Latest mass shooting in America
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At the time of writing the most recent one is in San Bernadino, and it appears the fuckwits attacked... a care centre.
Just last week some pro-life fuckwit chose to make his point by being pro-death.
Every country has fuckwits, but America seems to have more than it's fair share and the situation is made worse because in most other countries the fuckwits are prevented from walking into a shop, buying a gun, and then inflicting their fuckwittery on others with fatal results.
Who the fuck were these fuckwits? What possible motivation could they have for attacking a care home?
Oh... wait, wait I know.
Yeah, I'm one step ahead of the gun lobby.
They're going to say it's a false flag attack organised by Obama in his continuing mission to destroy 'murcan freedom. Ok.
Just last week some pro-life fuckwit chose to make his point by being pro-death.
Every country has fuckwits, but America seems to have more than it's fair share and the situation is made worse because in most other countries the fuckwits are prevented from walking into a shop, buying a gun, and then inflicting their fuckwittery on others with fatal results.
Who the fuck were these fuckwits? What possible motivation could they have for attacking a care home?
Oh... wait, wait I know.
Yeah, I'm one step ahead of the gun lobby.
They're going to say it's a false flag attack organised by Obama in his continuing mission to destroy 'murcan freedom. Ok.
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You gotta be a real low life to attack a facility for people with developmental disabilities.
Yeah, this shit happens in the US with alarming regularity.
Curious to hear what unfolds and what the motive was (if there was one).
Cue Grumpy Obama. Is anyone else interesting in addressing it down there? I get the general importance of wedge issues and all, but it's becoming increasingly weird to me when a president can't move the ball on an issue, even if they really want to. Can't he form some sort of bipartisan committee to craft a serious policy intervention to try out?
Even from a cynical perspective, wouldn't strong action on a Blue issue rally the base for the coming election?
(Is he in the NRAs pocket at all? I seriously don't know.)
What say the Americans of SS?
You're not from the US, are you?
The Death Party controls both legislative houses and has no more interest in gun legislation than I have in Beach Boys reissues.
We could have 10 of these incidents a day and Republicans would just clamp their lips tighter on the NRA's balloon knot.
Come on, you saying you're not buying a deluxe remaster of Surf's Up with Disney Girls outtakes on it?
for two hours. Added to an already shitty, busy day.
Guns: They exist, they're there (and
there and there and there...) and I don't foresee any practical method of getting rid of them completely. Sad but true. And even then, the public has to contend with what's not available legally. I have no use for politics, though. Hope that those directly affected get beyond this eventually.
But there are ways of reducing the overall numbers of fire arms.
Outlawing fully automatic and semi auto weapons here in Australia and then offering an amnesty and compensation for owners to hand in said weapons worked pretty well here.
Of course it did.
Nothing can be done that would work immediately, which is what confounds the magical thinkers in this country who think Jeezass wants them for a sunbeam.
355 mass shootings in 336 days (so far)
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/12/02/3727406/doctors-gun-violence-research/
Physicians Demand End To 20-Year-Old Ban On Gun Violence Research
BY ALEX ZIELINSKI
DEC 2, 2015 3:55PM
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That’s why members of Congress joined physicians from across the country Wednesday morning to demand an end to the Dickey Amendment, a 20-year-old law banning any scientific research on gun violence.
“Gun violence is among the most difficult public health challenges we face as a country, but because of the deeply misguided ban on research, we know very little about it,” said Rep. David Price, vice chair to the House of Representatives’ Gun Violence Prevention Task Force. “Regardless of where we stand in the debate over gun violence, we should all be able to agree that this debate should be informed by objective data and robust scientific research.”
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shame on you.
I am sayin'
Trump 2016.
Whats your point here. Yeah lots of people died, but more did in Europe so its okay ?
You seriously think arming everyone makes people safer ?
How about that two year old that blew her mums head off in the supermarket ?
Or that 11 year old girl at the firing range who accidentally shot her instructor and killed him.
the idea that mass shootings are just fact of life is insane. the concept that we should do nothing because certain people are determined and evil is perverse.
Yup Norway is totally worse with their one event four years ago.
http://https//www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/02/the-san-bernardino-mass-shooting-is-the-second-today-and-the-355th-this-year/
Tell that to the children who accidentally kill their siblings (or others, or themselves) every year in the US. And be sure to let their parents know, too.
If only a good guy had a gun. No.
Chad Littlefield and Chris Kyle were armed and trained to use their guns when they were killed.
Colorado has one of the highest rates of gun ownership. Has not helped.
In Oregon you are allowed to carry your weapon on college campuses and shopping malls. Hasn't stopped anyone.
And on and on.
If owning guns made us safer, then we would be safer already.
We are not.
Rip it up and start again.
Hey,
The irony that I find in all the mass shootings discussions is the single-minded association of religious extremism with the Muslim faith. Historically, nearly all societies in the world have at some point used religion as justification for performing heinous acts of violence. Whether you talk about the colonization of Africa, Christian crusades, the Thirty Years War in England, the Almoravid crusades, the Panthay Rebellion, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,. Ku Klux Klan killings during Jim Crow, etc., they all used religion (to some extent, at least) as a justification. So, the key theme as I see it is the need to address the psyche behind the use of religion to justify violent, extremist behavior. Some of the remedy, of course, should involve enforcing stricter gun control to keep guns away those who pose dangers to the common good. By and large, I think the major reduction in social discourse between people as a function of greater Internet usage could be a distal source of the issue. It seems to be more difficult to empathize with others when there is a general reduction in social interaction and camaraderie between people. The implication appears to be a lower sense of humanity that the anonymity of the Internet not only allows but perpetuates.
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak