I don’t know about that. A little planning is all it would take… do a little research and find a time when their will be a large group present on a sidewalk, take mother’s keys, or get a truck and speed up and smash into the large group at 40 mph has more potential for mass killing.
A parade is different than a kid going into a school. Just don't see a kid looking up when the next parade in the area is going to be to plan his attack on the American Legion or Optimist Club. At best, a kid would need to be sitting in the school lot waiting for who the target would be and with a running start it would be much harder to get whoever it is vs walking up to someone in a classroom and pulling a gun.
wgntv.com
Not too surprising when the country is predominantly white.
Thank God I didn't have social media growing up.PICTURED: 'Bullied' Michigan high school shooter Ethan Crumbley
Ethan Crumbley, 15, is the teenager in custody for the shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan on Tuesday. He killed four classmates and wounded seven others and is now in police custody.www.dailymail.co.uk
So it's really about the gun rather than the intent to kill people using whatever method is available?
yes. you can walk into a school, mall, etc, with a gun and shoot several people. You cannot fit a car through doors. This isn't complicated.
If that's how you view it, but I don't think you can argue that a gun is easier to conceal and use on a group of people vs a car. Now, can a car or truck do damage... of course especially at a parade or in large crowds before or after a concert or sporting event. But a kid with a vendetta is going to find a mission of revenge much easier with a gun than a knife, car or whatever else.
Never go full TJ.
Dead beat dad behind on his child support too. Mom has a nice Facebook rant blaming immigrants and being mad about the government having the ability to put people in jail for not paying taxes.
detroit.chalkbeat.org
Each day on average, 26 Black Americans are killed by guns and 104 experience non-fatal injuries. So they're not shooting up schools, they're either shooting each other in their neighborhoods OR being shot by police. As we've washed, rinsed, repeated on here a million times this country needs to look very hard at:
Please explain the gunshow loophole to me.
You really need that explained? It's not a hard concept to understand, but here ya go. It's essentially the sale of firearms by private sellers, including those done at gun shows, that do not require a federal background check of the buyer. I posted before, I flew to Florida to get my dad's guns because he's bi-polar w/ schizophrenic tendencies and should NOT own guns. There's no record of that transfer. I also recently acquired all of my FIL's guns because he has dementia. No record of that either. The same thing happens at gun shows...buy whatever the frack you want.
Wow, you really simplified that one, didn't ya?
Sadly, none of the current gun control measures on the table would have stopped this one. This one appears to be on the parent (from an acquisition viewpoint). This is why I'm such an advocate for a wholistic approach to the problem, mental health, anti-bullying, violence prevention, etc. If this kid was bullied, why was it happening? If that was stopped, access to a gun wouldn't have mattered.100% agree
Kids parents seem checked out. Severe depression and access to fire arms. What could go wrong.
Here's the kid who killed four people. Heartbreaking how something in his life drove him to do the unthinkable.
Police: Video shows Ethan Crumbley, suspect in Oxford High shooting, talking about killing
Ethan Crumbley, a sophomore at Oxford High, has been arraigned on a number of charges including terrorism, first-degree murder, and intent to murder
After 2020 I think most people see the value of these "unskilled" workers. No one is saying they should earn as much as a doctor, lawyer, ceo, etc., but working 40 hrs a week at any job should provide enough income for food, clothing, and shelter. As the saying goes "the world needs ditch diggers too."
