Today's shooting in America thread

[super_city_si]

Forget mass shootings and ‘they’ve all got mental health issues, just look at the ’rest’.
Since MAY 1st.
119 teenagers dead from gunshots
35 people ‘unintentionally’ shot dead
Excluding the Texas mass shooting, 35 children shot dead
Over 2000 injured by firearms.

50+ under 11’s shot dead ‘accidentally’ since January 1st.
Annually.
5500 under 17’s killed or injured of which over 1000 are 11 or under.

24000+ suicides by gun annually as well.

Even more bizarrely, the only figures going down year on year are guns being deployed for ‘defensive use’…

Its certainly a buggered up system.

Now they're banning abortions and contraceptives, they need some kind of population control I suppose

 

[super_city_si]

I mean, this is belabo(u)ring the obvious, but I was on an elementary school trustee board for six years. We, of course, talked about school security. At our school it was (deep breath) LITERALLY FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE to secure the entire dozen acre perimeter. At our ONE school.

Welcome to the new 'secure' school of the future!

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Agree. You need to attack this problem from both ends. How did he buy this gun at 18? More to the point why is he allowed to buy this gun at 18?

Tighter gun laws will help.

We don’t get tighter gun laws unless gunowners support them and advocate for them and are willing to sacrifice their own time and money to abide by them because even though they are responsible and law-abiding, they believe access restriction and taxation and PSA funding and storage spot checks and bans on certain weapons are better for all.

As a rule, they aren’t. And sure — we shouldn’t expect people to vote against their own self-interest. That’s why it takes courage and empathy and some level of selflessness to do so. If that were an inherent part of the average gunowner’s make-up, they wouldn’t own a gun to begin with.

So it’s a circular reference.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

We don’t get tighter gun laws unless gunowners support them and advocate for them and are willing to sacrifice their own time and money to abide by them because even though they are responsible and law-abiding, they believe access restriction and taxation and PSA funding and storage spot checks and bans on certain weapons are better for all.

As a rule, they aren’t. And sure — we shouldn’t expect people to vote against their own self-interest. That’s why it takes courage and empathy and some level of selflessness to do so. If that were an inherent part of the average gunowner’s make-up, they wouldn’t own a gun to begin with.

So it’s a circular reference.

Summed up as 'Turkeys don't vote for Thanksgiving'.

 

[bumbleblue]

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Summed up as 'Turkeys don't vote for Thanksgiving'.

Or Christmas the miserable fuckers!

 

[idahoblues]

Now they're banning abortions and contraceptives, they need some kind of population control I suppose

They need more targets

 

[bumbleblue]

 

[idahoblues]

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Welcome to the new 'secure' school of the future!

Haha, not far from the truth

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

This is what the US is up against, people!

vests to go with it.

Not long ago we would have just presumed that was satire. What a fucking state the western world is in. The Chinese must be laughing their collective cocks off.............

 

[Resurrection Joe...]

This is what the US is up against, people!

vests to go with it.

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Or Christmas the miserable fuckers!

Non voting turkeys in America is a long standing problem. They should make it compulsory.