God dammit. Two fucking vets do mass shootings on the same day? FUCK!

Which is EXACTLY why bullshitters like you fixate on that small percentage of shootings, to the exclusion of the inconvenient majority.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/03/05/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-us/

Yes, it fucking does.

As humans we see patterns and act on them.

Fuckers with guns need to be categorized.

Are you trying to talk about suicide?
Because when you take out suicide, the gun violence rate in the USA is still over 5 times higher than Canada and ten times higher than Australia. The USA ranks 20th in the world, only beaten out by countries like Honduras and Venezuela.
So what, exactly, is inconvenient about that to anyone except you?
Next time, try reading the whole article you post.

To a certain point, sure.
But then look at what's happening now. One guy shot one person and he happened to possibly have a trans partner. Now suddenly the president is saying we should prohibit trans people from owning guns.
That's where focusing on what side did what will eventually lead to.

Mass shootings. Try to keep up.

That mass shootings constitute a tiny percentage of all shootings, and that the majority of gun violence is not committed by the evil right wing white male, as Coluratura was trying to insinuate. Inconvenient to your PC programming.

It's possible to belong to more than one category.

That fucker was raised by a conservative family in a conservative region and was indoctrinated by a cult religion. When he cut himself loose he lacked the internal guardrails a responsible whole person has through experience.

Nuance is not something a lot of these people grasp (See: @Uncle Albert)

My programming is that gun ownership should be more regulated like in other, more civilized countries.
What race or creed reach criminal aligns with is mostly immaterial to that.
But you love to try to pin things on anyone but your own identified clans.

Like a swastika avatar?!?
Right @Steal Your Face ?

I'd also like to add he was steeped in gun culture that saw guns as tools.

Fuck off. I'm not the one up there with his "White people, am I right?" routine that you seem to have no problem with, and I'm not you with your willful blind spots that happen to be the greatest concentrations of the gun violence you pretend to care about.
I pin it on the guilty, not on everyone who happens to own a similar item, while you only take an interest when you can use it as rhetorical ammunition against ideologies and groups you dislike. You're a complete fucking fraud and you're not fooling anyone.

They ARE tools. Usually incapable of harm without human intervention.

So is a car. You still have to have a license, insurance, and registration to use one

No, you're the one who says "Indians, amirite?"

You wanna talk about blind spots, Mr. "Willfully Ignores Statistical Data That Doesn't Support Him"?

Why, do you think, am I advocating for stronger gun control? You keep bringing this up like I have some ulterior motive, but what would that be? I've already stated you're motive revolves around the benefit of not inconveniencing yourself. But then what would mine be, if you're going to keep trotting out that tired canard.[/Quote]

Exactly. Regulate the human part.

Huh.


I mean, any response @Steal Your Face ?

Okay, aside from the fact your link doesn't say anything about race or religion, what the fuck are you talking about? What are you claiming is EXACTLY the small percentage you're claiming others are bullshitters for fixating on?


And seriously, what "small" percentage?

1600% isn't small.

Why stop there? Why not slap the trans flag on the shirt, and take off the beard, and give him Divine makeup?

Because they'd get aroused?

Because they don't need to, because their supporters like @Steal Your Face will just blame trans people for things anyway without needing to make up evidence a trans person did it.

In a broader discussion about localized crime rates, you disingenuous fuckhead.

Where you spread localized crime rates over entire cities or states so you can pretend not to know where the problems are. That's dishonest.

Because it allows you to keep pretending you don't have to get severe with violent shitbags to solve this problem.

You want to inconvenience innocent people because you are too fucking spineless to face the fact that some people have no place in civilization. It's not a race, religion, or persuasion. It's anyone who is willing to kill people because they don't get enough attention, feel "disrespected" or just want your stuff. We should not have to live like that just so people like you can polish your imaginary fucking halos.

Mass shootings. The ones Coluratura wants us to fixate on to the exclusion of all others.

"Getting severe with violent shitbags".

Almost every white conservative mass shooter I've seen, they help him into the cop car like he's a celebrity being helped into a limo.
Funny how they all got run through the system just fine without their brutal beating.

Black guy who steals a hubcap? Squished into pudding.
Hubcaps still get stolen.

Once in a green moon, you get a white nut with a gun who gets sniped.
When was the last one?
The last would-be presidential assassin.
Shows how rare it is.

Oh, and leftist protestors of any color. There's plenty of pepper spray, teargas grenades, and pepper-ball bullets for them.
And deputizing vigilante teenagers.
That's always fun. I bet the little fellers feel like they're in a comic book.
Who needs LARPing? You can just be right-wing, armed, and you can do that shit for real.
Must be a blast.
Ha!! Pun! Fun! Wheee!

Say, what do you suppose ICE was going to do with that dude on the bike who told them to fuck off?
Think they were gonna plant gentle kisses on his forehead?

How about that ICE guy who popped his clip out, and never noticed it on the ground?
What do you suppose he was going to do to the people taping that shit if the clip was in?
Think we would have seen those videos?

Say, do you suppose these violent cops had permissive upbringings, or do you suppose their dads beat the shit out of them, and screamed at them like a drill sergeant?
It's a safe Vegas bet the number of cops with daddy problems isn't zero.

Their daddys "got severe".
How did that work out?

"Eye for an eye" doesn't work.
Escalation doesn't work.
Ask Gaza.

And you, I suppose, are the supreme arbiter of who "deserves" a place in civilisation.
Such arrogance.
Your posts become more frothing-at- the-mouth each day. I can practically hear the arousal in your voice as you campaign for severe...something, for any criminals. You're always very careful to draw that line, as you still realize what is considered by most to be a bridge too far.
You call me spineless for wanting to inconvenience people. Okay. Then prevent the Charlie Kirk shooting. Prevent the Columbine shootings. Prevent the Mormon church shooting, the Walmart shooting, the Uvalde shooting, the Parkland shooting, the Vegas concert shooting. Tell me how you do that without any inconveniences to your precious life.
Of course, you'd be happy to inconvenience others. Turning schools into locked-down pseudo-prisons with metal detectors and armed security? Fuck those kids if it means you don't have to fill out a form. As long as it doesn't inconvenience you.