There was an attempted shooting yesterday at a school in Memphis, Margolin Hebrew Academy. The shooter couldn't get into the school due to their security. He fired a couple of shots at someone outside the school and then a couple more at the school as he drove away. Police pulled him over later and he got out of the car with his gun in his hand. They shot him and he is now in the hospital in critical condition.
Just another day in America.
The story won't even make much of a splash. He didn't get into the school. The only person shot was the gunman. He's a former student and Jewish himself so it wasn't a hate crime. Which, honestly, would still make it just another day in America.
I don't argue about gun control anymore. I rarely actually even post about it. We as Americans made our choice after Sandy Hook. The guns won.
It's like the pretend war on Christmas. Nobody was at war with Christmas but Christmas won anyway. Taking over Thanksgiving and encroaching on Halloween.
Gun control and regulation got reframed as gun confiscation by the Right and the lobbying branch for gun manufacturers the NRA and they never looked back. Guns won. Which I mean I guess they brought guns to a logic fight so...
In America we don't even pay attention to the gun violence stories until they get really bad. There has to be a lot of bodies or some unique angle to the story to get our attention. Person kills 4 and wounds 6 just doesn't cut it anymore. It's a buzz buzz drone of a story that just washes over us and moves along.
Which, you know, it kind of has to be that way, right? I mean if we actually thought about it, thought about the number of people dying by gunshot wounds each year we might feel compelled to do something about it. In 2022.excluding suicide it was 20,138. Which why do they exclude suicide? I mean dying from a gunshot wound is dying from a gunshot wound. And maybe someone who was contemplating suicide would have the opportunity to seek help if they didn't have access to a gun which is quick and easy and then that number jumps to over 48,000. Which is why they want to exclude suicide because over 28,000 people a year die at their own hand because a gun was nearby. If you really think about that you might want to do something about it.
Like how we added seat belts, then seat belt laws, because car crashes were so deadly.
If you actually think about a problem you'll be compelled to fix it.
BUT if you can NOT think about, or actively make it NOT that problem then you are golden and you can just keep going on with your life.
I mean guns don't kill people, people kill people. Seat belts don't save lives, not crashing through the windshield saves lives...
Guns can't actually be a problem. I mean I couldn't remember the exact details about the shooting yesterday so I Googled it and...
Law enforcement officials say a sheriff’s deputy in Washington state was shot while responding to a domestic dispute and is in serious condition at a hospital...
Moments after two children were playing with toy guns, authorities in Alaska say one of the children picked up a real rifle and fatally shot the other child.
Authorities say a police officer has been shot and the suspected gunman wounded in the Los Angeles suburb of Whittier. The shooting took place at about 9 p.m. Monday.
And none of the top three blurbs were the story I was looking for, I had to get more specific. School shooting yesterday. And that brought up the story I was looking for and "About 160,000,000 results (0.48 seconds)"
So yeah, it can't possibly be a gun problem. Because if it was a gun problem we'd have to do something to fix it.
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