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ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 7 months ago

78 school shootings in 2024... If anyone is keeping count.

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78 school shootings in 2024... If anyone is keeping count.

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ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 7 months ago
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Source: https://www.cnn.com/us/school-shootings-fast-facts-dg/index.html

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  • blandfordforever@lemm.ee
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    JD Vance says that school shootings are just a “fact of life.”

    I wonder if all this rage and hopelessness is starting to find a more productive outlet.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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      If the choice is between school shootings or CEO shootings, the latter is preferrable. I’d take that trade even if I were a CEO, but I doubt most CEO’s would.

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        It’s more targeted too, one target vs as many as possible.

    • kreskin@lemmy.world
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      JD Vance says that school shootings are just a “fact of life.”

      Then it’s logical that preventing politician shootings should be budgeted similarly. Time to defund the entire secret service as part of those 75% government employee cuts. School shootings being resourced differently than oligarch shootings is a violation of the equal protections clause of the constitution, and therefore an illegal waste of our tax money.

    • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world
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      Some of it may, but not all of it.

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    The children should consider working harder to increase shareholder value…

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      Layoffs increase shareholder value and this one gave their stock a boost.

    • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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      Those hard working school shooters are doing their best to promote growth in the funeral home industry. Won’t anybody think of the jobs!?!

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    CEOs not schools

    • hOrni@lemmy.world
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      I smell a bumper sticker.

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        “CEO shootings are a fact of life”

        There’s another one for you.

  • IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    deleted by creator

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    Oh absolutely. Start letting the gun violence get too close to home and the rich will force that legislation through overnight

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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      A reminder that California’s famously strict gun laws started as a Republican reaction to black people owning guns and forming citizen militias to protect their neighborhoods from criminals and oppressive government thugs.

      • Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
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        Indeed, Ronnie Racist Fucking Reagan and a senator who panicked when the armed Black Panthers(?) walked into the State Capitol building during a protest. Before that, California was open carry, locked and loaded.

    • bitjunkie@lemmy.world
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      Literally where California’s strictness on handguns originated.

    • Aneb@lemmy.world
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      Exactly this. But you wont see one gun from rich people, while the rest of us have to mandatory turn in our guns. There are no laws for people that can throw money at the courthouse to let them do what they want. In america its only “legal” to do illegal shit if your rich

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      I keep seeing evidence that the rich don’t give 1% of a shit about the rest of us, but I keep sending myself “thoughts and prayers” that that’s not totally true and we don’t have an open class war going on in the US.

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    Many school shooters talk about wanting to be seen, wanting fame/notoriety, and so on. With the huge positive response to this, it wouldn’t be too surprising to see copycats. “If I do this, people will remember me and love me for it.”

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    78 school shootings in 2024

    77 more in the next 25 days could be a challenge

    • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@lemmy.today
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      Would probably be followed by a wave of CEO resignations though, if such was accomplished.

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        Where’s the problem in that?

    • kreskin@lemmy.world
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      “When Americans put their minds to it, they can accomplish anything”

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      Best get cracking then. Any CEO conferences about?

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    Or, gun ownership will just become more expensive.

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    It won’t happen. The government will spare no expense to protect CEOs. Same cannot be said for our children.

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      read the image again

      • danc4498@lemmy.world
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        Spare no expense <> gun control

        Gun control is actually not expensive at all. Instead they would probably grant secret service access to billionaires, or something like that.

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          Ah sorry, I get you now

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    Yeah, but it will be done so that only the rich have guns.

    • butter@midwest.social
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      “No guns unless it’s for armed security or military” This is how to accomplish that

      • Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world
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        It’s a metal tube baby. Genie is out of the lamp.

        • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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          Dur hurr, 3d printer go brrr.

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    Capital can always afford more guns / storm troopers. That’s been the nature of the state since forever.

    • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world
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      But those hired guns have limits. They have to protect their oligarchs at all times, a potential shooter only needs one time.

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        “Today we were unlucky, but remember we have only to be lucky once, you will have to be lucky always”

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      Even I have my limits.

    • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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      now robotic guard dogs included for free! not for schools for but for at least one man

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    12 more and you get a free sub

    • And009@reddthat.com
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      I love rushing with SMGs

  • Xanthrax@lemmy.world
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    The immediate citation got me.

    • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netOP
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      Thank you.

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    Motherfucker. This happened today.

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