▲ 278 ▼ 13-year-old boy fatally shot man whose leg was blocking aisle of bus, Denver police say (apnews.com) submitted 2 years ago by originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com to c/news@lemmy.world 156 comments fedilink hide all child comments Denver police have arrested a 13-year-old boy accused of fatally shooting a man whose leg was blocking the aisle on a public bus.
[–] maness300@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago (1 child) Bad parenting. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 143 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (46 children) It's not just parenting. There are crap parents worldwide, yet this only regularly happens in one place. E: downvote all you want. Remove my comment if you want. You know it to be true. This is a US thing. Stop worshiping your guns. And if you are to have them, keep them in a safe, inaccessible to children, when not in use. The fact that this is a controversial statement to Americans is insane. You can't just handwave away gun problems as "oh it's the parent's fault, nothing can be done" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 48 child comments replies: [–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (2 children) I talk about how much America loves guns and it's military and I get downvoted all the time. And I say that as a left-leaning armed American. Sorry that facts hurt people's feelings. We literally had school shootings involving kindergartners a decade ago and nothing has changed. Nothing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] pan_troglodytes@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago if you arent personally going into people's houses and taking their weapons away from them, then preventing them from buying more weapons, then you cant expect anything to actually change. permalink fedilink source parent [+] usyless@lemmy.world -6 points 2 years ago (1 child) It's not guns, it never was done. It's lack of good education, farming it out like it's just some subscription thing. People aren't learning practical information in schools. We don't teach kids how to think, or how to deal with anger in their mind. And they get up and they grow up to be these idiot full grown adults who don't know how to think past them not liking a person because of skin color, they go with their first wins because they're idiots, they get a hold of guns because only idiots need guns. And then they do something stupid. Thinking it's just guns is fucking stupid. Guns don't hurt people people do blah blah blah, it's true people suck now. They're dumb they don't read and they should shoot themselves in the head next time permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago It's guns. People from other countries aren't just intrinsically superior to Americans. We haven't all trained our kids to be paragons of virtue. It's that any American can trivially get a gun. It's that simple. It's guns. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (44 replies)
[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 143 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (46 children) It's not just parenting. There are crap parents worldwide, yet this only regularly happens in one place. E: downvote all you want. Remove my comment if you want. You know it to be true. This is a US thing. Stop worshiping your guns. And if you are to have them, keep them in a safe, inaccessible to children, when not in use. The fact that this is a controversial statement to Americans is insane. You can't just handwave away gun problems as "oh it's the parent's fault, nothing can be done" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 48 child comments replies: [–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (2 children) I talk about how much America loves guns and it's military and I get downvoted all the time. And I say that as a left-leaning armed American. Sorry that facts hurt people's feelings. We literally had school shootings involving kindergartners a decade ago and nothing has changed. Nothing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] pan_troglodytes@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago if you arent personally going into people's houses and taking their weapons away from them, then preventing them from buying more weapons, then you cant expect anything to actually change. permalink fedilink source parent [+] usyless@lemmy.world -6 points 2 years ago (1 child) It's not guns, it never was done. It's lack of good education, farming it out like it's just some subscription thing. People aren't learning practical information in schools. We don't teach kids how to think, or how to deal with anger in their mind. And they get up and they grow up to be these idiot full grown adults who don't know how to think past them not liking a person because of skin color, they go with their first wins because they're idiots, they get a hold of guns because only idiots need guns. And then they do something stupid. Thinking it's just guns is fucking stupid. Guns don't hurt people people do blah blah blah, it's true people suck now. They're dumb they don't read and they should shoot themselves in the head next time permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago It's guns. People from other countries aren't just intrinsically superior to Americans. We haven't all trained our kids to be paragons of virtue. It's that any American can trivially get a gun. It's that simple. It's guns. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (44 replies)
[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (2 children) I talk about how much America loves guns and it's military and I get downvoted all the time. And I say that as a left-leaning armed American. Sorry that facts hurt people's feelings. We literally had school shootings involving kindergartners a decade ago and nothing has changed. Nothing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] pan_troglodytes@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago if you arent personally going into people's houses and taking their weapons away from them, then preventing them from buying more weapons, then you cant expect anything to actually change. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] pan_troglodytes@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago if you arent personally going into people's houses and taking their weapons away from them, then preventing them from buying more weapons, then you cant expect anything to actually change. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] usyless@lemmy.world -6 points 2 years ago (1 child) It's not guns, it never was done. It's lack of good education, farming it out like it's just some subscription thing. People aren't learning practical information in schools. We don't teach kids how to think, or how to deal with anger in their mind. And they get up and they grow up to be these idiot full grown adults who don't know how to think past them not liking a person because of skin color, they go with their first wins because they're idiots, they get a hold of guns because only idiots need guns. And then they do something stupid. Thinking it's just guns is fucking stupid. Guns don't hurt people people do blah blah blah, it's true people suck now. They're dumb they don't read and they should shoot themselves in the head next time permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago It's guns. People from other countries aren't just intrinsically superior to Americans. We haven't all trained our kids to be paragons of virtue. It's that any American can trivially get a gun. It's that simple. It's guns. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago It's guns. People from other countries aren't just intrinsically superior to Americans. We haven't all trained our kids to be paragons of virtue. It's that any American can trivially get a gun. It's that simple. It's guns. permalink fedilink source parent