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47. This is a gun control issue as much as anything. The GOP has promoted and defended

Thu Sep 25, 2025, 12:59 AM

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rabid gun ownership, including assault rifles, with hardly ant reasonable gun control. They let mass shootings grow. I think it was to teach cruelty and tolerance for cruelty so people would vote for the Republican agenda of no health care and needless death of innocents. When you own an assault rifle there is no other use for it, outside of a gun range, than to fantasize about using it. A tiny percentage of white men then go out and shoot up a school or something. They kill a lot of innocent, as was intended, normalizing needless death of innocents. 3/4 of those shooters are on the right wing as one would expect. It is appalling. And now the GOP is full on trying to annectdotally make it a purely left crime. There are short cuts, heuristics, in our brains. One makes annectdotal info seem like it is scientifically real. MAGA is now using this heuristic on their herd. They've found a new use for gun crime. I'm so sorry for your country.

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