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War  ·  3337 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How would you stop mass shootings?

    First, from the victim side: if people didn't freeze, the gunman would be taken down before it became a mass shooting, it would just be a (attempted?) murder in a public place.

What you are asking is literally every US citizen to do is learn not to be afraid of death?

    Second, from the shooter side: once it becomes less plausible to get in the New's high score list, the kind of mind that wants such a thing will be less likely to pursue it.

The second point is taken from a rational point of view, which we cannot assume the shooter in a mass shooting is working from.