30 ‘Smart’ People Who Showed Off Their IQ And Made Fools Of Themselves

There's mentally is people in all countries, but only these high rates of mass shootings in America. I know lets carry on an blame the mentally ill and stoke up racial hatred too, just to make it interesting.

He's referring to moral panic. A media tool to create .... Well... Panic. That's what he means by emotions responding to spectacle. And it's Trump that can order an amnesty gun buy back. Him blaming mentally health for the recent shootings is bs. He's no psychologist. People with mental health are statistically abused and assaulted more than they harm others. It takes a psychopathic mind to plan and act on psychotic urges. He just created more stigma for people like me with mental health issues. F**k him. He's a narcissistic bully.

Furthermore, I have read (don't know if it is confirmed) the Dayton shooter threw up plenty of warning signs before this incident. The story I read was that a friend of his stopped talking to him after he held a gun to his head. Not only that, but he had gotten violent with several friends AND had been surveying bars to "do damage."

I don't disagree with Rekalty, but Neil is just conveying scientific data to make people think about the science of our emotional responces to death. Try and examine your own response after reading it, it is interesting. Rekalty sure had an emotional response.

Neil deGrasse Tyson said that?? (Sigh) Another person to lose respect for...

Neil is mistakenly conflating the pooled total of hundreds of commonplace, independent and singular events against two. What is his message here? Is is that the recent double mass shootings were likewise not at all newsworthy because not enough people wee killed within 48 hours? I don’t find abhorrent, senseless and lawless slaughter in any of his counter examples.

BOI HE JUST ROASTED NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON DAMN

No, no we are not.

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Yo lay off of Neil m-effers. Neil is the best.

Is that really that Neil the famous scientist?

I hate how this debate gets hijacked every time. Here are the facts about mass shootings 1. They are terrorist attacks. They are absolutely meant to instill fear on a targeted group. It is a unique crime. You cannot logically bring any other violent crime into the argument. Every other committed murder has a narrow and specific objective. Gangs. Domestic violence, rape, burglary, robbery or whatever else you can name has a specific short term goal. Terrorism is unique. 2. Assault weapons, high capacity magazines, body armor, bump stocks, silencers and more are force multipliers. These things allow a person to cause an exponentially more amount if death and destruction. If the Dayton shooter had a 17 round handgun and was engaged by police within 30 seconds, the death and casualty count would be a fraction of what it was. Mass shooters do not buy guns on the black market, they but them legally. 3. A good guy with a gun is the answer to a bad guy with a gun. Texas has some of the -

That response was savage! But try to run it by pro-gun Congress members...

Lmao!

Surprised to learn he is a computer instead of a human being.

There's mental health care, people fighting in all different manners for gun laws. I believe we are very aware of gun shootings. Mr. DeGrass Tyson's point is that we do respond heavily in media to events that are actually responsible for less casualties than, for instance, the flu. Many acts of violence are because people are confronted I their lives with events they find impossible to get a grip on. Working on poverty and health issues might be more efficient than anything else for all these issues (flu is mostly deadly for people that are old, young or sick to begin with). So yeah, he has a point, but maybe this is not the time, because we are not emotionless robots that just calculate the risks.

I guess if we banned cars and guns, I could agree.

Not to mention that the majority of gun violence isn't mass shootings, it's suicides and gang like violence. Look at large cities and ghetto cities on weekends.

Don't "mass shooting" and "homicide via handgun" kinda fall in the same category?

He already dismantled himself when it came to light he was a sexual predator. Now he's also pro gun?!

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All those things we are fixing the root cause. With mass shootings we are blaming inanimate objects instead of the people wielding them. It's not the guns fault, just like it's not the car's fault or the virus's fault. You take away guns, people will just use knives, and acid and home made bombs. People will always find a way to hurt each other.

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Ahh..and there it is! I found the propaganda! I knew boredpanda would try to shove their crappy gun narrative in here somewhere. Good job progressives, way to be predictable as always! "Here is a list of things we are making fun of people for....let's heavy load it with our political preferences and ideology! It might trick someone, it worked so well last time!"