I equivalate guns with diamonds .each has little practical usage needs but has great value for what it is seen to represent / diamonds — wealth status guns — power importance and a nasty criminal threat. Their real practical use is limited for diamonds to industrial tools. And hunting - a completely unnecessary requirement except for survival in face of an attaching bear . I’ve actually confronted a bear once who was raiding a bird feeder and my impression is they are identical chickens just as I was .
So the point is they have no value and should have their access limited to real actual needs /. Guns sole purpose is murder , is that possibly a use ?? Diamonds created the South African apartheid as well as some neighboring states . Let’s just devalue them and use them properly .
One of my friends just lost a 22 year old son to a gun used in a crime of attempted theft . They need to go in the smelter as soon as possible
What is their solution? Armed teachers, that's allowed in Georgia. Drills designed to teach kids how to hide, tgry got it. Armed security, they had two and they confronted and arrested the shooter. The only solutions offered by the far right wingnuts still left 4 dead and 9 in the hospital. Collateral damage so they can pretend their dicks are bigger when they pose with their weapons of war? I no longer ask what will it take for them to care, after Newtown I know that answer. Fuck them all.
And that's the bottom line, Jason. That's why AR-15s are still legal. That's why the pandemic raged on as long as it did. American entitlement. Has nothing to do with wealthy. Just the fact that your average American doesn't like to hear the word 'no.' Buncha spoiled outhouse rats.
Yes,not being from America I can’t understand WTF is going on.Pictures of gun toting oafs are sort of glamorous to other wannabe oafs and so it goes.It is so ingrained in the American psyche that I don’t believe it will ever be stopped as a percentage of you are locked into thoughts and prayers drivel etc which lets you off thinking about young children laying in pools of their own blood while just trying to learn their abc’s.Your country is well down the road to becoming a failed state and the blood trickling out from under school room doors is a harbinger of what’s to come😳🤯
'Thoughts and prayers'. 'This is the price of freedom'. 'Guns don't kill people'. We hear these phrases after every mass shooting, whether it be a school, a grocery store, a theater, a park, a church, a shopping center, etc. And yet, these phrases have become jokes.
Solutions, not thoughts and prayers, are needed.
If freedom is for adults, let them pay the price themselves, and stop sticking the kids with the bill.
As for guns, start doing some extensive background research on owners, and require them to purchase some liability insurance coverage for the guns.
AR-15s and other military firearms and weapons should be used only by the military. Ordinary rifles and handguns are adequate for private citizens.
There should just be a template for this kind of post so we can each run it every time it happens. School has been in session how long? I don't have school age kids anymore but I assume it just started.
This kid was 14. 14! What is he doing with access to weapons of war? As far as I'm concerned, the parents pulled the trigger, too.
Joyce Vance has a post that says the FBI questioned this kid and his dad last year. The dad said the guns were secure and the kid had no access. He should face charges and if Georgia doesn't want to do it, make the charges federal. Lying to the FBI is a crime.
Crazy. Someone just commented somewhere else that he bought the gun AFTER the kid was questioned about his Discord ravings. I don't even know what to say to that.
Sending "thoughts and prayers" has become a knee-jerk reflex, like saying "bless you" when someone sneezes. Neither one does any good. Saying "bless you" after someone sneezes goes back to a time when it was widely believed that sneezing created a void for evil to enter a soul, and saying "bless you" deterred the evil. Sending "thoughts and prayers" is as useful in deterring evil as saying "bless you".
My heart breaks and I fear for my grandchildren each and every day hoping they are safe in their respective schools. I cannot imagine and do not try to imagine the pain and suffering of families. This insanity has to stop! Someone must have an answer. But Who?? And What?? Please help save our children.
When nothing was done after Sandy Hook, I figured that meaningful gun control would never happen. I was briefly hopeful after Parkland, but again, nothing. Here in Colorado, after the Aurora theater shooting, we enacted limits on high capacity magazines. Two of the lawmakers that led that reform were recalled from office and several county sheriffs have officially refused to enforce that law or our red flag laws. I give up. Guns are better than kids. They’re more valuable. In this country we protect guns more than we do school children, theater patrons, grocery store shoppers, concert attendees, etc.
It’s just pitiful! People say they are normalized by the school shootings. I definitely am NOT. I am a retired school psychologist and I never had to deal with this. Friends that are still in the field now have a very dangerous job. Sorry about Colorado, the home of the first school massacre
After the last mass shooting in Australia in 1996, they enacted strong gun laws. Can you imagine the last mass shooting in our country being in 1996🤬No, it was yesterday🤬🤬🤬🤬
I blame the politicians and the gun manufacturers who control them. After that I blame the American people for continuing to elect the spineless cowards in the pocket of the gun lobby.
I equivalate guns with diamonds .each has little practical usage needs but has great value for what it is seen to represent / diamonds — wealth status guns — power importance and a nasty criminal threat. Their real practical use is limited for diamonds to industrial tools. And hunting - a completely unnecessary requirement except for survival in face of an attaching bear . I’ve actually confronted a bear once who was raiding a bird feeder and my impression is they are identical chickens just as I was .
So the point is they have no value and should have their access limited to real actual needs /. Guns sole purpose is murder , is that possibly a use ?? Diamonds created the South African apartheid as well as some neighboring states . Let’s just devalue them and use them properly .
One of my friends just lost a 22 year old son to a gun used in a crime of attempted theft . They need to go in the smelter as soon as possible
What is their solution? Armed teachers, that's allowed in Georgia. Drills designed to teach kids how to hide, tgry got it. Armed security, they had two and they confronted and arrested the shooter. The only solutions offered by the far right wingnuts still left 4 dead and 9 in the hospital. Collateral damage so they can pretend their dicks are bigger when they pose with their weapons of war? I no longer ask what will it take for them to care, after Newtown I know that answer. Fuck them all.
And that's the bottom line, Jason. That's why AR-15s are still legal. That's why the pandemic raged on as long as it did. American entitlement. Has nothing to do with wealthy. Just the fact that your average American doesn't like to hear the word 'no.' Buncha spoiled outhouse rats.
Yes,not being from America I can’t understand WTF is going on.Pictures of gun toting oafs are sort of glamorous to other wannabe oafs and so it goes.It is so ingrained in the American psyche that I don’t believe it will ever be stopped as a percentage of you are locked into thoughts and prayers drivel etc which lets you off thinking about young children laying in pools of their own blood while just trying to learn their abc’s.Your country is well down the road to becoming a failed state and the blood trickling out from under school room doors is a harbinger of what’s to come😳🤯
'Thoughts and prayers'. 'This is the price of freedom'. 'Guns don't kill people'. We hear these phrases after every mass shooting, whether it be a school, a grocery store, a theater, a park, a church, a shopping center, etc. And yet, these phrases have become jokes.
Solutions, not thoughts and prayers, are needed.
If freedom is for adults, let them pay the price themselves, and stop sticking the kids with the bill.
As for guns, start doing some extensive background research on owners, and require them to purchase some liability insurance coverage for the guns.
AR-15s and other military firearms and weapons should be used only by the military. Ordinary rifles and handguns are adequate for private citizens.
And it's never the right time to talk about reforming the laws even when the dead are 26 1st graders.
There should just be a template for this kind of post so we can each run it every time it happens. School has been in session how long? I don't have school age kids anymore but I assume it just started.
This kid was 14. 14! What is he doing with access to weapons of war? As far as I'm concerned, the parents pulled the trigger, too.
Joyce Vance has a post that says the FBI questioned this kid and his dad last year. The dad said the guns were secure and the kid had no access. He should face charges and if Georgia doesn't want to do it, make the charges federal. Lying to the FBI is a crime.
Apparently the GBI didn't believe dad. He's been arrested with several charges, including 2 counts of second degree murder.
He bought that kid the weapon of war for Christmas. WTF??
Crazy. Someone just commented somewhere else that he bought the gun AFTER the kid was questioned about his Discord ravings. I don't even know what to say to that.
Nor do I.
Sending "thoughts and prayers" has become a knee-jerk reflex, like saying "bless you" when someone sneezes. Neither one does any good. Saying "bless you" after someone sneezes goes back to a time when it was widely believed that sneezing created a void for evil to enter a soul, and saying "bless you" deterred the evil. Sending "thoughts and prayers" is as useful in deterring evil as saying "bless you".
My heart breaks and I fear for my grandchildren each and every day hoping they are safe in their respective schools. I cannot imagine and do not try to imagine the pain and suffering of families. This insanity has to stop! Someone must have an answer. But Who?? And What?? Please help save our children.
When nothing was done after Sandy Hook, I figured that meaningful gun control would never happen. I was briefly hopeful after Parkland, but again, nothing. Here in Colorado, after the Aurora theater shooting, we enacted limits on high capacity magazines. Two of the lawmakers that led that reform were recalled from office and several county sheriffs have officially refused to enforce that law or our red flag laws. I give up. Guns are better than kids. They’re more valuable. In this country we protect guns more than we do school children, theater patrons, grocery store shoppers, concert attendees, etc.
It’s just pitiful! People say they are normalized by the school shootings. I definitely am NOT. I am a retired school psychologist and I never had to deal with this. Friends that are still in the field now have a very dangerous job. Sorry about Colorado, the home of the first school massacre
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After the last mass shooting in Australia in 1996, they enacted strong gun laws. Can you imagine the last mass shooting in our country being in 1996🤬No, it was yesterday🤬🤬🤬🤬
I blame the politicians and the gun manufacturers who control them. After that I blame the American people for continuing to elect the spineless cowards in the pocket of the gun lobby.
One hundred %
It is indeed a very sad truth that mass shootings are normalized. I’m guilty of only caring momentarily, then going on about my business.