i appreciate the observation and i've made an effort to better address ithttps://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1178671301906620417 …
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Replying to @chaosprime
I was thinking of adding to my original observation that the American "something must be done" mentality tends to lead to horrible outcomes, usually overseas more and more of who we are is probably gonna come home to roost still don't think it's deliberate traumatization, tho
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Replying to @endlessbats
i think almost all of the people doing it are not doing it as deliberate traumatization and almost all of the ones who are doing it as deliberate traumatization ruthlessly suppress their awareness of this (or, as they would put it, that's not what they're *trying* to do)
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Replying to @chaosprime @endlessbats
the slickness of the branding of the media campaign to identify lockdowns as A Terrible Problem and gun control, which will not end them, as The Solution You Must Demand To Them is a little sickening though
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Replying to @chaosprime
I think you're being too facile with your "gun control won't end lockdowns" because it dismisses the possibility that gun control won't end school shootings it won't INSTANTLY end lockdowns, but if school shootings stop or become vanishingly rare, lockdowns will stop over time?
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Replying to @endlessbats
how would you characterize the level of gun control which will actually make motivated shooters *unable* to obtain a weapon
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Replying to @chaosprime
I'd like to keep making it harder until we find out these people are children, they're not "motivated shooters," they're opportunists who can't even drive to be clear there is no maximum level of gun control for me, the domestic violence factors alone mean no one should have em
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Replying to @endlessbats
school shooters are not even close to always children okay, we radically differ on that then in any event the level of gun control that will stop or seriously slow down shootings is much, much higher than the level that will touch off the Second American Civil War
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Replying to @chaosprime
idk where you're getting your data but WaPo thinks that 70% of school shooters were under 18 and the median age is 16, and that 85% got their guns from home, friends or relatives, so "not even close to always children" isn't much of a sellhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/local/school-shootings-database/ …
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Replying to @endlessbats
70% is not even close to 100%, if it looks like it is to you that's a serious problem lockdowns are not going to go away if shootings drop to 30% of their present rate
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realistically lockdowns are not going to go away in response to any change whatsoever in shootings because somebody has to put their name on the decision to stop, the same ratchet that means we will always take off our shoes at the airport
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