"There are too many guns.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK last edited by
@vfrmedia Thank you for underscoring that important point — that the disaffection and rage of increasing numbers of young males is at the heart of this problem. And that disaffection and rage are being exploited by some very maleficent players from J.D. Vance to Andrew Tate to Elon Musk.
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Chip Unicornreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy You mean the same Donald Trump who constantly campaigns about how he was nearly shot?
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glasspshrreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy this is the kind of thing we are up against - angry young man at 16 commits multiple crimes leading up to murder/sexual assault, does full 15 years minimum tariff (low as he would have been tried as juvenile), gets out in his late 30s driving recklessly as if nothing has happened - the choice of car is a pointer, it would have been a popular car when he went to prison and he would have made a choice to drive it (seems almost like a show of defiance)
Teenage murderer dies in head-on collision on A40
An Oxfordshire murderer, Thomas Purcell, has died in a head-on crash with a van near Burford on the A40.
Oxford Mail (www.oxfordmail.co.uk)
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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKreplied to Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK last edited by
@wdlindsy if men like this are on the streets (even after attempts to punish/rehabilitate them for the crimes they have already committed), and they treat life (even their own) as cheap (also the driver of the van he crashed into was badly hurt) you can imagine what it would be like over here if we *didn't* have quite strict gun control (even so there's a trend to substitute cars for guns as "angry mens toys")
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK last edited by
@vfrmedia Yes, you're absolutely right to point to that difference. American exceptionalism is nowhere so apparently — shamefully so — in our attitude towards guns and in our super-high rates of gun violence, which have everything to do with the easy accessibility of guns.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK last edited by
@vfrmedia Thank you. A good illustration. Just yesterday, when I did my weekly Tuesday-Thursday pool walking at our med school's center on aging, I overheard a conversation by a group in the pool about the Georgia shooting. One of the men was arguing vehemently that guns are not the problem. He kept saying he had his grandfather's gun, as if that somehow sanctifies all gun ownership. And a woman in the group kept shoutingn back at him in exasperation, "He was 14 years old!"
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to glasspshr last edited by
@glasspusher @edwilk Definitely sounds formidable. Wish it could stop his verbal diarrhea.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Chip Unicorn last edited by
@Chip_Unicorn The very same Donold! He whose ear was almost totally shot off and then, in the twinkling of an eye, healed itself….
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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy whilst I suspect neither him nor his grandad shot anybody, its likely because they both grew up in an era where the patriarchy was accepted and respected, and that is the "good old times" many men are hoping to get back to..
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK last edited by
@vfrmedia Yes, I think that's it — the idea that the world functions best when the "natural" or "divinely ordained" patriarchal order is firmly in place.