• Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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    11 months ago

    No one is blaming US here. It was obviously the murderer’s fault. I don’t know how’d you come to the conclusion I’m blaming US. I was just mentioning the fact that it’s pretty common in the US while it’s not at all common here (or in Europe in general). And I always said that I’m quite relieved that these things are not happening here and that no one’s getting inspired by the US shootings. I think this sentiment is quite common among Europeans.

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      11 months ago

      Calling it “the American Lifestyle” certainly seems like you’re attributing it to them.

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        11 months ago

        Because it’s quite common there? I’m not really sure what’s the confusion here. Is it common enough in the US that it’s infamous for it? Yes. Does that somehow make a shooting in a different country their fault? No.

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          11 months ago

          Not attributing the particular mass shooting, but attributing mass shootings as a phenomenon, yes.

          Don’t try to play dumb about your choice to call it a “lifestyle”. No one calls stabbing attacks “the British Lifestyle”, or anti-Muslim legislation “the French Lifestyle”, despite those things being common to those places, and them being infamous for them.

          Lifestyle implies an affinity for something.