Ongoing US Mass Shooting Thread 2

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814

It’s hard to trust a man when you know he has a gun.

It’s harder when anyone can have one anywhere.

If I lived somewhere like that, not a chance would I be the only one walking around unarmed.

It’s a veritable positive void coefficient.

Yeah, it's like a feedback loop. As much as I am against most people being permitted to carry a firearm in public, I have to admit that if I lived somewhere where it was common, I'd probably feel safer if I was packing as well. The thought gives the chills as well, because I have had bad days. I would like to think I wouldn't be the kind of person use a gun on someone or myself, but how do you really know. I imagine there are a lot of people who thought, hey, I will keep a gun for self-defense purposes and never actually use it, only to have a mental breakdown one day and submit to a compulsive thought.

I don't understand why someone people are so resistant to applying modern sensibilities to paperwork that was written in a time where the culture and times were completely different than they are now. All this stuff should be looked at as a work in progress and not a final framework for how we should live forever.

I know there are slippery slope arguments about having such a lax framework that rights could be too easily taken away, so there should be some robustness in the constitution, but it shouldn't be allowed to dictate bad policy either. Surely there are ways democratic institutions can withstand some flexibility.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by D as in David

It sure does seem like Americans don't trust Americans. That's what makes a country the greatest!

It is like bizarro world there sometimes. I remember being in Seattle before, and it was like people were avoiding other people like crazy. My wife and I were a little lost and were trying to see if someone could give us directions, and people would walk way around us when we tried to talk to them. One lady even rolled up her window and locked the door. And honestly, I don't think we look dangerous at all. Finally, a homeless guy came up to us and asked us if we needed directions and we ended up chatting with him for a long time. It was kind of an eye opening experience.

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

Not sure that's true if history is a guide. Yahya Khan famously said about East Pakistan/Bangladesh before his genocidal Operation Searchlight that if you "kill 3 million of them, and the rest will eat out of our hands". He then lost power soon after doing just that when no one had much for weapons. It's a crazy and gross story not many know about

Bangladesh has a population of 150 million+, as brutal as it sounds killing a few million isn't enough, history is fairly clear, you kill 1/3rd or so you can control anywhere, the hard part is having the troops to exercise this kind of brutality over a large country like the US but assuming you can then there is nothing the civilians can do.

In the US you have millions of guns but they are all useless against armour and airpower, and the vast majority are in the hands of average schmoes who arent ever going to go live in a hole in the woods eating racoon meat despite what ever bolloxs they spout about freedom, also if Trump has taught us anything you can probably coopt half the US to kill the other half for you for a minimal cost up front

[MoneyGuy]

It seems that that country struggles to go a day without a mass shooting. Six dead in various locations so I don’t know if it qualifies. In Mississippi.

https://t.co/YPCc5pcDAN

[blankall]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

It is like bizarro world there sometimes. I remember being in Seattle before, and it was like people were avoiding other people like crazy. My wife and I were a little lost and were trying to see if someone could give us directions, and people would walk way around us when we tried to talk to them. One lady even rolled up her window and locked the door. And honestly, I don't think we look dangerous at all. Finally, a homeless guy came up to us and asked us if we needed directions and we ended up chatting with him for a long time. It was kind of an eye opening experience.

Seattle is also a panhandler city. People act the same way in Vancouver. When I first moved to Vancouver, I found myself constantly in conversations with panhandlers. Unfortunately, you get subconsciously accustomed and automatically put up a shell after a while. It's really a shame.

[AC]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1625891315337625600

[Galakanokis]

10 mass shootings over the weekend. Insanity.

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by Galakanokis

10 mass shootings over the weekend. Insanity.

the tree of freedom requires the occasional watering with the blood of patriots, apparently occasionally means 2 to 3 times a day and the patriots are often not out of diapers, but hey best country in the world am I right??

[D as in David]

Originally Posted by Galakanokis

10 mass shootings over the weekend. Insanity.

It WAS a long weekend, afterall - gotta celebrate it.

[Tsawwassen]

2 dead, 6 injured after shooting at a Sweet 16 house party in Douglas County, Georgia.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/us/2-dead-6-injured-after-shooting-

[jayswin]

I know this doesn't get updated much anymore, but just saw that there's three dead children so far at a school in Nashville , today.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by jayswin

I know this doesn't get updated much anymore, but just saw that there's three dead children so far at a school in Nashville , today.

Just another Monday in the US

[Old Yeller]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1640424058922708992

Does everyone down there have a mental illness when it comes to guns.. or is it just republicans?

[FlamesAddiction]

Why does the kid in the lower left hand corner hate freedom?

[devo22]

I like to think that at least the kid holding a "peace & joy" card instead of a gun has a chance to escape that shameful indoctrination.

[CroFlames]

I wonder if creeps who are obsessed with guns like that name their guns and introduce them to their friends as if they were people.

This is Betsy, my newest AR-15 sniper-modified. She's only six months old, but is very mature for her age.

[Duruss]

I hate this thread! It makes me sad everytime I see it and I don't even look everytime it gets bumped. It doesn't have to be this way, but they have chosen violence.

[Puppet Guy]

Originally Posted by CroFlames

I wonder if creeps who are obsessed with guns like that name their guns and introduce them to their friends as if they were people.

This is Betsy, my newest AR-15 sniper-modified. She's only six months old, but is very mature for her age.

I think they probably name their kids after their guns - "meet my sons Derringer and Colt, and my daughter Magnum".

[GirlySports]

A female shooter, that's certainly different.

[MoneyGuy]

The shooter is transgender and Marjorie Traitor Greene is saying that this is due to testosterone and meds.