School shootings... what changed? (Page 16/33)
WonderBoy MAY 27, 03:22 PM
There is still more coming out regarding this tragic school shooting massacre as blackrams pointed out. However it should also be mentioned, since mental health has been brought up, another thing on the increase is students punching/physically assaulting/not respecting teachers/authority/grownups...(the "knockout game" comes to mind) These 2 topics are linked. The 'tool' is not the issue.

While the age bump to 21 for rifles sounds well and good intentioned, it still doesn't address the heart/cause of the issue. It's a band-aid put on a wound that will never heal because the wound has no platelets to permanently seal it (political bickering and finger pointing). Meanwhile the wound with the band-aid is constantly submerged in water causing the band-aid to come off (Becoming lax over time with the current laws in place. This shooter was a red flag, like the one in Buffalo but no one did anything).

In Biden's speech that evening, notice how many times he said: "In God's name...". Must've been about 20 times. Sorry, but according to the elitists and minority factions/voices decades ago, God has no place in school and it activities.

There are a lot of things "trending" that's destroying society. Take China/Mexican Cartels and the open border. Fentanyl, nobody does anything about it. Yet guns guns guns.

You've now got a democrat trying to push a bill that withholds politicians pay for a month after a school shooting. I can back that, as long as it's applied to all unnecessary deaths (Fentanyl, lax criminal penalties, etc) and both sides discuss this logically. That won't happen. Agendas need, MUST, be pushed forward.

NAACP broadcast out on social media outlets that the govenor of Texas not to go to the NRA Convention in Texas Friday. As if the governor of Texas needs to take advice from a group that does and says NOTHING about black on black shootings with KIDS killed in the cross-fire.

This is all sickening.
rinselberg MAY 27, 03:39 PM

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Originally posted by MidEngineManiac:

Ya think so ???? . . .


I hear ya'.

I was talking theory. And facts. As best as I understand them. Because I'm not a gun expert. (But I did feel like I stumbled onto something previously unexplored, when I described the parallel that I saw between the ammo magazines for the rifles and the Fiero gas tanks... an epiphany.)

What you are highlighting is that there is a "disconnect" that separates facts and logic from the decisions that are being made by firearms trade regulators and politicians that control them.

At least, in certain instances.

Obviously in that instance.

The instance that you highlighted.

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williegoat MAY 27, 03:39 PM
Citizens don't need guns. Mass murder is the government's job.
Patrick MAY 27, 03:56 PM

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Originally posted by williegoat:

Despite strict gun control in places like Canada... school shootings and mass murders still happen.



Yes, unfortunately they do... and we covered that Here.

Canada has had 6 school shootings dating back 33 years, whereas the US has had 27 school shootings dating back 5 months.


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Originally posted by williegoat:

The case that I successfully made...



...is that the number of school shootings in Canada is absolutely insignificant in contrast to US numbers. There's no comparison. Thank-you for making this now blatantly obvious to anyone who might've previously been unaware.

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williegoat MAY 27, 04:02 PM
So instead of discussing a solution, you are still just taking another swipe at my country. You are nothing but a troll.
Patrick MAY 27, 04:09 PM

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Originally posted by williegoat:

So instead of discussing a solution...



What "solution" have you discussed?


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Originally posted by williegoat:

...you are still just taking another swipe at my country.



You are still just imagining things.


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Originally posted by williegoat:

You are nothing but a troll.



You are nothing but a... no, I won't go there.
theBDub MAY 27, 04:23 PM

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Originally posted by williegoat:

So instead of discussing a solution, you are still just taking another swipe at my country. You are nothing but a troll.



Willie, it's not an attack on America to discuss things in terms of countries. Stop being ridiculous.
williegoat MAY 27, 04:32 PM

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Originally posted by theBDub:


Willie, it's not an attack on America to discuss things in terms of countries. Stop being ridiculous.


Of course not. But to lie about America is contemptible. Patrick stated that America is the only place where school shootings take place. That is a malicious deception.
I am really tired of repeating myself. Please read the thread.
williegoat MAY 27, 04:41 PM
I am fed up with people trying to paint my country as some kind of evil empire. I take it very personally.
Patrick MAY 27, 04:55 PM

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Originally posted by williegoat:

Patrick stated that America is the only place where school shootings take place.



Oh for gawd's sake Willie, the word "only" was used as literary license to focus on the severity of the problem. (And it worked better than I could ever have imagined!) School shootings occur in the US far more often than in any other country on the planet, and by a significant margin. That's not taking a "swipe" at the US, that's just unfortunately the way it is.