About time that every American student and teacher was issued with their own assault rifle to carry on campus.
Should make US schools a safer place!
Tin foil? Wtf are you talking about?
OK, I’ll ignore your trademark ‘snarkiness in situations that don’t call for it,’ and give you an example of what I’m talking about.
If somebody has, say, bipolar disorder, but is misdiagnosed as having depression (which happens all the time, particularly with bipolar 2 disorder), then giving them SSRIs can totally fark them up. From inducing mild bouts of mania, all the way up to severe psychosis.
The US has an extraordinary high number of people on SSRIs, and there is no way they all need them. And while the current one hasn’t been confirmed yet (that I’ve seen), the last 5 mass shooters have all been on them.
I’m not saying it’s the cause… I’m just offering another aspect to ponder in this particularly messy situation.
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Strengthening gun control, mandating effective background checks and reducing the number of available assault rifles in the community directly reduces the chances of a nutcase having access to a weapon of mass murder.
It will not eliminate the problem. Nutcases will still shoot people. But less often. It will save lives.
This talk about one watered down useless piece of legislation not preventing one specific shooting is missing the point. Trump and the GOP watered down gun control when they had every opportunity to strengthen it. The GOP prevented Obama from implementing meaningful reform. While the GOP blocks any reform, people will continue to die in preventable shootings.
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Where were all you guys when the previous 17 school shootings of 2018 occurred?!?
Oh yeah, that’s just business as usual.
That number is just… I don’t have the words, its so farked up.
Oh and another thing, why must the media keep ranking these mass shootings, as though it’s a hall of fame list?
This one ranks number 9 overall… Ah, good to know.
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Normal country.
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I prefer finish. The little red ball gives me a healthy glow.
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should be posted after every mass shooting:
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We were sending thoughts and prayers.
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No condolences? YOU MONSTER.
Gates, one of the 4 charged to this point by Mueller’s team, is reported to be close to a plea deal. He would be joining Flynn and Papadopolous in pleading guilty.
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I’ve read that this number is incorrect.
Doesn’t change the fact that it happens far too often, and nothing seems to be done.
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Gun “discharges”.
I checked with the NRA if I was allowed to add condolences but they said it would start to sound insincere.
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What. This can’t be serious. They aren’t eating detergent pods right?
The murderer (I hate the ‘shooter’ term, let’s call a spade a fucking spade) purchased his AR15 about a year ago.
Between 1994 and 2004, it was illegal to purchase this category of weapon. (Not to own one, if you’d purchased it previously, mind you). This was the questionably named ‘assault weapons ban’ which was introduced under Clinton and which Bush removed.
I don’t remember whether Obama’s proposals (which the senate republicans did not even allow to a vote) would have reinstated this ban. But the ban certainly would have applied to this person buying this gun.
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@Essendon12
The issue with Trump is that he is the nominal head and face of the Republican party. A party that removed the ban on assault weapons. Who rolled back the restrictions on access of guns to people with mental health problems. The group who blocks all minor and major efforts to change the laws that you appear to agree are ridiculous. A group who has passed legislation blocking the collection of data and research into the guns issue. A group who have (in recent times) been blaming mental health, while cutting resources for government to assist those with mental health issues. Who (as an example) changed the VA from automatically accepting veterans PTSD as being war related, to having them go through a process of being checked that takes months and finds over 95% are still eligible.
So when the face of the party who has done all that comes out and gives the same platitudes that his party has for years, who blames people for not reporting the student’s risk elements even though this had actually been done, rather than blaming the fact that the kid could get an automatic rifle, which most people believe is far more of the root cause, then people are going to be frustrated with him.
There is also a element here of realisation that without a super-majority, the Democrats cannot implement any change. But if a Republican president pushes for change, he may get enough support that with Democrats real change can be pursued. So there is disappointment that Trump is showing zero appetite to do this.
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They take about 15% more than most of the OECD.
about 300% more guns (per capita) than anyone.
99.999% about guns
People are people. There’s sick people, and unstable people, and ■■■■■■ people, and angry people, and violent people everywhere.
There’s not AR15s on the street everywhere.
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