No, but if Vera Farmiga wants to be my little demon I may have to ask my wife for forgiveness.
Current Affairs The " another shooting in America " thread
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I'd be banned if I said what I really want. But the fact that there are so many families grieving in this country whilst everyone trivializes their pain? Yeah, I'd not be caring what happened if I lost my loved one.
And I must clarify, I don't mean a mass shooting. I just honestly would have not have a reason to live at that point.
Lobster Johnson
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Well of course not, most people world wide dont believe in the devil because it's obviously stupid.
According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been 233 mass shootings in the US so far this year, and today is the 154th day of the year.
It defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are shot or killed, excluding the shooter. It’s more than one a day!
It’s abhorrent that a society can allow this to happen all because people have a strange sexual fetish for their firearms. People who allow it are bellends.
It defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are shot or killed, excluding the shooter. It’s more than one a day!
It’s abhorrent that a society can allow this to happen all because people have a strange sexual fetish for their firearms. People who allow it are bellends.
Well that’s alright then
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In 2020 there were 45,000 deaths due to firearms. 5% of that is 2,250, so if they could over time reduce that it's a big start.
They're also regularly used in some of the worst mass shootings, so again reducing that over time would be a start.
That’s completely irrelevant as a point considering that virtually every school shooter or mass shooter seems to use an AR-15.
I’m the last two weeks you’ve literally had Buffalo, Ulvade, and now Oklahoma all with the shooter using an AR-15. Besides, the gun they’re using isn’t the main point, the fact that the US blatantly needs way more gun controls is evident when you consider more than 18,000 people have died from gun violence in the US in 2022.
Chewbacca
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Many people who make failed suicide attempts regret the attempt and then seek help.
Not much chance for regret after blowing your brains out with an easily accessible gun. Fewer guns will also reduce suicide deaths my gun totin’, rootin’ tootin’ friend.
It's not "obviously" stupid. There's a reason why people believe in it.
Lobster Johnson
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So the idea of an entity you can't see, living somewhere you can't locate, who is responsible for all the evil on the world whilst the only guy who is more powerful than him just lets him get on with it is perfectly logical?
No, mate. It's daft. And the reason people believe it is because they're brainwashed in the name of social control and/or uneducated.
Is this the red bloke with the pitch fork?
Or are we on about Frenchy here?
Because one is very real and the other is something completely made up by people who have no concept of how the world actually worked at the time so made something up to fill the gap.
It is obviously stupid to believe in something that doesn’t exist
Chewbacca
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Is it because it’s on Iron Maiden album covers?
Jan. 19, Baltimore: A man who worked for a gun violence reduction program was killed in an East Baltimore neighborhood, along with two others. A fourth person was injured. |
Jan. 23, Milwaukee: Five men and a woman were found shot to death at a Park West neighborhood home. The police believe the attack targeted specific people. |
Jan. 23, Inglewood, Calif.: The same day, a shooting at a birthday party killed four people, including two sisters, and wounded a fifth. The shooting was gang-related, the mayor said. |
Jan. 29, St. Louis: A shooting near an intersection killed three young men and wounded a fourth. Police said they had no suspects. |
Feb. 5, Corsicana and Frost, Texas: A 41-year-old man murdered his mother, his stepfather, his sons and the son of his ex-girlfriend in an overnight shooting. The man later fatally shot himself. |
Feb. 28, Sacramento: A man shot dead his three daughters and their chaperone at a church during a court-approved visit. The children’s mother had a restraining order against the shooter, who killed himself. |
March 12, Baltimore: A shooting in Northwest Baltimore killed three men in a car and wounded a fourth. |
March 19, Fayetteville, N.C.: A Saturday night shootout in a hotel parking lot killed three people and wounded another three. The shooting may have been linked to a fight between motorcycle gangs. |
March 19, Norfolk, Va.: Hours later, an argument outside a bar escalated into a shooting that killed three young bystanders. One of the victims was a 25-year-old newspaper reporter whose editor called her to cover the shooting, not realizing she had been killed. |
April 3, Sacramento: At least five shooters fired more than 100 rounds a block from the State Capitol, killing six people — three men and three women — and wounding 12. The police described the shooting as gang-related. |
April 20, Duluth, Minn.: A 29-year-old man who said he suffered from mental illness killed his aunt, uncle, two young cousins and their dog in their sleep. He later killed himself. |
April 21, Mountain View, Ark.: A man killed his parents, another woman and her son at two homes half a mile apart in a rural community, the police say. |
April 27, Biloxi, Miss.: A 32-year-old man killed the owner of the Broadway Inn Express motel and two employees in an argument over money. He fled to a neighboring town and fatally shot a fourth person. Police later found the gunman dead, barricaded inside a convenience store. |
May 8, Clarkston, Ga.: Three people were shot to death and three others were wounded at a suburban Atlanta condo complex on a Sunday night. |
May 14, Buffalo: An 18-year-old avowed white supremacist killed 10 people and wounded three more with an assault-style weapon in a live-streamed attack at a supermarket. |
May 24, Uvalde, Texas: An 18-year-old gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School. |
May 27, Stanwood, Mich.: A 51-year-old man allegedly killed his wife and her three young children at a home in Mecosta County before shooting himself, police said. The man remains in critical condition. |
June 1, Tulsa, Okla.: A gunman killed his back surgeon, another doctor, a receptionist and a visitor at a medical building. He then killed himself. |
As long as this list is, it’s also a very incomplete accounting of American gun violence. It doesn’t include the at least 60 shootings that left three people dead but don’t technically count as mass shootings (because fewer than four people were shot). It doesn’t count shootings that wounded people without killing anybody, like one in Milwaukee that injured 17 people. And it leaves out the individual gun homicides and suicides that make up a majority of the gun violence that kills more than 100 Americans on an average day. |
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