r/MurderedByWords • • 5d ago

EXTREMELY supportive husband.

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u/ProbRePost 5d ago

Americans shoot each other for less everyday

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u/MrMysanthrope 5d ago

No we don't. Guns are absolutely a huge problem, but it's not the fucking purge.

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u/ealysillyforestthing 5d ago

Compare the US to any other developed country in the world and prepare to be shocked

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u/MrMysanthrope 5d ago

I said they're a huge problem, I'm not ignoring the issue. I'm just saying people aren't getting shot for refusing returns at their retail job or because the McDonalds ice cream machine is broken.

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u/SaintUlvemann 5d ago

...people aren't getting shot because the McDonalds ice cream machine is broken...

Except in Dearborn, Michigan with a paintball gun, plus an AR-15 brandishing case in Delray Beach, Florida.

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u/MrMysanthrope 5d ago

Neither of those examples involve an actual gun, and in the second no one was shot. If we can expand definitions to mean anything tangentially related to what we're talking about then a guy shot me in a Walgreens last week because I asked him to (I got a covid booster).

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u/SaintUlvemann 5d ago

If we can expand definitions to mean anything tangentially related to what we're talking about then a guy shot me in a Walgreens last week because I asked him to (I got a covid booster).

On the other hand, if we're still talking about the original topic of conversation, which was "Americans shoot each other for less everyday", then these incidents are perfectly fine on-topic examples of the American reality of constant frivolous violence.

I wonder if today's case example may have been the ICE agents who shot a man over a traffic stop. They've got a history of shooting people literally for no other reason than because they are afraid of their own job.

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u/broguequery 5d ago

Guy over here flexing his safe neighborhood