Comments by "Daily Wire Third Stringer" (@DailyWireThirdStringer) on "Walmart employee recounts deadly Virginia shooting" video.
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@silentmajority8365 The ridiculous gun culture (in large part due to the gun industry's marketing to younger people) got us here
The obscene amounts of money spent on lobbying (especially by the NRA), almost exclusively to Republican politicians, to prevent any meaningful action on gun safety got us here
The sheer lack of access to mental health care (because we have other priorities for our tax dollars, like illegal and offensive wars on the other side of the world) got us here
The systemic failure to provide for the basic needs of citizens (food, shelter, healthcare, education, stable job with a living wage, paid maternity leave, and dozens of other necessities that are guaranteed to each citizen at no cost in EVERY OTHER DEVELOPED COUNTRY) got us here
The ability of corporations to exploit their workers and treat them as disposable without any accountability or basic protections (such as the right to unionize and negotiate such fundamentals as wages, benefits, scheduling, and hours) got us here
Ever wonder why we are alone among developed nations when it comes to mass shootings? Here are some suggestions to ponder. Meanwhile, the kind of society you're asking for is a Middle East-type Christian theocracy, except where everyone is perpetually self-interested (as a consequence of a highly capitalist economy), many fall through the cracks, and at any time anybody could purchase a firearm and unlimited ammunition and carry it wherever they want. Tell me where that society has ever flourished. I'll wait.
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