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The father of the Apalachee High School shooting suspect has been arrested in connection with the shooting that left four people dead, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

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[–] randompasta@lemmy.today 56 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Does that mean we're out of the thoughtx and prayerx phase and we can talk about sensible gun control?

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 36 points 1 year ago

You must be new here.

This is America. Guns' rights are above all others.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In this case, the sensible gun control would be "Your minor son got investigated by the FBI for wanting to shoot up a school, no you can't buy a gun."

But nobody got convicted so the investigation doesn't count!

[–] FireTower@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

But nobody got convicted so the investigation doesn't count!

The Due Process Clause will do that.

[–] noxy@yiffit.net 17 points 1 year ago

no prevent only punish

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

Mmm that's a real neat idea but you see if we could somehow get more guns into society, we might finally hit the critical mass where the t's and p's become irrelevant because of all the freedom, you see

[–] Fester@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

We haven’t passed the number of deaths that make Americans start to feel like the deaths aren’t acceptable and that we should make any minor sacrifice to prevent them. I don’t know what the number is, but it’s at least higher than 1 million over 2 years.

[–] evidences@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If one gunman killed around 3k people we'd be in the range of invade 2 countries territory but I doubt it bring of calls for domestic gun control.

[–] Fester@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Well that’s just war. That’s like, a Tuesday. It’s already policy to wage war whenever there’s an excuse. Not going to war — now that would be tough. Lowering avoidable deaths is the thing we have a problem with.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, the Zapp Brannigan strategy.

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pasta person, here in amurikuh were a reactive people, not proactive.