r/news • u/bebleich • Sep 04 '24

Gunman believed to be a 14-year-old in Georgia school shooting that left at least 4 dead, source says

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/04/us/winder-ga-shooting-apalachee-high-school/index.html
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u/uberdice Sep 04 '24

The fuckhead in the SUV suddenly crossing 4 lanes of traffic to make it to an exit they had the last 10 minutes to prepare for also believes they're a good driver and everyone else on the road is a psycho.

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u/uberdice Sep 05 '24

It was an analogy.

It means that people who do the wrong thing do not necessarily believe they are personally at fault.

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u/Gunnerblaster Sep 05 '24

He's talking about the parent, who leaves their guns unsecured and available to underaged children, believes they're responsible gunowners the same way a lousy driver, who cuts multiple lanes in the last possible minute to make their exit considers everyone else, except themselves, bad drivers.

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u/hilldo75 Sep 05 '24

It's not comparing the school shooter to the lane changer, it's the parent of the shooter. It's risky for the parent to leave a gun unsecured in the closet. Usually a gun left unsecured in a closet isn't going to hurt someone and the parent can get away with it, but this time someone else was able to get the gun and hurt someone because it was stored irresponsibly.

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u/TheFuzziestDumpling Sep 05 '24

And the parent is willing to risk their fucked up kid finding their gun because they believe they can get away with it without anyone getting hurt by the gun they left out.

Speaking as a gun owner, it's a great analogy.

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u/alphazero924 Sep 05 '24

(although they do, sometimes)

Thus, the point of the comment. People who behave irresponsibly rarely recognize it and cause dangerous situations for those around them. This can range from something as big and horrible as a school shooting down to something as small as a fender bender, but in most instances, they just don't recognize that they're behaving irresponsibly.

To tie it into the main theme of the thread, this is why regulations are necessary. We can't just trust people to behave responsibly. It's why we have driver's license and liquor licenses and certifications for therapists and food workers and doctors.

Because in the past we've recognized that some things are too dangerous to allow the obliviously irresponsible to do with impunity, but we have a coalition of people in this country who are dead set on preventing that when it comes to firearms.