This, right here. Every time a crazy gunhumper says something like “we’ll be ready when the government comes for you to protect your freedom” I wonder how exactly they expect that to work. We literally have remotely pirated flying death robots that can murder you from a distance where you can’t even see them, let…

It’s crazy. Like 78% of American households don’t have a gun, but the 2nd amendment is basically unassailable because of the NRA, Republicans, and I assume the electoral college and gerrymandering delivering a lot more political power to rural areas than city areas.

This country has proven that it is unable to properly govern itself. Canada, please invade us at your will.

My abuser had a gun and frequently spoke of using it. I had a gun, but briefly. Once he noticed that I was getting very good with it, that gun became a problem. He tried to sell it while I was at work. He would often hide it. He tried to suggest that the kids had found it and that they were in danger. He finally stood…

The risk of homicide is three times higher in homes with firearms (Kellermann, 1993, p. 1084).

One doesn’t have to have “been around firearms” to understand the data on risks posed by firearms in households, Kent. Whether looking at homicide, suicide, or accidental death/injury, people in homes with guns are at much higher risk. That’s just a fact.

Never been around statistics, have you?

They are referring to the statistic that if there is a gun in the home your husband is more likely to murder you.

We here at Jez I’m sure remember the case of Marissa Alexander who fired a warning shot at her husband who was threatening her and she was sent to jail for it, right?

They are amendable. But guns an so the 2nd amendment are far to popular in our country for the required number of state pols to sign off on even if the federal government passed one.

The American “End of Days” crowd are heavily invested in Israel. IIRC they were an influence on George W Bush. Which is why he gave his bizarre “Gog and Magog” talk to Jacques Chirac, when trying to get France to join the invasion of Iraq.

What is the brain disorder? Where is the evidence of brain disorder, though? You can’t just say this stuff with no science whatsoever behind it or you just absolutely cheapen mental illness diagnoses entirely.

So everyone in prison for killing their wives for the insurance money are actually mentally ill? You realize humans are evil and conniving and perfectly sane men have been doing this for centuries? Just because you don’t understand how someone could be so cold and violent doesn’t mean it gets attributed to mental…

I think calling these things “mental health issues” is an effective way to “other” the people who do shit like this instead of accepting that it could stem from dangerously common and societally reinforced thoughts and beliefs.

On a side note. The failure of Fox News in the UK and the official finding of bias:

It’s not a guns situation, though. He was mentally ill so he could have just as easily used throwing stars, a pick-em-up truck, or illegal immigrants to kill all those people. It’s just that an AR-15 was easier to pick up than a library card. A mere coincidence, surely.

You’d also think that, being Texas with its open carry laws, there would have been plenty of good guys with guns ready to stop this. Maybe that whole narrative is a bunch of crap as well.

Imagine being so sure to offend women that at parties you now just freeze in place.

Most STEMlords are good at science stuff but totally see social problems as completely black and white. See all of the weird atheist bros who laud rationality, worship Dawkins and are total dicks.