And again... (Another US Shooting)
- Thread starter Serryah
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I just wonder what was going through these officer's heads while they were standing there waiting for instructions? The pressure must have been intense. I wonder how many of them will succumb, either though heart attacks or suicide like the cops did after the Jan 6 "Insurrection"
Texas cops? Probably something very much along the lines of "Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh. . ."
Perhaps they were noticing that the doughnuts at the local doughnut store was on sale and were making a skip-the-dishes order (they have skip down there?).
The Southern Tim Hortons is called Krispy Kreme (the Northern one is Dunkin' Donuts).
I've tried to explain to them that cream isn't supposed to be crispy, and if it is, you really should throw it away, but they never listen.
You can't blame someone for not doing their job if they were not trained properly. What if the cops had all run in there with guns blazing like you want and more kids were killed? Would that all be the cop's fault as well?
Well, how's about I quote you.
As for laws, there already are laws. Can't buy a long gun until you're 18 and can't buy a handgun until you're 21. If an 18yr old is mature and responsible enough to vote, join the army and be handed actual military hardware to kill people, or drive (and own) a 1 ton potential death machine from the time they turn 16, they're mature enough and responsible enough to own a rifle.
I mean how does one infringe on a fundamental Constitutional right that shall not be infringed without coming across as a dictator? I do realize that rights must have some restriction or else you have anarchy and he US does have some restriction including age limits, and firearms that are completely off-limits or can't be bought/owned without a federal permit.
Mass shootings aren't a gun problem, they're a societal problem. Blaming the gun is like blaming the car when a drunk driver kills someone.
Just like the 77 kids who have been killed by texting drivers since the shooting and the approximately 330/month who were killed so far this year. Who cares, move along and whine about guns, right?
Texas shooting: 19 children among dead in primary school attack
Nineteen children are shot dead by a teenage gunman, who is himself killed by law enforcement.www.bbc.com
But after Sandy Hook...
Who cares, move along.
(and for some idiots here, that's sarcasm)
Impressive response and idiotic as well. Guess that's par for the course!
Apparently Britain, France, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Finland, and Italy don't have societal problems.
As opposed, of course, to your fine example of a fact-filled, carefully-considered, and well-reasoned response.
Whatabout the whatabout?
Whatabout the kids killed by drunk drivers? You don't care, obviously. You're perfectly happy to have someone at three times the legal limit blasting down the road. Who cares, move along and whine about texting, right?
Which is of course opens it up for you to jump in right behind her with a fine example of a fact filled , carefully-considered and well reasoned response .
Not to the extent that the US does but yeah, they do. A lack of legal accessibility to firearms isn't preventing societal violence in most of those countries, not even self-inflicted violence. Japan has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, but yeah, they're just fine.
Canada routinely saw more stabbings than shootings per year until recently, but yeah, we're just fine.
Even the US saw a Christmas parade massacre without the perpetrator firing a single shot. But guns are the problem. Hell, McVeigh and Nichols hold the dubious "distinction" for the largest domestically-sourced mass murder in modern US history and they didn't fire a single shot.
A lack of mass shootings is not indicative of a lack of societal problems either. Hell it's not even indicative of lack of murder or mass murder.
I guess the real question is, is the frequency with which it happens in the US just a by-product of being a gun owning nation? Or is the growing frequency a result of the politics of division? Or is it a deeper societal problem?
Hell, even when Canada had easier access to "military grade assault style weapons" as the alarmists like to call them, we still didn't have the mass shootings the US did during that same period.
Studying the stats before Dubya was president there was an average of two or fewer mass shootings per year in the US. During Bush's presidency that number rose to around 4-5 per yr. By the end of Obama's presidency, the number was up to around one every 6-8 weeks. I don't know what the frequency is now but considering Americans have always had access to semi-automatic firearms, I doubt the continuing increase is the fault of the firearm.
Same shit, different pile. My point is vehicles are used as weapons or become unintentional weapons and nobody really gives a fuck even though it happens multiple times a day. It's just not "sexy" enough to exploit for political hay-making purposes.
Owning guns is a govt-only approved responsibility apparently, while car ownership and driving are god given fundamental rights.