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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I simply can't see those cards being actually useful in comforting someone affected by a shooting. I guess them just being on the shelf itself is supposed to be for awareness?
@Tech Priest 90: I would say that Americans have a scripted response to it. Sadly, the response is largely just to argue aimlessly about gun control. These arguments seldom actually change anyone's opinions or accomplish a lot.
Related question: Are mass shootings a relatively new phenomena in the US? I'm sure the presence of a lot of easily-accessible firearms is a major contributor, but I can't help but wonder if there's something else at work too. Semi-automatic weapons aren't new, after all.
Edited by Protagonist506 on Dec 26th 2018 at 4:38:46 AM
Leviticus 19:34Probably one of the earliest modern ones was in 1966, which is at the University of Texas
. No semi-automatics, but due to positioning (up in a quite high tower, overlooking an open area) it was still very deadly.
While the frequency has increased they have been a thing for a long time
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United_States
I have a hypothesis that another major component might actually be the degree of media attention shootings often get (both from social media and from the news), which might be something which creates more motivation to do them. Essentially, school shootings are a viral, hostile meme of sorts.
Leviticus 19:34There's some studies that mass shootings are by people who used to be serial killers but have chosen to express their condition differently because of media coverage and the difficulty of doing murders one at a time in secrecy nowadays.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Here's one article that talks about it. There's been a few others, some by actual scholars but its' just a theory now.
A more likely explanation, though, is the "Mass shooters are impotent white male rage made manifest."
https://www.salon.com/2018/03/07/mass-shooters-part-of-a-larger-epidemic-of-white-male-rage/
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Dec 26th 2018 at 4:55:21 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Dems worry: Top three candidates in polls are all white men.
@Hypersonic weapons on the previous page: Russia (and the media) love to make all kinds of noise about Russia’s supposed edge, but the US has been quietly working away on these same programs since the 80s and most analysts believe we’ve had working hypersonic weapons for quite some time now.
If there’s one thing Russia is good at it’s playing the media.
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Considering Iowa's a swing state, that's not an encouraging sign.
I wish I could say I was surprised by this, but I'm not.
Edited by M84 on Dec 26th 2018 at 9:57:32 PM
Disgusted, but not surprised> I really, really don’t want joe Biden to run. Bernie running is already out of the question, but Biden running is a pr disaster waiting to happen and that’s the last thing we need.
Joe does have some political experience of serving as vice President under Obama so I don't think he's a complete walking disaster like everyone is making him out to be,although it's a huge gamble and I wouldn't want the roll the dice
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverI'm just going to link this Gallup poll of top Democratic Presidential candidates in 2006
and point out that it's probably too early to assume the current front runners will actually win the Democratic nomination.

Still, be it for awareness or not, that's probably one of the most depressing things I've seen today. The (hopefully flawed) knowledge that America has, to some extent, become desensitised to school shootings to the point that most people already have a scripted reaction to it.
Edited by TechPriest90 on Dec 26th 2018 at 7:24:41 AM
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