• QuentinCallaghan
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    1151 year ago

    American politicians blaming school shootings on anything other than easy access to guns (any%)

  • squiblet
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    661 year ago

    Pretty standard Republican beliefs. What I always find odd is their incredibly romanticized, rosy view of the past - apparently back in the Good Ol’ Days, there was no murder, rape, physical or sexual abuse, wars, lying, stealing or horrific institutions like slavery (I assume he’d say it was actually a good thing) because Americans at all times revered the Lord, so of course they didn’t do any of that.

    • Uranium3006
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      171 year ago

      Looking at election results, the vast majority of Republican voters live in rural or at least suburban areas. Those feature both low population densities and isolation. This can make the crime rate in instances of violent crime per year low compared to an urban area with the same crime rate per capita. It also means that when someone does her killed, The average distance in feet (or miles) from the crime scene to your house is larger. This can affect perception of crime a lot

  • @wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one
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    541 year ago

    Can we just disolve as a nation already? Start an auction state by state to different countries?

    Clearly we cannot manage the simple act of self governance. The experiment is over and we failed.

  • It’s the age old argument of “if there is no God, how do we teach what is right or wrong?”

    Yes we can teach morals and ethics without a creator in place. As Penn from Penn and Teller would put it. “I don’t need the fear of eternal damnation to tell me that I shouldn’t murder. I shouldn’t murder because it’s wrong”.

  • @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    371 year ago

    Cool cool cool so this dude is unable to comprehend how one can have morality or ethics without an imaginary friend who is constantly threatening to torment them for all of eternity and thus is actively hostile to me as a person because I don’t believe his imaginary friend exists in the first place.

    • Cethin
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      131 year ago

      The imaginary friend also tells people to murder their kids and shit “as a test” to prove their faith. This guy said he heard voices telling him to kill people, so if their god is real I more suspect he’s the cause of this, not the solution.

    • BolexForSoup
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      Louisiana here. It’s impossible to know the difference anymore. The results are the same.

      • m-p{3}
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        51 year ago

        It’s the same picture… made using feces-based fingerpainting

      • @Techmaster@lemm.ee
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        31 year ago

        Kennedy sure has nailed that whole act of being an evil genius who acts like an idiot so that nobody will suspect him of anything nefarious.

    • Uranium3006
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      91 year ago

      For a while it was the latter but this new generation of Republicans are the ones who grew up drinking the kool aid. Their Voters can’t tell the diffrence and many are too cooky to care

  • @Techmaster@lemm.ee
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    331 year ago

    The school shootings weren’t a problem until after we started putting In God We Trust all over our money.

    • @hansl@lemmy.world
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      211 year ago

      You thought they’d jump up when reaching the bottom of the barrel, but they took out the shovels.

  • @atk007@lemmy.world
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    311 year ago

    Ok, let’s agree that humans evolved to become school shooters, but how does abortion play a part in it. Abortion actually eliminates possible school shooters, so it balances it out.

  • Trudge [Comrade]
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    181 year ago

    He has a point. There has never been mass shootings before they started teaching heliocentrism at school.