Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?

DarkDinner@quokk.au ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I haven’t heard of a school shooting in a long time. I can’t tell if that’s because they stopped happening, or if it’s because they happen so often that it’s not even considered newsworthy anymore.

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  • IvyisAngy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    … yeah it’s the second one. The US does not go a week without one really, you’ll find reports of them on local channels along with the traffic reports, weather forecast and car accidents. It rarely makes national news.

    I want off the ride. To be sure.

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    • FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There are multiple mass shootings per day in the United States. This page keeps track as they come in.

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hey, 2 January was clean! Give 'em some credit!

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  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They absolutely aren’t as widely reported; but not because of desensitization, it’s for the same reason suicides aren’t reported. Theres been studies showing it’s “contagious” and that reducing coverage helps suppress further occurences.

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    • Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Then the action of reporting less should be combined with actively dissuading gun owners from mass shootings. So it has a noticeable impact and doesn’t just feel like people sticking their heads in the sand. It’s a human enough response, but USA has hard coded into their legislation and that can’t ever be challenged, apparently.

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      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Okay?

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thread went from 0 to 100 real quick

  ~Just~ ~like~ ~the~ ~number~ ~of~ ~fatalities~ ~in~ ~the~ ~school~

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• exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s only quietly annoying because we legalized fun silencers this year!

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  • Nasan@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The only thing that’s changed is the $200 stamp tax was removed from the process. Everything else including registration and the background check remains the same. Wait times had only really come down from ~a year to a month or less for most cases because the ATF finally got their systems in a decent state for form 4 eFile.

    The last one I bought early last year took about a week for the form to be approved. The first one I ever bought a decade ago took nearly a year.

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    • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I wanted to avoid overexplaining the joke, but it’s also worth pointing out that the slight shifts in federal law this year is only a part of a broader push around state laws and American gun culture more broadly (and I’d expect them to keep lobbying for more federal deregulation after this year too), to where it’s now more economically viable to manufacture, distribute, and sell suppressors. According to this source’s analysis of ATF stats, we went from less than a million lawfully registered suppressors in 2016 to 1.5 million in 2018 to 2.6 million on 2021 to 4.9 million in 2024.

      There’s a broader shift underway, and I was just making a joke about it.

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      • Nasan@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Gotcha, yeah, I could see the change bringing forward more suppressors on the market that are built with cheaper materials and meant to be more like wear items than something meant to last for years as the market had been for the US because of the regulations.

        I’ve only heard from hunters/target sport shooters in other countries where suppressors are less regulated because gun ownership was more restrictive; that they have a lot more access to cheap suppressors then we do.

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