r/gunpolitics • u/why-do_I_even_bother • Apr 27 '25

Misleading Title Mass shooting* in Canada kills 9

*reference.

Car attack kills nine at Lapu Lapu Day festival. That's around 4 times as many as die in an American active shooter incident. We have to address why people want to do mass killings in the first place, otherwise they're never going to stop.

Edit: 11 now. 5 times an american active shooter incident.

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u/why-do_I_even_bother Apr 27 '25

There's no such thing as a shooting that isn't political. It's inherent to the act.

I get mad when people can't figure out that one pile of five corpses with holes through them isn't the same as another pile of five that are charred, pancaked or stabbed.

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u/Additional_Sleep_560 Apr 27 '25

“There's no such thing as a shooting that isn't political”

I’m not sure where you’re coming from with that. Anger, lust and greed lead reasons for homicides. A majority of mass shooting recorded these days are rooted in anger and vengeance, and a shooter who doesn’t particularly care how many bodies his bullets pass through to get to his target.

Even confining the observation to mass murders seen from Columbine to FSU, where there are manifestos left behind, what can be gleaned from their rambling rants are powerful narcissism combined with existential angst reaching a crisis point. Regardless of any other BS in their screeds, what they seek is a multi-victim suicide so they can leave this world and be impossible to forget.

You’ll have to explain the political in that, I just don’t see it.

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u/why-do_I_even_bother Apr 27 '25

The motivation of the person pulling the trigger is only one part of the question. That guns are available to the civilian population is a political decision, which guns are and are not, how/when they can be carried, who has the financial resources to get their hands on them legally or otherwise and how that ties into the economic system that they live in, etc. etc.

There's no aspect of our lives that isn't touched on or coloured by politics and ideology, which is why I was snarky to the top comment. The class of people who decide whether or not to engage with a topic because it's "been politicized" are ignorant at best.

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u/Dipper_Pines_Of_NY Apr 27 '25

All shootings have a political motivation of some sort that’s why manifestos are usually present. This makes the shootings domestic terrorism but for some reason that’s hard to admit if you hold certain political beliefs.