The shade of idiot Jack Thompson with brain worm here.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I wonder if classification has made the mass shooting numbers look different. In the 90s I remember everyone just blamed gangs. Shoot out in a parking lot, “they were probably in a gang.”. But soon as you list gun violence under gang related, it no longer falls under mass shooting according to the FBI and such. So even if 6 people get killed, that incident wouldn’t show up.

      Today I rarely see people lumping acts into something like that.

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        Literally today when Kirk was gently relieved from the laborious task of breathing air meant for people better than him, when someone asked “how many mass shootings have there been in the last ten years”, his response was “excluding gang violence?”

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    I blame the Bible for mass shootings, and I guarantee that there is more evidence to support my claim than his.

    Ban the bible!

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    Yes, it’s mostly a US-only issue but you know that other countries, Australia, looking at you, that love to be ban happy with any flimsy justification.

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        This explains all the visas they’re denying and the people they’re deporting. There was a typo… And everyone knows Christie Noem has trouble with the English language on a good day.

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    6 months ago

    So along that line of logic, does all media with graphic violence cause murderous tendencies?

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    I wonder if we can actually use this to our advantage. Microsoft paid $60billion for one of the most popular violent games, CoD. Can we force them to choose between political pressure or money?

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    Classic. This is why I shit up every school I ever went to.

    /S

    This has been disproven so many times. People with mental health issues shoot up schools.

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        Oh I see, so you would say someone who wanted to kill people can have good mental health? Interesting point of view.

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            Arent Mental disabilities and mental health issues different? When I hear someone talk about a mental disability I think of something like a learning disability, or autism. I dont believe they have the propensity to be violent anymore or less than the average. Mental health, however, I think are more states of the mind and can happen to anyone with or without mental disability. Mental health episodes cause one to think and believe in extraordinary circumstances which causes people to do extraordinary things. Im fairly certain thats what the op was talking about.