• ColorcodedResistor@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    full auto doesn’t kill. well placed aimed shots do.

    the AR is built for that express purpose. full auto on an AR is usually limited to older jungle warfare models.

    with ammo costs as they are. only the las vegas shooter had the means to camp up and camp out. ammo needs to be mobile, especially if you are dumping mags. and going from location to location.

    full auto doesn’t make sense unless you’re clearing a vietnam jungle.

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      1 year ago

      Well isn’t that a detailed thought process. Congrats man, you’ve thought this through deeper than I have

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        1 year ago

        this isn’t a surface emotion issue. it needs to be detailed. Before even Asking for the names of the victims what do people want to know? Why. The why is a combination of things. 1. He sought mental Help, and that mental help was so lacking that he snapped anyway and used a highly efficient tool to do his will; kill.

        But this issue is a case of the system working as intended.

        has anyone here ever had a mental breakdown? you’re treated like you have rabies. It’s sickening the cruelty of humans, the answer? Well I’ll let history and modern news write those tales.

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          Agreed. I could speak for myself, and have done so in the past of my own good faith only to have many misunderstandings and misguided attempts to either scapegoat or pedestal my experiences.

          But just as a general observation, sometimes human built systems tend to produce a minimum degree of suffering and chaotic human behaviour, e.g. familicide, war and crime, this is not on purpose or by design, but simply an example of bad systems engineering, malicious use of technology, etc, and at times incredibly bad faith, between people, where a degree of “human sacrifice” and suffering is normalised to push a dogma or maintain a certain status quo.

          If humanity were to come across or produce another intelligent alien species that then turned around to criticize our very systems and methods of work, then it’s important to consider that we would be stupid to ignore them, because ignorance is oftentimes bliss, but in certain cases can mean displacement.

          The big risk in the near future, however is not necessarily displacement yet but the dismemberment of all of our systems or the opposite, the preservation of the status quo to the point of total failure. Finding the middle ground and creating as many opportunities for common ground and potential harmony as possible in order not only to avoid a direct conflict, but to work towards simply have a good working relationship for everyone’s good