Denver police have arrested a 13-year-old boy accused of fatally shooting a man whose leg was blocking the aisle on a public bus.

  • Transporter Room 3
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    74 months ago

    Gotta love being down voted because “America bad” mixed with “guns bad”

    Lemmy sure is a weird mixture of people wanting to arm themselves (or allow others to arm) against an increasingly fascist state while some want all guns to be gone forever and think voting and talking is the only way to enact change. These types are also usually the ones who complain about peaceful protestors being mildly inconvenient to others, and shrug their shoulders when the people they watched beat another person nearly to death get a slap on the wrists because “that’s justice for you, whaddaya gonna do”

    And it really depends on which group gets to the comments first as to how the votes and conversations go.

    A properly run society with good living conditions, social programs, medical/psychological care absolutely can have guns, and there are several examples in europe alone.

    But you know… America bad.

    • @Perfide@reddthat.com
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      144 months ago

      I’m a leftist that’s cool with guns and was raised around them, and technically, not legally, owned my first gun at 11.

      A 13 year old still should not have access to guns anywhere in public without adult supervision. I get hunting, I get protecting the farm, etc. None of those involve taking a gun on public transport though.

      And yeah, America bad. If this was even remotely a significant issue anywhere else, we could say otherwise, but it’s not.