more people in the US than other countries.

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