Current Affairs The " another shooting in America " thread

[SteveSC]

5 confirmed dead including the shooter.

Ruled not a terrorist.

It was a disgruntled employee who got into a fight with another employee of the same company few years back. I guess he couldn't let it go. He was fired in April.

 

[Rook]

5 confirmed dead including the shooter.

Ruled not a terrorist.

No reason to be alarmed.

 

[Chewbacca]

Seems they would be safer banning Americans returning from abroad than any number of "foreigners"

 

[Tramps_mate]

Happens here it's likely terrorism, happens there its likely just another run of the mill mass shooting.

Gun violence is passé there. It's part of the culture. In 2015 there was over 30,000 deaths by firearm in the US, in the UK there was 51. More people are typically killed with guns in the US in a day (about 85) than in the UK in a year.

Since John Lennon was murdered in New York in 1980 more than 1.2 million have died by firearms in the US.

My brother lives in Texas. The only thing I envy is the weather. He can't gamble (not even online as the IP address prevents it), can't drink unless over 21, yet he can walk into a store and buy a gun. Coming from outside he knows it's madness, but when you are brought up in that environment you don't know any better. Any petty argument can ignite into something deadly. A bad day at work or just a low episode of depression can end up by putting the gun to your head. When you make something so easily accessible there is a greater chance you will use it. The argument by backward gun nuts is "guns don't kill people, people do"...by that logic heroin doesn't kill people, let's have it freely available too then. Right wing folk by nature are opposed to change hence are backward. They revert back to the words of a group of slave owning white supremacists from the 1790s, which ain't surpising as slavery itself would still be around if it was up to right wingers (so too would white only citizens, privileged white male only vote, white only immigration and other supremacist laws from that era). Liberals have effected most of the changes there (the death penalty still stands) but I don't see them making any inroads in the gun law.

My dad was offered a job to build the then Cowboys owner in 1980 odd a new house, with offer to house us etc etc too.. There was no way my parents were moving us to Texas.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

If I lived in America I would own a fun just to protect myself from other Americans

 

[nsno-chris]

If I lived in America I would own a fun just to protect myself from other Americans

A what lad??

 

[gonetomorrow]

A what lad??

He must be one of the fun lobby.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

Godamb auto correct

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[Deleted member 28206]

Virginia:

• No background checks
• No licensing
• No registration
• No permit req’d for concealed carry of long guns
• Open carry long guns & handguns

WELL DONE AMERICA.

 

[jal123]

Virginia:

• No background checks
• No licensing
• No registration
• No permit req’d for concealed carry of long guns
• Open carry long guns & handguns

WELL DONE AMERICA.

Yeah but no but yeah but

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[DanEFC92]

 

[DanEFC92]

Need to take a look at the current system in place. Juries just cannot bring themselves to convict cops.

 

[LinekersLegs]

NRA vocally argue 2nd amendment rights and often complain about government imposition on their rights to own a gun.

So when a gun owner with legal permit for a gun is pulled over by a government employee and, despite following all the guidelines by telling officer about the weapon, is shot dead in cold blood by that policeman you'd think NRA would be all over it.

Yet not a word from NRA about Castile murder - wonder what it is about Philandro that they don't want to defend his 2nd amendment rights.

When the next Sandy Hook atrocity happens bet they won't be as quiet.