OT: Mass Shooting at Douglas High School

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I figured your comment about ignoring me was also a lie. I was right. And now you seek sympathy, camaraderie and solidarity from like-minded jerks like yourself...

You pushed false profiles. Made up arguments and then lied about them.

Please show that he was a Democrat, liberal or part of Antifa.
Please show that England and Germany have twice the murder rates and mass fatalities.

I’ll be waiting.


Boy, I need to call a plumber; here inside your head Tetragummy, the bull**** has been pilling up fast.

Obviously, the shooter possibly being a Democrat has you worried, being such a loyal Pelosi person...The same Nancy Pelosi who wanted Devin Nunes fired from the intel committee because he was exposing the FBI of doing political work for Democrats. Heck, the Democrat talking points were that criticism of the FBI was out of bounds and "not supporting Law Enforcement."

Lo and behold we now find out the FBI had a solid tip on Nikolas Cruz FIVE months ago and totally botched it: Seventeen People might be ALIVE today if a political orginization masking as a "Law Enforcement" agency did THEIR jobs.

So please ask your favorite Nancy if it is okay to criticize the FBI now...Just do it before your usual muff diving session (so I can try to get out of your head before you do your favorite deed).
 
white supremacist? lol I think I know exactly where this came from
 
Look at the NRA parrots on this site that have tried to shift this argument into "gun abolishment" . They've read so many email forwards and watched so much fox news they can't even do any basic critical thinking without immediately repeating talking points and trying to shift the argument. They're just programmed to be this stupid. It's sad really. They're not even getting paid to be shills. Puppets.
 
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Lets hear you idea. Since you are from the WEZ, I like to hear from a libertarian

I think this is a major cultural issue that has formed over the last decade plus. We've devolved into a society, especially amongst the younger generation, that needs instant gratification, constant attention, and incessant positive reinforcement, and by and large are more physically and emotionally detached from their communities around them.

Basically people have become incapable of dealing with rejection and imperfection. I think it's a combination of social media, a culture of victimization pushed at multiple levels (media, schools, government, etc.), and a crumbling communal/family structure that is leaving many at the outskirts of society. To combat this, we either by and large ignore warnings signs of mental illness, blame politicians or interest groups or video games or whatever flavor of the month it is we don't like, or simply hop kids up on drugs to suppress these issues.

Look at how people talk to people on twitter. One of the victims, her father was out searching for her yesterday and was interviewed by the PBP begging people to call him if they knew where she was, and people were wishing death on his daughter because he was wearing a Trump shirt. It's insane how detached people have become.

Guns to me are not the issue, they are merely a tool being used by these aforementioned individuals to carry out acts of heinous violence. Preventing this dude from getting his hands on an AR-15 does nothing to address why he felt the need to do what he did, or why the multitude of other individuals we've seen carry out acts of violence have done the same, or why college kids feel the need to film themselves shoving tide pods down their throats, etc.
 
I think this is a major cultural issue that has formed over the last decade plus. We've devolved into a society, especially amongst the younger generation, that needs instant gratification, constant attention, and incessant positive reinforcement, and by and large are more physically and emotionally detached from their communities around them.

Basically people have become incapable of dealing with rejection and imperfection. I think it's a combination of social media, a culture of victimization pushed at multiple levels (media, schools, government, etc.), and a crumbling communal/family structure that is leaving many at the outskirts of society. To combat this, we either by and large ignore warnings signs of mental illness, blame politicians or interest groups or video games or whatever flavor of the month it is we don't like, or simply hop kids up on drugs to suppress these issues.

Look at how people talk to people on twitter. One of the victims, her father was out searching for her yesterday and was interviewed by the PBP begging people to call him if they knew where she was, and people were wishing death on his daughter because he was wearing a Trump shirt. It's insane how detached people have become.

Guns to me are not the issue, they are merely a tool being used by these aforementioned individuals to carry out acts of heinous violence. Preventing this dude from getting his hands on an AR-15 does nothing to address why he felt the need to do what he did, or why the multitude of other individuals we've seen carry out acts of violence have done the same, or why college kids feel the need to film themselves shoving tide pods down their throats, etc.

I reread it twice and you didn't say anything on how to stop this. I read why you think it happens but nothing on how to prevent it. Also since you blame social media, media etc, why haven't other 1st world countries had a bunch of school shooters or any?
 
A gun by itself never killed anyone. You got to get to the root of the problem...that is the person behind the gun. Our schools teach children they are the products of millions of years of evolution...the strongest survive...kill or be killed in the animal world. This shooter was just carrying out what he was taught in school.
But we have outlawed the Ten Commandments that our Creator gave us to live by included in it is "thou shall not kill." And that each person is a special creation created in God's image and He made us to Love our neighbors as ourselves. If children were taught this, the killings and hate throughout our society would tremendously diminish. But we have removed God and even prayer from our schools and made them illegal. Why are people asking for prayer?
I'm for banning guns with the exception for those for hunting or target shooting, but only after rigorous registration process with local law enforcement, FBI and ATF. I deal in facts and countries than ban or deeply restrict guns have almost no gun violence. The evidence is overwhelming that the answer is banning guns not becoming a police state. Do your research and stop with all this BS! Like you are going to identify all the mental psychos. 95% of disturbed mental persons do not lash out by mass murdering.

Go read John Lott. He's done a lot of research and would disagree with you about causation. In fact, gun violence in Britain was even lower before their gun laws.
Honest, rational discussions are needed to advance society and discussion about the causes of gun violence in this country certainly fit that bill. That said, it detracts from the legitimacy of these conversations when people (whether intentionally to promote a political agenda or just out of pure naivety and lack of awareness) tout falsehoods as fact. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you weren't being dishonest and are just uneducated on the subject.

An AR-15 is not an automatic weapon. It fires a single round per trigger pull. Automatic weapons are highly federally regulated and almost impossible to receive a license for, and if you manage that it's expensive as ****. We're talking tens of thousands of dollars.

Isn't AR-15 semi-automatic as are many hunting rifles? It's designed to look military, though.
 
Guns to me are not the issue, they are merely a tool being used by these aforementioned individuals to carry out acts of heinous violence. Preventing this dude from getting his hands on an AR-15 does nothing to address why he felt the need to do what he did, or why the multitude of other individuals we've seen carry out acts of violence have done the same.
No, but it could stop the ******* mass murder, couldn't it? Right now thats called progress.

If you make it impossible for a HS student to be able to get a gun at all, then that is better than nothing because it would mean a decrease in kids showing up to their HS with guns and being able to murder 10+ and ****.
Like, something is better than nothing. Nobody is saying we should only control the sale of guns and not pay any attention to mental illness.
 
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Go read John Lott. He's done a lot of research and would disagree with you about causation. In fact, gun violence in Britain was even lower before their gun laws.


Isn't AR-15 semi-automatic as are many hunting rifles? It's designed to look military, though.

Appearance doesn't impact functionality.
 
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