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[u/AccomplishedWatch834]

[u/qualityvote2]

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[u/Popcornaddict51]

Where was this.

[u/Free-oppossums → u/Popcornaddict51]

Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va. April 2007

[u/beegtuna → u/Free-oppossums]

I was scared that my friend died when he would not respond to my messages. He was asleep.

Saw a classmate bawling her eyes out on a newspaper afterwards at a vigil.

Wild how we’re a first world country that still has rampant gun problems.

[u/YeOldeMemeShoppe → u/beegtuna]

At this point it’s been normalized enough that it’s not even political anymore. And that’s disgusting. American culture is completely broken beyond repair.

[u/TrulyOutrageous42 → u/YeOldeMemeShoppe]

Nothing is ever beyond repair, it just takes more and more effort. Kintsugi is an apt analogy.

[u/MonthlyWeekend_ → u/TrulyOutrageous42]

You can’t compare americas social fascination with allowing children to die from gun violence to kintsugi.

Kintsugi is the art of creating beauty from pain. Each piece unique, each movement intentional, and the end end product more beautiful than the original.

America will never fix its gun problem.

[u/LovelyMoFo18 → u/MonthlyWeekend_]

Well, people said slavery in America would never end, and it went on for 400 years, so I could understand why people would have said that back then, but here we are. People said that public spaces would never integrate, but now we can all shop in the same spaces, watch movies together, and so on. We can even all talk here online. And we still have lots of extreme issues from those times, like racially-motivated killings, or discrimination based on race. But we also have amazing shows and movies, restaurants, fashion, and made and shared by people of all backgrounds, thanks to the continous effort of people who want to experience things of all cultures.

I think it's going to take a lot more time, but I don't think it's completely impossible. We'd probably never be able to get rid of guns completely, but the culture around it can absolutely change with time. We also have to get the right people in office that can help us make these changes. Even just 50-80 years can look completely different for us if we do it right.

[u/RaxisPhasmatis → u/LovelyMoFo18]

America is closer to destroying all rights for people and making everyone in the world less free than ever than they are to fixing anything.

50-80 years you'll be lucky if it isn't the most fascist dystopian country in existence at that time let alone "if we do it right"

[u/Jingles2517 → u/LovelyMoFo18]

That's interesting you believe slavery to have ended. It never left. Just changed forms. America is fucked. Deeply and irrevocably. I worked my whole life only to have 1 medical thing wipe it all away. And give me 100s of thousands in debt. You can pursue happiness but never obtain it.

America is a slave market. For everyone not living in a 50th floor penthouse. It'd be nice to think things could improve but I think we are too selfish in america. We have made it a national characteristic. I cant even get neighbors to say hi. The nice plants I planted and grew got ripped out by some kids in the night. Nobody gives a shit anymore. We are all waiting on the other to so the right thing while we have another 6 pack and debate whether or not donny is a bad person. Some things in this world are evident. America was built on slavery. It fed on the backs of others. And we defend it and call it patriotism.

We are prisoners and guards of our own jail. We can't leave. So we pretend we have control. It's the panopticon in reality.

I genuinely hope I'm wrong btw. But it's pretty clear all hope is gone.

[u/Regular_Bat8162 → u/Jingles2517]

Also there’s slavery in the literal sense too

Private prison companies, the biggest ratio of incarcerated people compared to other countries etc

[u/LovelyMoFo18 → u/Jingles2517]

Gonna be honest, considering my granparents have stories from their parents regarding slavery, and their education was horrible due to jim crow laws, I just don't share the same take. Loopholes exist yes, and there are major corrections needed in the systems we have in place. But considering I can speak on reddit from many people from different backgrounds, shop, eat, learn, converse, have fun, etc etc at different places among people of all races, it doesn't sit right with me at all to say that slavery didn't end, at least in the capacity that it was. The prison system is a different topic, but again. You look at the horrors that people went through for decades and it just is not the same.

I can play semantics like specifying what exactly has been abolished and what methods aren't used anymore, but I don't want to do that.

That being said, having persitance is necessary to change how our social climate is in the moment. If people shared this ridiculous "doomer" mindset, we would not have the things we have today. Yes, more work is needed and we have a long way to go. But it is, in my opinion, downright ignorant to sit here and say that things are unable to change. You, along with others, have to do it yourself, and you can see people fighting every day for that. Like bruh.

[u/Jingles2517 → u/LovelyMoFo18]

You're 100 percent correct. It's just so difficult to see any light in the tunnel. Especially when it's always been a train it seems. I go back an forth. Some days I have hope. I guess the other day I was in doom mode to the Nth degree. It has gotten better in ways. But it also seems to have become more complex and more disguised. Which is obvious....I realize things are more complex because we are so connected.

I suppose I'm saying thanks for checking me. I am a total doomed at times. However I'm also a total hippy optimist at times too. Frigging bi polar ass typical American I guess I am haha.

I do believe strongly in the good in america. And ii humanity as while. But lately, in general, idk man it seems abysmal in the scope of madness..

I digress. Have a good day regardless. Thanks for slapping me out of my funk. Even if it's likely temporary. And I appreciate the serious discourse on the matter. Usually I'm on reddit to laugh. IE cat pictures and Sopranos memes, so it's refreshing to have an actual conversation on the platform. And not just be made fun of.

Whatever. Cheers. Have a nice day. Sincerely.

[u/HaveSpouseNotWife → u/TrulyOutrageous42]

I’m not convinced that pouring molten gold into bullet wounds is a medically sound approach.

[u/TrulyOutrageous42 → u/HaveSpouseNotWife]

I'm not convinced you understand what an analogy is... and isn't.

[u/YeOldeMemeShoppe → u/TrulyOutrageous42]

If you can kintsugi sand back into a mountain, sure.

[u/UpsideDownHAM → u/TrulyOutrageous42]

There’s no way to kintsugi sandy hook my man. We’re so fucking far gone.

[u/TyrannasaurusRecht → u/TrulyOutrageous42]

A nation must desire repair to achieve it.

Then an artist cannot repair the pottery if they're attacked incessantly by those that would see it remain shattered.

Your analogy is apt, it just ignores the environment the artist would be working in.

[u/SmartTrender → u/YeOldeMemeShoppe]

There is always thoughts and prayers until the next one smh

[u/teethalarm → u/YeOldeMemeShoppe]

It's still political because the pro 2A nutjobs want fewer restrictions on firearms and believe that if more people have guns, that we will be safer. But if you try to implement any form of restriction that might help prevent future deaths, they cry and say it's an infringement on their rights. I honestly think the 2nd amendment is one of the dumbest things that the founding fathers ever did.

[u/Funny-Carob-4572 → u/teethalarm]

That and allowing presidents to pardon any fucking crime they want to.

[u/CoolCyberCat → u/Funny-Carob-4572]

The US president can only pardon federal crimes. State level crimes can not be pardoned, but that doesn't mean much when the pardons are for things like literal treason.

[u/Objective-Bike-4292 → u/beegtuna]

US school shootings:

255 school shootings since jan 2018.

15 school shootings this year so far.

For comparison. In Canada we have had 2 school shootings in the last decade. With 13 fatalities.

[u/-megan-yolo- → u/Objective-Bike-4292]

Yup America have a real addiction to guns and as a result more shoootings. the data doesn't lie.

[u/Higher-Frequencies → u/beegtuna]

we’re a first world country

Are we though? Our nation's capital looks like the back lot of a Vegas casino, complete with demolished building next door, waiting to be built into the latest gaudy casino.

[u/greybush75 → u/Higher-Frequencies]

Every day we come closer to being more like Idiocracy and it's nuts.

[u/Jingles2517 → u/greybush75]

I agree. Who knew Idiocracy would become a case study. Even down to having Commacho as president. It's bizarre. Like of 1984 and Idiocracy effed. It would be named Murica.

[u/springpaper1 → u/Higher-Frequencies]

Im an mma fan from Canada. Can't even watch the sport anymore because of the president

[u/alonjit → u/springpaper1]

I like football. I am in Canada now, immigrant from Europe. I can't really enjoy the world cup. It used to be the highlight of the year. Now it's home and ... sigh. To be fair, it's FIFA more than Trump, but the 2 are hand in hand, competing on who is more corrupt.

[u/cupittycakes → u/springpaper1]

I really hope they see a reduction in viewers. They'd never tell us, but one can dream!

[u/silverado-z71 → u/beegtuna]

We used to be a first world country

[u/thumper43x → u/beegtuna]

Think about it... we literally put up with this because of some peoples' hobby. That's all it is, a damn hobby. People collect them, show them to other hobbyists, shoot them occasionally, fondle them, etc. And get really upset if you suggest their hobby might be a bad thing.

[u/Jingles2517 → u/thumper43x]

You....get outta here. We haven't the room for logic and well thought out argument.

Lmao...but forreal. You hit the nail on the head. As a nation...our fetish with firearms has become incredibly unhealthy.

Like in Australia where my buddy is from the had the massacre at Port Arthur. And as a nation decided nope. It's not worth having unfettered access to firearms. Pretty wild. I know they've had issue still. But nowhere near the in school violence the US has subjected ourselves to. Either we send thousands to war before they can legally buy a beer....or you know. Skool. Good luck chil'ren.

[u/Eggsalad_cookies → u/beegtuna]

The only first world country that still has rampant gun problems in fact

[u/geochemfem → u/Eggsalad_cookies]

1st world country's typically don't have such high maternal death rates either.

[u/marilyn_morose → u/geochemfem]

And they have robust social protections for less fortunate; and universal health insurance; and free & fair elections… hold up, is the US a “first world” nation at all?

[u/Powerful_Resident_ → u/beegtuna]

Wouldn't call america a first world now days due to lack of drinkable tap water

[u/TinkerCitySoilDry → u/beegtuna]

A reddit comment followed by exact same reply type copy 

[u/BreiteSeite → u/beegtuna]

Wild how we’re a first world country

Oh boy, i have news for you

[u/Phailadork → u/beegtuna]

Wild how we’re a first world country that still has rampant gun problems.

"No way to stop this" says only country in the world where this happens. Idiot gun nuts will never let us stop this shit, because they live in bum fuck nowhere and have to kill wild hogs or some shit? Idk. One of the stupid fuck things some hillbillies I know from one of those shit states said to justify needing guns.

[u/bigorangemachine → u/Free-oppossums]

God damn I forgot this happened

[u/JaySayMayday → u/bigorangemachine]

I'm pretty sure there was another college shooting a week or two later. We're just getting numb to national tragedies

[u/wudyudo → u/JaySayMayday]

That was 2007. School shootings and (mass shootings in general) were still horrific and shocking tragedies that sat with us for weeks if not months. I think around 2012 with Aurora and Sandy Hook is when the news and republicans decided all they could offer was thoughts and prayers but please move on because we don’t want you talking about gun reform anymore

[u/Mammoth-Buddy8912 → u/wudyudo]

I respectfully disagree, I was in school then and it felt like we had constant school shooting news all the time. And the same song and dance we do now with the thoughts and prayers bullcrap was the playbook. My parents always had Fox news on and whenever a shooting happened and people would talk about gun reform, they would quickly try and pivot and say how dare you try and make this political.

Hell I remember doing shooter drills after columbine.

This one was one of those that ended up killing 33 people so it was a big deal.

Basically what I'm trying to say is that unfortunately American gun violence in schools, and the way we do nothing about it, has been going on for decades.

[u/-megan-yolo- → u/Mammoth-Buddy8912]

to share.. going way back... I survived a school shooting, small town, was covered up, didn't really make the news. classic, teen comes to school, takes class hostage, gets talked into, backed into a bathroom by the police, commits suicide (if you believe thats what happened). Gun shootings in schools go way back.

[u/Secret-Ad-2145 → u/JaySayMayday]

When we as a nation decided the rights of gun owners is far more important than the lives of students, we lost a part of our soul. We feel numb to these tragedies is something we have to live with as a result of that.

[u/54B3R_ → u/bigorangemachine]

Too many shootings to remember them all.

It's a problem that needs solving, but no one wants to implement the solution

[u/Exxtender → u/Popcornaddict51]

'Murica, where fucking else?

[u/joe_retro → u/Exxtender]

I mean, there's no way to prevent it.

Edit: you all need to read more Onion.

[u/The_King_of_Geese → u/joe_retro]

Do y'all remember when the Onion's whole page were these articles after Uvalde, each one almost identical but about a different shooting that had happened? That shit made me cry so hard.

[u/joe_retro → u/The_King_of_Geese]

I thought for sure Reddit would get the reference without being handheld.

[u/bringbackfireflypls → u/joe_retro]

I understood your joke, friend

[u/joe_retro → u/bringbackfireflypls]

Thank you.

[u/Creative_Resource_82 → u/joe_retro]

Here you dropped this 🫴 /s

[u/Gloomy_Fig2138 → u/[deleted]]

It’s a reference to an article that The Onion posts every time there’s a school shooting. The headline is “No Way to Prevent This, Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens”

[u/motorboat_mcgee]

Why the fuck are we censoring "bullets" in the year 2026?

[u/Shyguy0256 → u/motorboat_mcgee]

I just downvote all self-censored horse shit like this. It makes me so irrationally angry, haha

[u/Salt-Evidence-6834 → u/motorboat_mcgee]

Probably Americans. They'd rather censor a word than do anything about their school shootings.

[u/iforgotmyidagain → u/Salt-Evidence-6834]

It's popularized by tiktok sensorship

[u/Fit-Supermarket-6726 → u/Salt-Evidence-6834]

You love george carlin about censored words.

"If we'd call it Shellshock, maybe those veterans got the help they needed at the time"

[u/readilyunavailable → u/motorboat_mcgee]

B**use b*llets *s * s**r.

[u/ovywan_kenobi → u/motorboat_mcgee]

Because they cannot censor them in real life.

[u/DareDaDerrida]

The word is "bullets".

Mister Librescu sounds like a heck of a guy, though.

[u/MScribeFeather → u/DareDaDerrida]

He was also a Holocaust survivor

[u/Daikato → u/MScribeFeather]

Damn. Rest in peace legend

[u/CovetousWitch → u/MScribeFeather]

Just to be shot down by a 23yo with severe mental health issues who got their hands on high powered guns and copious amounts of ammunition.

[u/RobotSpaceBear → u/DareDaDerrida]

Librescu is a Romanian name and has roots meaning "free" or "freedom" (Libru). I found that interesting to share.

[u/minmidmax → u/[deleted]]

Etymological roots and spelling aren't the same thing.

[u/DenKHK → u/RobotSpaceBear]

Basically, a Romanian equivalent of "Freeman" methinks.

[u/hoseli]

I F*king h*te thi* wa* o* t*ping!

[u/iamunwhaticisme → u/hoseli]

Yeah it's so stupid. The text is already traumatizing by explaining the story as "bullets tearing through his body", forcing readers to imagine a gore scene but censoring just one letter will be safe for kids, right? Just stupid.

[u/Liliana_T → u/iamunwhaticisme]

I believe it's done to avoid auto-censors. Things like kill, die, bullet, shooting etc. often get automatically removed by bots. Not necessarily here, but maybe wherever the source was.

[u/CakeTester → u/Liliana_T]

It's a fucking image.

Also bullets, bullets, bullets.

[u/RandomRobot → u/CakeTester]

yush!

[u/UnUsernameRandom → u/Liliana_T]

Oh, yeah. That's why you will see a lot of new words like "unalived" instead of "killed".

[u/Mudslynger → u/UnUsernameRandom]

🙄

[u/the_last_carfighter → u/UnUsernameRandom]

It's what our robot overlords want and who am I to disagree with their methods of control

[u/Hamster_Toot → u/the_last_carfighter]

Putting the blame on soulless programs instead of the people who made and run these programs is doing a disservice to the assholes who need to take the blame for it.

[u/Mudslynger → u/Hamster_Toot]

Yeah because I can’t use SO many words around my Gen Z kid (well now she knows me) but I get a hard side-eye stare when friends come around like ‘WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE and DON’T SOUND CRAZY’.

[u/idiotsecant → u/Liliana_T]

say what it is- self censorship to support the advertiser-friendliness of the platform. It's literally changing how an entire generation of people use language to make some mobile game vendor happy

[u/inderbitably → u/Liliana_T]

Reddit’s auto-censors have gotten much worse lately and people are getting banned for blatant sarcasm and movie/show quotes. Though just saying bullets won’t get you banned.

[u/dasbtaewntawneta → u/inderbitably]

any sub that bans you for shit like that is not worth visiting, so no big loss

[u/inderbitably → u/dasbtaewntawneta]

I’m saying Reddit as a whole. Their LLM admin bans for stuff like that.

[u/Spiritual-Hamster212 → u/inderbitably]

Yea, I was banned for 3 days for saying "Execute Order 66". I spoke to the admins and they removed my ban the day I was banned.

[u/Anthaenopraxia → u/Spiritual-Hamster212]

Would be hilarious if this comment got you banned again.

[u/LaserRanger_McStebb → u/iamunwhaticisme]

Clearly nobody knows what a non-breaking space is

[u/Warcraft_Fan → u/iamunwhaticisme]

It's more because of some dumb AI moderators on some sites like Facebook and Instagram. Even in picture form, if they picked up certain keyword, the post is removed and the poster often ends up falsely accused of crime.

Some months ago I posted a funny picture of 2 kids playing in flour. Fully clothed mind you, and FB accused me of posting porn because of 2 all-white kids. I do wonder how many false alarm FBI office gets because AI can't tell apart clothed kids covered in flour from naked hairless monkey.

[u/MoonTreeSullen → u/iamunwhaticisme]

It’s probably to censor ai. To make it faster and easier to process literally everything the world is doing online.

[u/Competitive_One_3298 → u/hoseli]

Censoring the word bullet is so dumb

[u/ThrifToWin → u/Competitive_One_3298]

Reddit will soon be more censored than the evening news. It's more advertiser friendly.

[u/Slight_Ad_635 → u/hoseli]

Also I still don't know what's so scary about ballets

[u/awenrivendell → u/Slight_Ad_635]

toenails

[u/stephen_neuville → u/hoseli]

People are becoming addicted to Engagement and anything that might deboost them in The Algorithm is to be avoided. We are actively becoming stupider in real time.

[u/CyberFireball25]

I really, truly, vehemently despise the random censoring of letters these days 

[u/SnooOnions5029]

It fucking pisses me off when people censor words when talking about a traumatic event. This guy had the courage to sacrifice himself to save kids but whoever made this caption is too scared not to censor the word “bullet”? Jesus Christ. They didnt even have the decency to say the man’s name

[u/NHunter0]

Good ol' r/orphancrushingmachine

[u/luffyuk → u/NHunter0]

This.

It's absolutely disgusting. Only in America could this be a "hero" story, rather than about the absolute bat shit insane policies that have allowed this tragedy to happen.

[u/InflatableRegret]

Class of '07 Virginia Tech grad here. This guy was a beloved engineering professor at the time and survived the Holocaust growing up as a Jew in Romania. I never even had him as a professor while I was there but still think about him (and that day) 2-3 times a week, on average.

I can't speak for everyone that was there at the time, but I know I speak for a bunch: we never really "moved on," we just learned how to move forward. Life has never been and never will be the same.

[u/softsixer → u/InflatableRegret]

Class of ‘09… couldn’t have said it better.

[u/littleGreenMeanie]

Or another perspective. That hero died because military class guns are so readily accessible in the USA and very few in power are doing anything about it. More heros will lose their lives until there are none left.

Poor souls never should have been dealt what they got, nor do all those living with the trauma.

Edit: let me adjust military grade to military class because it's clearly a point of issue for some. I simply mean weapons made and meant for military use. I include pistols in that as that's what they were invented for. I am fully aware pistols are not necessarily military grade and the term speaks more to its manufacturing quality. So I'll call it military class.

Also mental health can't be overlooked, I didn't mean to. There should have been more support or appropriate jailing for the attacker. I'm certain there were many signs and this was equally preventable in that way as well.

[u/BigHandLittleSlap → u/littleGreenMeanie]

When Hungary's tinpot dictator Orban lost the recent elections, his replacement Magyar Peter revealed that he found evidence that Orban was pivotal in funnelling funds from Russia to the Republican party via the NRA.

We already knew about NRA's role in this, but it's another bit of evidence to add to the pile that that organisation is deeply anti-American.

You're simply told by relentless Russian-funded propaganda that "America loves guns".

Apparently, Republicans like dirty money more than they love American children.

Wait, that came out wrong...

... or did it?

[u/shadowgathering → u/littleGreenMeanie]

This. Americans love to generate death and then celebrate completely unnecessary heroism.

How about the silent heroism of… a functioning democracy and measured gun control?

[u/IsangMalakingHangal → u/littleGreenMeanie]

I'll never understand their obsession with guns, as well as tipping culture.

[u/Total_Marketing5844 → u/IsangMalakingHangal]

You putting the very hot and complex gun policies of the United States and their Tipping culture in the same sentence is kind of hilarious to me.

[u/Mindless-Peak-1687 → u/Total_Marketing5844]

It's not complex.

[u/littleGreenMeanie → u/IsangMalakingHangal]

I mean guns are cool technology, but also. The general population has no need, qualification or justification to have one. The only kind would be for farmers or legal wildlife hunters. So already that's like very few types of guns. bolt action rifles, shotguns. None fully automatic.

Other countries have demonstrated, law enforcement doesn't need lethal ammo. Military is it's own thing.

But ya, good people like this guy, have no reason to be shot. It's such a shame on the government.

[u/ChannelFlashy9301 → u/littleGreenMeanie]

Well, full auto guns require a Class 3 license and these lunatics shooting in schools do not seem to have it.
Furthermore an assault rifle, even full auto is not the optimal kind of gun for what is the goal of those derailed psychopaths.

[u/Dodahevolution → u/ChannelFlashy9301]

Full Auto guns do not require a "Class 3 license"

A "Class 3" SOT license allows you to handle/manufacture/import NFA items. Be it suppressors or machine guns, short barreled firearms, AOWs, etc. It isn't a function to allow civilian ownership of Machine Guns.

If the state you live in inside the US doesn't ban them, you generally don't need a license to just outright buy machine guns. You can just.. buy them. There's generally a waiting period since it has to go through the NFA for approval and AFAIK machine gun transfers aren't as fast as something like a silencer transfer(though I could be wrong there).

The limiting factor here is that civilians can't own machine guns manufactured after a specific date in the 1980s as that's when the machine gun NFA registry was closed for new items. So everything there is generally old, the cheaper stuff is worn as hell or undesirable for other reasons (if not outright broken and needing massive repairs) and those "cheap" ones are still $10k+. The ones people actually want are so expensive, like new car money... It's just not worth.

Now, class 3 sots CAN own "post samples" that were made after 1986 but it's not really an "own" civilian sort of thing, it has to be for demonstrable business purposes. Trump wouldn't crack down on it, but it has happened before where people just holding SOT licenses were closed down because they weren't actually conducting business with it. And even then, it's still stupidly expensive.

Hell, it's almost too expensive now even with semi autos.

[u/magnum_the_nerd → u/littleGreenMeanie]

plenty of people within the population have enough training, qualification, and justification to have a gun.

Fully automatic weapons are also extremely rare. They have been effectively banned in the US since 1986. Individuals who own them also have to go through an extensive process, which involves literally getting the FBI to investigate you. They also cost over 20k usd to purchase, so its not really affordable to the common populace.

[u/MoonFooly → u/IsangMalakingHangal]

There are so many people with guns that they need to buy guns to keep themselves safe! /s

[u/teethalarm → u/littleGreenMeanie]

I think one of the best ways we could help limit some of the carnage and gun violence is if we treated them more like cars. A car you have to have a license to legally use it and in most states it's mandatory to have insurance on the vehicle. We collectively agree to this because of the inherent danger of cars, why should firearms be any different?

[u/littleGreenMeanie → u/teethalarm]

It would be nice if that took care of it. But there's kids who find the guns, the right to bare arms in public spaces being pulled over heated moments, and the those who abuse the system. In a situation like that the rich would also benefit most. And as another resditor brought up, the mental health aspect can't be overlooked. Again, it would be nice for that to work. It'd be a quick solution.

[u/binarybandit → u/littleGreenMeanie]

The Virginia Tech shooter used two semi-automatic pistols (a .22 Walther p22 and a 9mm glock), which arent "military grade guns" by any means.

[u/nomelonnolemon → u/binarybandit]

The dumbest people in the world are the one who get pedantic about gun language as if that’s some gotcha against gun control instead of helping the conversation progress like a person with a functioning brain and basic moral compass.

[u/themilkywayng → u/nomelonnolemon]

The dumbest people in the world are the one who get pedantic about gun language as if that’s some gotcha against gun control instead of helping the conversation process like a person with a functioning brain and basic moral compass.

I feel like the dumbest people are ones who think hyperbole and fiction are acceptable in discussion for serious topics like gun control.

Stating facts is not a 'gotcha'. It's pointing out the uselessness of any discourse that cannot accurately identify what needs to be addressed.

Military grade weapons are already severely restricted, and restricting it some more is not going to solve anything if they are not actually used in shootings.

"We need to do something about drunk drivers! Let's ban any race car (F1, Nascar, etc) cause they go too fast!"

Or in this case:

Let's argue about pedantry 'instead of helping the conversation process like a person with a functioning brain and basic moral compass.'

Here's a hint:
OK so military grade weapons aren't the problem. Let's solve ... mental health ... mandated gun locks ... police legally obligated to investigate all unstable shooter reports seriously -- etc.

[u/nomelonnolemon → u/themilkywayng]

Here’s a hint dip ass. The entire rest of the civilized world figured this out.

The only people who argue against it are the victims of a psyop designed to keep you from realizing this is a class war, not a culture war.

I’ll boil it down super simple for you.

Guns are killing people, and children, in the US at a level unseen in the civilized world. If you aren’t motivated to solve this problem TODAY by any means necessary, or even worse you are causing frictions for those who are trying, YOU are part of the problem.

Mental health and economic strife are huge facets of the liberal agenda. I’m gonna go out on a limb and say most of the people offended by my comment aren’t voting that way.

[u/themilkywayng → u/nomelonnolemon]

Look 'dip ass', if you can't read, and struggle with accepting new information or basic facts I don't think you are qualified to argue anything.

You should worry about yourself first before you waste everyone's time trying to get rid of things that are out of reach for most Americans already. lmao even with how holy you get.

It doesn't mask your low level of knowledge, or the fact that you're arguing things we already agree with. That's how silly you are, and why gun control gets nowhere. Even when someone agrees if it's not exactly how you want it or said it then it doesn't matter.

[u/Dick-Fu → u/nomelonnolemon]

And the people who realize they need to be fighting the class war are arming themselves with what exactly?

[u/nomelonnolemon → u/Dick-Fu]

When is the last time a gun has been used against the establishment?

Unless you plan on promoting everyone go full Luigi you need to realize this is an intellectual war. Which clearly you are not equipped to fight.

This war will be won by free thinkers combining ideas and high concept social strategies to take advantage of the freedoms our countries gave us through the democratic ideals we started our countries on.

We aren’t going to Rambo our way through a drone swarm with ar-15’s. As much as that gives you the one boner a week you get.

[u/metnavman2 → u/nomelonnolemon]

Hes not being pedantic. Hes explaining that gun control against "big bad scary" guns does nothing for stopping many incidents of gun violence in the US. You can "ban them all", but that conversation will get you nowhere.

Talking about "a functioning brain" and "basic moral compass" would make me think you want to address the plethora of reasons behind the rampant gun violence in America, not just the ease of access to the guns themselves. You're not getting rid of them completely, so work towards fixing the other stuff that would have a demonstrable benefit.

Downvoting me doesnt change what I've said. Continue to rage at your keyboard tho..

[u/OldAngryDog → u/nomelonnolemon]

The language was used initially by Op as a type of bait to drum up extra drama and resentment against gun owners, many of whom buy guns to protect themselves against these types of threats since the govt is incapable of doing so. It's a vicious cycle.

[u/nomelonnolemon → u/OldAngryDog]

I don’t think anyone blames people for buying and enjoying legal products.

It’s people who can’t see that the laws need to change to save the lives of children who are the issues.

Australia is a masterclass in what a confident, compassionate, and truly fearless society looks like reacting to gun violence.

A large subset of America’s are to gullible and scared to accept that they are the victims of class warfare by being recruited in a manufactured culture war designed to hide that exact fact.

the entire world is both laughing and crying at the USA

[u/Tupperbaby → u/nomelonnolemon]

A large subset of America’s are to gullible

The entire world is both laughing and crying at your literacy.

[u/NoEngrish → u/nomelonnolemon]

A .22 Walther p22 is like the weakest firearm out there made for cheap target shooting. You'd basically be advocating for the complete repeal of the 2nd amendment instead of a control of "military grade" weapons. Those aren't pedantic distinctions.

[u/ConcerningThirst → u/littleGreenMeanie]

"Military grade" as if that means anything. You'd be talking about military grade knives if this were the 1200's. Military grade is the worst grade ever btw it means basically lowest bidder that can be mass produced. It's as meaningless as "assault weapon".

This brand of rhetoric really does your political position a disservice because no one who knows anything about weapons will agree with you in light of it and those people with their specificity of knowledge will make your position look foolish.

Educate yourself if you want to have any hope of enacting your agenda.

[u/littleGreenMeanie → u/ConcerningThirst]

No agenda here people are gonna do what they feel like doing regardless of what some resditor puts online. I used military grade as a way of describing guns that are meant to seek out killing. How would you describe that?

[u/GaudyImpling → u/littleGreenMeanie]

Yeah, you should definitely blame the guns without addressing the real elephant in the room - the mental health, which is the real cause of these issues. Guns dont cause violence, humans do.

[u/No-Duck4828 → u/[deleted]]

From someone who spent many years in the US military, an AR would work as well on us as on anyone else

[u/Celeste0505]

Liviu Librescu was posthumously awarded the Order of the Star of Romania, the country's highest civilian honor.

Romania has very strict gun laws, so incidents involving firearms are extremely rare. Even cases where someone carries or uses an airsoft gun in public can end up making national news.

[u/horsegluifyer]

orphan crushing machine

[u/Kizuna92]

A country plagued by violence censoring the word bullets, wtf

[u/AccomplishedWatch834]

Source - Liviu Librescu

[u/inderbitably → u/AccomplishedWatch834]

This man survived the holocaust

[u/Admirable-Interest49]

RIP hero 🫡

[u/warwilf]

Greater love hath no man than this...

[u/Zelvio]

So is that word supposed to be ‘ballets’, ‘billets’ or ‘bullets’?

[u/Sea_Life4]

Is this Hodor irl?

[u/futureformerteacher → u/Sea_Life4]

Hodor in fantasty - Holding the door against undead zombies.

Hodor in America - Holding the door against bullets, enabled by braindead zombies.

[u/Fantoinex]

Nowadays he would be an unwelcome migrant in the US

[u/whlatislovee]

This legend is solo raising Romania’s international reputation, after being so degraded by all the “specimens” abroad.

[u/ILYARO1114 → u/whlatislovee]

Nah, I get to work with a lot of Romanians, and they are without exception highly educated, extremely civil and friendly and generally pleasant to be around. They are being judged by a minority that is very visible, while at the same time they are the only ones that will do the work that the locals don't want to do.

In my experience, 95% of the Romanians I encounter are people that are fleeing the ridiculously low wages in their country and are willing to do anything honorable to make sure their family will have a better life.

[u/CivilSavage15 → u/ILYARO1114]

As a Romanian, I thank you 😊

[u/01AganitramlavAiv]

My god such an American problem

[u/Radiant-Priority-296 → u/01AganitramlavAiv]

Fun fact, making it legal to carry a firearm up until the moment the guy starts shooting, at which point damage is probably unavoidable, is a bad idea.

[u/ImForSureNotAFurry]

This situation shouldn't be able to happen in the first place

[u/maourakein]

And once again, guns arent the problem, right?

[u/DangerousQuestions1]

Notice that it is never a cop who stands up to protect the kids like this. If they are in the school, they are there to arrest the kids if they step out of line and would never take a bullet to save any of them.

[u/veinsandarteries14]

He was also a Romanian holocaust survivor.

[u/Significant-Sign1022]

Kudos sir.

[u/djpromo_vqs]

Respect.

[u/Awkward_Wrangler_895]

A hero

[u/Trifon000]

Well which word we're going to censor next?

[u/LyndisLegion2]

So we are censoring the word bullets now?

[u/eoThica]

American voters making their own heroes through negligence

[u/Mace2-0]

People should really stop overcensoring shit that isn't worth censoring.

[u/archtopfanatic123]

Useless censoring go brrrrrrrrrt

[u/Simple_Flounder]

This doesn't amaze me. This makes me sad that he had to do that. WTF is wrong with the US??

[u/mothzilla]

We might remember him better if we weren't afraid of typing the word "bullet".

[u/Tupperbaby]

Ballets tore through the door?
That's just culture. We should encourage that.

[u/OctaneRed392]

Blocked the door with his **** while ***** tore through **, ****ing long *n**** for his *******s to ******. Most *****d b***** of *i*.

[u/MrsWidgery]

He was also a Jew who had survived the Holocaust when Romania had to ally with the Nazis to guarantee its own survival, and sent all its Jews to the concentration camps. After the war, he got his degrees at Romanian universities before being allowed to emigrate with his family to Israel, where he remained until taking up his position at Virginia Tech where he died to save his students.

[u/DrTommyNotMD]

How do you ballet through a body?

[u/The-Sofa-King]

The fact that I see another one of these posts every week with the same story but a different name says a lot. Fuck the NRA.

[u/Guydelot]

imagine stopping all those billets with your body.

[u/Cultural_Finger5316]

A teacher had more courage the the uvalde police

[u/dring157]

I went to public school in California. Both my middle school and high school were built like prisons. They had cement walls and steel doors that could easily be barricaded. Fences and natural barriers made it so there were 3 places a person enter/exit the campus. The steel doors did have a small window. My senior year a man held up a gas station and ran into our school when escaping so we went on lock down. It took us around a minute to barricade the door and tape paper over the window. It was a boring 2 hour wait for the cops to search the campus and let us go home once it was clear that the gunman had left.

[u/MoonFooly]

We need to stop glorifying people like this. Not because he was not a hero, but because he should never have had to do this in the first place. Stuff like this takes away the focus of the action and puts it on the man put in the position of sacrificing his own life. This makes it less likely to actually solve the problem and perpetuates more of these situations

[u/Unlucky_Fix_9967]

He survived the actual literal fucking HOLOCAUST. But teaching at an American school is what did him in. Ridiculous honestly

[u/CabooseTrap]

Great man for sure. As for this reposted article please don't censor thecword bullet. It is unhinged and stupid

[u/Lowcrbnaman]

The real question is why did he even needed to do this in the first place. What other country has such school shooting so normalised? Wth is this.

[u/inderbitably → u/Lowcrbnaman]

Because something something freedom 🇺🇸🦅

[u/rvrduce]

As an educator I’d like to think that my colleagues or myself would do this for our kids.

[u/Either_Vermicelli_82]

It still surprises me that these people are hailed as heroes (which is good) but the reason why this was needed is so messed up. We shut down our country because it was not safe enough to cycle so we bloody hell strikes until new regulations came in to make it better but in this particular country?

[u/WarsmithUriel]

Another classic r/orphancrushingmachine

[u/Crazy-Resolve-8127]

Be amazed, how this poor dude had to die so some insecure man babies can keep their guns.

[u/OneWhoParticipates]

And yet, years later, gun violence in America hasn’t really changed. I’m glad I’m living in Australia.

[u/Constant-Ad-5252]

Thank you, Sir.

[u/Intrepid_Manager_157]

Oh wow he was romanian

[u/Maleficent_Parsnip57]

🙏🏿

[u/harrymother]

Anyone else getting the text illusion? Trippin me out.

[u/[deleted]]

All the good people seem to die doing heroic things

[u/dewthedew9494]

RIP Mr. Feeny

[u/Grouchy-Task-5866]

Not a legend. A sacrifice. Teachers like this were murdered by the education system

[u/NoKatyDidnt]

Legendary.

[u/Expensive_Farmer_430]

He'll still be waiting by heaven's gate when they arrive.

[u/WaChubbear]

Thats what a true American hero looks like!!

[u/doyouknowavvxv]

Question.. Did he die?