Shooting of the Day
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- yurimon0
We need to ban dangerous pharmaceuticals, anti-depressents, just one slight over look in these shootings.
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- Derp, derp, derp ...********
- IRNlun60
Face it, in the US, we're an incredibly violent society.
We incarcerate over 2 million people that for the most part have committed non-violent crimes, paying more per inmate than we do for educating our kids. We've been at war for over 10 years with no end in sight. We just went through one of the most and virulent and antagonizing elections in our history. We have extremely violent gangs in every state. One of our favorite past times is to watch football which leaves some men brain damaged or handicapped. We modify our food supply to maximize quantity and profit, all while minimizing any nutritional benefit. We allow our banking institutions to sell bad mortgages causing our markets to crash eliminating peoples retirements funds. People drive large SUVs not so much for their handeling, power and fuel efficiency, but to feel safer during the event of an accident. Damned the other person, at least I'm safe.
We value and encourage people to be as wealthy as possible, all while our public education system is terrible, our minimum wages are lower than the cost of living, and middle class incomes have been stagnant for 30+ years. Our major highways are in disrepair, our air in some states is incredibly polluted. We love to drink, party, fight, and repeat. We prefer to let someone go bankrupt than to provide them with healthcare. We militarized our police force to the extent that we can't even protest peacefully or celebrate a home town sports team victory without hundreds of riot patrol and their non-deadly weapons, pepper spraying, rubber bulleting and corralling us back to our couches. The majority of the country is on some pain medication, or anti depressant which is clearly a symptom of a larger problem. If you have any kind of mental health issues, you better be able to afford your medications because if not then thats too bad for you and anyone you happen to lash out at. We are a society that for the most part does not give a shit about the other persons family, health, well-being, and education. Etc.. etc.. etc..
I wouldn't mind seeing some stricter gun regulations regarding semi-automatic, specific bullets and assault rifles but frankly until we can address the level of disrespect we have for each other, then things are only going to get worse.
- well saidmonkeyshine
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- +1kgvs72
- Right onbenfal99
- yeaCanHasQBN
- excellent.mikotondria3
- YES.oilpan
- You haven't stopped being at war since WW2 started.i_monk
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- formed0
IR - well said, good points.
America looks like it'll rip itself apart from the inside. Look at recent politics. I think 95% of the populace agree on 75% of the issues, but with the way Washington is it makes us all hate each other.
Videogames...no one talking about that yet? I do believe that the more violent first person shooters continue to contribute to the violence. It simple desensitizes kids. It puts a high powered gun in their hand, let's them aim at another person, fire and see what actually happens. Pretty sick really.
Movies...more to IR's point above...we can't see a fucking boob on TV, but decapitation? Sure, why not.
Fucking American. Sick.
- utopian0
Fighting "The Second Amendment" gun nuts & NRA is like fighting the war on drugs and obesity. They are both epic American failures!
- monkeyshine0
I know...for everyone going on about their right to have guns based on the 2nd amendment...let's hand out muskets. If we're going to be faithful to the constitution, let's fulfill the author's intent. Muskets for everyone. There. Knock yourself out.
- spoken like a true idiot. bravoyurimon
- yup. as idiotic as those rambling on about their god given right to own guns.monkeyshine
- Yes bc your semii will keep you safe from surveillance databases, drones and militarized police forcesTheBlueOne
- you might as well have a musket.TheBlueOne
- TheBlueOne0
- thank you. fuck the media.sea_sea
- That was some bullshit....
fucking mediaRamanisky2
- formed0
I agree. Single shot weapons only. There is no, not one, logical reason to have anything else.
People want the wild west, free for all, everyone for themselves, gun showdowns over ex girl friends, etc., etc. Single shot is how it must be done.
- benfal990
85 persons die every day from firearms in the USA. It's 31,000/year.
In Canada, it's an average of 1,300/year or 6 persons every day.
In Iceland, there are an estimated number of firearms held by civilians of 90,000. The population of Iceland is 319,000 persons and the total number of deaths involving firearms in 2009 was 4 deaths. Iceland is 15th over 179 countries for rate of privately owned firearms. In other word, many people have guns over there.
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Iam just dropping numbers there, dont want to say anything from this.Iam totally disgusted by what happend yesterday, but USA won't change quickly, changing the way a society think, and changing a culture is a very very very long process.
We all know other shooting will happend in the next months. This is the saddest part.
It's not the president that can change something, its every amercian, togheter.
Good luck to you guys, we, in other countries are witnessing all this and we can only hope for you all to get your shit togheter and fix this and that once and for all.
- benfal990
last week i went to theatre to watch a movie and before the movie we had the traditional 20-30min of upcoming movie trailers and guess what, like 90% of the trailers were movies with guns, lots of guns... all american movies. There were so much guns that me and my friend laughed at it... it was too much. ... Well, that is your culture, Americans.
- severian0
Nancy Lanza legally owned a Sig Sauer and a Glock, both handguns of models commonly used by police, and a military-style Bushmaster .223 M4 carbine, according to law enforcement officials who also believe Adam Lanza used at least some of those weapons.
Nancy Lanza was an avid gun collector who once showed him a "really nice, high-end rifle" that she had purchased, said Dan Holmes, owner of a landscaping business who recently decorated her yard with Christmas garlands and lights. "She said she would often go target shooting with her kids."
- i feel no sympathy for her death.CanHasQBN
- that's a little harsh. :(monkeyshine
- yup, harshmoldero
- woman...
sorry completely irrelevant.pango - i'm 1/2 cat. i don't give a fuck. If you choose to raise your kids under a culture of guns, you better run if your child gets ticked off.CanHasQBN
- ticked off at you.CanHasQBN
- that's naive and harsh. Don't raise them eating meat, either, they might eat you one day. Fuck.formed
- takes a true psychopath to resort to cannibalism. just takes an angry teen with an arsenal of weapons at home to rampage.CanHasQBN
- go on a rampage.CanHasQBN
- kirshar120
Ok, as a deer hunter who lives in Mississippi (surrounded by die hard hunters everywhere), I feel i need to tell Cygnus to chill out a bit. Certain guns can be banned and still leave room for hunting rifles, single-shot muzzle loaders and some shotguns, which is the bread and butter of hunters everywhere. The .223 Bushmaster that the kid had which was owned by his mother? Seriously, who needs that?
And your defense of making schools fortresses? What about the theater shooting not long ago, or the church shooting? Do we make all public buildings fortresses now? We may as well just declare martial law and get it over with.
The problem with tighter gun control ownership here is that the mother legally owned all those guns, but it didn't stop the son from killing her and using them. How do you stop that? She may have been mentally competent, but another member of her family wasn't.
On the flip side, everyone else does need to understand that there are milllions of hunters all over the u.s. and not all of us are the extreme, "wear the blood of what we kill", "you can pry it from my cold dead hands" kinda hunters. I hunt and kill deer for food, plain and simple.
For me, this incident is too much, it's the breaking point for me. The few bad apples have ruined it for all of us. I'm not asking for an all-out, blanket ban, but something serious needs to be done. Unfortunately, no one trusts our government to do this the right way.......
- Also, i completely agree with everything IR said above ^....kirshar12
- Well said********
- good post.lowimpakt
- Yes sir, thank you. Awesome to hear this from reasonable hunter/gun owners. I'm not one, but many friends are just like u.mikotondria3
- Thank you.oilpan
- maybe model the system after canada? it's pretty tight up here.prophetone
- whhipp0
- LOL ya god is useless in this topic. We're all alone on this to fix and safe our self.pango
- YES. Totally agree that we should definitely allow Allah into ALL of our American schools.CanHasQBN
- and c'mon quit bring god to this topic. he didn't tell the kids to kill or not kill. so lets leave him out of this.pango
- FFS. What a retarded post. You implying humans have power over God's influence? Isn't that blasphemy?ETM
- monkeyshine0
Dear God...
- I think your thinking of the other guy in your bitterness.
lol muahahayurimon
- I think your thinking of the other guy in your bitterness.
- dbloc0
so this is the cocksucker that did this
- sureshot0
another shooting in alabama
- there are about 11,600 homicides by firearms per year in the US, or about 32 per day. http://answers.yahoo…zaq
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