Current Events > Why is there a shooting happening in America almost every day?

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Something is afloat
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No I flushed it good.
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cause guns are made for shootin
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Because we live in a society that values the right to bear arms more than the right to life. To conservatives guns matter more then people.
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Why do people get acid thrown on them everyday in the UK?

A combination of gun culture, political instability, fundamentalist religious base, extreme economic stratification, and incredibly poor healthcare systems.

Because America's knife control is too strict to have stabbings.
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Dash_Harber posted...

A combination of gun culture, political instability, fundamentalist religious base, extreme economic stratification, and incredibly poor healthcare systems.

sounds like greatest country in the world material.
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Nidhoggr posted...

Why do people get acid thrown on them everyday in the UK?

They don't, in fact it's not happened in months @Nidhoggr
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Nidhoggr posted...

Why do people get acid thrown on them everyday in the UK?

Cause people are crazy over there? Does that somehow change people getting shot in the us?
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Everyday not almost everyday
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Pretty sure it's more than one a day
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There's 300 million people and 1 person doing a shooting is great odds and super low percentages. May as well ask why there's deaths in America every day.
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I mean guns are part of it. But I think a lot of it is how stressful we made life by creating a fake image of happiness that some people can't see is a facade. They eventually feel like they're life is way worse than it probably is and lose it. Also we now have a President that's too dumb to realize how much he encourages the violence.
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Knowledge_King posted...

There's 300 million people and 1 person doing a shooting is great odds and super low percentages. May as well ask why there's deaths in America every day.

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why do people get murdered every day?!

It's so puzzling

While I'm on the more conservative side of the spectrum, I find it disgusting that guns are valued so much. Especially considering most of these people call themselves prolife.
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I would say the rise of it most likely has to do with an already existent mental health problem bolstered by hyper focused media attention. Every shooting story focuses on the shooter to such a great extent that it gets silly. For some reason, they feel the need to tell every little detail about their life.

Guns are only a means to an end for these killers. If not guns, it would be cars. If not cars, bombs. If not bombs, knifes. Less guns could potentially mean more people chickening out because it become too hard for them, but we live in a reality of about as many guns as there are people in the country. That reality will not change for hundreds of years even if we ban guns this very minute. People so focused on the gun issue seem to live in a different reality where gun laws could instantly stop these incidents. Too bad the rest of us do not.

America is large.
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It's just pruning~
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Blaming that America is big is kinda bullshit...
Go back a decade and it was less shootings.
And America was still big back then.

Yes, the population have grown twice since the 50s, but guess how many mass shootings we had in USA in the 50s?
1.
Nobody would care if the mass shootings followed the population growth, but it doesnt.
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Knowledge_King posted...

There's 300 million people and 1 person doing a shooting is great odds and super low percentages. May as well ask why there's deaths in America every day.

Not a gun rights guy, but this is the correct answer here.

The U.S. is basically like 50 little mini nations squeezed together. The math alone makes it so that across the entire gigantic country, your bound to have at least one notable, violent attack per day just through sheer probability.
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People hunt animals for food and sport.

What? TC never said people.
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Duncanwii posted...

Because we live in a society that values the right to bear arms more than the right to life. To conservatives guns matter more then people.

Massacres and murders happen in other countries with strict gun control. There was a massacre with a truck in Nice, France, and a mass stabbing at a train station in China, to name two. Let's not pretend that guns are the problem.
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Pretty weird how some people are pretending like stats can't be normalized to account for population size, as if the US having a lot of people is the only answer to the question that they're able to account for.
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only cops should have guns
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Duncanwii posted...

Because we live in a society that values the right to bear arms more than the right to life.

He says while adamantly supporting abortion lmfao