Shooting at Mandalay Bay Resort (Las Vegas)

[ChicagoBlue]

It will definitely put some off... I have a chance of a secondment to California and probably won’t go... I never thought i’d say that but there are too many idiots there... idiots with bibles and guns or both..

That's like saying you don't want a secondment to Manchester because it is full of drunk twats who support Man U!

Are you afraid of shadows, too?

 

[bluethrunthru]

It is hard to care too much when these thing happen any more. The answer is in the hands of the American people. One third of them own a gun which means two thirds don't - they love to tell us its a democracy yet law makers say the gun lobby is all powerful. Anybody else able to see where two thirds can beat one third in a democratic push to bring in greater gun control? Won't solve things overnight but it would be a start to maybe change attitudes. I am sick to death of Americans saying guns don't kill people people kill people and they have the right to bear arms etc..........if enough Americans wanted it then it could happen - they just have to make their voice heard

 

[feedthegoat27]

Really shitty scenes and situation. Got a mate and his gf out there at the moment, staying next door at Luxor. Think its her first time to Vegas so can't imagine she'll be in a rush to return.

I've been 6 times since 2011, love the place. Sadly, I've often thought it's ripe for something like this; always thousands of people kicking about whatever time of day it is, the fact you can wander in and out of all the hotels at your leisure. If someone did manage to detonate an explosive, or just open fire as per last night, the results would be, and are, dire.

I've never seen any trouble on my visits. There is always a decent presence of police and security on the strip 24/7, and all the hotels have their own in house security teams too. Just as its pretty hard to stop someone renting a van and driving on a pavement, with their gun laws so relaxed its pretty tough to stop someone doing something like this if they are hell bent on causing destruction.

Sadly I don't see things changing any time soon as the NRA seem to hold so much power and political sway over there.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

T'would be a shame to miss an oppurtunity like that through fear, you're way more likely to be run over on the way to the airport than being shot in a mass shooting. I've lived here for 28 years and would be way more scared walking around Manchester than 98% of the entire US. As for bible bashers, tell them to fuck off

This! And from one who lives in the militia capital of America and another from the murder capital! What a pair, eh?!

 

[bluethrunthru]

Wow! Shares in the major gun manufacturers are up 7%.

Buy bigger, better guns and feel safe. Mad as fook!

can you imagine half those people you saw diving for cover instead blazing away at the hotel from the concert venue. At least 58 would have died just looking out of various hotel windows trying to see what was going on. After Sandy Hook those NRA fools said all teachers needed to be armed to prevent it happening again !

 

[ChicagoBlue]

It is hard to care too much when these thing happen any more. The answer is in the hands of the American people. One third of them own a gun which means two thirds don't - they love to tell us its a democracy yet law makers say the gun lobby is all powerful. Anybody else able to see where two thirds can beat one third in a democratic push to bring in greater gun control? Won't solve things overnight but it would be a start to maybe change attitudes. I am sick to death of Americans saying guns don't kill people people kill people and they have the right to bear arms etc..........if enough Americans wanted it then it could happen - they just have to make their voice heard

I'll give you a clue....3 million more people voted for Hillary than Donald, yet he is the President. Do you know what it takes to make a Constitutional Amendment? I already gave you the stats that make it nigh on impossible, and if you think this incident will do it, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that might interest you! (An Americanism you might or might not understand??)

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Sorry. I should have qualified it by saying certain states (such as Louisiana). US gun laws are hugely outdated, but the NRA will kick and scream to keep the status quo whilst innocent people continue to be slaughtered in schools, shopping mall's and on the streets.

Agreed. Did you know that America doesn't require even a "gun licence" to own a gun, but no driver's licence while driving a car might get you thrown in the nick overnight?! Want to vote in a "gun state"? You'd better have a licence to prove you live here!!! I know, YCMIU!

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

I'll give you a clue....3 million more people voted for Hillary than Donald, yet he is the President. Do you know what it takes to make a Constitutional Amendment? I already gave you the stats that make it nigh on impossible, and if you think this incident will do it, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that might interest you! (An Americanism you might or might not understand??)

Assuming it's similar to the London Bridge in Arizona?

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Assuming it's similar to the London Bridge in Arizona?

Nah. It's a "you're so gullible, I have something to sell you that A) I could not possibly own, or B) is so worthless to you, it would be stealing...but I think you'd buy it!" Swampland in the Everglades is another oft used phrase in that same vein.

 

[Don Karleone]

Active shooter at the University of Southern California. One thing after another.