Ongoing US Mass Shooting Thread

[Galakanokis]

Another theater shooting tonight in Louisiana. 3 dead and 8 injured. Gunman killed himself. This #### is just ####ed!

[Acey]

Every mass shooting people on Twitter think they're clever by pointing out the number of deaths in Chicago and asking "where's the national media coverage?"

I suppose it is an interesting discussion to be had, and has been discussed at length in this thread so there's nothing really left to say. I count 35 killed in Chicago this month, all by shooting except one a vehicular homicide (women runs over crazy ex) and the other a child killed by a vehicle escaping a shooting (seriously). Apparently nobody gets fatally stabbed in Chicago.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Acey

Every mass shooting people on Twitter think they're clever by pointing out the number of deaths in Chicago and asking "where's the national media coverage?"

I suppose it is an interesting discussion to be had, and has been discussed at length in this thread so there's nothing really left to say. I count 35 killed in Chicago this month, all by shooting except one a vehicular homicide (women runs over crazy ex) and the other a child killed by a vehicle escaping a shooting (seriously). Apparently nobody gets fatally stabbed in Chicago.

Do these people understand the difference between mass shootings and lots of individual shootings? Because that's the answer right there.

[Acey]

Indeed. I mean the argument is that you've got 250 dead this year in Chicago, something less than that cumulatively in mass shootings... but it's still the same problem you're trying to fix.

[Acey]

What a tweet by @DPJHodges

In retrospect Sandy Hook marked the end of the US gun control debate. Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over.

It's cold how true that is.

[nik-]

I'm sure all the news outlets are hard at work making this guy famous too.

[DiracSpike]

I was so sure Sandy Hook would be the turning point...
And then a significant number of idiots argued for arming kinder garden teachers as their solution.
I wish gun enthusiasts would just be straight up and admit that they're willing to tolerate deaths because they like how guns make them feel, enough with this bs about safety/constitutional rights/government tyranny protection.

[skudr248]

Most American's are idiots. Plain and simple.

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by skudr248

Most American's are idiots. Plain and simple.

Most humans are idiots which is why they shouldn't have guns

[afc wimbledon]

I actually think the U.S. Will one day go absolutely the other way, they will do what the u s always seems to do, randomly demonise the whole subject and ban utterly anything that even so much as is gun shaped.

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by skudr248

Most American's are idiots. Plain and simple.

Nice touch.

[Hemi-Cuda]

When was the last time this thread disappeared from the front page for any length of time? I remember making it as a tongue-in-cheek response to mass shootings becoming a regular event in the US, which is completely ludicrous to think about. But they just keep coming, and now I hardly even blink when reading the headlines. I saw the theater shooting in Louisiana on the front page of reddit, scanned a few comments, then went back to the next cat gif. They just aren't news anymore

[driveway]

Original source: Mother Jones.

[Caged Great]

Originally Posted by driveway

Original source: Mother Jones.

Isn't that surprising. Democratic presidents in office, mass shootings go off the rails. It's almost as if the fear mongering on the right causes an uptick in domestic terrorism (that's what I am now calling any mass shootings from now on)

[savemedrzaius]

This is not only a gun issue, it's also a mental health issue. Why are Americans so much more likely to go on these rampages? It's not like in other developed countries people are constantly going on knife wielding attacks to the same degree as in the USA.

Why are American men so angry? Why do them seem to go on unnoticed? Something is wrong with the system.

[PeteMoss]

Originally Posted by savemedrzaius

This is not only a gun issue, it's also a mental health issue. Why are Americans so much more likely to go on these rampages? It's not like in other developed countries people are constantly going on knife wielding attacks to the same degree as in the USA.

Why are American men so angry? Why do them seem to go on unnoticed? Something is wrong with the system.

There is just as many people with mental health issues everywhere I'd suspect.

For lack of a better term - attacking people with a knife takes more courage. I can stand a decent distance away from everyone and shoot people without worrying about someone tackling me and pummeling me.

[transplant99]

Originally Posted by skudr248

Most American's are idiots. Plain and simple.

I'm sure Brian Burke, Craig Conroy, Johnny Gaudreau and others appreciate such short sightedness.

Well done.

[Displaced Flames fan]

Originally Posted by Acey

Indeed. I mean the argument is that you've got 250 dead this year in Chicago, something less than that cumulatively in mass shootings... but it's still the same problem you're trying to fix.

There's been a ton of coverage on the problem's in Chicago over the last several years. A lot of it on documentary style news shows....like a special report type of thing.

People are guilty of seeing what they need to see in order to prove that the cause they are championing is under covered.

[Displaced Flames fan]

Originally Posted by savemedrzaius

This is not only a gun issue, it's also a mental health issue. Why are Americans so much more likely to go on these rampages? It's not like in other developed countries people are constantly going on knife wielding attacks to the same degree as in the USA.

Why are American men so angry? Why do them seem to go on unnoticed? Something is wrong with the system.

Just a thought, but every 25 years or so we like to send a bunch of young fathers off to die creating a generation of fatherless children. I suspect that has at least some correlation.

[driveway]

Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan

Just a thought, but every 25 years or so we like to send a bunch of young fathers off to die creating a generation of fatherless children. I suspect that has at least some correlation.

There have only been 7,000 war-deaths since the end of the Vietnam war.
This hardly constitutes anything like a "generation of fatherless children."

I would accept the argument if you were pointing to the incarceration rate of black men in America, but young black men aren't the ones doing these shootings. White men are.