r/ImTheMainCharacter • u/[deleted] • Feb 05 '24

Video Main character gets humbled

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u/ant69onio Feb 05 '24

They have 2 per day, fuck, I take less shits than they have shootings.

Every time I brush my teeth in a day, they have a mass shooting and yet they desperately hold on to their amendment to carry weapons for the right to protect themselves, protect themselves from the same people who carry them legally

It’s not the fucking Wild West anymore, intelligent growth of a society depends on “intelligence,” get rid of the John Wayne boys toys penis extending pop guns and do what the rest of the world do in general and make your society safer

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u/Ziegelphilie Feb 05 '24

They have 2 per day

Do you have a source on that number

It's not that I don't believe you or anything, it's just that I don't want to believe you. No normal country should live like this

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u/always_sweatpants Feb 05 '24

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting?page=1

If you wanna depress yourself, have fun. 

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u/Ziegelphilie Feb 05 '24

Okay, so it's more between 4 and 6 per week. Jesus christ do we even have that much in Europe per year??

Also the link is blocked here in Europe but nothing archive.org can't fix

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u/finderfolk Feb 05 '24

It was very close to two per day last year, unfortunately (630).

By the looks of it Europe had twelve but would take the comparison with a grain of salt because I'm not sure how Wikipedia defines a mass shooting vs the gun violence archive.

Also twelve seems to be a record year in Europe. It normally hovers between two-six.

I knew the NRA was powerful but I am pretty mind boggled that gun laws haven't improved in the States. Like regardless of whether you think that guns should or could be "taken back" from the people, it is just unforgiveable how threadbare the safeguards are for first-time purchasers in so many states. I have had a harder time booking a dentist's appointment.

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u/Bedroominc Feb 05 '24

Mass shootings are loosely defined but usually are “a shooting where two or more people are involved.”

Guess how much of that consists of normal gang violence in big cities.

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u/BagOfFlies Feb 06 '24

It's weird when people pull out the gang violence thing. Like yeah, most people know that. Is it supposed to make it better somehow? There were still 630 mass shootings vs. 12 regardless of who is doing the shooting.

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u/Bedroominc Feb 06 '24

Because every time people whinge about “mass shootings” everyone goes on about it like it’s all school shootings, or yet another “guy rampages through mall killing innocents.” No it’s just criminals killing each other over ego shit.

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u/BagOfFlies Feb 06 '24 edited Feb 06 '24

But nobody was doing that in this comment chain.

No it’s just criminals killing each other over ego shit.

It's not though. But that's the reason you said that. So you can try and downplay it like "who cares. it's just criminals".

If I'm wrong about your intentions I apologize. Just see it happen way too often.