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An Open Letter From America's CEOs: This is Supposed to Happen to Schoolchildren, Not Us (hard-drive.net)
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[–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, sometimes the best satire is just saying the quiet part out loud to highlight how warped the discourse is surrounding an issue. Like, they’re riffing off of The Onion’s sadly perennial headline whenever there’s a mass shooting:

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens