cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3320637

YouTube and Reddit are sued for allegedly enabling the racist mass shooting in Buffalo that left 10 dead::The complementary lawsuits claim that the massacre in 2022 was made possible by tech giants, a local gun shop, and the gunman’s parents.

  • applejacks@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    15
    arrow-down
    72
    ·
    1 year ago

    hm yes, let’s look at who commits the most gun violence in the US, surely it is conservatives!

      • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        arrow-down
        48
        ·
        1 year ago

        Go take a political litmus test of every gang member in the US and see how many are conservatives.

        Active shooters make a drop in the pale comparatively, they’re just the ones the media focuses on because it’s the narrative they prefer.

        • Annies_Boobs@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          19
          arrow-down
          4
          ·
          1 year ago

          You really don’t see why the media would focus on a random mass killing instead of 2 scumbags shooting at each other over drugs? Weird.

          • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            4
            arrow-down
            11
            ·
            1 year ago

            2? More like thousands. If guns are the problem, then guns are the problem. We don’t need to focus on specific gun crime when those crimes are once again a drop in the bucket.

            That’s why it’s weird.

            • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              arrow-down
              1
              ·
              1 year ago

              Guns are indeed the problem. As every other developed nation shows.

              Why people still claim the US is developed beats me, they belong in the same line as Brazil and Mexico (no offence Brazilians and Mexicans)

        • Pratai@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          8
          arrow-down
          3
          ·
          1 year ago

          Learn the difference between the concept of one who enables the crime, and one who commits the crime.

          If you’re having a hard time understanding how our law handles such a thing:

          Read up on a guy named Charles Manson. Then delete your dumb shit.

    • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      28
      arrow-down
      6
      ·
      1 year ago

      “The conservative party enables gun violence” and “conservatives commit the most gun violence” are completely separate and independent statements. The person you’re replying to is saying the former, not the latter.

      In other words, they aren’t saying that Republicans commit the majority of gun violence, but that the policies championed and implemented by Republicans are responsible for gun violence occurring.

      And whether or not Republicans like it, they admit this all the time, although not the way you’d think. The GOP likes to say that mental health is the driver of gun violence and mass shootings, but simultaneously, the GOP votes against improved mental healthcare and even slashes funding for it.

      • applejacks@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        14
        ·
        1 year ago

        Ah yes, the conservative party makes all those gangbangers get illegal guns and shoot each other up.

        brilliant comment.

    • Pratai@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      arrow-down
      5
      ·
      1 year ago

      Quit being obtuse. You know as well as I do that conservatives ENABLE the gun violence we see every day. It’s baked right into the bullshit policy they enact, the laws they block, and the gun manufacturers that pay them their salaries.