According to the latest news from Fox, the real culprits appear to be ISIS and video games. At least it’s a refreshing change from blaming the media. Heaven forfend that anyone should ever think to blame the fact that every demented lunatic in America has at least seventeen guns. That couldn’t possibly have anything to do with it.
Stay strong. Thoughts & prayers. Land of the free. Liberty! Freedom!
Not much happiness tho.
Texas is an open carry state, and the Walmart is an open carry *store *that sells guns and ammo, but somehow there was no Good Guy With A Gun? How so? Obviously the gun was there, so there must have been a Good Guy missing.
Don’t you read your NRA newsletters, boy? The reason that mass shootings happen is because there aren’t enough guns around, or if there are, there aren’t enough gunslingers slinging them. If everybody was constantly armed to the teeth, nobody would get shot, ever. I’m pretty sure that’s how they do it in all other countries.
If the Good Guy With a Gun had any sense, he’d be either hiding or running his ass off like everyone else.
A not-original, but sobering thought: after Sandy Hook, we know that absolutely nothing will be done. We’d rather that little kids get murdered than change our gun laws.
If we really wanted to do something – if I was god-emperor of the United States – step 1 is repealing the 2nd Amendment.
I thought ISIS was defeated and no more.
By the way, guess who said this:
Justice Antonin Scalia in Heller
Repeal and replace. Replace with common sense that allows people the right to protect themselves and hunt but doesn’t mean everybody can arm themselves however they want without oversight.
Agreed. I think about that post every time there is, yet another, mass shooting. With attitudes like that, I don’t think the problem can ever be fixed.
In the thread in MPSIMS someone mentioned a voluntary gun buy-back. Maybe that’s a start? I am not American but I personally know people who have guns that they don’t want and don’t know how to legally get rid of them. A buy-back would bring in a lot of guns.
Remember when we had a president that inspired us to go to the moon? Now we have one that inspires mass murder.
We have gun control now and it doesn’t work worth a damn.
What we need is insane people control.
Since gun control doesn’t work, you should find out how “insane people control” is done in every civilized country in the world, every one of which except the USA has minimal gun violence and virtually no mass shootings. They must totally have figured out how to eliminate crazy people from their midst, and surely if they have instant insanity cures, it would be good to know how it’s done, instead of wasting time on this “gun control” silliness! :rolleyes:
I have this hunch that some people don’t want to admit that the kinds of things the gun-control advocates want would actually do something to address the issue. That is, they don’t want to be schooled by the loony, leftist, liberal weenies about common sense actions. They’re like children who go and play in the rock quarry, not because they really like rocks, but because Mom and Dad told them not to.
I think we’ve now seen what the right-wing plan is:
- Thoughts and prayers
- Ignore the fact that right-wing white nationalist killers are murdering people at will
- When it’s brought up, have the right wing media spin a number of egregious lies, blaming others
- If other media bring up the right-wing white nationalist murders, FAKE NEWS! FAKE NEWS! and have the president announce more tariffs on China to distract people.
I’m starting to think that Trump and his advisors and media see the path to electoral victory in 2020 in a full blown violent race war. They seem to be stoking one very nicely.
I’m a gun owner. I own a single pistol that I keep locked up in a safe, so that my kids won’t get their hands on it, and hopefully if my house is robbed a thief would find it too much of a hassle to steal (it’s bolted to a heavy piece of furniture).
I went through firearms training and I know how to be safe. My gun is registered and I applied for and received a concealed pistol license (which expired, I never renewed it). I went through a background check which confirms no history of mental illness or violent crime.
I don’t carry my pistol around though I could. I have it because in the event that there is an intruder in my home, I have an effective way to defend myself and my family until the cops show up. (Calling 911 is the first thing I’d do.) I have no desire to be a “good guy with a gun” because in the event of an active shooter, I don’t want the authorities to show up knowing there are one or more people shooting folks and see me with a gun. Sounds like a good way to get myself killed.
I don’t want to give up my right to defend my home and my family but I don’t have any problem with limiting the number or type of weapon I have, requiring background checks and training, and not letting me carry it anywhere I want.
I don’t know where that puts me on the political spectrum.
So we have two problems, one of which is solvable, but we don’t want to (gun control); and one of which baffles the hell out of me and I have no idea what the solution is (why do we have so many lunatics).
A radical lefty socialist gun-grabber.
As an outsider, I can’t help thinking that something is fundamentally broken in the U.S. I don’t know what it is, but I’m not sure gun control will work.
There have been similar killings in many countries, but the frequency and total randomness in the U.S. is unique, among developed countries. It reminds me more of a suicide bomber in Mogadishu walking into a market and blowing up himself and a bunch of other people.
While, on a personal level, I think that U.S. gun laws are insane, restricting gun ownership will not fix that which is broken. As we’ve seen in numerous countries, absent guns, the perp will drive a truck, make a bomb, release sarin or whatever else facilitates the mass murder.
Yeah, pretty much. Anyone who doesn’t think that every single person has the right to buy weapons that can kill 1000 people in under five minutes is obviously a communist, in the eyes of the NRA and their gun manufacturer masters and the millions who are hoodwinked by their propaganda.
So the lieutenant governor of Texas thinks prayer in school would solve the problem. Fucking asshole. Every time some asshole advocates bringing back prayer in schools I want to ask- Whose prayers exactly? Dumb fucks.
Sane.