Life and death and guns

I see there is another gun massacre in the USA.
Big hugs to the victims and their families.
Please, USA, ban the gun. Your gun culture is costing far too many innocent lives.

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BlueVeins · 22-25

Gun laws are probably a good idea, but it'd also be pretty lit if we didn't design a social environment that alienates children so much that stealing a family member's firearm and blasting their own classmates' heads off feels like a remotely reasonable course of action.

SW-User

@BlueVeins Yeah, I'm not "pro-gun" by any means but I do think fixating on guns is simply done because it is an easy target and we want there to be a clear-cut legislative solution to the problem of mass shootings. I don't think there is one.

BlueVeins · 22-25

@SW-User Much like literally every other political issue, I put this one partially down to car dependent infrastructure and zoning.

SW-User

@BlueVeins That's been something I've been thinking about a lot more lately (the more I watch civil planning YouTube channels). I haven't done the research to have a clear opinion on it, but if we're talking about differences between the U.S. and other nations that don't have these problems, that's a major difference.

BlueVeins · 22-25

@SW-User Honestly I'm sure it's at least partly down to this being one of the relatively few political issues that seriously impacts my privileged ass, but I get so fucking angry and worked up over the way our infrastructure is designed. And it's just so inefficient, and so many people fucking die over it. I feel that if we spent nearly as much time worrying about the thousands of people killed by cars each year as we do about the hundreds killed in mass-shootings, we might be a lot further along in making real progress.