@gameragodzilla @maiyannah And the American health care system is known to suck compared to that of a lot of other western countries, so seeking treatment is not an option for a lot of people.
@gameragodzilla @maiyannah Which is a bit more difficult to get at for school shooters. Though I guess in the US it'd probably be not so much of a problem to get a truck, drivers license at 16 and SUVs and all. I wonder if there's something in the psyche of a school shooter that they really like to gun down people personally.
@maiyannah Then why isn't it used for killing a lot of people at once by people who would otherwise use a gun, for example in countries with strict gun laws?
Sorry but logically it doesn't follow that if something doesn't stop serial killers it won't reduce the damage parallel killers (e.g. school shooters) cause. When it comes to mass killing there are really only a few realistic options: rifles, explosives, poison and well wielded medieval weaponry like swords. Right now by far the easiest option is guns. Explosives require some skill to make and risk drawing anti-terror attention. Poisons are probably hard to pull off effectively since people can often taste them. Swords of course require serious skill and thus investment of time and aren't exactly conspicouos ouos.
@maiyannah Ultimately, yes. A gun is a force multiplier, it allows you to do more damage in less time. Rifles, especially with big magazines, even more so. Guns change the magnitude of impact, not whether there is impact. However by the same logic making the force multiplier unavailable will reduce the number of casualties given the same number of incidents so I understand the sentiment even if it doesn't tackle the root cause.
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2018 12:52:31 EST
VeriusDoing some coding with HDF5 as an experiment. Gotta say, as C api's go this is a nice one. Especially the error handling, which is basically "you get a code indicating error and unless you decide otherwise we'll also print a detailed report to stderr of what went wrong with context added by each relevant function in the call stack". That's the kind of error reporting that makes it really easy to figure out what you're doing wrong.
@maiyannah Can we just jump to the conclusion and say everything about the West is bad, evil and we should be ashamed to be white? And can those <expletives deleted> please make sure they are not part of the West anymore by moving to more enlightened societies? Say, North Korea.