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Post by 🦍MAXX＞ⓤ on Jul 7, 2023 13:15:38 GMT -5
Philly Shooter Pro-Gun Tucker Carlson Fan, Conservatives Are Blaming Trans People (Again) The July 4th holiday has consistently seen mass shootings over the last near-decade and this year was no different: Between 5 p.m. ET Friday, June 30, and 5 a.m. ET July 5, there were 22 mass shootings in the US, with 20 people killed and 126 injured, according to the Gun Violence Archive tracker. There were shootings in 17 states and the District of Columbia. Per the Guardian, Texas and Maryland saw two mass shootings each, which the tracker defines as “a single event with four or more victims either injured or killed,” according to ABC News. One of those incidents, in Philadelphia, is being politicized by the right to launder anti-trans and anti-Black Lives Matter sentiment. On the night of July 3, 40-year-old Kimbrady Carriker, heavily armed with an AR-15-style rifle and additional weapons and wearing a bulletproof vest,“seemingly [fired] at least 50 shots randomly at victims,” per ABC, killing five, including a 15-year-old, and injuring others. In a recent op-ed for Teen Vogue on July 3, Illinois governor JB Pritzker and Angela Ferrell-Zabala, the executive director of Moms Demand Action, noted the one-year anniversary of the mass shooting in Highland Park, emphasizing that that shooting as well as many others, like the Uvalde massacre in Texas, were carried out with semiautomatic assault weapons. Soon after the news from Philadelphia broke, conservatives including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene baselessly claimed that Carriker was trans, with Greene and others making incorrect extrapolations from his social media posts. Greene wrote “another trans shooter,” presumably in reference to the Covenant shooting in Nashville, which was another mass shooting used by conservatives to drum up anti-trans sentiment and create a manufactured link between gun violence and trans people. In addition to the transphobia, right-wingers like Ben Shapiro zeroed in on other posts that suggested Carriker supported Black Lives Matter. In fact, many outlets reported that Carriker was a Trump supporter and anti-gun control. www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/philly-mass-shooter-pro-gun-171726026.html |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2023 13:16:52 GMT -5
What is an assault weapon ?
It's mentioned in the article.
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Post by apple on Jul 7, 2023 14:43:17 GMT -5
The usual baiting by the bigots. Pretty much. |
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Post by apple on Jul 7, 2023 15:07:24 GMT -5
The July 4th holiday has consistently seen mass shootings over the last near-decade and this year was no different: Between 5 p.m. ET Friday, June 30, and 5 a.m. ET July 5, there were 22 mass shootings in the US, with 20 people killed and 126 injured, according to the Gun Violence Archive tracker. There were shootings in 17 states and the District of Columbia. Per the Guardian, Texas and Maryland saw two mass shootings each, which the tracker defines as “a single event with four or more victims either injured or killed,” according to ABC News.
How sad is that?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2023 15:48:46 GMT -5
The July 4th holiday has consistently seen mass shootings over the last near-decade and this year was no different: Between 5 p.m. ET Friday, June 30, and 5 a.m. ET July 5, there were 22 mass shootings in the US, with 20 people killed and 126 injured, according to the Gun Violence Archive tracker. There were shootings in 17 states and the District of Columbia. Per the Guardian, Texas and Maryland saw two mass shootings each, which the tracker defines as “a single event with four or more victims either injured or killed,” according to ABC News. How sad is that? It's global. |
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Post by apple on Jul 7, 2023 15:51:30 GMT -5
The July 4th holiday has consistently seen mass shootings over the last near-decade and this year was no different: Between 5 p.m. ET Friday, June 30, and 5 a.m. ET July 5, there were 22 mass shootings in the US, with 20 people killed and 126 injured, according to the Gun Violence Archive tracker. There were shootings in 17 states and the District of Columbia. Per the Guardian, Texas and Maryland saw two mass shootings each, which the tracker defines as “a single event with four or more victims either injured or killed,” according to ABC News. How sad is that? It's global. The U.S. endures the most mass shootings in the world. Next.... |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2023 15:52:25 GMT -5
The U.S. endures the most mass shootings in the world. Next....It's still global. You have mass burial sites at children's schools to make up the difference. It was over 700 at just one school if memory serve me right. 1106 people killed in mass shootings in the US from 1982 till May 2023 link |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2023 16:17:46 GMT -5
The July 4th holiday has consistently seen mass shootings over the last near-decade and this year was no different: Between 5 p.m. ET Friday, June 30, and 5 a.m. ET July 5, there were 22 mass shootings in the US, with 20 people killed and 126 injured, according to the Gun Violence Archive tracker. There were shootings in 17 states and the District of Columbia. Per the Guardian, Texas and Maryland saw two mass shootings each, which the tracker defines as “a single event with four or more victims either injured or killed,” according to ABC News. How sad is that? For those of us without our heads in the sand it's very sad. We need to do something about guns, but the paranoid right live in fear of their shadows. Like knocking on the wrong door ? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2023 16:18:41 GMT -5
The U.S. endures the most mass shootings in the world. Fact. So there !  |
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Post by apple on Jul 7, 2023 16:48:00 GMT -5
Mass shootings is hardly a laughing matter.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2023 17:03:16 GMT -5
Mass shootings is hardly a laughing matter. Is that why you have the lol'ing on my post ?  |
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Post by apple on Jul 7, 2023 17:04:10 GMT -5
Mass shootings is hardly a laughing matter. Is that why you have the lol'ing on my post ? You figure it out. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2023 17:05:18 GMT -5
Is that why you have the lol'ing on my post ? You figure it out. No need to, you said it wasn't a laughing matter, but yet you do. Are you ok today ? |
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Post by apple on Jul 7, 2023 17:19:56 GMT -5
No need to, you said it wasn't a laughing matter, but yet you do. Are you ok today ? I know I should not bother to respond but here goes. I was laughing AT your deflect. You might notice sometimes especially certain posters do that. More importantly why don't you just worry about your OWN accountability here. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2023 17:29:22 GMT -5
No need to, you said it wasn't a laughing matter, but yet you do. Are you ok today ? I know I should not bother to respond but here goes. I was laughing AT your deflect. You might notice sometimes especially certain posters do that. More importantly why don't you just worry about your OWN accountability here. Why ? A lot of these discussions are repeats, like guns actually shoot people etc. Mass shootings are a statistical nothing, with only 1106 killed in 41 years in a population of 300 million. You worry about your own accountability, I'll laugh at what I want, just like you do. |
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Post by apple on Jul 7, 2023 17:34:03 GMT -5
I know I should not bother to respond but here goes. I was laughing AT your deflect. You might notice sometimes especially certain posters do that. More importantly why don't you just worry about your OWN accountability here. Why ? A lot of these discussions are repeats, like guns actually shoot people etc. Mass shootings are a statistical nothing, with only 1106 killed in 41 years in a population of 300 million. You worry about your own accountability, I'll laugh at what I want, just like you do. I question your numbers because there is no single, agreed-upon definition of the term “mass shooting.” I suspect it is quite a bit higher as well, the families of the victims don't shrug it off as you seem to. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2023 17:36:13 GMT -5
Why ? A lot of these discussions are repeats, like guns actually shoot people etc. Mass shootings are a statistical nothing, with only 1106 killed in 41 years in a population of 300 million. You worry about your own accountability, I'll laugh at what I want, just like you do. I question your numbers because there is no single, agreed-upon definition of the term “mass shooting.” I suspect it is quite a bit higher as well, the families of the victims don't shrug it off as you seem to. Suspect anything you like. I suspect your numbers are guess work. Key insights on the top right. As of May 16, 2023. There was a spike in mass shootings in 2017. www.statista.com/topics/10843/mass-shootings-in-the-united-states/#topicOverview |
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Post by Rusty on Jul 7, 2023 19:35:28 GMT -5
I have to laugh, ANY weapon used in an assault is an " assault weapon "
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2023 21:21:29 GMT -5
I question your numbers because there is no single, agreed-upon definition of the term “mass shooting.” I suspect it is quite a bit higher as well, the families of the victims don't shrug it off as you seem to. Mass shooting, non mass shooting, accidental shootings, gun suicides... Guns are a huge problem here and no amount of idiotic denials changes this American reality. Just yesterday there was a gun hiding in the weeds by my mailbox, almost got me, but luckily I had seen it first and flipped it's safety on before it could shoot me. I think a trans person drinking a Bud Light let it go over there, so it could get me. We need to do something about those guns, they're dangerous. |
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Post by Rusty on Jul 7, 2023 21:30:59 GMT -5
Mass shooting, non mass shooting, accidental shootings, gun suicides... Guns are a huge problem here and no amount of idiotic denials changes this American reality. Just yesterday there was a gun hiding in the weeds by my mailbox, almost got me, but luckily I had seen it first and flipped it's safety on before it could shoot me. I think a trans person drinking a Bud Light let it go over there, so it could get me. We need to do something about those guns, they're dangerous. Was yhe gun a chopper or street sweeper? |
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