Trans Woman School shooting TN

I'm also for taking the trans part out of the title, if only to stop the people who seem to care more about the misgendering of this filthy animal who shot and killed 3x 9 year old children. Who gives an actual flying fluck what that identified as. It's dead. The world is better and no one should ever utter the name of that yoke again.

The mind boggles sometimes. And I don't even like children, but I see how messed up this is.

Just spitballing ideas but i see your point. I think it was in the columbine shooting where one of the guys bigger guns jammed guns jammed and he didnt know how to fix it so moved onto a handgun. Definitely happened in North Hollywood Shootout.

Has to be better ideas than locked doors and the quick response of " good guys with guns".

So we're just going to ignore the numerous school shootings that have been carried out by people who don't identify as transgender ??? There doesn't even seem to be a huge push to stop people with mental illness accessing guns, I accept some States may have stronger laws than others. It's beyond mental that Americans can have this amount of dead children at schools and there is no massive push for change. How many dead children is too many? I don't get it.

I know you weren't replying to my post but nobody here is saying to ignore the numerous school shootings that have been carried out by people who don't identify as transgender. The post you quoted certainly doesn't say it.

This has long been the fundamental issue. There's a justified lack of trust on both sides. Most legislation tends to be punitive, and performative, aimed for headlines rather than substance. See the Assault Weapons ban, or efforts at registration.

I would be in favor of licensing requirements, insurance requirements, school education on safe handling.

Better healthcare is its own issue, and the benefits would impact across multiple levels of society. Substantive efforts to tackle the poverty and social situations that drive crime in high violence communities is needed. So many things, but all we get is empty rhetoric and more dead bodies.

I definitely have very much respect for the police in this case but I just didnt see a meme comparing them with the Uvalde police in a simpsons meme as being appropriate given three kids died. I think it was a bad day where all the controls they have in place didnt work in preventing innocents dying.

Why did you call him an incel?

Sure they can't make laws against the gun lobby, too powerful. And they donate massive amounts to politicians. So the cycle will never end. I always say that guns are America's blind spot, much like how Alcohol to excess is Ireland's blind spot. It is very hard to change a long held culture even if it is damaging. Especially when it is profitable.

It always makes me laugh that the solution given by many Americans in this situation is more guns, arm teachers, more security. Gun mass shootings are just the norm for Americans. In the majority's mindset.

Then they counter argue the banning guns/even heavy duty guns argument, 'with the right to bear arms' line (written back in frontier times). Plus they argue that there are so many guns in America already it would not make a difference. It would take hundreds of years before the guns are out of circulation. Then they argue that it will be only the criminals who will end up with guns. It is too culturally inbuilt. Then you have to factor in how militaristic America is. And how many have such an affinity with guns and weaponry. Hunting trips are common, a father son bonding experience etc.

And of course they use the silly line 'guns don't kill people, people do'. To which the reply from the other side normally is 'toasters don't toast bread, people do'

Guns are ubiquitous in America. I heard of a distant American relation getting a gun as present on his wedding day. The fella was only about 20! Everyone else was cheering. And my mother (Irish) who was attending. Her jaw dropped, she was shocked.

I suggest you don't watch his 25 minute ranting and raving about how Bill Cosby is a victim video so.

Where do people find these absolute cretins?

No chance of that.

You don't really have to be found though , if you can set up a camera and do a bit of basic editing you find yourself. If you can sound angry enough and shout stuff without it really mattering whether people understand you, provided you throw in some appropriate/fashionable/edgy enough words and are totally confident about it, someone will listen to you and even think you are amazing.

Social media targets that stuff at stupid people. The social media companies have profiles on their users and if the data that they have on them indicates that the user is some form of imbecile or intellectually adjacent to an imbecile, videos such as that one will show up more often in their suggestions. This actually makes sense because youtube is all about keeping users watching and a simpleton might switch to another tab or go outside or even through a fit if they accidentally click on a video about the etymology of the word "the". Youtube knows that users who have been identified as imbeciles are more likely to continue watching if they're presented with a talking head ranting and raving confidently about something or other.

You're probably not being suggested that content because you haven't been flagged as an idiot. You can see what you're missing out on by opening a private window, heading over to youtube and searching for content that's been tagged internally as "for imbeciles". These tags aren't public and it's not obvious which content is tagged as such but I've had good results in the past by putting words like "jordan brand russell peterson astrology ufo's homeopathy" into the search field. I have a theory as well that you'll get even dumber stuff by misspelling your search terms but it's not easy to prove it, unfortunately. Anyway, if you do what I suggested, youtube will flag your temporary profile as "likely imbecile" and you'll get loads of that content that you've been missing out on.