• SupraMario@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What gun control would stop this? 95% of our violence via guns is from handguns. 85+% is drug and gang related, 2/3rds is suicides. Shootings like this are a rounding error in the 40k a year deaths, and when compared to the police killing 1k~ a year (yes 1 in 40 of those 40k is from the police) shootings like this aren’t an issue. They just get views because they cause more carnage. An AWB and background checks won’t stop this. Our society is breaking down and it’s not the firearms that are the root cause.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      shootings like this aren’t an issue.

      And yet they happen in the U.S. far more than any other Western country. Which sounds like an issue.