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Fucking hell America. That wasn't even the only shooting of a young person that week. From the Wikipedia page about one of the other shootings:
The shooting gained notoriety for being one of four shootings that occurred in a one-week period in the US that were characterized by young people being met with gunfire after making a mistake.
Oh, and one of the other ones involved a 6 year old child and her parents after a basketball they were playing with rolled down the street and onto his property. Nobody died, thank the gods, but the guy who did that one was already out on bail for domestic abuse/assault.
What the fuck is wrong with that country that shit like this can happen and it doesn't step back and reevaluate its relationship to guns?
Listen, I think there should be a lot more regulation of guns in America. But just from a media literacy standpoint, can we not take two incidents as a statement about every American?
This was four separate incidents in one week.
And I know that there are some Americans who want to see change, but the fact is that as a society you've gone for decades knowing this was a problem and deciding you'd rather keep the problem than fix it. I feel for those Americans who are more sane, I really do. Certainly I don't agree with everything my government has done or is doing. But I also wouldn't take it as a personal insult if someone were to say "wtf Australia" when criticising that government's decisions, because it would be accurate.
You're right it's appropriate to say "wtf America" about gun violence generally. I think what I was stuck on is while extremely fucked up that someone shot a person for turning around in their driveway, in a country of over 300 million people that particular thing is still a fluke. I hadn't heard of the other incidents mentioned in that Wikipedia article until you said there were four.
This is the eternal stalemate of our two party system. Everyone agrees that there are many big obvious problems that need addressing, both parties want to solve it their own way, but (for better and worse) both only have the power to prevent the other from doing anything.
WTF?