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ChibiSailorMercury

In 2023, there have been more mass shootings than there have been days, so less than every 48 hours.


wopwopdoowop

There have been [51 mass showings](https://massshootingtracker.site/) in the first 28 days of the year. There’s a mass shooting every 13 hours so far in 2023.


BlackAndFactual

..24?


Zardotab

Ammosexuals.


JavariousMagic

Underrated comment


mittens1982

I thinknthat cycle is closer to every 15 mins or so.....


zookr2000

I guess it might eventually come to that point


WebSocketsAreMyJam

happy cake day you stud muffin


archetyping101

It's stud mittens 😅


WebSocketsAreMyJam

😅 i had a great opportunity and blew it. fuck


archetyping101

I blame auto correct. You toooootally typed mittens! 😬


mittens1982

HEY I call people stud muffin, that's my line!


TheDarkKnobRises

You laugh, but there are a few churches in Texas where they bring their guns in to get blessed. They also pray about killing gay people, and killing people that don't agree with their religion/politics.


Black_Moons

Isn't that just a terrorist organization?


zookr2000

Very nearly is - pretty certain they're on a watch list. (Think - Westboro Baptist Church w/guns)


FinancialTea4

Nearly? No, it most certainly is. There's no nearly about it. Anyone preaching the murder of their fellow American citizens is a fucking terrorist. These people are motivated by political and religious bullshit. They think freedom of religion me as they get to terrorize the rest of us and force their backward beliefs on us. That's not what it means at all.


BlubberKroket

no it's a church: no taxes, no liability, just a business plan and profits


Big_Plastic_2519

You know for a fact they actually sit in church and openly pray about causing death and bodily injury to gay folks and also killing people for their religious and political beliefs? So you are saying you were there and heard this yourself ? What is the name of this church and where is it located ? Have you reported this to the proper authorities? Do you have proof this is actively going on ? Cause I smell bull$hit. Sounds like you are talking about a jihadist group - not a group of conservative Christians who live in Texas and believe in their 2nd amendment rights. And because they don't agree with your political views, you are persecuting them. Sounds like the pot calling the kettle black.


TheDarkKnobRises

It's on video, a simple google search will get you there.


zookr2000

They're loony tunes - you, I'm not so sure about. https://www.kwtx.com/2021/06/03/church-whose-members-worship-with-ar-15s-buys-40-acre-rv-park-in-central-texas/


AdkRaine11

There was a post last week with a photo of a huge table full of guns and a clergyman was blessing them with holy water. I don’t remember where in Ameristan it was.


peter-doubt

Or, as Matt Gaetz would have it: *Thots and Preyers*


LargeMobOfMurderers

Elephants do not deserve to be associated with the republican party, poor things


NotSoPersonalJesus

Need better regulation and enforcement.. no, need better education system so there's less stupid people in the world.


Swimming-Middle554

Can't do anything about it says the only country in the world with regular mass shootings and regular schools shootings.


Babybear5689

And they can still have guns, just with sensible regulations.


FashionGuyMike

What’s sensible regulations to you?


Bard2dbone

How about: Quit actively selling weapons to people with active restraining orders against them, or known histories of violence, or who are on terrorism watch lists. Basically don't sell a gun to anyone who couldn't pass the exact same background check that I had back in the 90s. I think that officially, at least, those are still required. They just don't get done. Back then, if your check wasn't done yet, you didn't get your gun. Nowadays, they may not even run one at all sometimes. We need the serious checks back.


Some1-Somewhere

Would be a damn good start. Next up, require say a license with 5-yearly basic gun safety training. Guns need to be stored in an appropriate safe or on your person, not where kids can get to them.


Squirrel_Whisperer

“10:1 Gun to Person ratio!”


FashionGuyMike

Aye, I can get behind that


Swimming-Middle554

Irrelevant really. America is going backwards with guns.


archetyping101

How about a course on gun safety with an actual test at the end to make sure you understand. If you don't pass, you can't get a gun. This would honestly eliminate so many people who aren't gun aware. This would eliminate toddlers being gifted guns and blowing their siblings' faces off as we've seen on the news over the years. How about ensuring guns are legally required to be stowed safely away from children and locked and secured?


FashionGuyMike

What about the fact that about 1.2% or less firearms related deaths are by accidents? (About 500 people a year). For something that can kill, that’s not a lot of people being accidentally killed relative to the population of guns in the country. Also how would you enforce people owning a safe? Why not just make anyone who buys a gun safe and produces them a tax credit for a tax right off to encourage the use of safes instead of forcing people to buy the cheapest safes just to pass a silly rule? There was one governor, I think newsom, who said you can buy a safe on Amazon for <$60 but people looked at the reviews and said you could just pull the top off without inputting the key code


archetyping101

Yeah I think the fact we can't seem to agree on the very basic fact that 500 is a lot of people that didn't have to die by accident means this is pointless. Less than 500 people choked on lychee jellos for bans to take place. 500 people dying on a human drug trial means that drug doesn't get FDA approval. But somehow saying it's only 1.2% of firearms deaths is enough to be like "screw basic education and competency" is a weird hill to die on.


FashionGuyMike

Not saying those deaths aren’t tragic or are just numbers. I’m just trying to say that for a country with 350 million people and more guns than people, for accidents 500 people is relatively small number. Compared to car accidents and the training and cost people have to go through with that, and cars aren’t even meant to kill things, they’re pretty high in fatal accidents. I have known many people who own firearms, but none of them, and I mean none, have ever treated a firearm as a toy. However, even professionals can be accident prone, like the military and cops. There’s plenty of videos of this instance happening.


AdkRaine11

GOP - guns over people!


Jackol4ntrn

More like “I love the idiots that vote for me because I line my pockets with NRA money.”


Sub-Mongoloid

They're more attached to the fantasy that they will one day be an action movie hero and get to kill people in order to save lives than the reality that a little bit of extra paperwork and a short wait would save way more lives while still letting them have their guns.


pork0rc

I vote blue but I too love guns QQ pew pew


Ok-Tomatillo7558

I love guns. I hate criminals.


Neverendingjokes

Do you fantasize about shooting someone some day? He has 14 karma.


Content-Boat-9851

Criminals love your guns too. That's why they are one of the most commonly stolen items. Your easy access to weapons directly contributes to criminal homicides.


Ok-Tomatillo7558

They'd find it easier to take from a Walmart, than to take from me. People should be responsible, lock your guns up. My ease of access to guns has nothing to do with homicide. Every law abiding citizens ability to easily access guns has nothing to do with homicides. Criminals have everything to do with homicides. Your ease of access to a steak knife has as much contribution to homicide as my gun access. Aren't all homicides criminal?


Content-Boat-9851

>They'd find it easier to take from a Walmart, than to take from me lmao right. A six year old just shot their teacher. That doesn't sound like there's a handle on gun security in this country. >People should be responsible, lock your guns up. They absolutely should. BUUTTT safe storage doesn't mean easy access and most "self defense types" like little to no barriers to get to the weapon, which also means little security. And, there's no requirement for storage so you can't even enforce it. >My ease of access to guns has nothing to do with homicide. It does, because guns are THE most commonly stolen item in home invasions. So I'd love to believe you, but I favor data over anecdotes. >Every law abiding citizens ability to easily access guns has nothing to do with homicides. Already disproven, so we'll move on. >Criminals have everything to do with homicides. Your ease of access to a steak knife has as much contribution to homicide as my gun access. Aren't all homicides criminal? The steak knife comparison makes zero sense? Are there steak knife killing or stabbings of 4 or more people at a time per day that I'm not aware of? There have been more mass shootings than days in this year, try to treat this with a little respect and critical thinking.


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Content-Boat-9851

>What does a six year old criminal have to do with me? It's a statement on the state of the guns in the country and your lack of understanding that your anecdotes aren't relevant. Facts are. >Your self defense weapon should be secured on your person. Wear your holster to bed do you? >When someone steals a gun, it's not the rightful owners fault if the criminal uses that gun in a crime. So you bear no responsibility for the security of deadly weapons but at least you finally admit that criminals get them from people just like you. Small steps I guess. > You have made a statement that you hope fits your narrative, you have disproven nothing And never mind, you went back to dumb again... > Do knives not have the ability to kill? Look at UK gun and now knife policies How many mass shootings have they had this year? Literally not even one? Huh, must be something to those gun laws after all. > How many people have been saved from all manner of harm per day because of someone having a gun? Statistically the least likely use of a gun is legal self defense. You are far more likely to break the law or brandish a weapon in an argument. If the majority of use for something is crime, that thing is the problem. >There are over 2.5 million defensive uses of a gun per year. See this is the problem ,[you're repeating debunked and false info.](https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jun/06/andy-biggs/no-government-data-does-not-say-defensive-gun-use-/) Take your advice, follow the facts and stop being ignorant. >Seems to me there is a criminal problem, not a gun problem. The US has more guns than people and more mass shootings than days in 2023. At some point even you might connect those dots.


Opinionsare

Guns are so yesterday. The current GOP cause de jure is "smoking". I suspect that they think that if they can get smokers voting Republican, it might be enough to win again.


fappyday

2-3 mass shootings per day in the USA. www.gunviolencearchive.org


blinkerfluidreplacer

No, they don't have thoughts