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Bungo
3:18 Mon Aug 28
Re: These mass shooters in America...
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eusebiovic 10:18 Sun Aug 27
I can another potential benefit to this. If 'real' ammo was vastly expensive, then it is highly likely that cheaper 'moonshine' ammo would soon appear in the US.
I would imagine that there would be a greatly increased chance of that going wrong and just exploding in the baddie's hand.
That would be such a shame...
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
2:21 Mon Aug 28
Re: These mass shooters in America...
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It's a combination of 24/7 news coverage, improved satellite communications and t'internet, innit?
Thirty years ago all these not particularly devastating storms, routine summer fires and shootings outside of particularly glamorous ones in the USA would have gone unreported, or at least barely reported. But now pictures from all over the world are instantly available and 24/7 is a lot of telly to fill.
In 1985 I reckon only 'it's a bit hot in Greece again' and the Maui firestorm would have been widely reported. And only shootings involving white children in a rich country (unless there were literally hundreds of victims) or somebody famous like Marvin Gaye or Sharon Tate. In 1965 they wouldn't have even bothered with Marvin Gaye. Nobody in the UK media cared about Sam Cooke.
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