@ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to Data is Beautiful@lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 months agoWho Stops a "Bad Guy With a Gun"?slrpnk.netimagemessage-square278fedilinkarrow-up11.11Karrow-down134file-text
arrow-up11.07Karrow-down1imageWho Stops a "Bad Guy With a Gun"?slrpnk.net@ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to Data is Beautiful@lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 months agomessage-square278fedilinkfile-text
More info https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/06/22/us/shootings-police-response-uvalde-buffalo.html
minus-square@TrickDacy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish15•3 months ago it’s easy to clap back with ‘well, yeah, our society doesn’t have enough “good people” trained with guns, that’s why it’s only 5%!’ I agree. It’s pathetic how shit arguments that make no actual sense are allowed to fly by millions of people.
minus-square@Frozengyro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish6•3 months agoCause many people don’t want their beliefs challenged. They want to live without accepting facts, or even regardless of facts.
minus-square@BedbugCutlefish@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•3 months agoIts the culture war mentality. “Our idea would work, if the damn Wokes didn’t stop us all from having guns at all times!” Its always the reason why ‘their ideas don’t work’; cause their opponents aren’t ‘letting them’
I agree. It’s pathetic how shit arguments that make no actual sense are allowed to fly by millions of people.
Cause many people don’t want their beliefs challenged. They want to live without accepting facts, or even regardless of facts.
Its the culture war mentality.
“Our idea would work, if the damn Wokes didn’t stop us all from having guns at all times!”
Its always the reason why ‘their ideas don’t work’; cause their opponents aren’t ‘letting them’