Current Affairs The " another shooting in America " thread

[Prevenger17]

He died a noble death. But It is the folly of being alive in real-time. You don't have freeze frame then you have it coming.

I mean, the kid complied. But he span around too fast. What was the officer supposed to do, not shoot him? Hopefully the boy has learned personal responsibility in the afterlife

 

[Death]

I mean, the kid complied. But he span around too fast. What was the officer supposed to do, not shoot him? Hopefully the boy has learned personal responsibility in the afterlife

Just come back reincarnated as a lad that can freeze frame in real time and there won't be any problems lad.

 

[LostLegend]

 

[grandjoeblue]

Tbh I don’t think it quite as simplistic as that. Canada and some of the Scandinavian countries have quite high gun ownership levels for instance (although admittedly not as high as US) but don’t seem to have anywhere near the same issues you’d expect if it was the only factor.

Surely crime levels are significantly lower in those countries? I'd guess a lot of the gun ownership in those countries is hunting related. Don't cities like Chicago have that many gang related deaths at weekends now that it's barely news?

If you gave all of the young lads on the estates guns throughout the UK we'd probably have similar problems I'd imagine.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Surely crime levels are significantly lower in those countries? I'd guess a lot of the gun ownership in those countries is hunting related. Don't cities like Chicago have that many gang related deaths at weekends now that it's barely news?

If you gave all of the young lads on the estates guns throughout the UK we'd probably have similar problems I'd imagine.

As I said I think it is complicated - a lot of US gun ownership is also hunting related, even here in suburban California with comparatively strict gun laws I know lots of people with guns (many with multiple) and the primary ownership reason is hunting.

However there is no reason for instance a gun originally brought to go hunting at a weekend couldn't be used in a robbery, or a kid in the household doesn’t steal it to do a mass shooting at their school or it is used the hunt down an ex and kill them and their new family but it just doesn’t seem to happen as often in other countries.

 

[JammyP]

 

[LinekersLegs]

Being clearly identified and the 1st amendment giving then the right to cover the protests does not seem to be providing the press any protections.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[LinekersLegs]

Yeah, that “good guy with a gun will stop a bad guy with a gun” doesn’t seem to be working out too well tbh

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[BlueTX]

My son lives less than 5 miles away. It's not his view there's no risk to the general public. Not at all.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[Prevenger17]

Ffs

 

[verreauxi]

Yeah, that “good guy with a gun will stop a bad guy with a gun” doesn’t seem to be working out too well tbh

As I've said before, this is why battlefields are the safest place on earth. Whenever I want my child to be safe, I immediately pull them from school and transplant them into an area where everyone has a gun and is protecting themselves by shooting.