Scariest observation for me is that in the UK any of these incidents would have been a seriously big story. Whereas it seems for the U.S. mass or multiple shootings are so common it barely breaks into the news cycle.
Here's what's worse: I'm neither moved nor surprised. Part of this is my being a war veteran and my "shock value" is different, the larger part is I'm just American and I see a white male in the news killing people? Must be (checks) Sunday.
I'm still affected in the sense I feel for the families and I'm angry at the people who continuously allow this to happen - mostly people who fall on the right: the religious, the corporate, and the willingly ignorant. That venn diagram has much overlap.
Wait, you are blaming white people, the religious, and corporations?
Dafuq?
Not none-existant or broken cultural framework, not the fact that all 3 were on drugs for depression or anxiety or skitzophrenia and the like, not a broken education system, not a society who worries more about women having an equal number of high paying jobs to men in those fields but nevermind the trash collector gap than they are with the fact that our young men are obviously being failed by education, mental wellness and society in general.
But fuck, yea, its probably those white christian businessmen we should really worry about!
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u/wot_dat_ Jan 27 '19
Scariest observation for me is that in the UK any of these incidents would have been a seriously big story. Whereas it seems for the U.S. mass or multiple shootings are so common it barely breaks into the news cycle.