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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by rswail on Thursday May 26, 2022 @05:19AM (#31516280)
How about basing policy on not getting innocent children and adults mass murdered on a regular basis?

They are outliers of outliers in other countries. In the US, it's once a week.

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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by zmgsabst on Thursday May 26, 2022 @10:35AM (#31518822)
> mass murdered on a regular basis?

That doesn’t happen — it’s been four years since a similarly deadly shooting.

> They are outliers of outliers in other countries. In the US, it's once a week.

You forgot to exclude gang violence.

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