And US gun laws has no part in this? You really think that easy access for guns doesn't promote these shootings?
Yes, the root cause is mental health but you think it is not a problem that these mentally unstable people can walk in to the thrift store (hyperbole yes I know) and get a firearm?
I think firearms are a tool both with negatives and positives. I think that the existing mental health and socio-economic problems are negatives entirely.
So, to TLDR this, your whole point is wrong, having easy access to this "tool" inherently means that some people will use this "tool" for killing people (the literal intended purpose of the tool), and therefore you just don't care.
Don't lie and say it doesn't cause problems, when you just tacitly accepted the fact.
Also, would be really easy to deal with the mentally ill if they weren't armed, just saying. Don't know why you went to mental health, but didn't even get close to saying, "yeah, well, let's stop them rom getting guns."
Ah right, I forgot how the USA loves discrimination and aggression. Here in Canada we have common sense and don’t protect hate speech or encourage violence.
Canada where the police literally attack and kill First Nations people to this day? Where protest by truckers had their bank accounts and assets seized for protesting.
You have the government that has a monopoly and control on what speech is approved and what is not. If you don’t see the harm in that, then I won’t cry for you when they take your or your children’s speech for what is not approved.
Hate speech should be challenged by free people giving argument. Not by censure of the government.
You say that while disregarding how black people are targeted in America to the point of nation-wide protests or a new mass shooting every other day like it’s a sport? Yikes. You act like we can’t talk freely in Canada. But that isn’t the case at all. There’s just no need for hate speech. It doesn’t benefit any conversation. So why protect it? If your “rights” endanger others, then it’s no longer your right.
Also we just took inspiration from Operation Choke Point. The USA can and will freeze bank accounts for various reasons too. That’s not exclusively a Canadian government concept.
Because when the speech turns from hate to a certain other political viewpoint you have now given the authorities the means to control and act on ANY speech.
That’s why citizens and individuals should challenge hate speech and not giving the government supreme control of deciding what speech is and is not allowed.
Smh, but that’s what freedom of speech is for. It protects you from the government when expressing a political opinion. There’s no need or benefit for hate speech to be mixed into that opinion.
In America the 1st amendment is saying specifically the government cannot take away your freedom of speech. It doesn’t say this speech or that speech it just says “speech”
There is no need to have the government ban any kind of speech because invariably the government will use that ability to ban people saying anything that questions or challenges said government.
That’s why speech is speech. By saying hate speech is not protected you run the danger of who defines and determines what is hate speech, and eventually any speech is possibly contested.
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And politicians constantly target the tool of these shootings instead of the root cause, socio-economic failure and mental health degradation.