Shooting of the Day
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That unanswerable question of 'why' is always what will, in the end, protect the second amendment / NRA defense. Because if someone says gun violence is an access issue, you can point to Iceland. If it's a discussion about mental health than it can be deferred to health care, or any number of ridiculous "what inspired this" tangential dialogue (video games / media, political influence, prejudices) that then becomes the narrative.
The issue is that it is so complicated, especially given America's inception as a violent state, our evolution and militaristic definition that has grown alongside the various technological, civic and social advances that made society both disparate but, at face value, ideal.
(I consider the biggest irony to be that the invention that could have saved us all came along at exactly the right time, and I think that's why we all still partially admire the internet from the 90s/early aughts. It represented the hope of a new society, a new dialogue that could leave behind the plagues of our old systems. Instead, it's now much like the America we hate: 3 major corporations fighting to control as much as possible.)
Anyway, I just saw that there was another shooting in Texas, but it's not considered an "active shooter" situation because there was a motive (aka just not a random attack) ... and I think it's really fucked up now we're differentiating between mass murders based on how targeted they were.