I mean…
To fix it we need free and available mental healthcare, a population with something they don’t want to lose, or reasonable gun laws.
None of those things have a chance of happening right now with the current government.
Even if trump passes gun control of some sort it’s not going to be reasonable. And that’s the only one of the three that are plausible.
But right now no one wants trump to pass any gun laws. Even if Dems get House/Senate in midterms, trump will veto anything reasonable.
The APA has repeatedly claimed that mental health is not a major factor in mass shootings.
I actually almost completely forgot that APA is an actual psychology association, not just people who decide how papers should be formatted.
The only gun control which could pass is making it impossible for LGBTQ people and Democrat voters from accessing them.
Letting the Trump administration be in charge of disarming Americans seems like a poor move for everything and everyone except the regime.
90% of the time it’s maga
Closer to 97 iirc
More specifically Christian Nationalists.
It’s the same picture.
Well yeah but that one time it was a trans person, so they have to fix that problem first before they tackle the real issues.
The left pursues stricter gun control. Safety nets. Mental health services.
Conservatives fight to prevent those things.
You literally have two parties, one of them known for being neutral and looking for solutions, and the other known for deflecting and scapegoating… and you still have people not seeing the difference. And people think coalitional governments are good. We can’t even handle 2.
I’d argue the US does not have a leftist party. When I was young, we had a centrist party and a right party. I’ve watched in my lifetime the right decide to go further right, and the centrist party go right to chase some purported ‘balance’. (This was all Bush/Obama era, before Trump/MAGA entered the game)
We do not have a leftist party. We have the right and extreme right parties. And we only have two because of a mathematical flaw in the iterated first past the post electoral system.
And we might not even have two parties. The DNC and RNC have so many overlapping funding sources and so many behind the scenes organization that they could be seen as two divisions of the same team. Even if no explicit link can be found, despite the theater the two organizations have a healthy symbiotic relationship - each preferring the devil they know over any third party upset.
With all of the above, many intelligent people have checked out - the marginal benefit of supporting the D’s over the R’s just doesn’t justify propping up a system that is fundamentally broken at it’s core.
(P. S. I personally don’t agree with that conclusion and will swallow my pride to vote for the best available candidate, but I think painting the people that don’t agree as wholesale fools is a very unhelpful way of framing things.)
The left pursues stricter gun control.
I’m not opposed to gun control but take a look at Canada at the moment, one mass shooting from an individual who did not have a license to posses or acquire firearms to begin with and the government goes and targets sport shooters and hunters who do have the appropriate licenses? It’s been 5 years and it’s clear they’re removing all semi-automatic rifles from licensed individuals private possession, calling them “assault rifles”.
If I had a conversation with the Public Safety Minister it would go a little like this; If these are Assault Rifles that belong in the military, why aren’t we suppling our troops with these rifles then, why did NATO reject sending these firearms to Ukraine, why did Bill C-17 not prevent these firearms from entering the market for the last 30 years?
Most people in the US already know the government isn’t going to do shit about the shootings. In fact, any attempt to do so is met with hostility and constant pushback.
Actually, this wasn’t such a thing until the Kirk shooting and the entire right wing decided in 20 seconds flat that every Democrat murdered Charlie Kirk. So they’ll be getting a more fact based version of that for the foreseeable future. We’re sick of taking the high road.
Oh look, another “both sides” useful idiot.
Fun fact: one “side” has no desire at all to curb gun violence in the USA. They just get upset when their stochastic terrorism backfires.
The culprit is American culture, and most people feed the beast that creates it. Maybe it’s time to detach from Americas values and lifestyle.
As an American…
I would love to. Please get me the fuck out of here!
vomits guns
don’t stop your enemy when they’re making mistakes.
if the far right wants to cannibalize itself, they can go for it.
It’s genius the people in power put the working class blaming each other while they profit from all of this.
In my country the news mentioned that is was the third shooting in 24 hours. That is America alright.
What about the Epstein Files though
There was a cartoon/comic/image I saw back in the trump shooting. About how they realised the shooter was a white guy, and the audience breathes a sigh of relief saying ‘race war postponed’.
I wonder what will happen if “the wrong type of person” is linked to a mass shooting, and what will happen next.
We got a hint of that with the Mormons. And the right always chooses to believe any shooter is trans so…
We will probably see a few more assassinations until people start shooting up protests.
Republicans*
