It's America. They trust baaically anybody with basically any gun.

The Ulvade shooter was a teenager, with a history of sending death and rape threats, who earned the nickname "school shooter" after abusing a dead cat.

He bought two semi-automatic rifles from a company that markets to young, internet connected edgelords, posted pictures of them to social media, then used them to mutilate a room full of children beyond recognition.

The pro-gun crowd rushed to blame the police but the reality is that police and hypothetical "good guns" can only react to shootings, meaning its always going to be too late for someone.

Which is why braver police at Sandy Hook were too late to save anyone, despite being on the scene and breaching within minutes.

It's a pattern repeated over and over again. Look up the history of a mass shooter 3 months after their act, when their history is known, and its usually the same story; a parade of red flags, often far-right and radicalised online and deeply damaged and not shy about it.

People capable of these acts are not just normal people (and legal gun owners) who wake up broken one day and decide to see if murdering children and minorities fixes it. People could already tell they were dangerous.

But if you ask those pro-gun cultists what they'd have changed, it's never the guns.

They're genuinely more upset by the idea of waiting 6 months for a gun -- something routine in the rest of the world -- than they are by children dying terrified and screaming on their classroom floor.

After blaming video games and rap music didn't work, they've finally opted for "mental health" and while it sounds reasonable on the surface, it's no less bullshit.

It's not at all reasonable to insist that America fixes the mental health problems of every man, woman and child in America, for free, no matter how deeply violent, curing them to a degree far beyond the most cutting edge medical treatments available, with no relapses ever, in less time and with less effort to the patient than buying a gun and doing a murder suicide.

All so it's safer to indiscrimately sell the public guns.

I hope Lemmy communities don't give give them space. They're propaganda spreading, self-absorbed scum.

(P.S: Sorry for hitting you with this rant but I know I'm going to have to copy and paste bits of it 100 times on Lenmy, so I may as well get it all out now)

I wouldn't trust her even with desk duty and safety scissors.

I can't help but think of Adachi in Persona 4 going "I only became a cop so I could carry a gun. You'd be surprised how many police officers are the same way."

Except you don't need to be a cop to carry a gun in the US...

He's gotta get paid.

In the USA your identity, finances, and insurance are tied to your job.

He's likely got financial obligations and is stuck in that job. Police are paid pretty well. They have to be to convince any same person to take that shit job.

If you offered all cops a job with the same wage and benefits I bet over half would take it.

How could someone get out of a car and walk away without noticing railroad tracks?

Well surely one of those mine cart things being operated by a monkey in red velvet would've been ok.

It’s probably specific to the jurisdiction. For instance, some states consider assault and battery to be two different things, whereas other states call them assault and aggravated assault instead. So in those states you’d be charged with aggravated assault instead of being charged with battery. But they both mean the same thing in the end.

I really don't think they were expecting her to.

Yeah, did she have a mustache that she twirled?