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Ocean Breeze

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No! No! No! You have it all wrong! If everyone there a had a gun, there would have been been no shooting! We need FAR more guns in circulation to bring down this murderous plague of shootings!


Shows what you know.
absolutely. In the name of personal security"..
 

bluebyrd35

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Obviously it is time to ban school . To many shootings happening there .
What a callous attitude. Ever lose a child?? I have and to make light of such an event is rather despicable.

JLM A massacre is when more than 4 die. There have now been 18 since the beginning of the year AND as I understand those are just the school shootings.
 

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Where did you get a figure of four or more people in your interpretation of massacre? I couldn't find it. All I got was "a large number".

Four is not a large number.
 

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Just so you know, the definition of a massacre

...the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals... - dictionary.com
...an act of killing a lot of people...Cambridge Dictionary
...the violent killing of many people...Merriam

The television station was exaggerating. Some would say sensationalizing what happened. While killing four people is sad, it doesn't fit the definition of a massacre.
 

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Another school massacre ...... a 18 year old, from what is known at the moment, a former student of the school has killed multiple students, At this time they have taken 14 injured to hospital some of whom may not survive.

Of course it is not the gun that kills those students, it is those who support the laws that allow free access to guns without any control whatever.

It is the 18th school shooting this year.

Oh and JamesBondo I am referring to the US and not Canada. I will remind you for the umpteenth time ......I am quite content with Canada;s gun laws and it is in the US where so many massacres by gun occurs

And if even one single teacher had been armed there would have been far fewer deaths. Making handguns illegal won't make them go away, just more expensive. Remember how prohibition worked out.
 

bluebyrd35

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Just so you know, the definition of a massacre

...the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals... - dictionary.com
...an act of killing a lot of people...Cambridge Dictionary
...the violent killing of many people...Merriam

The television station was exaggerating. Some would say sensationalizing what happened. While killing four people is sad, it doesn't fit the definition of a massacre.
https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/27/health/u-s-most-mass-shootings/index.html
 

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And if even one single teacher had been armed there would have been far fewer deaths. Making handguns illegal won't make them go away, just more expensive. Remember how prohibition worked out.

there are police in Florida schools.
 

bluebyrd35

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Just so you know, the definition of a massacre

...the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals... - dictionary.com
...an act of killing a lot of people...Cambridge Dictionary
...the violent killing of many people...Merriam

The television station was exaggerating. Some would say sensationalizing what happened. While killing four people is sad, it doesn't fit the definition of a massacre.
LOL So are you suggesting that we should ignore the shooting today because it doesn't reflect the dictionary definition of a massacre. What is this glomming onto what news stations report as the US definition of a massacre about?? Do you feel it wasn't enough to call the event a tragedy because they were children or because you do not agree with how news stations reported it? It was 17 students who died today.
 

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I am not suggesting that at all. I said that the incident does meet the definition of the word massacre.

I am suggesting that the use of that word by the television station is sensationalizing a sad event.

Clear?
 

bluebyrd35

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I am not suggesting that at all. I said that the incident does meet the definition of the word massacre.

I am suggesting that the use of that word by the television station is sensationalizing a sad event.

Clear?
Good God !! You do realize that 17 students dead is a horrifying sensational event?? Four member of a family are not counted in that definition but four separate families loosing a member is deserving of calling it a massacre, in my opinion.
 

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I'd call the indiscriminate killing of more than 4 people a massacre.

Go to bed Murph. You're being churlish tonight. Wake up tomorrow with the promise to do better.
 

Murphy

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...JLM, A massacre is when more than 4 die. There have now been 18 since the beginning of the year AND as I understand those are just the school shootings.

I did not address the story where 17 died. I asked you where you got four deaths as the definition of a massacre. You said the television. Four people dying is not a massacre.

You are getting confused. Take a few breaths and relax.
 

Murphy

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No. I asked where she got the figure of more than four people constituting a massacre. My post, #7751 above.

She said the television. I said that their definition doesn't meet the definition, and that they were sensationalizing

Stay out of conversations where you do not understand what was posted.
 

Hoid

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Didn't do their job very well then.
But an english teacher would have,

Good God !! You do realize that 17 students dead is a horrifying sensational event?? Four member of a family are not counted in that definition but four separate families loosing a member is deserving of calling it a massacre, in my opinion.
Good God do you realize you are trying to communicate with an idiot?
 

Murphy

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This is Flossy, trying to be a rabble rouser. :lol: Nice try, but you lose...again.

Why are you still up? It's after 8! School in the morning. :laughing6:
 

JLM

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No! No! No! You have it all wrong! If everyone there a had a gun, there would have been been no shooting! We need FAR more guns in circulation to bring down this murderous plague of shootings!


Shows what you know.

Maybe you are onto something albeit, maybe a little extreme. If only sane and capable people were armed, we'd be safer for sure, but we'd have to make sure none of the nutters or incompetents were able to acquire guns.

Wow, yeah.....like the debate over what constitutes a massacre is just like so apropo to what happened today.

What constitutes a massacre could be a huge chunk of land.

What news is that, the NRA Times? The death toll currently stands at 17, you brain-damaged dementia patient.

And coming from a demented asshole like you, that statement doesn't mean a hell of a lot.

No. I asked where she got the figure of more than four people constituting a massacre. My post, #7751 above.

She said the television. I said that their definition doesn't meet the definition, and that they were sensationalizing

Stay out of conversations where you do not understand what was posted.


mas·sa·cre
ˈmasəkər/
noun
noun: massacre; plural noun: massacres
1.
an indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people.
"the attack was described as a cold-blooded massacre"
synonyms:
slaughter, wholesale/mass slaughter, indiscriminate killing, mass murder, mass execution, annihilation, liquidation, decimation, extermination; carnage, butchery, bloodbath, bloodletting, pogrom, genocide, ethnic cleansing, holocaust, night of the long knives; literaryslaying
"a cold-blooded massacre of innocent civilians"