Gun laws not changing after every mass shooting incident
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Quick search indicates 342 million people in the United States according to their census, i tried to find the total amount of American citizens but that statistics doesn’t appear easy to find, if we divide it in half and say 171 million US citizens who all potentially own 1 maybe 2 maybe 5 maybe 10 firearms, even if the laws were to change federally at any point do you think every citizen is going to comply?
Even the Canadian government struggles confiscating firearms from licensed owners, and that’s closer to 2 million firearms now prohibited, I can’t imagine how Americans would handle it.
Doesn't need to be confiscated. Just stop sales and the number goes down over time.
And before you start, you don't have to stop all sales. We can start with the ones that have potential to kill the most.
Yeah you’re right we should give up (?)
You don't have to have 1 dude do the whole job. You can just use an equal amount of people per capita as smaller countries have.
maybe you could ask every other country that's done it.
I don't believe it's a fair comparison, there are more guns in the US than people.
Yeah it's gotta be the daily allegiance to the flag -thing for me. That shit hella weird.
@kadotux @cm0002 @Bytemeister @merc
Having read the Constitution and Declaration of Independence as a kid (they were required reading in school), it seems to me that the flag should be pledging allegiance to *us*, not the other way around.
Man that shit was hella weird growing up.
I stopped saying the whole pledge in kindergarten. Didn't seem right to pledge to a god I didn't believe in.
Pretty much stopped saying it all together after 9/11
"I pledge allegiance to the the Flag of the United States..."
Unless you think the flag is a god, you're not pledging to a god, you're pledging to a piece of fabric, or to the design printed on that fabric. Which, honestly, is a lot weirder. How can one have allegiance to a flag? What about the opposite, is it possible to be disloyal to a flag?
...To which it stands, one nation, under god...
Huh, just checked the text and I was surprised to find that the god part was only added in 1954.
Yep, because soviet spies were godless heathens who can't/won't lie about their faith in order to sneak into the US.
Yes, god is mentioned as an additional clause, but you're pledging to the flag.
Yes... Pledging allegiance... To a flag.... Representing a Republic... That exists by/for god...
I mean, I didn't look into it that much at first, I was in kindergarten FFS, but I remember thinking it was funny that God was mentioned in the pledge, and how he was also mentioned in the prayers at Grandma's church, and I thought I shouldn't lie and say the "under god" part since I didn't believe.
OMG this. Straight up indoctrination. And our parents were like Rah Rah, GOOOO TEAM!!!!
Shit looks sketchier the farther we get away from the previous world war.
Yeah most countries never admit to anything or declassify anything. It just disappears to time..
someone post all the major things the cia has done in the last 70 years by bullet point, much has been declassified and the fact none of the public is freaking out over the things they have done is maddening
Well yeah, the CIA has done horrible stuff in the 40s, and the 50s, and the 60s... And the 70s and 80s and 90s... And some stuff in the 00s.
But now? They probably learned their lesson.
I fruck out about it the first 10 or so times I found out about these things, but it doesn't hit the same after a while. This is just what the US is. I vote, I speak my mind, I engage in a little domestic terrorism, but ultimately I don't have enough power to change things in my lifetime. I'm crossing my fingers for an organized network of assassins with a conscience to materialize.
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No no no. We say two election cycles ago, the guy in charge did this. Or that old director of the FBI did this, after he dies and can't say fuck no the president demanded it.
The only weird part is that we unclassify anything. And that only happens when they're trying to buy some public trust.
we show you a price, then charge more at checkout
it's easier to get a gun than a doctor's appointment
tipping
pharmaceutical commercials
casually having the largest prison population in the world and pretending it's normal
violence on tv is okay, but no cussing or sexuality
casually having the largest ~~prison~~ slave population in the world and pretending it’s normal
it’s easier to get a gun than a doctor’s appointment
A lot of times, it's cheaper too!
tipping
I don't think tipping is weird on it's own, but the default expectation of tipping, and the fuckery around wages that makes tips essential to earning "a living" instead of a nice bonus is definitely weird.
I think a more accurate shorthand for this would be "tipping culture"
Tipping is weird on its own. The idea that you are showing gratitude by pushing money on someone is gross at best and downright offensive at worst.
If someone tried to thank me with a hand full of change I'd tell them to fuck off.
What if it was a small stack of 20s? 100s? What if it meant the difference between paying rent or not?
If it were 20s or 100s it would be more insulting, you understand this, no?
If it's the difference between paying rent or not then it's a huge problem that the behaviour exists to enable that situation. If it weren't a cultural behaviour it would be called panhandling.
Considering that giving cash to someone under any other circumstances is considered tacky (even gift certificates/cards are more acceptable, and that's just cash with limits on where/how you can spend it), it is weird that tipping is so ingrained in our culture. And unsettling, to be honest...
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