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Unbelievable ….this country has a massive problem. I’m sick of “thoughts and prayers”
UPDATED: Active shooter in Texas school. Multiple people shot.
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You know I do…
I was trying to have a conversation, but no where did I say “give up”, did I?
Why'd she have her camera going before the shooting? B!tch knew something was going down.
I am willing to bet in a school that size, that there is never a moment during school hours in which at least one student is not recording something on their phone.
I’m mildly surprised the Texas high school didn’t have the alphabet up on the walls.
I am 100% certain that if my youngest was in that situation I would have gotten that same text. And putting myself in that mother's shoes I think I would vomit. What a horrible, terrifying, and helpless feeling. I just don't understand why our "leaders" just throw their hands up in defeat without trying anything.
If we aren't serious about restricting access to firearms nothing will change. About 30% of Americans are happy with that. The rest of us aren't. But it seems like our voices don't count in the current system of minority rule.
By your comments you appear to have given in to the false narrative that the US is somehow different than the rest of the world and can't address the issue other than with thoughts and prayers.
If you were on the board yesterday you saw that my kid was in her second lock down because of guns or threats of gun violence on campus. All this shit about how special we are or we can't do anything or criminals will be criminals doesn't pass the sniff test with me. How about we actually try some-goddammed-thing before we just give up instead of just count bodies and offer prayers.
Lol. Just because it’s an affluent area doesn’t mean street violence doesn’t branch out. I know a pretty famous family in Atlanta whose son/grandson recently got injured from getting shot. He shot back at the kid shooting at him and killed him. Guess what? He lives in a very affluent part of the city. So, yeah, this shit happens everywhere.
Regardless, since the usual suspects made this another “MAGA desecrations” talking point, I thought it was relevant to pit the perceived alt right vs. perceived gang violence for the purpose of context. The fact gun violence exists between and beyond those paradigms is beside the point.
What does that have to do with gang violence? Rich people have stupid kids too. We have friends who produced two stupid boys who are always in trouble. Doesn't mean they're in a gang. Means their parents didn't raise them with any consequences and they act like fools.
As I said, I don't know that controlling gun purchases solves the existing issue. There's guns a plenty out there, as is. I'm not suggesting we do nothing, I'm suggesting we have a bigger issue that a single piece of legislation can't/won't solve.
I have no idea what the solution is.
However, I don't think you can draw a comparison to "other countries", but that's just me.
Sure, but we also, EVERYTIME this happens, that a new gun law wouldn’t solve anything. Pro-gun crowd would have us believe that there’s absolutely nothing to be done where guns are involved, and in fact we should have more, because only a good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun.
The gun laws have not kept up with technology. That's the biggest detriment to just relying on gun laws IMO.
I scanned back through the thread, MAGA and Trump were only mentioned by two posters. There are comments about T&Ps and second amendment rights, but those have been true for the GOP long before MAGA ever existed. Regardless of this situation being different than most of the past school shootings, I think the one thing we should all agree on is it is unacceptable for our children to not be safe at school. School shootings have gone from a rare occasion to no big deal and that is a sad reality for our country. We should all want it changed.
I am happy to hear ideas about what kind of laws would help curtail this type of thing.
I'm not particularly vested with the 2nd amendment- I own zero guns- but I grew up in TN, so I'm pretty sure they handed me an NRA membership at the hospital (aka my inherent bias makes me think guns = good)
Seems like a reasonable Stand Your Ground case. If the shooter feared for his life
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Again, it was about providing context for those going straight to “MAGA desecrations” finger pointing, as what happened more closely resembled gang violence than an unhinged Proud Boy, MAGA-loving Trump chump. Whenever there’s a mass shooting at a school, the usual suspects go straight to blaming the cons and their gun-loving utopia. Clearly, this incident didn’t fit that narrative.
And if race and assumption weren’t such a big part of our national conscious, the media would have had no reservations about including the suspect’s race in their description of the “person of interest” if he were white. Hence the point.
I agree. And I’m all for hearing viable solutions.
Do we need 300 + million of them? At some point we as a society need to pump the brakes.
ThUr Iz NuThInG ThAt CaN bE DoNe….
now to focus on this non existent voter fraud problem we are throwing all this new legislation at
We don't.
Just spitballing: why don't we turn off the spigot. Whats produced is produced, and then whatever guns we have will either be recirculated (under supervision through sales).
I'm not "throwing my hands up", but I think we all should agree taking guns back so we can have less guns in the country just won't happen.
You do know that you don’t have to be in a street gang to be a thug. George Floyd was a thug but I didn’t hear that he was in a street gang at the time of his demise.
If it was an illegal firearm, the gun had to be legal at some point. Make the legal gun owners have some skin in the game to make sure their guns dont become illegal.
My problem is some gun owners are addicted. My BIL's identity is so wrapped up in his guns it's sad. Idk what the answer is a large segment of society would rather chew off their arm than be limited to 10 guns or less.
If there is no possible way that someone else could have done it then off with their heads. If there is a chance the witness is mistaken, no death penalty. "I am 100% sure this is the person who put the gun in my face and assaulted me.", death penalty. DNA proves without a shadow of a doubt, death penalty. Easier said than done, I know. We have a whole lot of sick asses in prison who are 100% guilty, no way they didn't murder the person, who should no longer be on this planet...but that's just me.
You probably broke the law by not reporting the sale.Already sold the others for $1200 (no documentation there either). As for the ones mentioned? Heck no. Looking forward to popp'n a few off from that .25. It was a vest gun that officers often carried.
Why would the media need to mention the suspect's race when they were sharing his picture?
