Today's shooting in America thread

Sean85 said:
I cant mate, I'm not trying to suggest it doesn't matter/ isn't completely disgusting. I'm just curious why people over here seem to care about what happens in America so much
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From my perspective, I can understand things like industrial accidents in say China where they are trying to develop safe practice, I can understand armed robbery in South Africa where someone has a handgun, but I find it hard to accept someone walking into a school with a scoped automatic weapon. I just can't understand the reluctance to address an issue that causes so many deaths.
 
Irwell said:
From my perspective, I can understand things like industrial accidents in say China where they are trying to develop safe practice, I can understand armed robbery in South Africa where someone has a handgun, but I find it hard to accept someone walking into a school with a scoped automatic weapon. I just can't understand the reluctance to address an issue that causes so many deaths.
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It's quite simple really.
The manufacture and supply of weapons keeps people employed.
The politics of fear encouragespeople to buy the weapons.
The children and others are expendable collateral damage.
 
Irwell said:
From my perspective, I can understand things like industrial accidents in say China where they are trying to develop safe practice, I can understand armed robbery in South Africa where someone has a handgun, but I find it hard to accept someone walking into a school with a scoped automatic weapon. I just can't understand the reluctance to address an issue that causes so many deaths.
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That's a good point, it makes no sense why they've not sorted it out by now. It just makes me wonder sometimes when, for example, all those kids got kidnapped from school in Nigeria it was kind of like a passing news story. But whenever it happens in America theres outrage and we hear about it for days. Maybe it's because were both "western" countries I suppose? I'm not sure why that would matter though
 
Sean85 said:
That's a good point, it makes no sense why they've not sorted it out by now. It just makes me wonder sometimes when, for example, all those kids got kidnapped from school in Nigeria it was kind of like a passing news story. But whenever it happens in America theres outrage and we hear about it for days. Maybe it's because were both "western" countries I suppose? I'm not sure why that would matter though
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I don’t agree. Anything less than 15 deaths barely makes the news these days in this country.
 
Sean85 said:
That's a good point, it makes no sense why they've not sorted it out by now. It just makes me wonder sometimes when, for example, all those kids got kidnapped from school in Nigeria it was kind of like a passing news story. But whenever it happens in America theres outrage and we hear about it for days. Maybe it's because were both "western" countries I suppose? I'm not sure why that would matter though
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Do you really need to wonder why that happened?
 
Irwell said:
The whole 'I expected better of you' thing I guess. Probably the UK's number one excuse for divorce too.
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billymumphrey said:
Do you really need to wonder why that happened?
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Yeah, I don't see why one should be given more coverage/ attract more outrage than the other. Maybe like another poster said, it's because we expect more from America, but at this point I'm not sure we do/ should
 
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