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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by renaudg on Thursday June 02, 2022 @12:41PM (#31597165)
> First off, you didn't say "school" originally, you just said mass shooting

My original sentence :

> The UK for example changed gun laws after a mass school shooting 26 years ago. Not a single one since.

I don't know what to say if you didn't double check when I corrected you. Learn to read ? To argue honestly ?

BTW, TWENTY-ONE new mass shootings in the US since you wrote this desperately disingenuous reply. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_...

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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by quantumwannabe on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @03:03AM (#31735639)
Not a single one of those was a mass shooting by the common definition. They were all just random murders/attempted murders, which your continent has quite a lot of as well. The only difference is you don't have lobbyists who compile lists on Wikipedia.
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