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It's okay. The other voice inside his head is a good guy with a gun.

Also worth mentioning he threatened to shoot up the local National Guard base prior to this shooting.

I would like to point out that Reagan dismantled funding for our mental health system and was responsible for the closing of many mental health treatment centers, and Republicans have (to my knowledge) voted against every effort to resurrect it.

They won't support restrictions on gun ownership because they say the problem is mental health, but they won't support spending on mental health either. (Most likely because they seem to oppose anything that would actually help people who suffer.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_Health_Systems_Act_of_1980

https://sociology.org/content/vol003.004/thomas.html

This last one is a ddg search - you can just pick which article you want to read about Republicans voting against mental health funding.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=republicans+vote+against+mental+health+funding

They won't address the mental health problems because it's all part of a strategy to keep people scared.

His "liked" tweets include content published by Donald Trump Jnr., Tucker Carlson and Dinesh D'Souza. He also liked tweets by former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Jim Jordan, according to the screenshots.

Yup, but color me completely unsurprised like you because — guess what — the vast majority of all politically-motivated acts of violence including murders come from the right-wing side of the political spectrum. This isn't even a recent phenomenon; this extends throughout our history.

So don't tell anyone it's a BoTh SiDeS thing. These people are mentally-ill and so damn gullible when it comes to misinformation. They generally lack education and critical-thinking skills to distinguish truth from fiction. They are generally in positions of low self-esteem (e.g., incels) or socioeconomically struggling and thus they feel vindicated when they can believe in something bigger than themselves — or especially to blame someone other than themselves.

I heard they go by “America First” because it describes their terrorism hit list.

Just because they don't report shootings under ten kills anymore does not mean they don't happen. But mass shootings, i.e. incidents where four or more people are killed) are still daily occurances in the US.

The last one was August 26th according to this wikipedia list, which is 60 days ago. But there were 2 in August 3 days apart, so... I guess it has been a while by comparison.

But only if you don't look at this other list on Wikipedia. This list has only 1 of a chosen set of sources who referred to it as a mass killing, the other lists mass killings where 2+ of their sources called it a mass killing. I wonder how long the 3+ sources list will be before it gets it own fork.

I remember a time when each would be the center of news for at least a week.

We only hear about the big ones these days.

Yep. It’s all better now.

Funny, though, that gun laws work everywhere else on the globe, just not in the US where the don't even try.

Yeah, we have a ton of trouble with them in Europe.

Every other developed country in the world can do it, but yeah, totally impossible.