• very_poggers_gay [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      a lot of these mass shooters are self-hating social darwinists. their ideology would never drive them to kill a CEO or sitting politician

      Bifo wrote about this in his book “Heroes”. IIRC, he suggested that these people and their actions are the products of a society where ‘survival of the fittest’ truisms are the norm; where violence and force are normalized and celebrated; and where people are totally lienated and deprived connection, identity, fulfillment, etc.

      These conditions inform a rotten worldview of someone who hates and is hated by society, and these acts can be seen as a reactionary kind of lashing out (i.e., retaliation, taking power back) or a revolutionary ‘culling of the weak’ (i.e., killing more undesirables, gaining status in their fascist cults)

    • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      “He’s been on our radar”

      This could actually be a context where the 12 might be somewhat well-equipped. If we’re not doing anything because “muh freedumz”, then just target these people with warning signs to prevent crime. Even if you’re just talking them out of it. There, no gun laws needed.

      I never want to hear shit about “muh birthrates” when this happens all the time and the powers that be shrug their shoulders and say “tee hee, ohhhhhh well!”

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    I am once again asking the inhuman freaks who do this shit to direct it towards the seemingly unending list of people who deserve it instead of children

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    You wanna know a crazy statistic? Only 0.2% of gun deaths occur on school grounds in the US. That’s not meant to minimize this problem. Just to show how bad everything else is too. 58% are suicides, 38% are homicides, 3% other (police shootings and accidents). https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/03/05/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-us/

    I often wonder why Switzerland doesn’t have this issue compared to the US. The US has so much untreated mental illness and trauma, lack of social cohesion, economic disparity, racial disparity.

    Switzerland has across the board higher safety, training, safe-storage requirements. Guns and ammo must be kept in separate locked containers. The Swiss don’t keep guns for self defense. Guns are only for military duties and sporting purposes. The Swiss don’t keep that thang on em. A dispute isn’t going to escalate into a shooting because a Swiss is packing.

    Roughly 42% to 52% of U.S. households own at least one gun. In Switzerland, historical data from 2004-2005 indicated that approximately 28.6% of households owned firearms. That number might be higher with a growing interest in shooting sports particularly among women. There’s also growing concern since Covid and the war in Ukraine. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/how-switzerland-combines-a-passion-for-guns-with-safety/49115108

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      IMO the difference between USA and Switzerland here is the poisonous idea of American Individualism.

      There is a mentality in the US that you are the only one truly looking out for yourself and your immediate family, so if you’re going somewhere you perceive as dangerous, or even simply “needing order” - which is everywhere outside your “castle” according to Fox News - you might be inclined to bring your weapon and make sure everyone knows you are willing to assert your safety and independence above all else. Endemic toxic masculinity ensures that any slight against you, if not remedied and apologized for immediately, results in peacocking and chest-thumping that escalates the situation and can easily become deadly.

      I haven’t spent very much time in Switzerland specifically, but my overall experience as a USAian in Western Europe is that there is a much more pervasive understanding of societal good and collectivism (small C, not calling on any particular philosophy/ideology) that is almost entirely absent here in the states.

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        Yeah I agree. The more info that comes out about this, it looks like there’s a crazy nihilism/trolling thing going on. They were a part of those nihilist internet communities where they groom and egg each other on.

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    There’s known indicators of people who commit mass shootings. People don’t get up and randomly decide to shoot countless people, they plan it and show indicators.

    Why aren’t we training relevant agencies on this? Doing PSAs? It’s not hard!

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    As a trans anti-zionist here in Minnesota, this is gonna suck.

    Is it so hard to not shoot up a school? Like, even if you suffered at the hands of a school or church, why would you ever target children?

    Jfc I hate being american.

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    Literally as I was in the middle of translating a fucking fluff piece about a Deaf Norwegian teaching Will Smith to fingerspell his initials, the VG website showed a BREAKING NEWS notification for this shit, it’s neverendinggggg

    Whyyyyyy are there so many school shootings across the Atlanticcccc k-pain

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      Not that this is related to this event but at some point, as soon as it is implicated, I wonder when they’re gonna start blaming ChatGPT