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Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.com 2 months agoBecause they’re different crimes with different motives committed by different people under different circumstances.
Literally the only things in common between the two are firearms, humans being involved, and them both taking place on the planet Earth.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 2 months ago
What makes those people different?
Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
Well, serves me right for feeding the troll.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 2 months ago
No really, what makes them different, what’s the obvious difference between the kind of person you picture robbing a store and the kind you picture committing a mass shooting?
Be bold, tell everyone the difference. Explain to us this essential difference that makes it so important that we segregate mass shootings from all other forms of gun violence as somehow a special sort of case?
GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 months ago
What are you on about? The motivations and end goals of an armed robbery and mass shooting are obviously and clearly different.
To help you:
A robbery tries to acquire things, and the gun is a threat they generally hope to not use (but might be pretty comfortable using).
A mass shooting is a terroristic event with the core goal of killing as many as possible.
A thief isn’t necessarily interested in killing. A mass shooter is.
Simple stuff.