• OT: "No way to prevent this..."

    From Alan@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 25 15:12:04 2022
    "...

    Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

    TX—In the hours following a violent rampage in Texas in which a lone
    attacker killed at least 21 individuals and injured several others,
    citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing
    routinely occurs reportedly concluded Tuesday that there was no way to
    prevent the massacre from taking place. “This was a terrible tragedy,
    but sometimes these things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do
    to stop them,” said Idaho resident Kathy Miller, echoing sentiments
    expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation
    where over half of the world’s deadliest mass shootings have occurred in
    the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of
    gun violence than those of other developed nations. “It’s a shame, but
    what can we do? There really wasn’t anything that was going to keep this individual from snapping and killing a lot of people if that’s what they really wanted.” At press time, residents of the only economically
    advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have
    occurred every month for the past eight years were referring to
    themselves and their situation as “helpless.”

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