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What is the dumbest reason to kill somebody? (midwest.social)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

You're right it's appropriate to say "wtf America" about gun violence generally. I think what I was stuck on is while extremely fucked up that someone shot a person for turning around in their driveway, in a country of over 300 million people that particular thing is still a fluke. I hadn't heard of the other incidents mentioned in that Wikipedia article until you said there were four.