Good guy with a gun shoots bad guy in Indiana

It might be because so many of us have family and friends living there.

Why so many? What's WRONG with that place?

I have made this point before, but it does seem to me that the argument that there's something inherent in the American way of life that produces an inordinate number of people with some predisposition towards mass shootings, which is often put forward as a defence of gun rights, is actually a very strong argument against gun rights.

I mean, surely the very people most likely to go on a mass shooting spree are the ones who need access to guns removed.

In the same way that a person with a predisposition to arson has their access to fire-making materials removed, or a person with suicidal tendencies has access to dangerous items removed.

I rest my case folks.

No that wasn't it. Juuust the callousness aspect of it.

It shouldn't worry you. I was just perplexed some tried to deny it was callous. It is, with reasons to be.

I never said you should; I think you are over-analyzing my contribution.

I didn't deny agreeing that it was callousness.

But, then you wound yourself up assuming that I was at all trying to tell you 'no you really need to give a **** about the dumpster fire America'

But I wasn't. And I keep telling you you're over analysing but then you seemingly kept at it. You inserted subtext where I hadn't put any.

I chimed in on a simple point of semantics by posting the 2b definition of Callous from Merriam-Webster. I even reiterated that to you:

Just to clear my position up for you: Nothing wrong with being callous and even apathetic about the gun epidemic in the USA, it's warranted given the state of things and the state of US Politic. It is nonetheless objectively callous.

If you want callousness, you don't need America. Just go into the mask thread in the Covid forum. Everyone is callous in their own way. We all have our own concerns which shape our opinions. I also don't give a rats about 'Merica and their issues. I don't care about most people tbh, I think humanity has such opportunities but constantly and consistently do the worse thing. People only care about something when it affects them directly. A lot of people pretend to care, to have this mythical "empathy" for each and every suffering out there, but it's not, it's sympathy.

'Merica knows what needs to be done, but no one has the balls to take on half of the country.