Gen Z Shooter Physiognomy

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[@connerstines1578]

One of the biggest freudian slips I've ever seen happened when some anti gunners got assmad and chose to focus on criticism of this absolute Chad rather than focus on the fact that countless dozens of lives were saved. They were mad that he prevented their guy from getting a politically friendly high score.

[@juanmejiagomez5514]

It’s absolutely disgusting

[@ShermanistDruid]

For the collectivists there's no limit to how many individual lives it takes to reach "utopia".

[@lloydgush]

He stood between them and the general public. They hate self defense because self defense aims straight at their head.

[@testudo2185]

Thoughts and prayers don’t do anything ban all guns. And when someone does something they complain about “vigilantes”

[@fatasssquirrel1731]

@@ShermanistDruid Comrade, a true believer will stand on a mountain of corpses to reach utopia!

[@ReboyGTR]

*Dicken is ”The good guy with a gun” the media tells us don’t exist.*

[@greatclubsandwich5612]

And they hate him for it.

[@DeadMeat991]

I wish there were more of those people, though.

[@Noodlepunk]

There are a lot but the media doesn't really talk about it.

[@Moxypony]

Let's be honest, thats because he's the exception that proves the rule. Mass shootings are common in this country, and the fact that one shooting among dozens ended with the shooter killed by a legal gun carrier proves basically nothing. The argument that "A bad guy with a gun can only be stopped by a good guy with a gun" only has supporting evidence if you include the shooters themselves as "good guys," since most shootings only end when the shooter kills themself.

[@UniqueBreakfastTaco]

@@Moxypony CDC released a study that indicates hes not the exception to the rule. Just because you dont hear about them doesn't mean they dont exist. find the data...then form an opinion. otherwise, youre just misinformed by that "disinformation" yall bagging on about all the time.

[@ZontarDow]

Imagine being the FBI agent who put all that work to set this up just for a rando to stop it in 15 seconds flat.

[@crazycoffee]

It's why they're so mad

[@kiljaeden5405]

Really wish they just stick to selling me drugs instead of these mass shootings

[@L1mp1nB1zk1t]

Glowie scum are big mad lol.

[@darkuskng]

I think the FBI agent is always playing both sides so they made sure dickens did what they wanted.

[@peepsbates]

"YEARS OF ACADEMY TRAINING WASTED!"

[@jasonhenry8067]

“His last moments were probably him realizing that he had, once again, failed at another thing in his life.” Based

[@kennedytheretard975]

Shooter: I'm sorry mr. glowie, i failed

[@mastersheff37]

Jesus christ, I lost it when he said that. Straight torched the kid. I've never seen someone get smoked twice lololol!

[@erickkisreal9398]

@@mastersheff37 Thats how these shooters need to go down. Smoked and torched. Think about it. A lot of these shooters do it because they think they'll be legends even if hated. But what if instead they just went down as Embarassments or jokes

[@Lonovavir]

Oh snap.

[@tgheretford]

Someone on another video left a comment which is disturbingly relevant to men who are unsuccessful and single - to paraphrase, 'the next warm embrace these men felt since they left their mothers arms as a child is the warm embrace of a rope'. Chilling but there are far more men who commit violence against themselves as opposed to others. We only ever focus on the worst, not the many others who tragically take their own lives or live a life of depression.

[@ivercingetorix1367]

"Not a skinny skeletal weft and not an obese over-indulger. Not covered in tattoos or piercings or colored hair. No attention-grabbing features. Why do responsible people look like this?"

[@cameronphenix2096]

I'm starting to think "I do it to express myself" is just code for "I want attention and will inconvenience myself and everyone around me to get it."

[@samuelmatheson9655]

Because they are based

[@3eve0n]

because it's very had to keep your responsibility when you're a narcissist.

[@carinadominguez22]

Probably because they are content/secure in themselves for the most part. They don't have unhealthy relationships with people or food or other vices. They're not so insecure that they need desperate and easy ploys for attention.

[@CountArtha]

Because they have responsible s**t to do

[@cerberouse1]

Mall cops are not armed, this man is a legit American hero and an incredible story

[@pikabolt09]

paul blart levels of security

[@simoncleret]

Not every mall can afford the security offered by the legendary Gecko45.

[@rwberger6]

Eh, depends on the state/mall but generally yeah. Mostly because arming your security skyrockets your insurance.

[@rebchizelbeak5392]

@@rwberger6 Also, because security guards have 0 legal responsibility to protect property. They are trained to observe and report. Mall security guard’s jobs are to be a “scarecrow” deterrent to theft, not to protect the mallgoers.

[@CyberChaos5490]

Most public security is theater in the us, all of the security guards are horrible obese, female smaller than most men and don’t carry concealed

[@honestkyn718]

It's strange to me how self defense is common sense and yet people will want to remove it from you

[@greatclubsandwich5612]

Those who want to remove your ability to defend yourself do not have your best interests in mind... Only their own.

[@darkzeroprojects4245]

All while those against it say how ya should just shoot the foot or leg..

[@josephrosenbaum3343]

Those same retards also ask why cops dont "incapacitate" people by shooting them in the legs

[@Tinandel]

The state wants the monopoly on the use of force. Simple as that.

[@girlwriteswhat]

In Canada, if you want to buy a gun, and you specifically say it's for self defence, they won't sell it to you. The only legal reasons to own a gun are hunting and sport shooting.

[@alexanderliddell3151]

Dicken should get a medal for what he did

[@SkyNinja759]

He should atleast get a plaque at the mall. If someone has burning money, get in contact with the mall and sponsor the food court to be dedicated to him. The guy deserves some sort of immortalized recognition.

[@danross1038]

Dicken Cider.

[@Sin-Faoladh]

Or a statue

[@fatetestarossa2774]

INDEED

[@Garrus1995]

Presidential Medal of Freedom.

[@ajl8975]

Damn, his grandad did an amazing job. 8/10 shots on a moving target at 40 yards.

[@greatclubsandwich5612]

Activated VATs and let him have it...

[@josephrosenbaum3343]

Yeah no his fudd grandpa didnt teach that shit. This kid trained proper CCW handling and tactics

[@fatetestarossa2774]

@Jinxed Swashbuckler NOICE ; )))))))))))))))

[@zBobb1118z]

@Jinxed Swashbuckler the dicken drill is what i like to do to my gf

[@rickconnolly5006]

Not to mention the target is spewing bullets...

[@MrLolguy93]

Man, I still remember Columbine and the blaming of things like Marilyn Manson and video games

[@sleepyproduction7166]

Anything but the parents. As a parent there’s this weird undpoken rule that you don’t call other parents out because no really knows what they’re doing. Well I know what you shouldn’t do, everyone should know that stuff.

[@gabrokkerhun]

@@sleepyproduction7166 You know, in most of the civilized world, bad parenting just results in asshole kids who usually get ran over by life itself later on but they aren't an actual threat usually, but if yours is one of the very few places where bad parenting ends in mass shooters, maybe there are some other factors going on, like God forgive, easy to access guns that enables mass shootings.

[@f145hr3831jr]

​@@gabrokkerhun Because everyone knows guns are the only option to commit mass murders, it's not like bombs are a thing (and instructions to make them are available online for everyone to see), or even knives exist. They just talk endlessly about guns because moral busibodies want them outlawed and give Big Daddy Governement the monopoly of gun ownership.

[@gabrokkerhun]

@@f145hr3831jr Bomb attacks, especially successful ones, are notoriously hard to pull off, even terrorists who are more than qualified to carry them out will usually opt for other options and knives... don't think you're reaching when you're equating knife attacks to mass shootings? Come on now. You should strive for a healthy middle ground, American society is a mess so unlike in most civil places, even Austrian or French type of restrictions might be too much, but it's also very clear that the current setup is an unworkable catastrophe that spits out tragedies on a weekly basis the likes of which are once in a decade occurence in the rest of the 1st world. You shouldn't be digging into an extremist untenable position the same way gun grabbers do so.

[@verindictus3639]

@@gabrokkerhun, I dunno, there are certainly parts of the world where bomb attacks are very popular. The US has had gun rights for centuries, with the laws being less restrictive in the past than now. But mass shootings only became common within the last half-century. It isn't just the prevalence of guns. Frankly, I blame gun-free zones. Almost all mass shootings in the west happen in "gun-free" zones. You can't deprive people of guns in the US, you can only ask them to not take guns into certain areas. But that doesn't keep criminals from bringing guns into those same areas, so "gun-free" zones are basically just "prime mass shooter target" zones that ensure civilians are defenseless against these types of attacks. End gun-free zones, and mass shooters have no place where they can be sure their victims won't kill them as soon as they start. And while the rest of the west may have fewer mass shootings, the ongoing threat of violent criminals and the fact that the governments are so brazen about violating their citizens' rights - and our own governments brazen, if lesser, attempts here - makes me think the current setup is better, for all its severe flaws.

[@hektorlitch4993]

Our guy Elisjsha is just fucking Super Saiyan levels of Midwestern White boy. What a champ.

[@donaldscholand4617]

I like that phrase! Can I use it? 😁

[@greensmurf221]

Protip - don't do shootings in the Midwest. It won't end well.

[@jasonhenry8067]

“Despite the prevalence of cameras in modern day, none of this seems to have been caught on camera,or at least none that was released to the public.” *Imagine my shock*

[@laurenbatson5918]

I read that in PJW's voice.

[@kennedytheretard975]

Las Vegas shooting flashbacks

[@riftvallance2087]

Funny how that works.

[@sleepyproduction7166]

The feds are like ‘if we keep getting caught we’ll just make sure no one has access’

[@greensmurf221]

I smell fedbois

[@notdrew3780]

Dicken nailing that 40 yard shot was probably the highlight of his life

[@Dbobcol]

80% accuracy rate too

[@laurenbatson5918]

The highlight of everyone else (not already shot) in the food court, too!

[@commisaryarreck3974]

Dicken is on the list now Not a bad list, just some people to keep an eye on. If he happens to have an "unfortunate accident" it'd just confirm it was the glowies

[@blackosprey2219]

He's probably traumatized for life and now the news media will smear his character to make him unemployable.

[@notdrew3780]

@@blackosprey2219 I'm sure the NRA would hire him to speak

[@BeersNBullshit]

Mall security isn't typically armed in the US, some malls have police offices in them. But they still wouldn't have got there in time.

[@TheEmperorHyperion]

Or if they did, they would've watched.

[@GoldenWolf115]

Not this mall. I live about 5 mins away. I worked at the gamestop in there for a while, and mall security has only got tazers. I knew the kid whose dad owned the place, so I'm sure they've upgraded now.

[@dementious]

Our local mall has a police sub-station in it, but it's usually empty. Our security is armed with radios only and are not allowed to touch anyone nor issue any demands as in "You have to wait for the police". In fact, they're not even allowed to call the police.

[@vincemcmahonreadskoran3120]

@@dementious what exactly are they allowed to do?

[@AspiringDevil]

@@vincemcmahonreadskoran3120 most companies want you to be a scarecrow. If they have you actually do things it opens them to liability.

[@Snakedude4life]

The media is upset that Dicken had stopped this. Quite. Telling. 🎩 🐍 no step on Snek! 🇺🇸🇭🇰

[@jeanhunter3538]

Well duh, Dickens stopped a pile of bodies from being created for them to exploit to push a message.

[@TheBigAEC]

I just wanted to finish the video first just in case dev brought it up in the video so I'll ask again. I went looking and found no one being upset. Could you reply with a link to a news article or video?

[@Snakedude4life]

@@TheBigAEC Memology has a clip of some old bag from the view whining that the dude violated a mall rule about “no Conceal carry”.

[@TheBigAEC]

@@Snakedude4life the view isn't worth broad brushing "the media" even cnn are reluctantly praising Dickens. They won't outright praise him mind you but they HAVE to admit Dickens being there with his gun saved many people.

[@Snakedude4life]

@@TheBigAEC They’re not going to self report that they are disappointed they can’t report a higher number while pushing for more gun control. Even you can tell that they are “reluctantly” reporting the news as is.

[@wightboy12345]

Mall security generally isn’t armed. You need to get a bunch of certificates for each non-lethal weapon.

[@RogerTheil]

And none of those certificates did anything to stop what one good man with a gun did.

[@mghegotagun]

It's easier to be an armed civvi

[@elijahherstal776]

*Less than lethal* weapons. Any weapon is lethal, so your term isn't technically correct. Not trying to be rude or anything, I get your point (it's easier for cops to get a cert for a pistol than it is for the tazer or even the ASP baton sometimes)

[@AspiringDevil]

@@RogerTheil they weren't there. While I highly approve of the Chad's actions the security guards aren't psychic. Also how often have you been hit with a, metal baton, tazer, or hit with mace? It is pretty good at its job.

[@AspiringDevil]

@@elijahherstal776 true a non lethal weapon technically doesn't exist. All this gear is more than capable of kill or maiming.

[@crazycoffee]

I'm 21. I want more people like Dicken in the world. Taking their safety into their own hands.

[@badxxxmonkey5541]

Et tu CrazyCoffee?

[@Gulogulo7387]

Same but if want more responsible people who are willing to not just defend there lives but also the lives of others you gotta do it to lord knows I plan to.

[@adamz.5844]

The problem is, the state stands directly in the way of us being able to protect ourselves by utilizing the courts to further their agenda. Chicago is one of the most anti gun cities and yet they have the highest rates of violence in the US, yet their politicians blame "ghost guns" and "easily attainable weapons" which isn't remotely close to correct. It's assclowns trying to act hard.

[@3eve0n]

Not just there own, but the safety of those around them as well, truly a modern hero.

[@UniqueBreakfastTaco]

im old, and want the same.

[@rwberger6]

I think its a case of "The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth". Our society is currently awful for raising young men in. We incentivize broken families, over-medicate, don't teach financial responsibility, don't instill morals, and demonize them in media as the eternal bad guy. Now look at all these men's backgrounds as ask why they mentally broke and turned out this way.

[@DukeWooze]

Yes I believe this is the case. The education system is abysmal, single mothers can't raise their children or flat out don't and I get a sense that working hard just doesn't pay off like it used too. We don't reward or praise hard work anymore. People are encourage to cheat or exploit others rather than help each other out. I guess that's what you call a low trust society. I know it's a meme but, just "clean your room" is silly and terrible advice.

[@erickkisreal9398]

And then there's the question of if they are so wronged why do they take it out on innocents? Don't label them "Child". "A child doesn't burn things down/murder people a monster does" Call them a piece of crap: "The POS who is not embraced by the village (even though there's nothing good to embrace in the first place) will burn it down to feel its warmth because he is a loser"

[@Halo6166]

@@DukeWooze low trust societies are usually the result of multiculturalism.

[@hannibal8810]

@@erickkisreal9398 congrats on adding nothing to the discussion, everyone here has more than enough brains to realize that mass shooters are shitbags, doesnt mean we cant analyze the underlying societal reasons causing an uptick in this behaviour

[@Halo6166]

@@erickkisreal9398 lashing is what you do when you dont know better. You can hate it but its always been this way throughout history. Sorry to say morality isn't black and white

[@TheBoshman95]

Dicken is a hero. What a guy. Landing 8 out of 10 shots? That's amazing.

[@Michael_1138]

And from 40 yards. Incredible marksmanship.

[@Wildjason888]

VATS!👍🤣

[@ThZuao]

From 35ish meters and under stress to boot. What a legend.

[@mickadams1905]

His Grandfather must be a hell of an instructor.

[@JPG.01]

That is amazing marksmanship. Clearly he trained diligently.

[@JohnTrustworthy]

A point of notice: 4chan wasn't full of shooters before the media told them to go there.

[@xXSCDTXx]

Wasn’t 4chan just another Reddit until Reddit became stupid and everyone started blaming 4chan for everything?

[@aredjayc2858]

@@xXSCDTXx More or less

[@grundierungtaglich6241]

4chan is the mixbag of the internet reddit is the poopsock

[@AspiringDevil]

@@xXSCDTXx more complicated than that but yes. Like Reddit was the Chans our just a collection of forums.

[@AspiringDevil]

See the gamers rise up subreddit history for the similar phenomenon. When tell psychos that where to go they will go there much to the local users frustrations.

[@MasterSuchiro]

He fail at everything but still had +100 rounds of ammunition and a AR-15. Sounds some FBI agent is vary upset that he 3 months of grooming ended in the trash.

[@3eve0n]

yeah, there's no way he could afford that but not rent.

[@snapchatsnacks3154]

Yeh that White guy in Texas named Salvador had a similar thing going on. Apparently his argument with his grandma became his grandmother wouldn't pay his phone bill and he couldn't afford to pay it. Yet he could somehow afford arms costing over 2 thousand dollars.

[@pinegulf]

@@3eve0n wait... You can rent rifles in US? (European asking)

[@3eve0n]

@@pinegulf no, I meant rent for his apartment or wherever he was living. thought dev said something about him being evicted.

[@actnatural9261]

@@pinegulf if you go to a gun range, sometimes they will let you rent one out for use on the range. But in general, no you cannot rent guns.

[@konnen7354]

Oh wow look at that. *A good guy with a gun stopped a bad guy with a gun*

[@Tank50us]

I would argue that the whole issue with mass shootings is a result of three things: 1. The tearing down of the family structure. 2. The closure of dedicated mental health facilities. And 3. The rise of the 24hr News. The reason I say this is because, as we all know, most, if not all, of these shooters come from troubled or broken homes, all of them were severely mentally unstable, and they know that their names will be on the lips of talking heads for weeks. And their choice of targets guarantee that what they do will be all over the news.

[@blackosprey2219]

It's not even like you can take aggressive actions to sort any of this because you'll get accused of being racist, classist, or ableist. But fuck man, the state of things right now. If I had a more serious condition I'd probably be suicidal by now. There's nothing good awaiting any of us and it's no wonder everyone is snapping.

[@Lonovavir]

Also we don't take bullying seriously and ignore obvious red flags.

[@MALICEM12]

True, or at least for the stereotypical shooter like this one seems to fit. But there are a lot of unspoken not so tragic and not so white and dorky looking mass shooters that do it for other reasons. The news just doesn't want to be racist, so it isn't televised.

[@xbigbooshx4643]

@@MALICEM12 True. A lot of drive-by and gang "bang-bang" incidents are not done by the pale people. Most "bang-bang" deaths in America are from "sewer-slide" or from illegally acquired "bang-bangs" that are used in gang related slayings. (mass bang-bang incidents are a mere fraction of the other causes of bang-bang deaths.)

[@chonky2129]

"Oh he might have went on livin', but he made one fatal slip, When he tried to match the ranger, with a big iron on his hip."

[@Mehtaru]

Seeing the media be mad at the not being able to sensationalize to push their narrative because of Dicken's actions is cathartic, bless that man for what he did and may he live in peace for the remainder of his life, but never forgotten.

[@vladtepes8461]

I just hope he can live in peace because regardless of the circumstances he did take a life and that can way on a person.

[@NakaliTama]

Dev, doesn’t matter if the guns are illegal, they are easy to make, look at Shinzo Abe. I definitely believe if that guy wanted a gun nothing could stop him from getting it. It isn’t hard to find parts for sale, nor is it hard to make your own reciever

[@sleepyproduction7166]

You could make a gun out of a bullet and nail if you tried hard enough. Even easier if you have a little piece of a pipe and rubber band. Some can even be 3-D printed.

[@JOBXR]

In some countries they use bombs, Japan they try chemicals, and others use blades.

[@TrueGamer22887]

“Look at one of two shootings in Japan this year”

[@josephsanders8921]

@@JOBXR or cars and trucks. Anything with enough force or speed can be a weapon.

[@goku4117]

I don't believe these types of people would use diy guns. What they want is the cool factor of mowing people down, they want attention too. Honestly would these zoomies even have the patience to study in order to do diy weapons? Abe's killer was deliberate, he made many prototypes and when he decided he's ready he was straight to the point.

[@scienceface8884]

>Can't afford rent >Owns $2k worth of automatic weapons

[@Econ1991]

It's telling that they always target areas where there shouldn't be guns (which might have worked in Dicken's favour). If they wanted a 'blaze of glory', why not go heroic try attacking the cartels or isis, it's suicide but a 'noble death' if you hurt them enough. But they'd rather have infamy than no attention, hurting others like 'they've been hurt'. They're cowards without redemption if they go past the point of wanting to hurt innocents.

[@potatortheomnipotentspud]

@@houseofhas9355 OP knows that, he's making a point that mass shooters like to just hurt innocent folks rather than help

[@houseofhas9355]

@@potatortheomnipotentspud oh i thought that he mixed up the names. The way the sentence is structured makes it easy think that.

[@Econ1991]

@@houseofhas9355 I get that I just don't like mentioning shooters names as they should be forgotten while Dickens' should have a Jr soon (which after this his girlfriend's probably MORE than happy to provide lol)

[@houseofhas9355]

@@Econ1991 oh okay. Thanks explaining. I get it now. I have delated my original comment.

[@littleking1994two]

Why would they help a society that they are rejected by

[@Viper2132]

Imagine being the Fedboi who spent the last six months grooming this pathetic zoomer to commit a heinous crime only for your plan to get shut down by a chad who ignored stupid rules and carried a gun where he wasn't supposed to

[@kennedytheretard975]

Switzerland is literally an army disguised as a state yet it doesn't have mass shootings Why? They don't have the FBI

[@UniqueBreakfastTaco]

hello fren!

[@sleepyproduction7166]

Exactly, I bet there’s a connection that comes out later like every other one. This is why I’m down for a total reset of our system. Fix the government, institutions, because they clearly want communism or authoritarian. Hell I’d be down for demarchy where lawmakers and representatives are chosen at random like jury duty. It would require an education system overhaul but what doesn’t need that? You have to pass classes and tests at the end of high school and if you do, you can be selected.

[@dragoneye6229]

@@sleepyproduction7166 I've been saying law needs to be a basic class as soon as middle school for ages now. There is so much to it that not only would it be job security for instructors but also help students in their life because everyone uses the law daily in some form or fashion. The courts wouldn't like that though. Imagine students learning law from sixth grade to high school graduation? Lawyers would be tilted.

[@wellingtonbruh3756]

@@XBlackMoonRisingX015 underrated comment

[@brotherdoom2406]

For gun grabbers: there’s a reason the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

[@10010110100102Error]

the main reasons still stays that a: the government isn't your friend and should they openly become your enemy you need to get rid of them, and b: when the government derives all it's rights from the people as it is a mere representatipn of the citizens, then the citizens have every right that the government does and can own, buy and responsibly use everything that the government can buy, own and use.

[@brotherdoom2406]

@@10010110100102Error self defense. Self defense is the main reason. Government, some stupid kid looking to go down swinging, a pack of Wilde boars- it doesn’t matter.

[@baconboi4482]

@@brotherdoom2406 actually based on what I know of the founders, it’s main reason was the government for it existing

[@brotherdoom2406]

@@baconboi4482 the idea taken to its logical conclusion also extends to self defense in general.

[@Code7Unltd]

Those that are grabbing your guns are grabbing dollar bill$ while doing so.

[@hengineer]

The interesting part, it's that the mall was supposed to be a gun free zone, but only on an at-will basis from the Mall to their customers. Indiana state law doesn't recognize it, so legally he had a firearm because it was concealed, and the mall did not request him leave.

[@MrSpartanspud]

If it had been openly worn then he wouldn't have been there to stop it. That's one of those things that makes you think about the fragility of our future.

[@117johnpar]

Hmm, Interesting he picked the actual identical loadout to the uvaldi shooter, and the one in new england before it. Identical as in, same two ARs, Down to the optic and its placement. I'm not sure where these mass shooters are being trained at, but they sure do like this dual AR loadout. No one would think to go out and buy two ARs for this kind of thing, for this kind of plan. Much less more than one. Carrying two primaries is like some high level mercenary wetwork strategy, not some disenfranchised emo kid who got picked on and was down on his luck and decided to browse his local gun stores catalogue for high round count.

[@kriegjaeger]

Great point. Many experienced shooters don't carry spare mags, they carry a backup gun because it's quicker than reloading. Two rifles follows a similar principal but is only practical for this very specific kind of activity.

[@commisaryarreck3974]

My man not just that. He could afford two ARs in his situation Shit glows bright

[@AmandaFessler]

@@kriegjaeger that does say a lot. who was it again who gave the sage advice that "switching to your sidearm is faster than reloading"?

[@mawnkey]

Or it could just be like any meme where clueless morons just follow what they've seen previously. Believe me I'd love to pin it to the glowies and further add to the case for disbanding them, but "conspiracy" falls way after "garden variety copycat" in the information age.

[@snapchatsnacks3154]

I think the Buffalo guy had the same load out.

[@orboakin8074]

God bless the man who stopped this killer. One thing I will never understand is why people in the USA and even Canada are so eager to do away with their gun rights, despite how much such rights tend to ensure their own individual liberties and protections. Heck! if we Nigerians had a fraction of the gun rights you folks in North America have we would not be plagued by high levels of insecurity now. My country is dealing with islamic terrorist attacks, bandits, kidnappings, and secessionists. Our incompetent federal government poorly funds our military and our police are corrupt. Legal gun ownership was banned and any citizen who uses legal firearms for self defence is arrested while criminals and terrorists have no qualms about using guns back in my country.

[@debanydoombringer1385]

Most in the USA don't want to give up our guns. There was a small majority that did at one point, but they lost during the 2020 riots when gun ownership skyrocketed. I believe it was around 70% of those purchases were by first time gun owners. Everyone point to the crimes associated with them, but ignore the crimes prevented or stopped by them. There's between 500,000 and 3 million crimes stopped annually by legal gun owners.

[@Lonovavir]

Plenty of us don't want to give up our 2A rights and fight to protect them.

[@verindictus3639]

It's because a lot of people in the US, having lived in relative safety for so long, have forgotten how the world actually works, and have this illogical idea stuck in their head that guns, NOT people, are the source of violence, and so simply removing guns will end violence.

[@AspiringDevil]

They generally aren't. The majority of both Americans & Canadians support legal gun ownership

[@CMCAdvanced]

That's why you see emigration to the US

[@lizard12356]

That dude glows harder than the feds themselves. And what's funny is that that rifle with the EO-Tech looks an awful lot like the same setup another shooter had. Both shooters had atleast 2500 worth of equipment on them and it took me a WHILE to save up for a pistol. How do these dudes have all this cash laying around for all that ammo and the rifles

[@RobzdaBlade]

Both were in a state of absolute breakdown. Here lads, take these arms. Make a "change" >_> You seriously thinking a glowie gave them the weapons? Lmfao; doesn't matter if they did. The clocks ticking for them anyways.

[@ablebaker8664]

8/10 from 40 feet. Consider that with the first impact the target will begin to move unpredictably while dropping to the floor... and this guy put 8 rounds on the target before he fell. Grandad is one heck of a marksmanship tutor. I consider myself a pretty good shot, but... Daaaaaamn! Nice Shootin Tex.

[@____________838]

40 yards.

[@actnatural9261]

He’s from indiana. It’s “nice shootin, Indy 😎”

[@ablebaker8664]

@@____________838 yards... Mic drop

[@ChrisWilliams-lf8ex]

I've seen it put out there that this should be a new shooting drill. It would certainly help with pistol marskmanship.

[@ivanivanovic5857]

8/10 too much water

[@Dogapillar4Lyfe]

Over the weekend there was a shooting in Whistler BC just this morning I woke up to an alert on my phone about another shooting in Langley BC. This is Canada, our government just banned guns and we are having more shootings.

[@coblow1681]

Instead of making guns illegal, they should have just made shootings illegal

[@debanydoombringer1385]

My husband is from Maple Ridge and he's heard from friends the Hell's Angels have moved out of the area which has allowed the gang problem to resurface. Sucks.

[@Dogapillar4Lyfe]

@@debanydoombringer1385 that super sucks, Maple Ridge is a really nice area.

[@greganator111]

got that alert to, woke me up real fast. Crazy that places are getting less safe when a gang moves out

[@Lonovavir]

This is the anti Uvalde. A guy with a pistol and t shirt accomplished more in 15 seconds than hundreds of armed cops with gear to spare couldn't accomplish in an hour. Courage trumps equipment.

[@Grubnar]

What was it the Russian guy from Call of Duty said? All it takes is the will to act!

[@ImInForAWuppin]

@@Grubnar "Switching to your secondary is faster than reloading!" Wait, no... that's not the one...

[@kavky]

@@Grubnar "Remember, no Russian."

[@sexmansex4776]

dimitry! you're the heart of this army!

[@maximus4765]

He did it in just 15 seconds. You love to see it!

[@tedarcher9120]

Also hit 8 out of 10 shots, this man is a sniper

[@josephrosenbaum3343]

Mans literally did a bill drill lmao

[@KemoKa77]

Even if the cops could magically teleport into the building at will, they probably would have stayed outside the mall prevent anyone from entering to stop it.

[@Tenderbits]

“The darkest part of your heart; the part that you’ve buried for years, it knows exactly what is going on here - if you have the strength of character to ask it.” Dev, sometimes you floor me with your eloquence. Thanks for this.

[@redman9493]

"We both looked into the abyss, but when it looked back at us, you blinked." - Batman

[@drugsarebad97]

The whole “we don’t need citizens stepping in because they probably will miss and cause more harm then good” arguements just fell apart

[@drugsarebad97]

@MlechnyyKub holy shi* you sound like a bot

[@ajl8975]

Come to terms with the darkest part of your heart. Know exactly what kind of monster you could become. SFO is 100% right, if you have the strength of character to analyse and understand the evil within yourself the motivations of those that commit evil acts become a lot clearer.

[@MoonPhantom]

One observation i did do myself recently. So a friend of mine, started to talk about some issues he has with two trans people who are part of his DnD group. Talking to him it becomes VERY apparent that both of these trans individuals has mental problems that goes FAR beyond merely being trans. I myself have background in psychology and I couldn't help but point out, that what people like those needs the most... is structure. They need a secure, structural day. This would be the most important thing for their mental health at that state. At a place where they will know what to expect and how to handle what is coming. But as they have been involved in the trans community, they have entered the community that is deliberately tearing down structures or any sense of security. It's the very people who needs these things the most, who enters spaces that deliberately works against that. The destruction of structure and expectations is in fact, really really bad for people with mental health problems, that's the OPPOSITE of what they need. And we can clearly see that all of these young people clearly lacked structure and security in their lives, all sense of tradition has been broken down, they have no idea where they are going, or how they are supposed to behave. This is REALLY bad for vulnerable people with mental health problems. So yeah... the best thing you can do for ALL of these people... Is indeed to re-introduce structure and set firm rules of what is to be expected or not expected.

[@chillstoneblakeblast3172]

Rightoid be like : "Muh Chrsitianity has structure" Leftoids be like : "Muh Commie Bible has structure" When you mean structure, I believe it is Having a job that provides income to pay off the bills of the month and then some (Have 25% of leftover income by the end of the moth at least), Being an organized individual (Like Cleaning your room is very helpful Overall) and Don't be afraid to Talk to people every once in a while, But physically, as Virtually is not the same and humans react way more positively when in Physical presence and engaging in conversations.

[@MoonPhantom]

@@chillstoneblakeblast3172 It's knowing exactly how your day is going to play out, what you are supposed to do, and what the rules are at your current place. Knowing what meal you're going to have and when knowing what responses will be the consequences of your actions. And yeah, though these people won't be able to take on a very hard job when being like that. Just having some resemblance of a goal and an idea of what exactly they are supposed to do doing the day while feeling like they helped with something, has proven itself very beneficial. So while they may not believe it, simple labor for a couple of hours a day would benefit many of these people a lot. Things you won't have to think too much about doing, but make you physically active. Such as laying bricks or cleaning windows or flipping burgers in the back would most likely be beneficial for these kinds of people. I will though say out of your two examples, the Christian lifestyle has the most structure as they don't change the rules and you know what to expect and what gets you punished and what gets you rewarded. Social justice changes the rules ALL the time so you NEVER know what to expect nor what the response to comments will be, which is extremely stress-inducing and bad for mental health.

[@chillstoneblakeblast3172]

@@MoonPhantom I am currently working as a server in a restaurant and I have not gotten much income in the recent months (Mostly due to Hour reductions but I still play my bills and such) and I still have my sanity somewhat intact. My Income is never planned and all I know is that if I Provide a good service and sell well, I usually get good tips off the kindness of people.

[@dragoneye6229]

@@MoonPhantom 100% correct. I had a security job with Allied Universal and they treat employees like trash. They surprise double shift you and then mess around with your schedule all the time without telling you and then you get write ups and lose pay when you don't show for a shift you didn't know you had because no one called you. That place gave me a mental breakdown and I'm glad I had a law degree because in the end I sued them into oblivion. They went from being a 5.1 billion dollar company to a 3.6 in a single year as I paved the way for multiple lawsuits across the states. Nothing will grind you down as fast as losing money for hours you already worked because you were sneakily added to a new shift. The constant lack of structure made it impossible to be healthy too which only compounds the problem. One girl was getting distraught because she was putting on the pounds due to having to pick up garbage food from the nearby seven eleven just so she wouldn't starve and pass out.

[@MoonPhantom]

really sucks for your co-worker too, you know what also affects your mental health? A lot... Your diet... I am very serious. Bad food gives you bad moods. Good food gives you good moods. So she was in a bad work environment AND was forced to consume the bad food. That's a bad combination :( I'm glad you managed to get the last word though.

[@Ghalion666]

"Cmon, does THIS really look like a guy who is capable of illegally obtaining firearms" (something like that). No.. But then again he turned out to have the gall to take some guns and shoot innocent people with them. Objectively, I don't know why obtaining something thru shady means is more of a shock than murdering people randomly in public.

[@samuelzuleger5134]

Forgive me for not having the exact source, it was over a decade ago when I did this, and I lost that laptop about seven years ago, but there was a study in the 1990s that strongly suggested that the more you affiliated someone with a specific kind of group, the more they themselves affiliated with the group. This became especially strong when societies and cultures did it. When African Americans are affiliated with gangs, the only group that accepts them are gangs. When societies affiliate Muslims with Islamic extremist terrorist, they are more likely to join them. Look at what some of the people who joined ISIS had to say before they made the decision to head to Syria. Look at interviews with the likes of Wayne Brady and Dave Chappelle. Aside from their parents, the group most strongly opposed to them joining the gangs were gang members themselves. What am I getting at? When I was growing up in the 1990s, white nationalism was considered, by and large, a thing of the past and you were the crazy fringe dude if you thought any of that stupid stuff. It was dead and buried. Then it became the normal way of thinking that "white people were rasist" in college. Then that was how white kids were labelled in high school. Put bluntly, if labelling African Americans as gang members is bad expressly because it could lead them toward gangs and the same goes for Muslims and Islamic terrorism, then why are we doing it with white men and rasism, but expecting different results? Now, add in the fact that we know that broken homes cause increased criminality, bullying, and anti-social behaviors (and are well aware that divorce, irresponsible parenting, and the like are on the rise...a discussion for another time), and that gun-free zones are most likely to be targeted by mass shooters but are increasing in number, why are people in anyway surprised at what is happening? Is it sad? Absolutely. But if you have been reading the book society has been writing for the last fifty years, you saw the final chapter coming for almost 20 years. Society allowing the family unit's collapse, encouraging racial division, slapping labels on people based on immutable characteristics (yes, both sides do it), and so forth, are the problem, NOT guns.

[@MALICEM12]

Although true about the part of "if you associate a group with something they are more likely to do it". Ethnonationalism was going to come back regardless. Whites may have tried their best to be race blind in the 90's, but they were the only ones. When the US collapses and the war for the new nation begins the ugly truths of nature will be undeniable. In regards to man's tribal nature as well as his religious nature and the nature of gender roles. You will not go through that war with race blind liberal views in tact.

[@papal1500]

I can't tell you what it's like in Indiana. But most malls that I've been too, the mall security can barley TOUCH you legally, no more carry a gun. At least that's what I've seen

[@MrSpartanspud]

Even if they did have guns, I wouldn't trust someone on minimum wage to put their life on the line for me.

[@lolbuster01]

Where are these poor, disadvantaged shooters getting hundreds of rounds of very expensive ammunition?

[@mpo48]

they steal them, considering how guns are big in your garbage bin of a country its no wonder these people can get ammunition, there's no conspiracy theory your country is just garbage

[@xbigbooshx4643]

Let it gloooow, let it gloooow!

[@thefanwithoutaface8105]

This whole scenario really proves the old adage "Guns don't kill people, People Kill People." Both of these men had guns yet one chose to use it to kill innocent people while the other chose to use it to protect people. In the end a gun is just a tool, a hunk of metal and wood that can't do anything unless used by another person and it's how the person chooses to use the weapon that determines if it kills innocent people or not.

[@drsamuelhaydensecretgaming6749]

Fac

[@Azraiel213]

I don't find JP finally transitioning from standing his ground against the far left to actively fighting back weird, but otherwise another great analysis, Dev.

[@Leathal]

Idk man, Peterson’s entire affect has changed ever since that weird benzo withdrawal coma thing. Ignoring the testiness, he comes across “slow as in mental difficulties” rather than his earlier “slow as in thoughtful”

[@Azraiel213]

My read on that was more that he has been through an incredibly draining and, dare I use the "T" word, traumatic experience, only to return to public life and find that everything has gotten substantially worse in his absence. Has he fully recovered yet? Probably not. Does something like that change you? Absolutely, especially someone as sensitive and agreeable as Dr. Peterson. But has it lessened his mind? Doesn't appear to have, at least based on my observations.

[@crustybomb115]

@@Leathal hes still recovering from that from what i understand... so i pay no real attention to the differances and focus on whats being said. the message being conveyed is far more important than the wording.

[@tumamaencosplay]

So much agree with you, here is where the "enlightened centrism" meme gets stupid, Dev is so obviously trying to keep appealing to his T friend(s) and audience. In some things the left is 100% right and in others the right is 100% correct. In the T argument, Transitioning as medical procedure (contrary to just a lifestyle choice) is completely wrong, as suicidical ideation rates simply dont lower post transition, and attempts at making it mainstream only makes the quantity of potential victims that much higher. In literally no other mental illness we ever enable and reaffirm the mental illness, much less with surgery. Transition should only ever be available to mentally stable individuals, not to people with a dysphoria coaxing them into accepting ANY solution. So yes, as things have gotten massively worse in terms of teacher, media and social media grooming, Jordan Peterson took the very difficult decision to spearhead the battle against this dragon. People need to understand that you simply can't negotiate and compromide with extremists.

[@theninjaofmusic]

It's more his style of pushback that has changed a little bit. That Twitter ban video had the vibe of early FMV pc games for whatever reason and it uncharacteristically lacked some self awareness.

[@Cole-xq2tl]

"Responsible" is a very gray term Dev. There's nothing government loves more than a gray term they can use to take more of your freedom away. I agree with your sentiment, but who gets to decide what "responsibility" is?

[@ChampionMarauder]

Voted for 'X' candidate? Chooses a lifestyle that puts them outside the system? Has a speeding ticket? IRRESPONSIBLE.

[@SkylineFTW97]

There is no valud argument for banning guns in the US. The 2nd amendment is quite clear. The right to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. Keeping that in mind, Dev is correct about wanting a responsibly armed populus. This is something the right overwhelmingly agreed with you on. So much so that back when the right held more cultural sway (and in areas where they still do), firearm safety and proper procedure was/is taught largely from a very young age, and even in schools in many areas. People who grow up knowing proper gun safety and how to use it are people like Dicken. So with those things in mind, shouldn't the idea to be to bring back more widespread courses on proper firearm use and safety like was so common in decades past? Anything less seems to only make this problem much worse. This sort of thing was far rarer back then (it also has to do with the breakup of the family causing more deranged and mentally ill people, which fuels both mass shootings in this context and the gang shootings which make up the majority of gun violence in the US. Seriously, look at crime statistics before and after the welfare state, particularly in black majority areas). We already know how to curb this problem. It's just that our leaders have no incentive to actually do what's necessary to fix it.

[@pepperonipizza8200]

I appreciate the sentiment, but it’s on the same line as, “We should teach rapists that rape is bad.” They know they shouldn’t point guns at other people but they still do. This purely is a mental health issue.

[@SkylineFTW97]

@@pepperonipizza8200 There's a big difference there actually. One is trying to tell rapists that rape is bad. The other is saying that bad people will have guns, so you'd better know how to use a gun yourself unless you want to be a victim of the bad guys with guns. That and hopefully lowering the accidental and negligent discharge rates

[@pepperonipizza8200]

@@SkylineFTW97 Oh, that's what you meant. I read you wrong then.

[@_Carlos]

"Over 100 rounds of ammo" So he never planned on leaving that food court

[@TheHornedOne81]

Having worked as a mall security officer, for about four years, I can tell you that the overwhelming majority of malls do Not arm their security. They do not want to do so as it would potentially open them up to liability, and they are incredibly averse to any kind of liability. The main thing we did was respond to slip/fall and other possible personal injury incidents and document as much as possible to try to minimize the property management's liability. We did respond to fights and other issues, but mostly it was the other.

[@Yipper64]

10:55 Peterson is still the same person he was then that he is now. His recent "weird turn" is just his reaction to how the left has treated him so far. He doesnt seem to have any real grounding so he doesnt seem to phrase these new things in a way that doest come off as... extremely cringe, for lack of a better term. Its interesting because I dont know if he will figure that out. He's a very smart man but he has a lot of solid philosophies he's definitely never going back on, and that might be effecting his ability to communicate negatively. Idk, something like that.

[@dfmrcv862]

Honestly, being told "work hard if you want good things" was probably some of the best advice I could've gotten. Yeah, yeah, sometimes the work isn't worth it, but I think it's better to have an attitude that encourages hard work and devotion rather than the opposite.

[@coblow1681]

I think the biggest problem here is that people lack two things: meaning and interaction. If only there were an institution designed to facilitate both 😕

[@mattBLACKpunk]

You talking about religion?

[@coblow1681]

@@mattBLACKpunk mostly, but unfortunately I don't know if it is the solution in the future

[@tgheretford]

I suspect the only institution people will want such failures in life to be in is either a prison or an asylum. And with a quarter of American men still virgins by the age of 30, we're talking millions.

[@coblow1681]

@@tgheretford I think the sex norms we have had are a symptom of the problem of minimal real communities

[@theeccentrictripper3863]

@@tgheretford Christianity thrives on misery and loneliness; we'd be balls deep in a Great Awakening with these goofballs engaging in some other manner of antisocial behavior, violent or otherwise, if not for the religion being so thoroughly defanged in the last decades and religion in general so ridiculed. As for my part I'm not sure which is better, we first have to figure out genuine causes. If it's the lack of connection causing it then yeah a little human contact will do wonders, but if there's something deeper and more nefarious polluting the psyche at large then forming large social groups with immutable dogma and intense in-group preference will only exacerbate the issues we have at hand. It may actually be healthier for society at large for these folks to be off on their own as an atomized individual.

[@danney777]

As someone who has done all levels of security, at least in Texas, mall security is a mixed bag. Some malls have armed security and some don't. Here is the thing every state regulates security and licensing for it differently.

[@erikedlund8711]

Don't name the shooter, don't show pictures of the shooter. They're doing it for attention, to get their 15 minutes of infamy, don't play into their hands. (It's of course perfectly fine to name Elisjsha Dicken and show pictures of him, he handled the situation admirably.)

[@juanmejiagomez5514]

Avoiding saying their name won’t change anything, because it’s our nature to pay attention to tragedy, the ones who were victimised and the ones who perpetrated it. Instead I think we should be helping these kids. I don’t believe they’re just random psychopaths, I think most of them are people that, because of a tough childhood and being always treated like shit for one reason or another, they got so black pilled that they decided not only it would be a good thing to end their own life, but to bring to the grave with them as many people as possible, as an act of revenge on life itself, as a “fuck you” to all the people that live happy lives and are ignorant of their pain. They are monsters, but let’s not pretend that the same monster doesn’t live inside each of us. Elisjsha did a great job by killing the guy, but I can’t help imagining a different universe, in which no one in that mall had to die because the shooter got the help that he needed to turn his life around

[@johnsmith247]

No, name the shooter but clown on him.

[@simonnachreiner8380]

@Juan Mejia gomez The fact the fuckhead has a tragic backstory changes little, and yes he was a fuckhead. The moment you take your first innocent life you cross the threshold from mentally ill individual to fuckhead. Spreading the name of these nihilists is exactly what they want. They want to go out killing a bunch of people before committing suicide by cop so they can get their name plastered on the five-o-clock news. Instead of giving the fuckheads what they want we should instead focus on the victims and their families and in the cases like this the absolute CHADs who put the rabid dog down before it can hurt more people. You can say we need to focus more on the people on the social fringes and I agree with you, but don’t propagate the legend of a piece of shit in the process.

[@potatortheomnipotentspud]

@@juanmejiagomez5514 But if the glowies made shootings a mental health issue instead, they wouldn't have an excuse to steal your guns and push red flag laws. Think of the poor glowies, man!

[@NoFlu]

Showing his pictures while making fun of him is probably a good way though. I'm going with Metokur's tactic on mocking these shooters: Yea, some do it for their 15 mins of fame, but who wants to be famous and called a twink in an ill-fitting vest, that even failed in his final moments?

[@SouthernGothicYT]

6:12 it also seems like hard work doesn't get you where it used to anymore. Work and work and give all you can but you still miss the mark.

[@Coconut-219]

"Guys help my disposable income only covers 3% of the cost of my monthly bills & housing payments" - "HAHA BOOTSTRAP GO BRRRRRR!"

[@soylentgreenb]

It’s 90% sure that it was someone who recently started or recently stopped taking SSRIs. It has a well known effect of turning teenagers into uncontrollable rage monsters and this is involved in nearly every school shooting.

[@emmanuel_40]

I almost never see anyone else talk about how 90%+ of these cases, since and except columbine, had a single mother and history of head meds. Even when I see such a comment it gets ignored.

[@orppranator5230]

@@emmanuel_40 News flash: 90% of all criminals come from single mothers. Not just shooters.

[@emmanuel_40]

@@orppranator5230 Yep, also youtube hid your comment when I checked on a separate browser.

[@totallynoteverything1.]

​@@emmanuel_40 he's 90% sure he meant :/

[@totallynoteverything1.]

so much for "help"

[@roughneckmp]

That’s some damn good shootin’ by that young man. Well done Mr. Dicken, well done.

[@commisaryarreck3974]

My man had his post found in mere MINUTES after the shooting. Was a failure in life and somehow could afford this setup Buddy, this shit glows so hard it's straight up blinding

[@kavky]

and the rifles were accessorized the same as the previous shooter, forward grip and optics way up front, as would be comfortable for a physically large guy not a skinny zoomer, probably mounted by the same quartermaster too

[@scurvydog20]

Dev saying jordan Peterson took a weird turn is funny. Is it that jp took a weird turn or you just can handle the idea that maybe centrism isn't always the right answer. It's the difference between a kid that gets fit to fight off the bully vs the one that just goes fighting is against the rules as he loses his lunch money.

[@battokizu]

Its weird in that he's almost become the man who yells at cloud, but its not like he isn't welcome to enthusiastically espouse extremists essence, as he deserves the right for his years of lamblast against his moral being.

[@tumamaencosplay]

So much agree with you, here is where the "enlightened centrism" meme gets stupid, Dev is so obviously trying to keep appealing to his T friend(s) and audience. In some things the left is 100% right and in others the right is 100% correct. In the T argument, Transitioning as medical procedure (contrary to just a lifestyle choice) is completely wrong, as suicidical ideation rates simply dont lower post transition, and attempts at making it mainstream only makes the quantity of potential victims that much higher. In literally no other mental illness we ever enable and reaffirm the mental illness, much less with surgery. Transition should only ever be available to mentally stable individuals, not to people with a dysphoria coaxing them into accepting ANY solution. So yes, as things have gotten massively worse in terms of teacher, media and social media grooming, Jordan Peterson took the very difficult decision to spearhead the battle against this dragon. People need to understand that you simply can't negotiate and compromide with extremists.

[@007kingifrit]

150k to 4 million existences of "defensive gun use" occur each year in the U.S, when we focus on rare cases like this we think a good guy with a gun is rare, but it's actually even more common than most crimes.

[@TylerDarker]

If the shooter was broke and getting evicted, WHERE THE FUCK DID HE GET THE SAME GUNS AS THE UVALDE SCHOOL SHOOTER!?!?!?!?

[@deadbeef576]

Strange huh Reminds me of the pallets of bricks that were conveniently placed all around the liberal cities in the summer of love in 2020. Mostly peaceful riots.

[@TylerDarker]

@@deadbeef576 The pallets of bricks make more sense atleast. A broke loser suddenly getting $5k worth of guns to commit a mass shooting is far more concerning

[@xbigbooshx4643]

@@deadbeef576 Mostly peaceful conveniently placed pallets of glow in the dark bricks.

[@sexmansex4776]

probably communist activists. god knows their bugman mentality knows no bounds of depravity.

[@3eve0n]

I've worked in a warehouse before. Lowest paying job I've ever had. There's no way someone with that kind of income could afford all those guns and ammo. Someone had to have given them to him.

[@als3022]

That is the issue rising up with all these recent shooters. Completely broke with eviction about to be used and yet they have 3 grand to purchase these weapons, ammo and everything. Else. I am doing better than ever and couldn't pull that together

[@BruhMoment-fr4zr]

Can you purchase firearms with a credit card or a loan in the United States? Even if you're totally broke having 5k of extra debt doesn't mean much when you're about to die.

[@ChrisWilliams-lf8ex]

@@BruhMoment-fr4zr Most gun stores wouldn't accept that form of payment unless you were essentially a known and regular customer. Some kid they don't know trying to put gucci ARs and a pistol on credit wouldn't pass the smell test to them.

[@JohnBrowningsGhost]

“Neo-Nazi kills hwuite peepo”- The Media

[@goku4117]

no contradiction here, majority of people killed by nazis were white

[@SouthernGothicYT]

BASED ZOOMERS RISE UP

[@stalwartteakettlepotato9879]

Simply picking the correct place to do the deed would turn these guys from monsters to heros. The trouble is every place worth shooting has a high chance of getting you shot before you manage to do anything. In Minecraft

[@MALICEM12]

This, it's easy to shoot up a school or mall. A government building or billionaire's house...not so much.

[@iphoneawesome123]

He wasn't illegally armed. Constitutional carry had just gone into effect, and he already had a conceal permit regardless. Those "gun free zone" signs carry no legal weight with the exception of federal facilities. You can be asked to leave since it is private property but it isn't trespassing until you refuse to leave.

[@crustybomb115]

dont forget that the mall itself actually supported him despite the BS gun garbage... so that part of the anti-gunner argument also falls flat

[@jimmybeans1175]

They don’t want you defending against them when they attack you. Pretty simple.

[@serak3403]

I will never understand how every one of these shootings begins with "he walked 10 miles carrying two handguns, an automatic rifle, and 100 rounds of ammo. He stopped to take a piss in a public restroom before opening fire". If I see a guy walking through a field like he's going to WW3 I'm calling the freaking cops, or maybe Elisjsah. Why ya'll shrugging and letting him go on his way?

[@lesthodson2802]

Because he didn't walk there. He was driven there.

[@orppranator5230]

Because that’s misleading framing. He was hiding his arms as best he could, and even then, a person open carrying in a state that actually upholds the second amendment is not uncommon.

[@jimbob4447]

FBI big mad the gunman they groomed got 360 no-scoped by a Chad 'Alabama Ranger with a big iron' before he could rack up a high score.

[@mawnkey]

Friends of mine that I routinely go shooting with have been running drills now trying to replicate Eli's performance and it ain't easy. It is, however, made all the more fun by calling it the Eli "Big" Dicken Drill.

[@skatingfreak1670]

Wow. "His last moments were probably him realizing that he had once again failed at yet another thing in his life" Wow

[@psychoticschmitz7867]

I don't think someone does something like that intending to succeed.

[@JJShurte]

What're your thoughts on JP's more direct messaging recently?

[@chaselofundist8727]

Mall security is mostly non lethaly armed some high end American malls actually have cops with firearms but mostly they just have batons and maybe a taser

[@jackalenterprisesofohio]

So does that mean Briton is nothing but a really bug mall?

[@JustStop19]

The big iron on his hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip!

[@donz6211]

Love the thumb nail Dev! Great stuff as always!

[@NeflewitzInc]

Holy shit! You covered this. I grew up in that area and worked around that mall. I was extremely worried about my mom and brothers when I heard it happened.

[@vgfan4ever]

Condemn me for what I'm saying, but understand that in no way do I advocate for this. There's nothing you can do to stop these, because the way to stop them is to treat people better in general and we're not going to even attempt that as a culture. Whether or not it's wrong for people to lash out like this (it is, severely), none of the reasons that we have for condemning these actions matter to the people committing them, and nothing you can do can make them matter to these people. They're not considering what we see as reasonable and they're specifically not doing it because that's the treatment they perceived themselves to have received. The only way to stop any shooter that isn't motivated by extreme mental illness to the point of cognizant disconnection from reality is to, for once, relate to them and make them feel like someone actually gives a shit about them. If we can't be bothered to give a shit about each other I don't really see any good reason why they wouldn't.

[@AspiringDevil]

Unfortunately true.

[@RyuuRider]

Agreed, strongly at that! Dev said it well when he said the shooter became a monster when he did the act, but before that he was a tragic case. The kid didn't deserve that life, and he chose to take monstrously evil action in retaliation against it. He deserved his fate at the end, but the failure of the shooter's life wasn't solely his own - community, family, and every social structure in place let him slip through the cracks.

[@louiscypher4186]

Not only are we not going to do anything about it, we're going to make it objectively worse. Just look at the insanity going on. criminals treated as if they are the victims, actual victims placed under a microscope, the unaffordable housing, deliberately driving up the COL to "transition" to a new economy, company's like amazon wanting to lock workers in cages, Politicians and institutions proudly announcing they will discriminate against people based on sex, race and sexuality due to "history", women being lumped with dehumanising language like "lactating persons". The direction of the culture is less and less community based and more and more rules and system based, this is not humans have evolved to live, it's cold, detached and isolating.

[@unclaimedusername6608]

Man has Dicken in his name and honestly he should be named Richard Dicken for his fucking balls of steel. Fifteen seconds. Fifteen god-damn seconds and a tragedy was averted because of one(1) responsible gun owner.

[@MmntechCa]

I've been binging on Thomas Sowell lately. He has one bit where he talks about the business of crime. Giving home robberies as an example, he noted that criminals in the UK and Canada are statistically much more likely to break into the premises when the owners are home than they are in the US. He asserts that most criminals actually do think logically, and realize the inherently higher risks involved with invading a home where the occupants are more likely to be armed. One of the benefits of selective service was that every able bodied man was taught how to responsibly use a firearm. Not that I support a draft, but you can't deny the benefits of having a large number of armed and trained civilians. See the Swiss as an example. I guess the only reason the government would oppose this is if they also happen to be the criminals and/or invading force. It's frankly absurd that our society hasn't enshrined self-defense as a fundamental human right. Crazier still that there are so many people who think you should not have this right.

[@starman4840]

i lost at the "Jim's Dox" bookmark folder. keep it up lad

[@WhenDidYouTubeAddThisFeature]

This seems like a good video to ask something that I've wondered about for years now. Can suicide be a good thing? Murder is sometimes justified if only committed in defense of another or in defense of the self. Therefore suicide as well must also be justifiable, sometimes. That's only fair. Once on Twitter, I caught a glimpse of the conversation around suicide change. Someone had posed something dark and was surrounded by "it gets better" messages, except for some. It was that old "imagine that you haven't read your favorite book yet" style of message. The responding sentiment was: "imagine telling someone who wants to die to just consoom more product" So if another person from another broken home who lived a broken life instead simply turned one of the guns on himself and ended his own life, would that also have been heroic, knowing the damage he could've done to others if he hadn't? Because despite all the hotlines and friends in the world, nothing can stop a person from just jumping/hanging/shooting themselves *anyway* making suicide ultimately unpreventable. What would the criteria for a justified suicide be? How would you recognize it? Is this even possible?

[@my9thaccount140]

It’s pretty funny that an entire police department was outshined by some chubby fella with a Glock.

[@hiddendesire3076]

5:45 I thought it was some weird corset with how poorly fitting it was.

[@NekoCodi]

"Probably it's the states" Bro that's a really ignorant take coming from you. 90% of public places are run by corporations and almost every single corporation bans guns on their premises. Almost NO places have armed security unless it's somewhere like a concert venue or a high profile location making an excessive amount of money.

[@jeanhunter3538]

I remember seeing something that said the shooting was caught on camera by mall security cameras. So post-investigation hopefully we get that.

[@AoiShark]

I don’t know why Dev seems to always feel like he has to give something to both sides there is no salient argument for restricting the access to firearms because it’s not about defending yourself against random gunman, it was always about having the ability to fight back against the tyrannical government. And tyrannical governments are an inevitability.

[@jamesstaggs4160]

I dunno. All of these shootings I've heard about since way back when Columbine happened makes me think there's got to be something else going on more than "Person with terrible life that thinks he's hopeless decides to go on a shooting spree because they want to die and be famous." There's got to be some aspect to them that isn't readily apparent. They have to know by now that whatever fame they get nowadays is very fleeting. If there was some sort of religious or political motivation behind these shootings I could see that being a big factor, but most don't have that. I honestly can't think of what it may be and I'd prefer not to entertain any Alex Jones type of ideas but it really feels like somethings missing from the reason why so many people are choosing to do it.

[@ChrisWilliams-lf8ex]

The Columbine shooters actually don't fit the mold, as it were, for the mass shootings that we see nowadays. One was a psychotic bully and the other was his sycophantic simp who went along with both his bullying and murderous plan. They weren't feeling hopeless, they were both just so mentally broken that hurting and killing innocents brought them sincere joy.

[@3-2bravo49]

Hate to break it to people, but the lack of access to firearms wouldn't stop any of this. They would just use other tools, because that is all a weapon system like a firearm is, it's a tool. They would either use a car, knives, or even improvised explosive devices etc. Doesn't take anything close to a genius to make devices that do horrible things. Used to see them daily and they could set them off with a dead battery even. Ask the uk. They can't even buy knives with tips on them anymore but there are more stabbings than ever. The point is the people in charge don't want to talk about the actual problems that cause these things because they are uncomfortable and take alot of work. They are in it for the easy money not to actually work hard.

[@Coconut-219]

Case and point: Every other state/country in the world. - Not to mention the fact that gun crimes still happen *ANYWAYS* because criminals don't follow laws, duh.

[@aphixios]

What do you think is the main cause of these shootings? And how best to prevent them?

[@CptManboobs]

I blame the CIA

[@KingOfInsanity777]

Feds and a shitty toxic society

[@nostradamusofgames5508]

well the media are definetly part of the blame.

[@marcinswiecicki6713]

Acually parenting a kid... Also we need bullying back.

[@TheSoldierChristian]

Fed and broken homes

[@blackcat7k]

Where the hell did Sapirman get the money to get those weapons? Those models are expensive as hell. He supposed to be in a dire situation, but somehow acquires top line weapons to shoot up a mall?

[@williamrelue]

Bro…. Just discovered your channel. What a breath of fresh air.

[@alephthetheropod6210]

I agree with your assessment that white supremacy seems to be not the ideological root, but an edgy fashion statement of these guys. Maybe it's the second to last tough guy act. Also, Peterson just seems to have given into cringe, he's an old man, it happens.

[@AtrusOranis]

If guns "vanished into the ether", then the shooter would not have used a gun. Instead, he may have used a knife. Or a car. Or a fire. Or an IED. Or a chemical weapon. Some of these might have been less deadly, but a number of them would probably been more.

[@bluesuzaku3229]

Advocating a premediated attack on one's enemies is not noble (referring to Jordan Peterson).

[@MattIsBored322]

Hey Dev quick comment on security guards in the states, most if not all security guards in america are class d unarmed security, including almost all mall cops, armed security (class g) are only typically hired by jewelry stores, banks, armored car companies, and as personal bodyguards.

[@LLShiningOtter]

Great observations , good look at touchy subject