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Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed?

Modern societies crush people. It breaks them. There are huge contradictions too: the idea of working to succeed when it is actually not working. The idea of freedom vs the wage slavery. The idea of being in a powerful and advanced country but still poor as fuck.

And then you have this culture of guns and violence. They go togethet: you get guns because you believe it can fix problems. Because you believe that killing people can fix problems.

Add 2 and 2 together: you have these life crushing problems, and guns as problem solver. Society provoque the problem. Kill them. Kill them all. Maybe they’ll understand after that and change something.

Far right and conspiracy theory give a theoric foundation for people to focus their rage or despair too.

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Diplomjodler@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
And this is exactly how the system is designed to work. The purpose of the US gun madness is to keep the population scared. Scared people are more likely to agree to having their rights taken away in the name of “safety”. Having constant mass shootings just helps keep up the atmosphere of fear that authoritarians thrive on.

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- SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Hey Alex Jones, didn’t you lose a lawsuit over this shit?
  
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SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
All these words and not one about having way better guns than before.

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Stumblinbear@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Modern societies crush people. It breaks them.

The world has been pretty shit for the entirety of history. Working conditions are better than they ever have been. People make more than they ever have. Crime is dropping year-over-year.

Arguing that this is occuring because everything is getting worse is just completely and utterly wrong. Quality of life is increasing greatly for the average person.

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