The U.S.A. Mass Shootings Thread

[YankeePorker]

Politicians getting their thoughts and prayers in place. The nutter used to 2 AR15 type rifles bought legally on his 18th birthday, weapons that should not be in the hands of civilians in my opinion.

Bizarrely enough my Smith and Wesson shares are up 10% today - these mass killing provoke two motivations that are positive for the arms sellers. 1. More guns needed for defence. 2. Quick, buy a gun before they put additional controls in place on gun sales.

It’s a very strange country.

[faa77]

kowalski655 said:

g4ry13 said:

Ban the deadly semi-automatic rifles and limit people to the less 'deadly' handguns?

Let them bear all the arms they want, limit ammo to a couple of specks of gunpowder... muzzle velocity 2mph, range 13 feet
Nothing in the 2A about ammo
Off home to give my 7yearvold a massive hug

You stole my polystyrene bullet idea

[anonymous-user]

Apparently the 57th school shooting, just this year!

[kowalski655]

Won't polystyrene disintegrate? Yanks gotta have the bang bang bang to give them a stiffy

[andyeds1234]

The republicans have great respect for god given life, starting from the moment of conception, right up to the moment that a child has an automatic weapon pointed at them, then…. Meh.

[vaud]

YankeePorker said:

Politicians getting their thoughts and prayers in place. The nutter used to 2 AR15 type rifles bought legally on his 18th birthday, weapons that should not be in the hands of civilians in my opinion.

Bizarrely enough my Smith and Wesson shares are up 10% today - these mass killing provoke two motivations that are positive for the arms sellers. 1. More guns needed for defence. 2. Quick, buy a gun before they put additional controls in place on gun sales.

It’s a very strange country.

It is and getting more extreme.

I had the option to move there in 2015 and turned it down, partly because of guns, partly because it was San Francisco and ithe cost of living....

[MartG]

Good comment I saw on FB

"As they cash their NRA checks, I hope that every single one of the 50 NRA cheerleaders in Congress think about the fact that there are 19 sets of parents who dropped their kids off at school yesterday that didn’t know that was the last time they’d ever see their children. There is an empty chair at the dinner table in 19 homes that will forever remain empty—its vacancy a silent scream at the endemic sickness in our bought-and-paid-for government. If one of those empty chairs were in the home of any one of those soulless panderers to mental illness (yes, that’s what the 50 truly represent), would they think differently? And how about you, Mr./Mrs. Maga? How would you vote if that chair were now in your home? - Stuart Balcomb"

[faa77]

kowalski655 said:

Won't polystyrene disintegrate? Yanks gotta have the bang bang bang to give them a stiffy

Crap, just realised they invented these things called..................... blanks

That should do it, Die Hard 2 style

[g4ry13]

YankeePorker said:

Politicians getting their thoughts and prayers in place. The nutter used to 2 AR15 type rifles bought legally on his 18th birthday, weapons that should not be in the hands of civilians in my opinion.

Bizarrely enough my Smith and Wesson shares are up 10% today - these mass killing provoke two motivations that are positive for the arms sellers. 1. More guns needed for defence. 2. Quick, buy a gun before they put additional controls in place on gun sales.

It’s a very strange country.

I was musing the same thing checking my portfolio. I was expecting quite the opposite.

[Squadrone Rosso]

One American had the guts to say it as it is at the news conference.

[J4CKO]

Maybe ban men from having guns, not looked at the demographics of school shooters but anecdotally I can’t remember a female shooter. Sure there have been but it’s massively skewed to men.

No point in debating this really, it isn’t going to change, too entrenched and nobody will ever even limit guns.

They are so freaky about their guns, mention anything about it and you get called a pussy for not having guns in the UK. So glad we don’t have widespread gun ownership.

[S17Thumper]

Squadrone Rosso said:

One American had the guts to say it as it is at the news conference.

Beto O'Rourke who is the Dem candidate against Abbott at the next election (however they work over there)

[The Rotrex Kid]

@tinysnekcomics

[vaud]

J4CKO said:

They are so freaky about their guns, mention anything about it and you get called a pussy for not having guns in the UK. So glad we don’t have widespread gun ownership.

Me too. My boss is a full on "prepper" in Virginia with a small armoury and 3 months supply of food + iodine pills. And we are talking about a highly educated, well travelled and successful person, who also voted Trump.

We avoid the subject of guns.

Personally I like shooting - clay pigeons, target practice, etc (have shot air rifles since 11) but I don't need a gun at home.

[Last Visit]

Abbott at that press conference, what a pathetic man.

[Derek Smith]

A Winner Is You said:

Newarch said:

Derek Smith said:

When I was in my late teens, 116 children and 28 adults were entombed when a mudslide of coal slurry engulfed a primary school. It affected the whole country. At work, the journeymen formed little groups to discuss it for the first couple of hours. The bosses didn't so much not intervene as join in them. Lunch time was all but silent. A couple of men were sent home. It was harrowing. There were collections for the families (some of which the Coal Board stole - can you believe it?) There was unofficial national mourning. Yet there will be twenty times as many children killed by firearms in violent incidents this year than this single horrific incident.

I worked with a bloke from Aberfan. He’d been too young at the time of the disaster to attend primary school and probably to know what was going on but he said it was strange growing up in a town with no kids.

IIRC didn't the head of the Coal Board choose to attend a party rather than visit the scene?

I know it is off-topic, but the Coal Board took money from what people like me donated to the families to help them through the crisis, although we all must have known it was but an empty gesture. They took it to clear up their slag heaps, the dangerous hills of rejected material that they had placed there. I was overwhelmed by anger when I heard. 30 years later, the government, labour if memory serves, 'repaid' the money stolen from the fund, but without interest and without any additional money as an apology. And they maid a big deal of it. I ask you.

I remember hearing that one of the doctors working to save the children had lost a child in the disaster. About three years ago, there was a mass shooting in the USA at a school and the parent of a child at the school went to the hospital without knowing the fate of her child. Not sure I could do that. In fact, I probably couldn't. You tell a parent that their child has died and you are really telling them that the life they knew, enjoyed and was happy in has ended. It's like they were punched time and time again. Every morning they'll wake up and then remember, losing that child again.

But no one gives a st. In fact, I don't think that's true. Most of the politicians lobbyists and powerful must appreciate how terrible the situation is with these mass shootings but instead of actually trying to do something about it, they turn their backs. That is infinitely worse.

They were just kids.

Edited by Derek Smith on Wednesday 25th May 19:26

[hidetheelephants]

21TonyK said:

faa77 said:

MC Bodge said:

I suspect that, due to conditioning, mass shootings are just seen as "one of those things" by some/many in the US, like bad weather or illness, and "it won't happen to me". Guns are just something they have, like food, drink, wallets, keys, mobile phones etc.

It just doesn't happen to the same extent in other developed, wealthy nations, though.

100%

As horrific as a single incident like this is the real tragedy is that you are right. This is acceptable to many Americans as the cost of their "rights".

That's received wisdom courtesy of decades of really expensive gaslighting by the NRA etc; polls consistently state a majority in favour of greater gun control.

[MikeT66]

A great commentary by Russell Brand.

[motorizer]

Dan_1981 said:

A Winner Is You said:

fiatpower said:

Unbelievable. How many kids have to die before something is done in that country.

Sandy Hook proved that nothing will ever be done.

This.

If Sandy Hook can be allowed to happen with no change, then there is no hope.

I actually think here would be more chance of them doing any thing if someone shot up a bunch of old rich white men in suits.

It would be closer to home for those with power..

Edited by motorizer on Wednesday 25th May 20:32

[Timothy Bucktu]

MikeT66 said:

A great commentary by Russell Brand.

As usual he's 100% right. Nothing further you can add really.