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jeremy_sylvis

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Just another person seeking connection, community, and diversity of thought in an increasingly polarized and team-based society.

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jeremy_sylvis,
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Hyper-sensationalism of the violence and its impact gave those seeking revenge and suicide a convenient two-in-one option.

jeremy_sylvis,
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I’m not sure what you’re referring to as a “fetish” or an “unregulated” lobby. If you were referring to nonsense like the NRA and their fundraising efforts, you’d be obligated to highlight Everytown etc. and their blue-aligned fundraising. You can’t point out a wedge issue and one side without recognizing the other side and its equivalent benefit.

If one has a clean criminal history, is a legal adult, and - in most states - has undergone some additional scrutiny or proof of proficiency, then sure - they can buy a firearm.

Given how Afghanistan turned out, I’m not sure how you think the concept of resisting the armed forces of a government as a distributed and well-armed populace is somehow unthinkable.

It’s fair to say we’ve a cesspool of stupidity - but only due to our politicians continued neglect of actual underlying issues in favor of partisan wedge-driving and profiteering of the ad revenue of sensationalized violence.

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That, and obviously the proliferation of weapons has made mass murder accessible, and in the minds of some people as described above.

Are you under the impression such things were ever not accessible?

At what point did we start regularly testing and proving out water? When did we start ensuring school bake sale food must be store-bought? You seem incredibly short-sighted.

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“decent” seems to be doing some heavy lifting here. A linguistic analysis of writings of the Framers cross-referenced against era culture and stats highlights the depth of your misunderstanding.

right there in the text

Ah - I see we’re not only cherry-picking, but we’re depending on a preamble e.g. a preparatory or introductory statement as somehow limiting of scope or indicative of audience to which a right was granted.

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It’s also unlikely the US Military, being citizens of the United States themselves, would have a high degree of adherence to such orders to bomb and destroy their fellow man.

That anyone thinks such is realistic is indicative of the depth of delusion.

jeremy_sylvis,
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Have you considered any of the underlying factors to such and how Canada might differ?

jeremy_sylvis,
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It’s almost entirely that.

When you have nearly no-one who wishes to commit such atrocities as a violent suicide, it doesn’t matter what tools are available for the job.

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Actually, the data shows that the assault weapons ban of 1994 was associated with a decrease in mass shooting deaths and the number of incidents

Correlation from causation aside, for this to have any real significance, there would need to be a drop in mass shooting counts.

That aside, your own citation shows any change in deaths is questionable at best - it looks as if the average may have even increased, by the included graph.

It also seems to pretend that _merely banning the sales of more “assault weapons” would have nullified the impact of existing assault weapons.

However, after the ban expired in 2004, there was an almost immediate and steep rise in mass shooting deaths.

Again, correlation from causation aside, for this to have any real meaning there would have to be only one changing factor… and the trend would have had to been consistent with a near-elimination of the count of events.

Can you truly think of no other changes? No, say, incredible spike in the media glorifying and sensationalizing such events, inadvertently promoting them as a means of getting violent retribution as one commits suicide?

It boils down to this: was there any direct scaling of such values with the actual count of owned “assault weapons”? Of course not.

It is important to note that many additional factors may contribute to the shifting frequency of these shootings, such as changes in domestic violence rates, political extremism, psychiatric illness, firearm availability and a surge in sales, and the recent rise in hate groups

Wow. So, you dilute the value of your own correlation by highlighting factors known to be common underlying issues, yet double-down on “suggest” and “decrease”.

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“fail ASVAB” aside, this is true

jeremy_sylvis,
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Let’s not pretend the incredibly common pattern only consists of two people while pretending an actual outlier - Vegas - is somehow common.

jeremy_sylvis,
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Right, let’s keep pretending it’s about the weapon over actual program solving.

jeremy_sylvis,
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It’s also impossible given the state of partisan gridlock and the constitutional amendment necessary.

Fortunately, actually solving problems here is far simpler than asinine bans.

jeremy_sylvis,
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I wasn’t aware candy required going through a background check and being a legal adult.

jeremy_sylvis,
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You respond as if in disagreement yet the article affirms everything I’ve said lol.

There is no single profile for a mass shooter. Your best chance at getting any one thing correct about them is that they’re male. 94% chance.

I’d be interested in your reasoning here as the article summarily disagrees with your first statement; it highlights an incredible degree of commonality among mass shooters above and beyond “male”.

You’d have to read it to know that, I suppose.

I’m glad you found the copy/paste buttons, but I do wish you’d bothered to read up.

jeremy_sylvis,
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Because guns are simply just plentiful and easy to get, and too many apologetics keep allowing them to be plentiful.

You seem to be close to a moment of understanding here but not quite getting it. You seem to recognize that there are other tools available to affect such disastrous outcomes we’d be doing nothing to address, but to also pretend that there’s no indication nor chance anyone would use any of these other tools.

You seem to recognize the futility of the whack-a-mole game while recognizing its existence.

Yes it doesn’t fix society’s underlying issues but that is a MUCH harder problem to solve than simply getting rid of (as many) guns (as possible), or at least not just allow so mamy people to own them willy nilly.

It really isn’t. How much effort do you believe will be required to bring about an amendment to the constitution of the United States?

How much less effort will be required to bring about simple legislative changes? By simple comparison of the two vectors of change, one of them is unquestionably easier than the other. Spoiler: It isn’t undoing the 2nd amendment.

Interestingly enough, you seem to double-down on the previous recognition the problem - pressures toward mass violence - would be left unaddressed but with the vast majority of options for mass harm still very much present and ignored.

The goal is to drastically reduce the number of innocent lives being taken ASAP, not to argue about weapons or social ills or all of this other nonsense.

Which is more effective: A change which is quite impossible to bring about, or a change which can be brought about with some difficulty and compromise?

Which is more effective: A change which removes one of unbounded options to bring about a given end, or a change which reduces the count of people seeking to bring about a given end with any tool available?

We both know you know the answer.

jeremy_sylvis,
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Right, like bringing about constitutional amendments requiring a majority of states and Congresspeople instead of a change which simply requires a majority of Congresspeople.

So much more feasible.

jeremy_sylvis,
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I see we’re projecting in our assessments. I can understand how being confronted with proof one’s opinion is wrong, may you deal with it with grace in the future.

jeremy_sylvis,
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poemanalysis.com/idiom/apples-to-oranges/

jeremy_sylvis,
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There will still be kids slipping through. They also say it themselves:

Indeed.

So, what’s more effective?

Reducing the scope of those seeking to commit such atrocities to a small fraction of those now, or hoping for improvement via symptom whack-a-mole?

jeremy_sylvis,
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If only there were other factors which could impact the highlighted systemic issues… perhaps Canada’s notable single-payer healthcare system, social safety nets, etc. impacting the desperation and providing help?

jeremy_sylvis,
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Pretty much this; the politics subs put an incredibly fine point on it.

jeremy_sylvis,
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You’re going to need blue team to be willing to pivot and actually address issues and to do so in a such a manner as to interest red team…

You’re right, they’ll never go for it.

jeremy_sylvis,
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That would be several steps up from where BSG is.

jeremy_sylvis,
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Sure there is… stop using Facebook.

jeremy_sylvis,
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Regulatory capture seems about on par for Google these days. I suppose I’ll be switching back to OnePlus for Android devices; that’ll be about it for Google stuff in my home.

jeremy_sylvis,
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Suddenly, I miss the old days of Android. I suppose it’s back to CyanogenMod or whatever it is these days

jeremy_sylvis,
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at 4K/High Settings

Do you believe 90% of gamers will be playing at 4K/High settings?

Just wanted a warning, Lemmy.World is perhaps worse than reddit at respecting their users (web.archive.org)

I just suddenly found my user over there banned. Not for getting in a fight or breaking any rules, but just for criticizing and asking questions regarding its recent vague Terms of Service. In fact, no reason, warning, or reply was given beforehand, and the admin who did it suddenly scaled to banned, with no reply or anything...

jeremy_sylvis,
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My experience with lemmy.world has this as par for the course. They’ve… got some interesting moderators.

Disney is gouging customers with a near doubling of subscription costs. (sh.itjust.works)

Disney is raking its customers over the coals with a 75% price hike for their annual subscription (originally $80.) People wonder why piracy is on the rise.Multiple commenters are saying I’m off base about the 75% price increase. My payment less than a year ago was $79.99. Here’s the proof.

jeremy_sylvis,
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Well, when the price increases by ~75% and the value does not increase by ~75%, this sentiment isn’t exactly surprising.

jeremy_sylvis,
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Right, so anyone adopting such a “buy for a month and binge watch” strategy can still pay ~75% more and not receive a ~75% increase in value.

Nothing is changed.

John Riccitiello is stepping down as CEO and president of Unity (investors.unity.com)

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Unity (NYSE: U) (the “Company”), the world’s leading platform for creating and growing real-time 3D (RT3D) content, today announced that John Riccitiello will retire as President, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and a member of the Company’s Board of Directors, effective immediately....

jeremy_sylvis,
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My only complaint is such maneuvers tend to come with golden parachutes - his mismanagement of Unity leading to the whole fee debacle and erosion of trust deserves no such soft landing.

jeremy_sylvis,
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I consider the privilege of choice in taste of one’s preferred stimulant to be one of the few small joys to late stage capitalism.

jeremy_sylvis,
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“approached” - you seem to be performing Olympic-tier stretching to reduce this aggressive harassment and intimidation to “approached”.

This is incredibly disingenuous - it’s hard to take anything you say seriously through such. It’s also clear you aren’t actually here for any form of conversation, aren’t here to understand what happened as shown by video and conclude from that, and are instead here to just shill your anti-firearm point of view.

Beyond disappointing.

jeremy_sylvis,
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Don’t care what the legal definition is

When we’re just casually disregarding pesky things like definitions, how can you actually expect any form of genuine conversation to take place? You’re playing pretend from the start.

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jeremy_sylvis,
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The extent to which you’re victim blaming here is beyond absurd.

jeremy_sylvis,
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One idiot put one idiot in danger - don’t victim blame.

jeremy_sylvis,
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Why would a single round fired into an assailant be unsafe for anyone other than that assailant?

Do you believe bullets travel on some trajectory not subject to the rules of physics, curving around randomly?

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To be clear, the court has already said he was perfectly justified from the self-defense perspective. I look forward to it clearing him of the “firing indoors” nonsense.

jeremy_sylvis,
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The same charge pending judge review due to its inconsistency with having acted in self-defense?

Colie’s defense attorney, Adam Pouilliard, said the conviction on the firearms charge is inconsistent with the law, given Colie’s acquittal on self-defense grounds. He asked the judge to set aside the conviction. A judge will hear arguments on the issue at a hearing next month.

jeremy_sylvis,
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As we’ve covered, the same charge I look forward to the court clearing him of next month. If you’re still having trouble with the concept beyond this, I’m going to leave it to you to figure out.

jeremy_sylvis,
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You’re doing it again. That’s pretty awful behavior.

jeremy_sylvis,
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What bizarre white-knighting.

It could just be that an abhorrent politician has earned her reputation by her own merit rather than by gender.

jeremy_sylvis,
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Oh, her being adversarial with progressives was pretty well-known. Not the legacy I’d want.

jeremy_sylvis,
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https://media.tenor.com/dzgbfCARzHAAAAAM/castle-nathan-fillion.gif

jeremy_sylvis,
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Username checks out.

jeremy_sylvis,
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Just because you gave the car you stole away as a gift doesn’t mean it ain’t fucking stolen. It should be repossessed.

Following along with the analogy, the original owner of the car is dead and so are all of their direct descendents - reuniting the person who was wronged with their beloved car is impossible. Should we… what, estate sale the car? Pull some sins of the father nonsense and fine the current owner for actions taken generations ago?

jeremy_sylvis,
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Yeah… I never understood the “words are louder than actions” susceptibility there, but I can’t complain overly much as my country’s own partisan politics is rife with it.

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