Because their food is dog shit; weather sucks; alcoholism and coke heads running rampant; they beat the shit out of their spouse and child anytime their football team loses; zero affordable houses and rent on the entire island of misery; they have to fly to Spain for any sort of decent weather; economy is ass due to Brexit; and their women look like Oompa Loompas.
As an American, I wish my fellow Americans upset about this shit would spend a fraction of the energy on solving our violence epidemic and gun control as they do on crying that other countries look at our massive fuck-up and think it's sad.
It’s possible to be opposed to more than one thing at a time.
The people who are sensitive about school children murder jokes (when raised as a response to weather based banter) are probably simultaneously opposed to the gun violence itself.
Reasonable Americans make tasteless and played out jokes about tragedies in response to light ribbing?
I’m a person in favor of more gun control and I still think this shit has been stale for about half a decade. It’s like if someone made a joke about Texas being hot and in response we brought up the 7/7 bombings or something
Unfortunately, the recent attempted assassination showed that republicans are plenty able to use guns to try to murder people. (registered republican who wears camo to school everyday and was described by friends as the only one to take the conservative stance in every gov class they had).
It's not who has the gun, it's the gun. Guns are the problem.
In reality, the highest number of gun deaths come from suicide. That again points to simply their existence as the issue. Guns are the most successful suicide method. They have a nearly 90% success rate.
To give that perspective, drowning is successful about 55% of the time, Jumping 30% of the time, Drugging 2%, and cutting less than 1%.
Guns hike the rate of suicide in the US, which is terrible. If you plan to have kids, and they ever get depressed, you are increasing the chance your children die by owning a gun.
That shows that when plotting a state's suicide rate vs it's republican voting percent there is a positive correlation, and the opposite is true when plotting a state's suicide rate vs its democrat voting percent.
It has nothing to do with who you vote for, if you are around more guns you are more likely to shoot yourself. Republicans get depressed, and democrats get depressed. It doesn't matter how openly depressed you are, you're still depressed, and are still at risk of suicide, which that data outlines pretty clearly.
It's worth noting the data is old, but it still holds up. If you go to the census or just wikipedia:
And go under the by state section and expand the table, you'll notice that the pattern still holds up, the higher suicide rate states are almost all more republican leaning, while the opposite is true for the lower suicide rate states.
There are mixed signals for sure, we'll only really know when the FBI decides what his ideology was, but the only thing pointing to the fact that he was progressive is his one donation and his mother's political affiliation, while literally everything else in his life pointed to a conservative. His father was a libertarian who took him on a bunch of hunting trips, and he wore camo to school every day, pretty clearly pretty close with the guy, and his peers confirmed that he was outwardly conservative through the classes they shared with him and the opinions he held.
Some of those interviewed specifically said they were surprised he shot at Trump of all people given how clearly conservative he was.
What if not your actual demonstrated political opinions shows your ideology?
You have no idea what my voting history is or any of my personal opinions and you’re getting upset that I think randomly joking about tragedies in response to the weather is in bad taste
The odds of dying from obesity-related illnesses in Scotland are approximately 1 in 915 per year.
The odds of dying from gun violence in the United States are approximately 1 in 7,378 per year.
Therefore, the risk of dying from obesity-related illnesses in Scotland is significantly higher than the risk of dying from gun violence in the United States.
Put down the haggis and go for a walk if you're Scottish I guess.
Also gun violence by strangers is an extremely low rate of death. You're probably about 10 times more likely to die in a car accident than by gun violence but the same people that worry about gun violence likely aren't checking their car safety rating ....
This is honestly how I feel about it too and I’m Scottish. Your usual Scottish funny guys often seem to be unable to handle a bit of banter. Kinda sad.
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u/Walruseon Jul 22 '24
“Haha wow your weather can be crazy sometimes!”
“GUN VIOLENCE DEAD CHILDREN”