• TheBaldFox@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Mass shootings go down, mass truckings go up. If they want to kill they will find a way. Mass shootings are EXTREMELY rare, statistically, compared to other firms of murder and there is no way in hell that you can implement “assault weapon” bans federally… Hell, band are getting overturned as unconstitutional As We Speak!

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, but getting a truck is harder than getting a gun.

      How 'bout not doing that?

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        1 year ago

        Getting a truck is definitely not harder than getting a gun in a lot of states. NJ has a mandatory 2 week waiting period. I could rent a truck in a half hour or less and run into a crowd of people I don’t like very easily. You can’t even buy a BB gun in NJ!

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        1 year ago

        The people like you that think the only reason that people commit mass murder is because its easy have your heads so far up your asses than these second amendment idiots. If people want to kill a lot of people they’ll find a way, it may be a bit more difficult for them but they’re not going to be like “oh well, I can’t get a gun, so I’ll just let my murderous rage dissipate”. Does everyone forget that Ted Kaczynski killed people with bombs? Timothy McVeigh killed 186 people with ANFO bombs. The 9/11 terrorists killed thousands of people either directly or indirectly with a fucking plane! Ted Bundy never used a gun either, he beat or strangled the women to death, same with Jeffrey Dahmer. Yet everyone seems to think that if you take away the guns, people will stop killing each other.

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        1 year ago

        Australia and England also have a lot less people than the US. Australia has under a 10th of the population of the US.

        This isn’t specific to people getting killed by trucks, but here’s a list of all the mass murders that have happened in the UK , if you read it you’ll see that most of them were committed with bombs. You eliminated guns and people kept killing people en masse! What a shock!

        The UK and Australia also have socialized healthcare so you don’t need money to get help, it may take a while though from what I’ve heard.

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            1 year ago

            Terrorist attacks are terrorist attacks, regardless of the weapons used. That’s a lot of attacks for a country with 1/6th the population of the US.

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              1 year ago

              Can you demonstrate that ‘terrorist attacks’ in the UK are proportional to mass shootings in the US? Evidence please. You have provided none so far.

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      1 year ago

      You mean trucks, as in those heavily regulated vehicles that are hard to be licensed to use precisely because they can be used as killing machines? Those trucks?

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        What the hell are you talking about with “vehicles that are hard to be licensed to use precisely because they can be used as killing machines”? Are you trying to say that laws keep people from killing people with motor vehicles? Have you never seen a case of “road rage”, or what happened a few years back when someone drove a car into a group of protestors in Charlotte, North Carolina (I think that’s where it happened).

        Pretty much anyone can get a car, you just gotta have money to get one, the only thing stopping you from going all GTA and driving on the sidewalks mowing down people as you go is because you’re not messed up in the head. There was literally nothing stopping this guy from using a truck rather than a gun, it’s just that a gun was cheaper and more effective.