- In a neighboring county from me, a 21-year-old white male man stormed into a Sebring bank and executed - shots to the head - five women (one of them a customer) who were there. He had moved from Indiana to Florida to work at a prison (where he clocked in for a few months and then quit for no known reason), showed some social media interest in certain Far Right figures, but police are still trying to figure out why he stormed that particular bank and just kill everyone in the bank.
- Another 21-year-old white man gets into a bar fight in Pennsylvania and shoots a couple of people, two of them dying, and then fled and crashed into a house where he killed the 86-year-old man living there before killing himself.
- Yet another 21-year-old white man - what the FUCK Millennials, I thought you had your shit together - killed his girlfriend's family and then the girlfriend, drove over to his parents house to shoot them, then fled before getting arrested in Virginia just a few hours ago.
Remember in the United States we only pay attention to the mass shootings where the body count is three or more, so more than likely we're not even seeing the individual acts of domestic violence involving men shooting/stabbing/killing their wives/girlfriends happening on a daily basis.
It's already been an established problem with gun violence: For all the problems involving the ready and available access of firearms, the other half of the problem involves the ready willingness of Angry Guys to get triggered for some ego-busting reason and going on a goddamned killing spree.
(If you're angry I pointed out the shooters are mostly White guys, it's because I wanna give trump and his anti-immigrant Haters Brigade a nice middle-fingered FUCK YOU Salute because their goddamned Wall would not have stopped any of these attacks on women)
You wanna know how bad gun violence has gotten in the United States?
Wikipedia has started breaking down their list of mass shootings by year (starting in 2013). They can't keep the body counts to just one html page.
And while the numbers on mass shootings aren't exact - thanks to a NRA-owned Republican Party that fights any attempt to track shooting injuries or gun-related deaths - just on reading the partial list of what we know you will keep seeing the same thing: Angry Guys.
While there's a lot America can do to cut down on the mass shootings (tip: Universal Background Checks and Filtering Out Domestic Abusers would FUCKING HELP, people) one thing we should be doing is calming the crazed, blood-boiled male population out there and getting them to, you know, STOP KILLING EVERYBODY.
Okay guys? Seriously? Just watch that damn Gillette Ad and CALM THE FUCK DOWN.
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Here in California, we already confiscate the firearms of convicted domestic abusers, and last I checked, that was tens of thousands of firearms and hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition already taken away from some of those angry men who are statistically the most likely to murder their wives or girlfriends with them.
Gavin Reptile, I mean Newsom (I calls 'em as I sees 'em) has come out in favor of expanding the program as long as it keeps producing the intended results, so let's hope that he learned a few things about how to fund a crazy-large state government from his time as Lt. Governor under Jerry Brown.
And I saw the same reactions to Fergus' scaremongering over and over on the various Twitter feeds I read, namely that women are far more likely to be murdered by their gun owning white Christian US citizen intimate partners than by anyone else at all, let alone undocumented immigrants, who commit all crimes at lower rates than good old citizens of the USofA.
-Doug in Oakland
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