It’ll be all over the news for less than a week. We’ll say there’s nothing we can do about it despite being the only country where this happens to this degree. Cue the useless and complacent “thoughts and prayers” all over social media. Rinse and repeat. Welcome to America.
I think it’s beyond the guns. It’s American mentality and society in general. Something is wrong.
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It's a microscopic number of individuals who do this. You want to see the American mentality, look at the line of 500 people that showed up to donate blood in Thousand Oaks. Look at Sg.t Ron Helus who lost his life trying to protect others. There were many acts of heroism in that club from ordinary people. That's what I see as the American mentality.
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The issue is that, while heroism is almost global (the number of people who step up to help in cases like the terror attacks in France or the UK is just as high), the sheer amount of mass violence in the US is a standalone in its class
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Edited by blade329: 11/12/2018 3:38:38 PM[quote]The issue is that, while heroism is almost global[/quote] If you say so. [quote]the sheer amount of mass violence in the US is a standalone in its class[/quote] We definitely have our issues, but our overall crime rate is lower now than ever.
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Watch global news. When tragedy strikes, people come together to help each other. It's not solely America that does that. And while the overall crime rate has been going down for a while, the number of mass shootings had risen.
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Edited by blade329: 11/12/2018 7:06:57 PM[quote]And while the overall crime rate has been going down for a while, the number of mass shootings had risen.[/quote] The number of "mass shootings" has been on the rise since the 1966 Univ of Texas shooting. Also, people generalize a lot on what that term means. It used to me 4 or more victims. Some studies will call two or more a mass shooting, which includes murder/suicides and a gang drive by. So, people will play with the numbers to make things sound worse than they are. Still, some of the most horrific shootings have happened in the last few years. It's a horrible thing. I don't think I'll ever get over Sand Hook.
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That's the biggest thing. It's getting worse, and more frequent in terms of random acts of horrible violence
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[quote]....terror attacks in France or the UK[/quote] Uh, yeah.
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Main point is that heroism is universal. Mass shootings are pretty much an American issue
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[quote] the sheer amount of mass violence in the US is a standalone in its class[/quote] Ummmm......what?
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If you look at all other first world, stable countries, they have way, WAY less mass casualty events
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[quote]It's a microscopic number of individuals who do this. You want to see the American mentality, look at the line of 500 people that showed up to donate blood in Thousand Oaks. Look at Sg.t Ron Helus who lost his life trying to protect others. There were many acts of heroism in that club from ordinary people. That's what I see as the American mentality.[/quote]
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I think you're right.
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It's the current American mentality. Learn to forget, not so much forgive.
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... Yes something is wrong, people are crazy... [spoiler]not included in the DLC[/spoiler]
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/19/thresholds-of-violence/amp How shootings spread. Article talks about school shootings, but one may be able to extrapolate.
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That’s horrible!!!
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Doesn’t make it any less true. And that’s exactly what happens. We’re incredibly apathetic to this phenomenon.
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Edited by DeMix: 11/8/2018 4:48:48 PM[quote] It’s American mentality and society in general. Something is wrong.[/quote] That's an understatement. Totally agree though.