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Peradox1K said:
That's fair. Technically, communism doesn't have to be authoritarian, but it usually is.
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Actually it does and this is why every version of its system has been that way. The Government can't step in and take personal property or define your job without some form of Authoritarianism.

True Communism is often even worse than some Communist Regimes. In theory, you are paid the same wage (regardless of your work effort) and must surrender all personal property to the government. The government also chooses your profession for you. The Soviet Union at times was like this but bounced back and forth. The Stalin era was when the USSR was probably the most Communist and Authoritarian.

The main issue with Communism was explained the best by my 6th Grade Geography Teacher. She cited if people get paid the same, you will have person A coming in working hard and person B coming in lazy, late, and barely working. Over time, as person A sees that they get the same pay as Person B, they will eventually devolve into person B because there is no incentive or reward to work hard. This explains the shoddy products that the USSR produced on a regular basis.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Imagine taking time off from your family, work, and life for this.

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Hey, you don't get it do you; these National Guard deployments are actually a training measure in case there is a future Zombie Apocalypse. Trump was ranting about how ineffective the National Guard was on Fear the Walking Dead Season 1 and had his staff come up with the plan. 😆
 
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tvolsfan said:
Nothing. The country has seemingly accepted that children dying is more tolerable than making it harder to get guns.
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Minnesota is pretty strict on gun control from what I understand and it still didn't work. Also, people can use knifes, bombs, cars, etc. Guns aren't the only things that a mass murderer can employ.
 
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volbound1700 said:
Minnesota is pretty strict on gun control from what I understand and it still didn't work. Also, people can use knifes, bombs, cars, etc. Guns aren't the only things that a mass murderer can employ.
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You can tell yourself what you want, but it’s a problem other countries have basically solved.

Sure, mass shootings do happen in other countries, but it’s a shocking event instead of a repeated, expected occurrence.
 
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tvolsfan said:
You can tell yourself what you want, but it’s a problem other countries have basically solved.

Sure, mass shootings do happen in other countries, but it’s a shocking event instead of a repeated, expected occurrence.
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Not really, they have their own issues. China has constant knife attacks in schools, etc. Their media just does a better job covering it up. Heck, we have had school shootings happening since we were formed as a nation:

History of School Shootings in the United States | K12 Academics

1700s The earliest known United States shooting to happen on school property was the Pontiac's Rebellion school massacre on July 26, 1764, where four Lenape American Indian entered the schoolhouse near present-day Greencastle, Pennsylvania, shot and killed schoolmaster Enoch Brown, and killed...
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volbound1700 said:
Not really, they have their own issues. China has constant knife attacks in schools, etc. Their media just does a better job covering it up. Heck, we have had school shootings happening since we were formed as a nation:

History of School Shootings in the United States | K12 Academics

1700s The earliest known United States shooting to happen on school property was the Pontiac's Rebellion school massacre on July 26, 1764, where four Lenape American Indian entered the schoolhouse near present-day Greencastle, Pennsylvania, shot and killed schoolmaster Enoch Brown, and killed...
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Is your position that China has just as many kids die in knife attacks but we just never hear about it?

There are plenty of countries where you could use actual data, fyi.
 
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hog88 said:
It's never been harder to legally buy a gun and yet these incidents have increased so your statement is asinine.
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I suspect you’re trying to convince yourself rather than me.

As I said. It’s an issue other countries have solved. You just don’t like the solution.
 
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tvolsfan said:
Is your position that China has just as many kids die in knife attacks but we just never hear about it?

There are plenty of countries where you could use actual data, fyi.
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Literally two months ago you had a school shooting in Austria: Austria school shooting: What we know about Graz mass shooting.

Guess what, they ban guns like you want. Notice, there is NOTHING that tracks other forms of school violence and there is likely a political narrative as to why.

As stated, if you ban guns, deranged people will still find a way to either get guns for the attack (illegally) or another method to attack.

Banning guns is stupid for another reason, National Defense. Granted this isn't guns but Rome banned the use of military arms among its citizenry and then got smashed by the Visigoths at Adrianople in 295. Guess what, the Visigoths ran an orgy through the Balkans and Greece because the citizens were unable to defend themselves.

Guns also pose as a deterrent to a dictator. Every dictator has had gun banning as one element to their rise to power. Even if you subscribe to the Biden quote about people needed jets or tanks to defeat the government, you have to acknowledge the Taliban didn't have any of that and still beat the US Army.
 
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tvolsfan said:
How many multiples of school shootings do we have compared to the rest of the OECD? Now how does that compare to the mental health numbers?
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IDK, maybe the CDC should be researching the link between mass/school shootings ADD, anti-depressants and other drugs.
 
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