78 school shootings in 2024... If anyone is keeping count.

JD Vance says that school shootings are just a "fact of life."

I wonder if all this rage and hopelessness is starting to find a more productive outlet.

If the choice is between school shootings or CEO shootings, the latter is preferrable. I'd take that trade even if I were a CEO, but I doubt most CEO's would.
- It’s more targeted too, one target vs as many as possible.
JD Vance says that school shootings are just a “fact of life.”
Then it's logical that preventing politician shootings should be budgeted similarly. Time to defund the entire secret service as part of those 75% government employee cuts. School shootings being resourced differently than oligarch shootings is a violation of the equal protections clause of the constitution, and therefore an illegal waste of our tax money.
Some of it may, but not all of it.

The children should consider working harder to increase shareholder value…

Layoffs increase shareholder value and this one gave their stock a boost.
Those hard working school shooters are doing their best to promote growth in the funeral home industry. Won't anybody think of the jobs!?!

CEOs not schools

I smell a bumper sticker.
- "CEO shootings are a fact of life"
  There's another one for you.

Oh absolutely. Start letting the gun violence get too close to home and the rich will force that legislation through overnight

A reminder that California's famously strict gun laws started as a Republican reaction to black people owning guns and forming citizen militias to protect their neighborhoods from criminals and oppressive government thugs.
- Indeed, Ronnie Racist Fucking Reagan and a senator who panicked when the armed Black Panthers(?) walked into the State Capitol building during a protest. Before that, California was open carry, locked and loaded.
Literally where California's strictness on handguns originated.
Exactly this. But you wont see one gun from rich people, while the rest of us have to mandatory turn in our guns. There are no laws for people that can throw money at the courthouse to let them do what they want. In america its only "legal" to do illegal shit if your rich
I keep seeing evidence that the rich don't give 1% of a shit about the rest of us, but I keep sending myself "thoughts and prayers" that that's not totally true and we don't have an open class war going on in the US.

Many school shooters talk about wanting to be seen, wanting fame/notoriety, and so on. With the huge positive response to this, it wouldn't be too surprising to see copycats. "If I do this, people will remember me and love me for it."

78 school shootings in 2024

77 more in the next 25 days could be a challenge

Best get cracking then. Any CEO conferences about?
"When Americans put their minds to it, they can accomplish anything"

It won’t happen. The government will spare no expense to protect CEOs. Same cannot be said for our children.

read the image again
- Spare no expense <> gun control
  Gun control is actually not expensive at all. Instead they would probably grant secret service access to billionaires, or something like that.

Or, gun ownership will just become more expensive.

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I love rushing with SMGs

Yeah, but it will be done so that only the rich have guns.

"No guns unless it's for armed security or military" This is how to accomplish that
- It's a metal tube baby. Genie is out of the lamp.

Capital can always afford more guns / storm troopers. That's been the nature of the state since forever.

But those hired guns have limits. They have to protect their oligarchs at all times, a potential shooter only needs one time.
- "Today we were unlucky, but remember we have only to be lucky once, you will have to be lucky always"
Even I have my limits.
now robotic guard dogs included for free! not for schools for but for at least one man

The immediate citation got me.

Thank you.

Motherfucker. This happened today.

They can take our guns, but they can never take our rusty dull guillotines

Worst way to kill. Person immediately loses blood pressure and goes unconscious.
Def want poison mushrooms so you shit your organs out first. Plus you can claim it was a pre-existing condition.

"Now is not the time to focus on solutions to CEO shootings, we're thinking and praying, and then we just need to move on... As then it won't be time to look in the past."

78? Really? What are we qualifying, “school” as THESE days???

Sarcasm, if that wasn’t implied.

I know you're kidding but....
SCC Student Hurt After Dropping Firearm
And this
https://www.wtok.com/2024/12/03/mcc-campus-police-investigate-tuesday-morning-shooting/
The person who was shot is a student at MCC, but it is unknown if they were on campus to attend class.
MCC Police say this is a targeted attack and there is no danger to the public.
But yea totally a school shooting.... it's bad data like this is the reason most people ignore these bullshit headlines.
- it’s bad data like this is the reason most people ignore these bullshit headlines.
  Sounds like you have an agenda to protect your own gun fetish and are ignoring or twisting data that doesn't suit your own needs. A quick review of your postings and your talking about ammunition calibers confirms it. I think putting your gun fetish above the lives of children is one of the most unmanly things I have ever seen. But you do you, tough guy.
  Here's the raw data of all shootings in the US. https://www.gunviolencearchive.org
  And here's an article that talks about reviewing that data https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081
  I hope you have kids someday.
You're not wrong to question this. "Gun Violence Archive" labels any shooting (as in literally any time a gun goes off) on school property a "school shooting". Some teacher ices themself in the parking lot? School shooting. Some gang kids blast each other in the yard at 1am? School shooting. Someone pops off a negligent discharge that doesn't hit anyone? School shooting.
CNN has tweaked this formula by only including times someone besides the shooter actually got shot, so a bit better than usual but still a useless number that we can't use to make informed decisions.