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Did you actually read anything I wrote?
I totally agree with everything you're saying here.
My original comment was that there isn't any common political thread between mass shooters.
And you're the one calling me a maga when I'm not. I hate the state of my country right now our politics are ass backwards.
Read my comment. You're talking about all time. Since maga movement there absolutely is political motivation. And if you're not maga don't defend them.
At no point did I defend maga. Even other people have told you this. You just asserted it randomly. You made an assumption out of the blue.
Evidence was presented to you that active shooters do not use politics as a primary motivator and the ones that have politics as a motivator aren't exclusively motivated by maga rhetoric.
The primary motivator is mental illness.
But here you are screaming at windmills about gun control. Like it's so simple all you have to do is make new laws provide adequate mental healthcare inact gun control nation wide and poof it'll all go away as long as whatever political party you don't like just shuts up.
Christ on a stick anything that opposes the bandwagon on lemmy and people like you crawl out of the woodwork. It's freaking exhausting. Go crawl back under whatever rock you came out of!
Yeah its so hard only 36 other countries have done it. The evidence you provided was comparing 2 shooters. More evidence was provided that a majority of shooters in recent years(which is also a majority of shootings) are right wing. I showed you were wrong. This isn't a bandwagon issue. Its common sense. Maga promotes violence. We've seen this on january 6th, the pardons issued, and with the illegal removal of undocumented immigrants. Maga also wants to "protect the kids" by attacking certain groups but their group is the biggest perpetrators of mass shootings. Which you refute against all evidence. If youre going to ignore evidence and continue to be this dense youre only going to continue this issue.
The evidence suggests that there is no trend in political ideology with Mass shooters. The majority of them are not right wing.
In fact the data collected only monitors political extremisum not nuanced affiliations of those politics whether they're right-leaning or left.
Again others in this thread have confirmed as much.
And once more i do not disagree with you in gun control.
The only the only thing you seem to not want to admit is that the primary issue is metal illness and the lack of mental health in the United States.
I am aware the American has the most mass shooting in the world. I'm not sure what you're trying to prove to me.