Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of American firearms (2015)

Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by MisterBastahrd on Thursday May 26, 2022 @12:37AM (#31514626)

We only have more anti-gun-violence activists because we have more gun violence. I forget where we are on the murders per capita scene, but I think we rank somewhere around Uruguay and Cameroon.

Great company while pretending to be "the leader of the free world."

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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by umanwizard on Thursday May 26, 2022 @01:00AM (#31514780)

I never claimed we are the leader of anything, and in fact I explicitly said that the US is not a democracy by many meaningful definitions of that word.

I am the furthest thing from a US ultra-patriot who thinks we’re the greatest country in the world, so please don’t ascribe other people’s opinions to me.

Tangent: other than their moderately elevated murder rate, what’s wrong with Uruguay? Is that supposed to be an example of some kind of uniquely shitty country by global standards? (It’s a bad one, if so — Uruguay is a wealthy and highly developed liberal democracy.)

What specifically makes you assume that the US should be doing substantially better than Uruguay or be held to a higher standard?

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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by MisterBastahrd on Thursday May 26, 2022 @03:56AM (#31515833)

I never specifically mentioned you, and I was referencing the rhetoric from our hyper-partisan anti-American "patriots" who fervently believe that the US is #1 in virtually everything.

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