Current Affairs The " another shooting in America " thread
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I wonder if ISIS are going to backpedal on ownership of this attack now it appears the shooter was a very unstable gay man?
peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
Sales of high-powered automatic weapons have soared days after the deadliest mass shooting in modern United States history where Omar Mateen use one to kill 49 people in a gay nightclub.
One Georgia gun shop has reported a boom in sales of AR 15s - the semi-automatic weapons used in the Orlando massacre - since Sunday.
Within three hours Monday, 35 AR-15s were sold, around 10 guns an hour. Typically, the store sells just two per day.
Another on line seller has reported sales of 15,000 semi-automatic weapons since Sunday............
One Georgia gun shop has reported a boom in sales of AR 15s - the semi-automatic weapons used in the Orlando massacre - since Sunday.
Within three hours Monday, 35 AR-15s were sold, around 10 guns an hour. Typically, the store sells just two per day.
Another on line seller has reported sales of 15,000 semi-automatic weapons since Sunday............
TheFinnFan
Finners
Peeps are gearing up.
TX Bill
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Just curious.
Why would we start "Another shooting in America thread?" Chicago has daily instances of shootings and one of the highest murder rates in America. You'd be better off just having a stickied "Shootings in America" thread so that you can come in daily and post the horror of it all.
Sensible no?
Why would we start "Another shooting in America thread?" Chicago has daily instances of shootings and one of the highest murder rates in America. You'd be better off just having a stickied "Shootings in America" thread so that you can come in daily and post the horror of it all.
Sensible no?
TX Bill
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I haven't bothered to read through the thread because, as you know, we've all been through this same song and dance before:
1) Shooting in America
2) Cue moral outrage on GOT
3) Attempt to discuss the debate in some sort of rational sense
4) Descending in shouting match and name calling
5) Thread closed
I imagine this one will end the same.
Best of luck.
1) Shooting in America
2) Cue moral outrage on GOT
3) Attempt to discuss the debate in some sort of rational sense
4) Descending in shouting match and name calling
5) Thread closed
I imagine this one will end the same.
Best of luck.
Good to see you back posting on GOT. Enjoying the Copa?
TX Bill
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Very much so. Been working a lot and doing a lot with the kids so I'm exhausted by the end of the day and really only get to watch the first one. Fell asleep after ARG's first goal last night. Glad to see Funes Mori starting every match for ARG. I think he'll be a better player for us in the future. Thanks for asking.
Eric Djemba-Djemba
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Lol at the 'cue moral outrage' as if it's something ridiculous.
It's not like 50 people were needlessly murdered or anything.
DownOnTheUpside
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Wow, that is pretty impressive to just sweep over 30,000 deaths a year under a "nothing to see here folks" carpet even in a population as big as the US.
TheAlmightyFloater
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Crazy to think I've been asked for ID to buy a Gillette razor before and there's shops in America selling actual guns... As in the actual guns soldiers use... To bloody citizens that work full time in the tax office or something.
Seanjd
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It is clear that the writer of those shoddy statistics has no baring with reality. They give two different statistics on chance of being killed in a shooting, one if you 'hang around the hood' and one if you don't. Absolutely ridiculous. And none sense. Go and find the statistics of deaths by firearm by country per 100,000 population. That ratio is clear to see that America does have a gun problem.
Seanjd
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Also the person is wrong to say gun related deaths is declining in America. In fact, it has been steadily rising since 1998 (29,000) to 2014 (34,000). That's a rise of almost 20%.
Surely, if gun deaths are going up year on year by so many, your country has a gun problem?
DownOnTheUpside
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The population has risenmuch quicker
.001% Is not cause for the hysteria seen, people are pushing agendas
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