Today's shooting in America thread

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I fear it’s going to continue to keep getting worse. Can anyone seriously see it getting better?

 

[TheRemainsOfTheDave]

I fear it’s going to continue to keep getting worse. Can anyone seriously see it getting better?

The NRA?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

The NRA?

Good point!

I would say the Second Amendment is the most flawed and misconceived legislative measure in history - it has become both ossified and pretty much irreversible. No law should be irreversible, or at least capable of significant and meaningful amendment.

 

[aguero93:20]

I fear it’s going to continue to keep getting worse. Can anyone seriously see it getting better?

Yep. At some stage, the gun homicide rate will overtake the [combined birth rate+net immigration-(death rate-gun homicide rate)] and then, eventually, the shootings will stop.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Yep. At some stage, the gun homicide rate will overtake the [combined birth rate+net immigration-(death rate-gun homicide rate)] and then, eventually, the shootings will stop.

Something to look forward to.

 

[aguero93:20]

Something to look forward to.

Completely desensitized to it at this stage tbh.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Good point!

I would say the Second Amendment is the most flawed and misconceived legislative measure in history - it has become both ossified and pretty much irreversible. No law should be irreversible, or at least capable of significant and meaningful amendment.

It isn’t irreversible. This is how democracy works. Elect the “correct” politicians and it is gone in a wink!

What is Britain doing about their increasing gun crime? Isn’t it illegal to carry a handgun in the British glass house?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Completely desensitized to it at this stage tbh.

I’m bound to wonder that if the Founding Fathers had inserted an amendment around the same time that it was ok to fuck kids, whether it would still be enschrined in US law and defended to the hilt, simply because of its provenance.

That’s the same Founding Fathers who all had slaves btw.

 

[laughing gravy]

It isn’t irreversible. This is how democracy works. Elect the “correct” politicians and it is gone in a wink!

What is Britain doing about their increasing gun crime? Isn’t it illegal to carry a handgun in the British glass house?

drug dealers shooting each other is a world away from shooting school children!! i sleep with my doors unlocked do you?

 

[aguero93:20]

I’m bound to wonder that if the Founding Fathers had inserted an amendment around the same time that it was ok to fuck kids, whether it would still be enschrined in US law and defended to the hilt, simply because of its provenance.

That’s the same Founding Fathers who all had slaves btw.

You should check out the age of consent in some of the states over there, it didn't require an amendment.