Which version of the Second Amendment do you support, the one understood for nearly 200 years or the modern interpretation?
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TheBigIguana
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God yes
NilSatisOptimum
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Seems to me Lobbying is the issue here. And how the American political system ticks. The entire political process needs an overhaul. Politicians beholden to wealth of Gun lobby and others, you pay you have your say.
Until this is addressed some Americans will keep going out killing other Americans for whatever reason that's in their head. Anyway, good luck.
Until this is addressed some Americans will keep going out killing other Americans for whatever reason that's in their head. Anyway, good luck.
Would be easier than banning guns that’s for sure.
The state of that.
Police walking round outside with body armour and assault rifles. Scared to go into the school and try and save children.
America in a nutshell that. Insecure cowards wielding military grade weaponry to masquerade as the archetypal "American hero" while lunatics can literally purchase the same thing to murder innocent people.
"Serve and protect" yeah right
Exactly!
The rest of the world looks on in disbelief as Americans defend their dated “rights” while children are being murdered
Over 50 school shootings in the US this year!! There has been one in the UK in my 47 years! No guns-no shootings. Rather simple
What a sh!thouse.
This is why I hate the blanket ‘Fake news / MSM is bad’ angle. It gives an easy excuse to pondlife like Cruz to say “you’ve just got an agenda” to any question they don’t like, and not be held to account.
Chewbacca
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This is what would happen in a civilised country
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I'm against grade school children being slaughtered like livestock at their schools.
If that means the 2nd Amendment needs to go altogether, or at least be rewritten to make sense in a 21st century world with 21st century firearms, then yes, I support that.
I think that's a bit harsh, to be fair. Social media doesn't help in situations like this. It's a terrible tragedy, but police will have protocol that they follow, like in the UK or anywhere else. They will have been following what they are told to do. It might be wrong (or appear wrong) but it's better than a free for all, where they go kicking down doors and spraying bullets everywhere. That's pretty much what American police get accused of all the time.
Republicans seem to have a knack of walking out of interviews when things get a bit sticky. I'm at a loss as to why people still vote for them.
I don't think it's harsh at all. The police engaged the shooter before he went in to the school. He was then in there for an hour while they "strategized". It wasn't a hostage situation, they could easily hear him shooting in the school. That should have been a complete assault on the school to stop the slaughter.
Easy to say in hindsight. At the time, they won't have known if it was a single person or group, whether it was terrorism, if there were explosives involved. Imagine if they'd stormed the school and a bomb was detonated. The police would have to answer that.
Imagine they stood around and waited for an hour wrestling parents to the ground who just wanted to try to save their kids whilst an active shooter murdered 19 of them. Since Columbine the rules of engagement for a school shooting is for the police to get in there as fast as possible. Apparently Texas didn't get the memo.
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