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It becomes a problem when your entire society or image is based around it. Or when there are so many school shootings they aren’t even in the news anymore. Or when the arms manufacturers keep producing them to sell to citizens and use that is a justification to sell more equipment and guns to the police.
No no I didn’t mean to make it sound like you were making an anti gun comment. I agree with you about the 2a. You’re saying the same things I say to people.
Or when your society has highly criminogenic levels of wealth inequality, alienates people so badly that some of them just snap, is propped up by an ideology with all the semiotics of fascism (including the “gun = penis” part) and tries to keep all of that under control by waging a low-scale war on its own populace.
In other words, having conditions that don’t turn people into murderers is a fairly huge part of gun safety.
they aren’t even in the news anymore.
If the media stopped salivating over them and stopped dropping everything else to do live coverage as they stick cameras and mics in victims’ faces, that would be a good thing.
You’re right. But at what point does not reporting on them seem as though they are “hiding” them for lack of a better term? They are still happening of course.
My sincere answer to that question is “don’t know, don’t care.” The pendulum was on the other side for too long and if it’s finally swinging back towards the media not bathing in the blood of these shootings, I’m not yet ready to start questioning that.
