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minus-squarePoem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down2·edit-24 months agoStepping in if you’re in the US means a good chance of being shot. If anything sketchy is going on anywhere I immediately leave (and call the cops if something is bad enough), and I don’t hang around to get shot by the cops.
minus-squareinv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down3·4 months agoNote that they mentioned “pay phone”. That was a time pre getting shot over nothing. The good old days.
minus-squareearphone843@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·4 months agoThose days have always existed. We just have better optics on it now.
minus-squareinv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·4 months agoNo, they definitely didn’t exist like they do today. Always existed but not nearly at the same frequency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States
minus-squareearphone843@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoThe conversation is about cops executing people, not mass shootings.
minus-squareinv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoTheir first statement didn’t specify who was shooting.
minus-squareearphone843@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoThey did, actually. They mentioned both the police and the abuser. Still no mention of mass shootings, though.
minus-squareAnticorp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down3·edit-24 months agoThe real world is not an internet chat room. The vast majority of Americans aren’t carrying guns.
minus-squareTriflingToad@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·4 months agopeople in chat rooms can’t shoot me. People IRL can.
minus-squarePoem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·4 months agoI have 2 friends that got robbed at gunpoint. A significant portion of the population in red states is concealed carrying too.
Stepping in if you’re in the US means a good chance of being shot.
If anything sketchy is going on anywhere I immediately leave (and call the cops if something is bad enough), and I don’t hang around to get shot by the cops.
Note that they mentioned “pay phone”. That was a time pre getting shot over nothing. The good old days.
Those days have always existed. We just have better optics on it now.
No, they definitely didn’t exist like they do today. Always existed but not nearly at the same frequency.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States
The conversation is about cops executing people, not mass shootings.
Their first statement didn’t specify who was shooting.
They did, actually. They mentioned both the police and the abuser. Still no mention of mass shootings, though.
The real world is not an internet chat room. The vast majority of Americans aren’t carrying guns.
people in chat rooms can’t shoot me. People IRL can.
I have 2 friends that got robbed at gunpoint.
A significant portion of the population in red states is concealed carrying too.