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[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

I hadn't thought of it until you mentioned all the public shootings, but a lot of mass shooters just want to be remembered for something. Turning the New York shooter into a folk hero is going to inspire a lot of armed crazy people.

Makes me wonder if now we get reasonable gun control.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

CEO shootings are now just a fact of life in America...

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 weeks ago

Don’t do that, don’t give me hope

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Nuthin we can do about it, I guess. 🤷

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Maybe if the mass shooters realize that killing innocent people isn't gonna make the people like them, they'd change their targets?

Maybe... 👀

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If I recall, gun control laws in nazi Germany were loosened, but only for nazi party members.

I'm sure they'll craft something that keeps them out of the hands of everyone but the SA and SS.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

3D printers hadn't been invented yet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Yeahhhh but that's like the FP-45 Liberator gun going up against an AK, let alone tanks and drones. Nobody is using plastic guns for a reason, forgetting the fact that the plastics supply could be tamped and they still require machined parts if the new nazi party really wanted to crack down on that. Leaving aside that the printers necessary to do this so it won't blow up in your face are not exactly low-level consumer-grade and easily controlled on the market. At that point we're basically back to pipe guns.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

It's from the 1990s but still relevant.

"War And Anti-War" by Alvin Toffler. Even before 9/11 he predicted that there'd be a major war against a non-government entity like ISIS. He used the term 'anti-war' to mean a war completely different from the old style of conflict.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Just don't mention the four winds shotgun, and we'll make it through these difficult times together.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I knew I bought a C&C machine for a reason, other than it was used and only $1500

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Damn, good deal!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

Hmmmm...

Mass shooters stop targeting schools and start going after the 0.01%?

That's one way to get gun control.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm thinking 2 more CEOs and we get the Republicans calling for gun control.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd give it 3, just to be contrarian.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

A Baker's Dozen even

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Ugh, and what you just wrote makes me think that the right wing is probably predictably talking about how much of a leftist the killer was and trying to find any way to play up just what a Democrat they must have been. Because it must be thrilling for them to have the rare kind of political violence happen: the kind not perpetrated by a right winger.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No, America never will. The NRA lobby is too strong. You'd have to completely outlaw lobbyists first.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Exactly. Republicans will just push for more funding for police officers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Nah, that's silly, clearly the situation didn't have enough guns. /s

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

I think the meme needs to be changed with the guy with the lever also being strapped to the bottom track.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

"i didn't consider the trolley"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Isn't the trolley problem meant to be a dilemma? Not seeing a dilemma in this version.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

In this case it's a metaphor

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why is the guy at the switch frowning???

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

They hit their lifetime limit for insurance and have cancer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

You fooling yourself if you don't think we'll go down either way, we just gotta force the corporate class down with us

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago
  1. it needs like a whooe group of people pushing the lever...

  2. clear gap in the tracks with "sound waves" like 'click' indicating they're all switching to the side track collectively.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

No dilemma here, but good meme I guess?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Well the people are still gonna get run over, but that might change if enough of the corporate class get run over too. Worth a shot