I started following not just the far right, but fringe religious and scientific beliefs too, in the late 1960's. At first it was an amusement to follow the likes of the National States Rights Party, or Scientology or General Semantics, or lunatic Evangelical religious groups. But around the time of the Reagan administration, I began to see that these perverted people just refused to give up their malign idiocy, and they were starting to attract funding from rich sociopaths that believed they could personally benefit from encouraging the public to detach its political views from rational thinking. At that time I began believing that what was happening, if it remained unchecked, could result in such a right wing surge in the United States that we could find ourselves facing a fascist takeover that could sweep away everything we thought was unalterable about our country. Well, with a couple of exceptions, no one believed me. I even had an acquaintance who is a psy...
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After all, “stuff happens” an awful fucking lot in America, eh Jeb?
This shooter had a lot in common with the 15 year old who just executed a policeman in Australia
Just like the Sympathizing Australian PM
In point of fact it wasn’t a policeman but a civilian employee of the police, shot by a radicalised Muslim youth. Terrorism. Being the current understanding.
We haven’t, however, had a US-style mass shooting in 19 years. Not to say that it won’t happen again, it probably will, but that’s an entire generation who have grown up without one.
Maybe the parents of those American kids who never got to grow up would wish for a statistic like that, even as simple numbers are a little bit... well... ‘factual’ for the average gun fetishist to grasp.
And I don’t know what you’re talking about by “Sympathising Australian PM”, but then I suspect you know what you’re talking about either, so it probably doesn’t matter.