>

This specific moment in the history of guns in America needs to be more widely known.   Gun control was pretty popular for a hot second once black activists started legally and visibly arming themselves. 
Our racism might be the one force more powerful than our gun fetishism.   Ugh.
Also the rise in mass shooters seems to roughly coincide with the decrease in serial killers. I think some a lot of it is the news covering mass shooters so much more than serial killers. 
While many say the psychology is not the same. People imitate what they know. How many would have taken the steps to go though with that form of violence if they hand been exposed to it so much. >

The other key distinction that might explain the rise in one and the decrease in the other is probability of success.  
It has become much harder to be a successful serial killer as technology and forensic science have improved alongside cameras (surveillance, ring cams, etc.) becoming practically ubiquitous. >

The majority of gun deaths in the US are from suicide. It just dawned on me that the other numbers can probably be attributed to suicidal people who just want to take other people down with them. Yikes. >

Thats 1000% what is happening. The question we need to be asking is why do so many people feel so hopeless that they want to die in the first place, and why are they so angry that they want to bring innocent people with them? >

I mean, it seems obvious to me, but when you get depressed and nihlistic at the hopelessness of everything - you either turn it inward or outward. >

Well when it seems like the whole world is against you having a happy and safe life (especially financially) people goto dark places mentally.
You keep seeing these rich people without a care and you would just be happy having a few grand in the bank to sustain a problem, everything seems fucked because it would make your life unsustainable. >

This is what happens when the country that pretends to be about individual freedom is actually all about money. That's all that matters here. Money. Get money, or you're wasting your time. While you're desperately trying to get money, the basic necessities (food, heat, water, shelter, electricity, healthcare, etc...) are all going to be prohibitively expensive. The prices of those items and services are owned by the people who already have TONS of money. 
Then the people with TONS of money pay our elected officials to ensure that all of their money stays with them, despite the fact that they actually don't contribute shit to anything. 
Money > the environment, peoples welfare = suicidal and/or murderous behavior. >

This is why I’m so puzzled that country clubs and board rooms don’t get shot up like schools and gay clubs. Well, I know it’s because the rich people, especially rich crustchins, are whipping weak people into hate frenzies, but still.
If corporate board rooms got cleared out by insane gunmen like classrooms, we’d have strict gun control INSTANTLY >

Ya ever wonder why office buildings are more secure than schools? >

There is an art school in sf that is basically a real estate scam. They don't give a shit about their students. The school has security at the front door, but the office of the owner had it's own metal detector and security doors installed because of all the students and employees they have pissed off. >

Are you talking about the Academy of Art University? Curious what school it is. >

Yeah it’s either academy of art university or Sf art institute. Can’t remember which. Both have very similar names but one is known to be a pretty massive scam. >

If the gqp didn't flinch for mass murders of children, they certainly aren't going to even bat an eye for non-white old people. >

After Sandy Hook, I am convinced there is NOTHING that will change their minds. It was literally an entire school room of children shot to death. They’ll watch entire schools worth of children be killed and think it’s not their problem. >

They were even given a second chance to care about little kids dying with Uvalde, and not even the responding cops gave a shit. >

Yes but if they didn’t bat an eye at a classroom full of little white kids getting shot what makes you think they’d care about some Hispanic kids. >

They didn't bat an eye at a school filled with RICH WHITE KIDS in Parkland FL.
I assure you, it is a suicide pact. >

werent those high schoolers? probably having sex and shit so gop'ers probably figured it was God taking vengeance against sodomites. >

When NY gets flooded and asks for feds to help, it's God punishing the gays. When Texas freezes over and asks feds for help, and AOC raises millions for them for assistance, well of course it's a totally different thing. Same for Florida. >

But that reality doesn't get told on FOX Entertainment so their base doesn't know, and then calls it fake news when you tell them. >

There was a study done (back in 2012 but likely still accurate) about how informed the viewers of various news shows were by asking them a series of questions on current events. The most informed viewers were those of NPR and The Daily Show. FOX viewers were the least informed, even less informed than those who report watching no news at all.
If the paper itself isn’t available, here is the Business Insider article which summarizes it. >

I've thought about this study a lot lately, I'm surprised to see someone mention it. The gaslighting from the right is so effective and steadfast that, especially because I was raised as a conservative Christian, I sometimes doubt myself. This study helps to counter that feeling. The fact of the matter is that the right is wrong about literally everything because they can't see any deeper than the surface level. Even academically, no serious/respected scientists, economists, philosophers, sociologists, psychologists, teachers/professors, etc. agree with them at all. In fact, most, if not all, of their talking points have been effectively and thoroughly refuted by hard sciences, game theory, psychology, sociology, and history. Thoroughly. 
They think it's a grand conspiracy because it is. That's the truly insidious part of this whole thing. Their leaders knew that they could preemptively DARVO any issue and their base would lap it up for myriad reasons. 
Thanks for reminding those like me that there is an objective reality and it's not the left that is hellbent on ignoring it. >

When nothing changed after Sandy Hook, it was over. >

This got me genuinely (and morbidly) curious what it would actually take to change their minds. 200 innocent children? 200 of their own children? 200 of them? I wish we could do some sort of Black Mirror episode where we implant a false reality in their brains to show them these scenarios until they realize what needs to happen to stop gun violence in America. >

Don't need a black mirror episode. The answer is minority communities taking advantage of open carry laws to organise and protect their own communities against police and racial violence. >

That won’t work anymore. They’ll ban minorities from owning guns or put them in a camp before they ban their precious gun that has become their whole identity. >

Please correct me if I am wrong... The Black Panthers in California armed themselves and lawyered up to follow every rule.  Governor Regan passed laws to prohibit the exact activities they were doing.