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Re: Another school shooting
« Reply #7725 on: May 07, 2023, 08:01:45 PM »
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Re: Another school shooting
« Reply #7726 on: May 08, 2023, 09:20:58 AM »
We have too many mass shootings. Should we change the criteria for a mass shooting to be something higher? I’d say 10, but that seems to metric systemy.  Maybe a baker’s dozen?

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Re: Another school shooting
« Reply #7727 on: May 08, 2023, 09:27:52 AM »
All the good guy Texans with guns failed.  An officer still took this dude out.  Thankfully, this one wasn't a coward like the Ulvade officers. 
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Re: Another school shooting
« Reply #7728 on: May 08, 2023, 09:39:43 AM »
I thought Texas allowed good guys with guns to carry?  How did all the good guys fail so hard?

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Re: Another school shooting
« Reply #7729 on: May 08, 2023, 09:55:15 AM »
Good guys with guns aren't shopping at H&M.

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Re: Another school shooting
« Reply #7730 on: May 08, 2023, 09:57:01 AM »
Good guys with guns aren't shopping at H&M.

well not all shooters will go to Kmart

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Re: Another school shooting
« Reply #7731 on: May 08, 2023, 10:18:05 AM »
gun free zone.  gotta be fair.


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Re: Another school shooting
« Reply #7732 on: May 08, 2023, 10:19:17 AM »
gun free zone.  gotta be fair.

huh?

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Re: Another school shooting
« Reply #7733 on: May 08, 2023, 10:40:37 AM »
gun free zone.  gotta be fair.

huh?
the good guys with guns weren't allowed to bring the guns into the mall. 


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Re: Another school shooting
« Reply #7734 on: May 08, 2023, 11:04:30 AM »
I think it's time for the media to stop reporting on these shootings.  It's very clear that nothing will ever change, so I'd much rather live in a world of blissfull ignorance than hear about it everyday knowing that nothing will happen to prevent it.

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Re: Another school shooting
« Reply #7735 on: May 08, 2023, 11:11:19 AM »
I think it's time for the media to stop reporting on these shootings.  It's very clear that nothing will ever change, so I'd much rather live in a world of blissfull ignorance than hear about it everyday knowing that nothing will happen to prevent it.

They already barely cover them. We only hear about the notable mass shootings. I think that if we are actually going to get change, they need to ramp up coverage. Actually show what the aftermath looks like, and maybe some people will decide to do something.

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Re: Another school shooting
« Reply #7736 on: May 08, 2023, 11:36:56 AM »
gun free zone.  gotta be fair.

huh?
the good guys with guns weren't allowed to bring the guns into the mall.

so how did the shooter get shot?

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Re: Another school shooting
« Reply #7737 on: May 08, 2023, 12:28:49 PM »
gun free zone.  gotta be fair.

huh?
the good guys with guns weren't allowed to bring the guns into the mall.

so how did the shooter get shot?

He was shot by a cop that was already there for a different call.

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Re: Another school shooting
« Reply #7738 on: May 08, 2023, 12:38:15 PM »
gun free zone.  gotta be fair.

huh?
the good guys with guns weren't allowed to bring the guns into the mall.

so how did the shooter get shot?
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Re: Another school shooting
« Reply #7739 on: May 08, 2023, 12:38:48 PM »
I think it's time for the media to stop reporting on these shootings.  It's very clear that nothing will ever change

I think things would change if deadly shootings were reported on way more heavily and frequently than they are now. And that's probably the only way things would change.

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Re: Another school shooting
« Reply #7740 on: May 08, 2023, 12:43:04 PM »
neither "side" has a reason to change anything, so it's never changing.  kids faces being blown off is just a part of our reality now.

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Re: Another school shooting
« Reply #7741 on: May 08, 2023, 12:48:43 PM »
neither "side" has a reason to change anything, so it's never changing.  kids faces being blown off is just a part of our reality now.

I agree with Rage that we need to start showing the blown-off faces (with family permission, of course). That's the only way to reach the dinner table, so to speak.

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Re: Another school shooting
« Reply #7742 on: May 08, 2023, 12:50:39 PM »
i mean....those of us that are of similar age have literally been dealing with this since we were in high school and columbine happened.  nothing will ever change because politicians want votes.   :dunno:

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Re: Another school shooting
« Reply #7743 on: May 08, 2023, 12:56:31 PM »
Each day that you or your family goes out to a crowded public place, the price of freedom in America is that you might catch a stray that will blow off an appendage/organ.

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Re: Another school shooting
« Reply #7744 on: May 08, 2023, 02:16:59 PM »
Each day that you or your family goes out to a crowded public place, the price of freedom in America is that you might catch a stray that will blow off an appendage/organ.

I don't even think strays are the problem.  It is a deranged nazi that was kicked out of military for being a psycho who is intentionally shooting

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Re: Another school shooting
« Reply #7746 on: May 09, 2023, 08:58:38 AM »
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Re: Another school shooting
« Reply #7747 on: May 09, 2023, 09:17:09 AM »
I wonder why things seem to be quite a bit worse this year.


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Re: Another school shooting
« Reply #7748 on: May 09, 2023, 09:19:22 AM »
I'm sure next year will be worse.

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Re: Another school shooting
« Reply #7749 on: May 09, 2023, 09:43:11 AM »
I'm sure next year will be worse.
I don't see it getting better.  I think draconian gun control stuff would help a lot (and at this point, i'm firmly in the draconian gun control camp), but it's hard to ignore that there's a serious problem with young men in the US.  Just a lot of amoral rage that apparently enough people fantasize about and actually carry out.  Either "for the memes" (which I think is the root for most of these) or some dipshit cultural purpose (which I think a lot of the "for the memes" types latch onto because of shock value). 

Whatever it is, I do think that these weirdo online corners of the internet like 4chan that a lot of incels and otherwise perpetually online, lonely young men flock to are a tinderbox.  And when guns are super easy to get, these guys can explode.  That (insanely easy access to weapons) I think is the key ingredient to the America problem.  Though, (for whatever reason), I don't think that's the only ingredient.  I think there's something else going on with a lot of American young men that (for whatever reason) isn't going on in a lot of other western countries. Have no real clue what it is though. 

It just seems like in the last decade, there's been a lot of young men in the US eager to take others with them when they decide they want to kill themselves. Obviously removing guns (i.e. making them much harder to obtain) from that equation helps (and we should do it), but I don't think it totally solves that problem, which, imo is a relatively new phenomenon.


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