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Did you expect some kind of mass uprising to happen the very next day? A hundred million people out in the streets, all armed to the teeth, hunting CEOs for sport?
In this cartoon fantasy world of yours, what does "something coming from this" look like? Was his next stop going to be the White House where he would hold Biden at gunpoint until M4A is implemented?
Honestly my only hope is.. that the lone gunman suicidal "I want to go down in a way to be remembered" kinds of shooters. Learn from this, and consider shooting a wealthy CEO instead of a school or movie theatre etc...
I in no way want more violence... but I believe it would be nice if the "we can't do anything about" violence, were more top of the power chain instead of bottom.
Realistically, if all the school shooters start going after CEOs instead (I certainly wouldn't complain if they did) you'd very quickly see gun violence go from "unsolvable" to "very solvable".
So... you're saying
Oh no no, my friend. If the wealthy being gunned down results in gun control, it won't be for them. There will be some kind of exemption for private security that will be extremely expensive to get. Those wealthy enough will be able to find ways of sourcing their own if they want one. We'd be the ones without guns in that scenario.
I think you're actually underestimating our dystopia. Private security/military already exist to the scale that the, literal, "war" aspect of a class war would make actual arms mostly irrelevant. I think at that point it's just a numbers game.
Numbers are a very large part of that particular game.
This already exists.
In New York wealthy business people pay small town sheriffs to deputize them. As deputies they now have a right to concealed carry, even in places like NYC that have very strict gun laws.
I hate that this is a thing.
Is that too much to ask?
We're protecting them from unnecessary care.
Agreed, OP’s post is what they WANT you to say— don’t help them out guys
Yeesh friend, kinda jumped down OP's throat here, no? Seems pretty uncharitable to go from their posted meme to "this cartoonish fantasy world of yours", and then take that even further.
I mean, OP never really described any kind of "world" at all, just expressed disappointment. So I mean.
...it's kinda your cartoonish fantasy world, by definition, isn't it? Whatever thing you're imagining here? Weirdly hostile take.
Uhm, are we looking at the same comic? Because it most definitely is making an assessment of the impact of the shooter's actions. What's the thing being impacted? I would say world. Charitable interpretation seems to me to point in the opposite direction of what you're saying.
You're defending a stranger who went hostile and attacked the poster of a meme in a place for memes. Spend your time however you like, I just can't imagine how you or the original commenter I replied to are able to take the littlest stuff - posted to a JOKE community - and extrapolate out (AKA invent) a bunch of serious takes, and then disagree with those fictional takes. The OP posted almost nothing, to a meme community. What y'all are doing is Don Quixote stuff (or more accurately, straw man bullshit), but like I said, spend your time however you see fit.
You're defending a poster who posted a meme that wasn't very good.
Spend your time however you like, but you're spending a lot of time on this to be questioning how other people spend their time
Clever reversal bud, sure got me.
Good. Now go be better.
Calm down, Emily Gilmore.
Americans have been sold the "we need to defend our freedom" slogan for so long they forgot the "most powerful" army in the world is sponsored by the regular american to defend the rich against himself (the regular american) How can an uprise happend in the US if you guys gave your government all the power?
Class wars are generational.