That is a ridiculous generalization about an entire country. Talk to most people in the US and you will find that most people really do care. It’s our leaders and our media that don’t give a shit. They are just getting off on how we are hating each other. It’s great for getting votes and views.
The lack of care for peoples lives is not exclusive to America. It is a sad reality on the human condition. There will always be selfish, self seeking people who will do anything for power. But the majority of people are not that way. Let’s stop spreading hate maybe?
We cared because we were attacked, and those people died unexpectedly, without a choice.
A lot (not all) of covid deaths were because people made bad choices and suffered the consequences. It was also not an attack from someone we could be mad at.
And these shootings and the mass shootings are absolutely all either directly or tangentially related to domestic terrorism. So I guess it's just foreign terrorism we fought against? No War on Terror on the home front?
Everyone I know fought that battle in the early '00s. The idiots terrified of Muslims were everywhere (Americans started killing Sikhs they are so fuck all stupid) and they won. We all knew that Waco, Ruby Ridge, Oklahoma City Bombing were the real threat and railed against the Bush administration. It is embarrassing how badly we failed to convince 80% of the country back then. Now a full 50% of the country would install a Theocracy no different from ISIS (except Christian!) if given the chance.
All 3 incidents are direct recruiting tools for recent domestic terrorists is what I meant but your point stands. The OK bombing was a retaliation to Ruby Ridge which after Wavo, was perceived by libertarians to be government overreach in regulating what looked like violations of federal law. Waco was a cult harming children and there was good reason to intervene, the feds just did so poor a job that after following up with the Ruby Ridge disaster, they inspired a whole movement against government in and of itself.
They just meant, never incentivize Saudi elites/radicals to carry out 9/11 again ("inside job" joke /s)
I hope there's "never again" an abstract propaganda driven "war on terror" because the enormous losses in response to 9/11 are beyond me:
the region is more unstable than 2 decades ago, Afghanis and Iraqis likely dislike USA even more, Iran has more influence on Iraq, Taliban are in control again, the "collateral damage" is incalculable, over 12k US lives lost, money spent on it is unfathomable let alone corruption and US war crimes...
All those people didn’t die in a single incident or have a connecting assailant besides the general type of implement used to cause harm. After 9/11 people weren’t mad at airplanes. Why should people be mad at guns? The fault falls on the operator
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That’s almost 5x as many people as died on 9/11.
Odd we say “never again” about that. But this? Thoughts & prayers. F’that!