Current Affairs The " another shooting in America " thread

[Huyton Layne]

A scene out of GTA San Andreas took place yesterday half a mile from my kids' school, around the time school finishes.
Would make national news in most countries, here it barely makes local.

 

[LostLegend]

Without doubt Andrew Callaghan is one of the best journalists around at the moment. He has that disarming Louis Theroux style. His more light hearted stuff is hilarious but shines with the more serious subjects (check out his BLM riot videos for example)
That mixture works for the pure surrealism of American gun culture. Find any mainstream news network doing anything even close to this, just wow.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

The American justice system… on probation for ten years?!?! How the eff can people hope to break free?
I spent a lot of time on probation as a youth and it was max 18-24 months at a time, during which they’d help you to step up. Ten years, if you’re from this back ground, it’s almost impossible to keep your nose clean

No wonder they have the highest prison figures in the world

 

[verreauxi]

100% of this is because of Fox "News". They have completely brainwashed almost half of the country in to not believing a single thing. Even their own stances change daily and nobody questions it. I don't get what the end game is for those assholes like Murdoch. I really really don't get what they see to gain.

Good read, a bit dogmatic at times, but not wrong (I believe @ilikecheese did their own experiment along these lines...watching the brain-wash channel for like 3 days straight):

The real reason Americans are so damn angry all the time

We are at war with ourselves, but not for the reasons you think.

www.motherjones.com

 

[PhilM]

The American justice system… on probation for ten years?!?! How the eff can people hope to break free?
I spent a lot of time on probation as a youth and it was max 18-24 months at a time, during which they’d help you to step up. Ten years, if you’re from this back ground, it’s almost impossible to keep your nose clean

No wonder they have the highest prison figures in the world

A prison system, aptly named the Department of Corrections, that from an outsider does not suitably attempt to support and rehabilitate offenders.

 

[cronullasharks]

Another one

3 dead in Philadelphia shooting, police say

Three people have died after more than a dozen were injured during a shooting just before midnight on Saturday in South Philadelphia, authorities said.

abcnews.go.com

 

[Goat]

I dont understand, you have enough guns, why cant you just start shooting all those that oppose the removal of guns?

 

[Sassy Colombian]

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.

We are a sick society. What’s even more abhorrent is that 311,000 kids have been directly affected by gun violence at school since Columbine first happened and nothing has changed to protect our children. It is heartbreaking and as a mother of an 11 year old, it is now a constant worrying that no parent should have to endure.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[Groucho]

It’s not exactly a phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range but Jesus…….

 

[roydo]

It’s not exactly a phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range but Jesus…….

Blimey.

We had them cap guns that you pushed into a potato and fired a bit of spud, with a little bang from the cap.

Merican 6 year olds would utterly school our kiddies in a yoof WW3.

 

[LinekersLegs]

3 dead, 14 shot in mass shooting in Chattanooga, Tennessee

This is the second mass shooting in the city in the last week.

abcnews.go.com

At least three people are dead and 14 shot following a shooting outside a nightclub in Chattanooga, Tennessee overnight, which is the second mass shooting in the city in the last week.

Two people died from gunshot wounds and a third died after being hit by a car, according to Chattanooga Police Chief Celeste Murphy. Three other people were injured by vehicles fleeing the scene.The chief told reporters the shooting was an "isolated incident" and said there were likely "multiple shooters."

Murphy said the circumstances of the shooting are still unknown and appealed for the public's help for information.
"Regardless of how small and insignificant you may think that it is … please reach out to us," she said.The identities of the victims and suspects have not been released.

Last weekend, six teenagers were shot in downtown Chattanooga during a confrontation between two large groups. No arrests have been made is this shooting as well.

 

[PhilM]

It’s not exactly a phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range but Jesus…….

That's nauseating - branding a weapon to look like mummy's or daddy's AR rifle and capturing 'their imagination'. It's indoctrination, pure and simple.

It's a .22 LR as well rather than some BB or pellet gun. That could easily still be lethal to around 300-500 yards if not further.

 

[TN Toffee]

It’s not exactly a phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range but Jesus…….

Five times the word “safe” or “safety” is used on that single page advertisement. You know what would be even safer? Not giving a rifle to a f*cking six year old in the first place.