Ongoing US Mass Shooting Thread

[Plett25]

Originally Posted by DuffMan

Definitely not the guns

Originally Posted by CroFlames

@ Duffman

That is an unfair comparison. The combined populations of those countries is only 434 million, and NONE of those countries have a violent past.

Nice strawman.

Lol, only 434 million! In this Trump, post-truth, post-sarcasm world, I had to look back at some of your previous posts to confirm you were sarcastic.

The other interesting thing about Duffman's post is that Canada, France and Germany all have similar firearm ownership rates, while the UK, Italy and Japan have less than 1/3 the ownership rates of Canada, France and Germany

[Fuzz]

Ya, but how many doors do our schools have? Hardly fair.

[Poe969]

Guns aren't the problem, it's those damned violent video games kids are playing! Those games are filled with all kinds of horrible violence and guns. So to reiterate, it's not real guns that's the problem, it's video game guns!

[metallicat]

I didn't start killing hookers until GTA 3 came out, not sure about you guys.

[Scornfire]

Originally Posted by metallicat

I didn't start killing hookers until GTA 3 came out, not sure about you guys.

Well, I mean, I wasn't really into it before GTA 3

[CroFlames]

Originally Posted by metallicat

I didn't start killing hookers until GTA 3 came out, not sure about you guys.

You monster. I treated all my hookers with dignity and respect in GTA and always paid within terms.



Mowing down pedestrians on sidewalks became a favorite pastime though.

[wwkayaker]

It disappponts me that Canada has 2 shootings. I couldn’t imagine sitting on my hands after 288 shootings.

[wwkayaker]

Just in case the last mass shooting event was getting old and stale, here is a new mass shooting event to keep things fresh. No deaths reported yet...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/22/us/pa...ing/index.html

[Thor]

Pfft if its under 10 dead is it even news?

[Caged Great]

Should just pile them in the street and carry on with the day for how much they give a damn.

[MoneyGuy]

Does that CNN chart mean that every other country had zero? If so that's quite the indictment on the States. Not that they need any help.

[Thor]

Originally Posted by Caged Great

Should just pile them in the street and carry on with the day for how much they give a damn.

When 27 young children die in an elementary school shooting and nothing has changed in the 5 years since, arguably become much worse; then there really is no hope for America and its long list of problems to solve.

[Oling_Roachinen]

Originally Posted by MoneyGuy

Does that CNN chart mean that every other country had zero? If so that's quite the indictment on the States. Not that they need any help.

No, that's the G7 Countries. But regardless, it's quite the indictment on the States.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/21/us/sc...rnd/index.html

Other countries, like Mexico with 8 (the next highest identified), had several.

[PsYcNeT]

https://twitter.com/user/status/998672298877038594

https://twitter.com/user/status/998964651961569280

[Acey]

Waiting for a school shooter's dad to come out and be like, "yeah he was a piece of ish, of course he did it."

[CroFlames]

Maybe just apologize for the hurt his son caused the victims' families, and say that it is a difficult time for them as well coming to grips with the carnage their son caused.


It's not deflecting, it's not blaming, not minimizing and it gets the point across that it is a tragedy for everyone involved.

[tussery]

It has been ages since I have posted on this forum, and a lot has changed. 4 years ago you couldn’t convince me, a CHL license holder, that guns were a problem. A lot has happened since then and every time I see these shootings now I no longer am of the mindset that nothing could be done. I can easily say now that guns are an issue and private ownsership of them needs to be severely limited and restricted. Will that ever happen, probably not in my lifetime as long as the NRA is around.

I am honestly sick of seeing these school shootings, but yeah less doors...

[EldrickOnIce]

^ it doesn't take 'AR' type weapons for mass shootings. The instruments used here were pretty standard 'household' guns.

[DuffMan]

[tussery]

Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce

^ it doesn't take 'AR' type weapons for mass shootings. The instruments used here were pretty standard 'household' guns.

No offense maybe you lack reading comprehension but I never specified any one type of firearm. Guns in general are a problem in the US and need more regulation and restrictions period.

Edit: I apologize it seemed like you may have been attacking my statement, but yeah, there needs to be more done on all firearms in th US and not just targeting a type of firearm.