As you know if you follow the news at all, mass shootings are a real problem in the United States and absolutely nowhere else in the Western world. Satirical newspaper The Onion has been running the same headline for four years “‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens”.
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens https://t.co/AiYGBQLaGW pic.twitter.com/Zr0X8qcDqJ
— The Onion (@TheOnion) February 14, 2018
Citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Monday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place. https://t.co/lIJwdbMMqD pic.twitter.com/tHOm878OGh
— The Onion (@TheOnion) October 2, 2017
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens http://t.co/tZ2fRl6vre pic.twitter.com/KSHWjsrs8L
— The Onion (@TheOnion) October 1, 2015
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens http://t.co/5O0H2cszAl pic.twitter.com/7fBzYnJTkq
— The Onion (@TheOnion) May 27, 2014
By the way, the guy who wrote that headline in 2014, Jason Roeder, lives about a mile from Stoneman Douglas High School, site of the most recent mass-casualty school shooting.
This has been going on for almost 20 years, since Columbine. I was a senior in high school when Columbine happened, about a month and a half from graduation, and let me tell you, it was a tense month and a half. Everyone was on edge because we were afraid something like what happened there might happen to us. Of course, nothing did, and we went on with our adult lives.
But there are kids who weren’t even born yet when Columbine happened who have lived every day the way we lived that final month and a half of senior year, because we, as a nation, have done nothing to address the problem. But thankfully, that’s all about to change because Jake Paul is here to solve the problem!
God, look at his face on that thumbnail. He looks likes he ran into a word he doesn’t know in the book he’s reading.
We need everyone’s help & awareness!!
New video is up https://t.co/xep76fOoeX pic.twitter.com/UNf1XBIaC2
— Jake Paul (@jakepaul) March 12, 2018
The word is douchebag, Jake, and it’s what everyone calls you when you aren’t around. Also, the guy no one wants as a neighbor put on an off-the-rack sports coat he apparently borrowed from his dad and called up Marco Rubio to talk about guns, asking such insightful questions as “Golly, legislating sure is hard work isn’t it?” It was smart to have Rubio on, Jake Paul seems thoughtful and authentic in comparison.
To be fair to Jake Paul, his ideas about gun control aren’t terrible in the end. I agree with him, even if these suggestions don’t go nearly far enough.
Gun Reform changes we need in my opinion.
1. be at least 21 to buy a gun
2. Go through a 6 month minimum course (similar to a drivers license course)
3. Professional Mental Heath evaluation
4. Ban Gun shows now!
5. 30 day wait period after purchase to receive firearm pic.twitter.com/pe7YXgLcR5— Jake Paul (@jakepaul) March 12, 2018
Of course, Twitter was quick to point out that Jake Paul still is terrible.
after getting humiliated by teens on national tv, marco rubio is attempting to regain his dignity by speaking to jake paul on such topics as “a lot of people think passing laws is super easy, can you explain, like, some of the struggles around…. uhhm passing laws" pic.twitter.com/WjG6MjKPDe
— Ashley Feinberg (ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social) (@ashleyfeinberg) March 12, 2018
I mean, at least Jake Paul is doing something. Our two political parties’ positions basically boil down to “As long as the NRA keeps giving me money, I’m fine with kids being shot. What we really need are MORE guns, like in Westerns. No one ever got shot in the old West when everyone had a gun!” and “Oh, jeez, I dunno, if we make it slightly less convenient for kids to shoot up schools, eight people in Michigan might not vote for us and we really don’t want that to happen or the the other guys might win, we just need to stay the course and hope no one notices us. You like us now, don’t you, Michigan people?”