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It's horrible this happened, and at a frigging food festival of all places. Crazy. I live in CA and there have been multiple random shootings like this recently, some country music bar like a year ago was one relatively close to me. Scary shit.
On the otherhand, the gun fear mongering in the article is silly. "armed with a rapid-fire assault rifle" means he probably just had a simple everyday semi-auto rifle that had some different exterior shell to look like a military rifle. "This is the 246th mass shooting this year ... 13 was the largest", so between ~700-3200 dead (extreme low to extreme high, 3 people is a mass shooting) in mass shooting events this year. To put that in perspective, over 10,000 people die from traffic accidents in just Florida, California and Texas each year.
It's horrible this happened, and at a frigging food festival of all places. Crazy. I live in CA and there have been multiple random shootings like this recently, some country music bar like a year ago was one relatively close to me. Scary shit.
On the otherhand, the gun fear mongering in the article is silly. "armed with a rapid-fire assault rifle" means he probably just had a simple everyday semi-auto rifle that had some different exterior shell to look like a military rifle. "This is the 246th mass shooting this year ... 13 was the largest", so between ~700-3200 dead (extreme low to extreme high, 3 people is a mass shooting) in mass shooting events this year. To put that in perspective, [over 10,000 people die from traffic accidents in just Florida, California and Texas each year](https://safer-america.com/2018-fatal-car-crash-statistics-in-the-u-s-a/).
I think the issue is to keep things in perspective. While it's disturbing, it is just 3 people dead, that is like 1/3 as many people die in car accidents in CA per day. Also this sort of thing is being copied.
There are important reasons to have the 2nd Amendment and I think banning semi-automatic rifles would be too much of an infringement. Some better gun control questions might be why should it be illegal for retired navy seals or army rangers not be allowed to conceal carry at such events, and what should we do to help a 20 year old woman who is paid and cash you has to take the bus home at 1am into a lower-income area.
The 2nd Amendment isn't the only big issues these days obviously, we have the govt spying on us too much, police and politicians have too much privilege and immunity from prosecution, the 1st Amendment is under attack, etc.
Most gun deaths are young black men. I think instead of worrying about trans bathrooms and how much free stuff to give illegal immigrants we should help solve the issues in inner cities. The liberal media is quick to accuse conservatives of being racist and they are often right, but they themselves do not at all give the same attention to young black deaths.
I'm sorry for the victims but people who want to ban guns need to have an honest discussion about the purpose of the 2nd Amendment, and such a discussion, if supported by facts, can take place at times other than after a mass shooting. The reason these discussions happen more is it makes it easier to attack people and pretend they do not care about the victims if they believe in the 2nd Amendment.
I think the issue is to keep things in perspective. While it's disturbing, it is just 3 people dead, that is like 1/3 as many people die in car accidents in CA per day. Also this sort of thing is being copied.
There are important reasons to have the 2nd Amendment and I think banning semi-automatic rifles would be too much of an infringement. Some better gun control questions might be why should it be illegal for retired navy seals or army rangers not be allowed to conceal carry at such events, and what should we do to help a 20 year old woman who is paid and cash you has to take the bus home at 1am into a lower-income area.
The 2nd Amendment isn't the only big issues these days obviously, we have the govt spying on us too much, police and politicians have too much privilege and immunity from prosecution, the 1st Amendment is under attack, etc.
Most gun deaths are young black men. I think instead of worrying about trans bathrooms and how much free stuff to give illegal immigrants we should help solve the issues in inner cities. The liberal media is quick to accuse conservatives of being racist and they are often right, but they themselves do not at all give the same attention to young black deaths.
I'm sorry for the victims but people who want to ban guns need to have an honest discussion about the purpose of the 2nd Amendment, and such a discussion, if supported by facts, can take place at times other than after a mass shooting. The reason these discussions happen more is it makes it easier to attack people and pretend they do not care about the victims if they believe in the 2nd Amendment.
it is just 3 people dead
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it makes it easier to attack people and pretend they do not care about the victims if they believe in the 2nd Amendment.
> it is just 3 people dead
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>it makes it easier to attack people and pretend they do not care about the victims if they believe in the 2nd Amendment.
It was the 246th mass shooting in the US this year, according to US tracking website Gun Violence Archive.
Media still pushing that purposefully-misleading mass shooting stat.
>It was the 246th mass shooting in the US this year, according to US tracking website Gun Violence Archive.
Media still pushing that purposefully-misleading mass shooting stat.
Damn, I was just hanging around that town last weekend. Crazy shit.
Damn, I was just hanging around that town last weekend. Crazy shit.
This will happen to those savage broccoli and cabbage lovers at a brussels sprouts festival.
This will happen to those savage broccoli and cabbage lovers at a brussels sprouts festival.
Baby cabbages wouldn't even know how to handle a weapon.
Baby cabbages wouldn't even know how to handle a weapon.
Good thing bruseels sprouts aren't cabbages.
Good thing bruseels sprouts aren't cabbages.
You are correct, they are baby cabbages.
You are correct, they are baby cabbages.
Garlic is haram? Oh wait, shooting. But garlic isn't commie, either.
Garlic is haram? Oh wait, shooting. But garlic isn't commie, either.
I found this disturbing as hell this morning, I don't care who did it. This is not some tactical target, it's a food fair full of kids with their families.
I hope that people regardless of their political affiliations/agendas come together at least momentarily to summarily condemn these actions.