If the wife knows where he keeps the guns she could and probably would just as easily shoot him.
He’s lucky his wife didn’t have a gun.
Hmm…
This is some combination of right-wing gun-toting and sexism. A very… wonderful combination.
Both the “locks away guns, guns are always empty except on the shooting range or hunting, safety conscious” person and the “gets drunk every evening and sleeps with a loaded gun under their pillow” person are actually totally safe as long as they uphold the number one rule of gun safety: “The barrel of a gun may never be pointed at a person”. Super hard to shoot someone unless you are Angelina Jolie or James McAvoy or one of those bullet ricochet superheroes. Of course it’s a useless rule since it is simply stating the obvious. But that doesn’t seem to stop people from repeating it.
You repeated it?
Or stabbed by kids because wifi is down …
People getting stabbed with wives instead of knives now 😔
Sharp women
these goddamn feminists ruin everything
In any given year, more than half of all gun deaths are suicides, so really it should read…
Go back inside
Shoot self
But how would they type it?
They are a bad shot
So much potential greentext, wasted.
this is why we need to regulate wives
We kinda do, there are legal requirements for marriage
I’d say we should just outright make homicide illegal so we don’t have to be sexist about it.
yeah, fuck men though, they can stab as many men as they want, as long as they’re in a gay relationship.
Fake. Anon doesn’t have a wife. That would involve talking to a woman.
And gay, for he got impaled from behind.
Be British
Go to the United States
Don’t Get Blown up in a Cybertruck
Don’t Get Shot up in a mass shooting
Don’t Get Robbed shirtless by a home invasion
Don’t Get Scammed broke by a crypto-coin shill
Do find the one person in the entire country who insists on doing knife crime
Marry her
Get stabbed to death
Post about it on 4chan
Exceptions are rare enough that there’s only like one mass shooting a week!
In 2022 or 2023 there was one mass shooting for every day of the year. Anon was simply in the wrong place.
https://www.massshootingtracker.site/
Looks like they’re on track for another great year of mass shootings!
90 mass shootings in 101 days! At least 11 days without one, way to go USA.
I mean, most of those are gang shootings, no? Those are always a bit disingenuous to call mass shootings.
People overstate the danger.
(And 90 in a year is still a small % of people when we have 300 million, if you look at %)
No, you’re wrong.
Everyone that studies crimes for a living, you know, people with PhDs, who publish peer reviewed studids on mass shootings?
Precise definitions vary somewhat, but basically, a mass shooting is any instance where 4+ people are injured or killed by gunfire, in a single, temporaly and geographically constrained event.
Gas station robbery gone wrong? 3 people injured, one dead, by gunfire?
That’s a mass shooting.
Because a mass of people… got shot.
A mass shooting related to gang activity… is a gang related mass shooting.
It is a subset of the category ‘mass shooting’, not a completely different thing.
You csn take that definition and apply it backward 40 , 60 years, and you will still see a massive, massive rise in the number of mass shootings in the last 20 years, number of people injured or killed by gunfire in mass shootings.
Zoomers are about 3x more likely to personally know someone who was present at the scene of, injured or killed in a mass shooting than Boomers.
For Millenials, its about 2x.
So… I’m curious why you think gang shootings shouldn’t count or is a bit disingenuous to include.
It’s disingenuous because they’re not everywhere. They’re in a specific subset of high crime areas.
It’s a very own problem in its own right, but when including in a statistic used to represent all of America as shooting people up is what makes it a poor and often intentionally misleading statistic as compared to how safe you actually are in the average area
They’re also typically more targeted, less random
and it regularly involves a specific group of people, often times doesn’t really even involve every day normal people, as opposed to a mass shooting, where the literal point is killing normal people.
specific group of people
Nice dog whistle.
The virctims in gang violence include innocent bystanders.
We all know exactly what you’re really saying here and you’ll deny and make excuses about it.
We all know exactly what you’re really saying here and you’ll deny and make excuses about it.
Just because you read into it wrong doesn’t make your bullshit interpretation correct.
Yes, There are innocent bystanders that die. It’s a major issue. The only thing I’m trying to say is that it isn’t the same issue as widespread violence
Exactly! We’re not having hundreds of random shootings in a given year, a very small subset are those crazy, heinous shootings where someone decides to hurt as many people as possible. Most of the incidents don’t make national news because they’re something like a drive by or similar.
We should absolutely fix the gang problems, but the solutions there are very different from the solutions for random mass shootings.
because it’s a statistical anomaly, it’s like including capital punishment in homicide numbers.
i mean, the US is also fucking huge compared to somewhere like europe, so that “wrong place” is the entire continental US.
There are 745 million people in Europe. Classic American exceptionalism.
that’s actually a better argument for me ironically.
Europe is more densely populated, among a smaller landmass (if we explicitly refer to western europe) making it MORE likely that any mass violence events hurt more random people.
Where as the US has LESS people, across MORE space, making it even more unlikely for you to be involved in these attacks, because people are simply less likely to be in those places, at the time of the attack.
Of course the US has disproportionately more acts of violence against other people, than somewhere like europe, but there are a variety of reasons this could be the case, but it’s questionable whether this makes you “significantly” more likely to experience an attack, considering you also spend “considerably less” time around other people in general.
Also to be clear, it’s literally just true, america is a huge fucking country. If you include eastern europe, which i don’t think is a fair comparison given that eastern europe is historically and demographically different from western europe (the usual examples provided) The entire continent is slightly bigger than the continental US including alaska. If you remove all of eastern europe, it shrinks considerably. (and this may include part of russia? I can’t find solid numbers)
And looking at wikipedia, seems to imply that a portion of russia is included, so if that calculates into the landmass, that’s substantially throwing it off. I mean to be clear, you would comparing the population and landmass of the european continent against the US, which is not the entire north american continent, that is SIGNIFICANTLY larger than the US is alone.
Classic American exceptionalism.
maybe research your point better before yapping.
There’s also the matter of guns not being tossed around like candy at a Willy Wonka publicity tour in most of Europe.
You need to look at how they classify “mass shooting,” because a massive number of these are gang violence, since “mass shooting” usually means at least 4 people involved. Those tend to happen in dense cities, like Chicago or LA, not in the middle of nowhere.
So if you’re not in the bad part of a large city and aren’t involved with any gangs, your chance of being involved in a mass shooting is incredibly rare.
yeah im not even touching that, because honestly, i have no idea what the numbers look like, but i’d guess that’s the case for the majority of violence in most places (cities especially)
True.
My point is that the numbers are incredibly misleading. If you look at the numbers for “gun violence,” most are suicides, and a large number of the rest are accidental discharge. Very few are homicides, and an incredibly small number are random shootings.
The random ones get a ton of press coverage because they’re rare and because they’re so unpredictable. The everyday homicides are rarely reported on outside the local area.
What’s even crazier is that most of the gun crime wouldn’t be stopped with proposed legislation because:
- most of the firearms involved are stolen
- they’re mostly handguns (esp. gang violence and suicide), and gun legislation targets “assault weapons”
- criminals are usually first time offenders, so restrictions wouldn’t apply
In 2022 or 2023 there was one mass shooting for every day of the year. Anon was simply in the wrong place
One? In both years, there have been two shootings for every year according to your source. Jesus christ!
I remembered a different source. The one I linked uses a different definition for “mass shooting”: it counts events where at least four victims are dead or wounded, and includes cases of domestic violence.
Rest assured, the number is abnormally high for a supposedly “developed” country, whatever criteria you apply.
Yeah but there’s like 50 weeks in a year
most gun owners are safe and cautious
I know some of the most brain dead takes that my friends with guns do. Some gun owners are absolutely crazy when it comes to gun safety and storage.
Another take, I am super on it with gun safety, but not storage. There are never minors allowed in my home, and a gun isn’t useful unless you can get to it easily and it’s ready to go. Only guns resting inside the safe are unloaded, all the guns that work for a living have loaded magazines and a round in the chamber (I don’t own any 1911 pattern guns, if I did, they would not be chambered.) Also, no exposed trigger, everything is in a holster.
The number of people who openly admit to coworkers that they have couch guns scares me
Oh shit. Are you serious?
Unfortunately yes.
Because what’s better than knowing your balls could get blown at any moments while binging Netflix.
No they won’t. My gun would never hurt me. I feed it all its favorite foods and take it for walks in the park every day. It loves me.
I have known a number gun enthusiasts. About half of them have been safe with them. Only one shot themself.
The numbers aren’t great.
And isn’t it every week that a toddler shoots someone? It’s not a good look.
you should bully them for it, they deserve it.
Oh I definitely do. Because I get quick access defense. But at the same time there is a limit to that. Especially if kids are in the house.
But not so much you get shot.
fuck it, get shot, why not fuck up their lives.
At least you’re helping the next person, just make sure to record your own shooting so the police can arrest them.
true
Yeah, press x to doubt
Some are extremely careful. Way too many(majority , from personal experience) are “meh” at best, and a smaller part (but still way too many) are just using guns as a baby rattle (figure of speech, though I’ve seen things)
I have a friend who has a quick access weapon for defense. But he keeps the AR in the corner of his bedroom, a loaded magazine, not chambered. But has a curious 2 year old in his house. And that’s just one instance from a single friend. And he rationalizes it, saying he keeps the door locked. (Which isn’t true because the time we came over and noticed it, the door was wide open)
And this is coming from me, who fairly recently got into firearms and got my CCW. Sometimes the lack of priority for safety just leaves me astounded. This is why statistics happen.
Yeah, I don’t own any guns because I have very curious kids. I’m thinking about getting one, but I’m still not sure what kind of storage to get.
And then there are those idiots on the road that flash their handgun if you honk at them.
I think we should have mandatory gun safety training in schools. Teach kids to respect firearms and learn how to secure them.
When there are millions of gun owners even a few percent using guns for “baby rattles” is still a very significant number.
So she was “standing her ground?”
See that is the problem.
All gun owners should be completely cautious and safe. That is why you background check them thoroughly.
Could just be a story about a man getting pegged by his wife
