https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/worl...anada-61573831
Another senseless act with a gun. Just awful.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/worl...anada-61573831
Another senseless act with a gun. Just awful.
Nothing will change, they don't care. Guns are more important than anything else out there. Nutjobs.
We had one school shooting 26 years ago in Dunblane and changed everything about gun ownership laws. America has had 27 school shootings this year alone, they’ll never change
https://youtu.be/dNv_OxS0Jk0
Listen to this bitch.This is why gun laws are bonkers in the USA.
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Texas Attorney General says that arming teachers is a way to combat it https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1...anada-61573831
ffs :facepalm:
Might be a stupid question, but why is it so often schools?
A large number of potential victims in one place?
Somewhere the gun murderer had a difficult time?
An educational establishment where a live (or not) demonstration of the 2nd Amendment will be most appreciated?
A place where a deranged coward with a semi-automatic arsenal will feel safe whilst committing mass murder?
Who knows.
I'm sure the particular circumstances of this latest horror will come out in the next few days. But in general, kids going through school sometimes suffer isolation, bullying, trauma and resentment that the idealised life they see on the tv is different to theirs. They may project their disappointment onto their teachers.
Not many places though where those detached from society have easy enough access to the firepower to kill over a dozen people. mainly children, before being put out of their selfish misery.
My mum works in a supermarket over there. Just last week her boss told her to hide in the toilet because a (now-ex) disgruntled employee was bragging about how easy it would be to get one of his guns from his car right outside. I asked her to quit because that guy is 100% coming back to shoot that place up and the article will read, "he was fired from his job months ago" etc.
Didn't change after Sandy Hook and won't change now. Backward-ass country.
How could anyone stand next to a group of little children and think, "I want to fire bullets into them." ?
The fit seems to be someone who was bullied/misunderstood/didn't fit in/was a weirdo that was never gonna fit in and use it as an excuse to have a pop back at society.
We have these people in the UK and worldwide but it seems the US is always the place it happens.
Same as those weird types that can't get a woman so join these online pages and post hate against women because they can't find someone, seems the way is to blame everyone else but themselves for their situation and fire back at innocents.
Apologies if this post offends someone probably not the thread to go off on one, but when do these people stop having excuses handed to them and just talk to someone or ****ing grow up?
People face shit every day, my cousins kid is bullied daily to an absurd level, people are lonely all over the world and don't act out like ****ing coward animals. Where does shooting up a school get them the other 100s that tried it before get them?
I've probably gone right off track now, sorry. Restless and pissed off.
No offence intended
Abbot fought hard to reduce the age of gun ownership to 18. The killer was 18.
People must be at least 21 years of age to legally consume alcoholic beverages in Texas.
Senseless.
Politicians, especially republicans but also some democrats, would rather people die than to control gun ownership.
I listen to Joe Rogan every podcast and whilst he doesn’t speak for America he does echo a big base of americas voices
And what it tells me is that guns are such a big part of the mentality of the US I can’t see anything changing anytime soon. The videos above about MORE arms seems commonplace.
I think he means people in power - especially the NRA.
I'm no expert on American history, but surely the "right to bear arms" was drawn up in the 18th century?
When the land was a hostile wilderness?
Now its just hostile.
Allow people to bear arms - as long as those arms are single-shot, muzzle-loading muskets.
This is how utterly stupid Republicans are and those who vote for them:
Ted Cruz (on addressing mass shooting) "go after felons and fugitives and those with serious mental illness, arresting them, prosecuting them when they try to buy firearms illegally"
There is a to unpack there BUT:
Mass shooters are not previous felons
Mass shooters are never fugitives
You cannot arrest someone for having a mental health illness (and WTF "go after" people with mental health issues... what is he calling for? a genocide of bipolar people or depressed people because of course ALL of them will become mass killers.. but voted against background check!)
Mass shooters do not purchase guns illegally - because of NRA and republican law makers they have made it easier for people to buy weapons, including military grade weapons, and reducing the procurement age to 18
Cruz voted against background checks and voted for allowing access to firearms by 18 year olds.
He takes the US public for fools and sadly many are fools for believing this bullshit.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-61573377
Absolutely appalling. Just don't know where to begin with imagining the utter grief the parents must be going through.
There is absolutely no justification whatsoever for anyone to legally hold weapons of that nature. It's just unbelievable but tragically so common.
One of the parents of the victims posted a tribute to his daughter. He says 'Why?!', he's also wearing a shirt that says 'f*ck your gun free zones'
Honestly, thick as shit.
Local Einstein David Cotterill has just posted on his Instagram that this is a false flag attack.. it's still up on his stories if you want to view it.
He's completely lost it.
Nothing will change.
It's one of those partizan issues for some people who aren't willing to cede any ground whatsoever.
Sadly true.
As baffling as it seems to us, I do understand the custom and culture behind the right to bear arms. It is pointless us bemoaning that because it is ingrained in their culture.
What I really don't understand is why the need for assault weapons is such a big issue? I can understand-in theory-why a pistol can protect your family, keep the government at bay, uphold your amendment rights etc. I don't agree with it, but I understand it. I also understand the principle behind hunting rifles and what have you.
Whats baffles me is the assault weapons - why would anyone need them? How can anyone argue in favour of them? I assume the argument is that if the government have them or if criminals have them, then so to should "the good guys?"
That seems to be the argument from the NRA and most Republicans.
Hence Ted Cruz's answer to mass murder in a school is to give guns to the teachers and the caretakers, employ armed guards and (at some time in the future) maybe propose that 3 year olds also go armed into the kindergarten.
All for their own safety!
And if mass murderers are walking around with military grade weapons, the only sure defence is to match them up.
MAD. Deterrence. And a country armed to the gills with instant death.
Whistle the Star Spangled Banner and Praise The Lord!
Losing a child in normal circumstances is difficult to get over.I lost my son aged 4 to cancer in 1985.
Losing a child in a mass shooting must be totally unbearable.
A plea.
I think discussing issues like this is important but I'd like to ask everyone not to engage in broad offensive generalizations that Americans are "all crazy", it's a "****ed-up country" and we are all "gun-loving loons" etc because it's unfair. It's akin to asserting all muslims are terrorists.
The US is a huge country with diverse ethnicities, subcultures and outlooks. In fact that is, to me, one of the things that makes it so fascinating and beautiful. Clearly there is something wrong with a political system that is unwilling and/or unable to deal with gun violence. There are many completely entrenched views on the gun-lobby side born of ignorance and laziness. BUT there are many people who don't share those views.
And for the record: born in Cardiff, live in Arizona, US citizen, UK subject.
So you have a hand gun to protect your family ( in America that seems the norm, nothing wrong with that statement )
so a intruder breaks into your house, he has a hand gun, you have a hand gun, fairly even, now think of the advantage you would have when you break out a AR-15 with extended mag, you have the upper hand, of course the intruder might also have the same AR-15 though breaking into a house with a AR would be pretty cumbersome but who the hell knows