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lordy_87

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  • May 24, 2022
  • #1
They are never going to learn are they
 

Ian1779

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  • May 24, 2022
  • #2
Every American that is against gun control is a c**t.
 
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xcraigx

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  • May 24, 2022
  • #3
Despicable. Innocent young children. Time and time again something as heartbreaking as this occurs and nothing is done to stop it from happening again in the future. I just don't understand.
 

lordy_87

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  • May 24, 2022
  • #4
Ian1779 said:
Every American that is against gun control is a c**t.
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They don't realise that though. It's a mentality ingrained into a large proportion of the USAs population from birth. A major culture shift is needed in that country but I can't see it ever coming.
 
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lordy_87

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  • May 24, 2022
  • #5
What is it going to take for something to change over there???
 

Liquid Gold

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  • May 24, 2022
  • #6
Country is going backwards.

Guns have more rights than pregnant women.
 
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stay_up_skyblues

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  • May 24, 2022
  • #7
Made me feel sick to the stomach. How fucking awful
 

Earlsdon_Skyblue1

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  • May 24, 2022
  • #8
I'm seeing this story and it sounds really awful but I have to pinch myself to concentrate and absorb the reality of it. It has happened so many times that it is almost desensitisation in a way. This shit just keeps happening over and over again.

I lived in America a few years back for about six months and had a gun pulled on me twice during that time. Neither situation was remotely appropriate either. Once by the police when when I was the one that had called them, the other by a bouncer at a strip club who picked up on me saying to a mate how weird it was that security had holsters. He thought it was a funny joke.

Guns are just seen as far far too normal. This guy was 18 years old shooting 10 year olds. Why? Fucking disgusting.
 

stay_up_skyblues

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  • May 24, 2022
  • #9
Just the most bizarre place where they have gun counters next to the frozen section in the supermarket. I remember that clear as day from holidaying there as a child.

There is no going back for them is there, even if they wanted to. Ironically gun sales probably go up after this sort of tragedy. Them poor babbies.
 

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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  • May 24, 2022
  • #10
And the same circus will play out again.

Thought and prayers
Too soon to discuss gun control
Few weeks has passed so no need to discuss gun control.

The place is messed up in so many ways. Absolutely obssessed with the rights of money and guns and largely seem to still see women and minorities as second class citizens who should be dictated to by rich, white men.
 
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stay_up_skyblues

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  • May 24, 2022
  • #11
The inevitable solution offered;

Texas Attorney General suggests arming teachers
 
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xcraigx

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  • May 25, 2022
  • #12
18 children now confirmed as dead, 3 adults too.

How can an 18 year old be able to purchase two assault weapons? In fact, how can anyone?
 
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Kieranp96

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  • May 25, 2022
  • #13
xcraigx said:
18 children now confirmed as dead, 3 adults too.

How can an 18 year old be able to purchase two assault weapons? In fact, how can anyone?
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Where do you see this? Every source still saying 14 kids one adult
 
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Kieranp96

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  • May 25, 2022
  • #14
Kieranp96 said:
Where do you see this? Every source still saying 14 kids one adult
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Ok updated now
 
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xcraigx

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  • May 25, 2022
  • #15
Down to 2 adults now, whichever senator was quoting 3 earlier may have been wrong. There does seem to be conflicting reports on whether the shooter killed or critically injured his Grandmother before going into the school. No reports on how many injuries yet, there's very little in the way of official information coming out.

In fact it seems the senator was counting the shooter in with the 3 adult deaths.
 

rob9872

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  • May 25, 2022
  • #16
Why is it almost always a school?

I know all life is important, but always feels worse to me when it's kids.

If I was going on a rampage I'd go after people who have at some time perceived wrongs against me, not innocent fekkin children, heartbreaking.

I can only assume the cowards want the notoriety of a number dead, well aware that kids are unlikely to have a gun to shoot back at them!
 

robbiekeane

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  • May 25, 2022
  • #17
stay_up_skyblues said:
Just the most bizarre place where they have gun counters next to the frozen section in the supermarket. I remember that clear as day from holidaying there as a child.

There is no going back for them is there, even if they wanted to. Ironically gun sales probably go up after this sort of tragedy. Them poor babbies.
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The right to bear arms is such an antiquated law from way back when you'd have much of the country with one house every few miles and i'd sure as fuck want to be able to protect my family with a rifle back then too. That was a completely different time.

Unfortunately it's not going to change because its about money and power. The NRA are one of the biggest funders of the republican party and its been drilled into all of the southern and flyover state moron populations that gun control = constraining your freedom of choice = communist = democrats

The sad thing is that deep down the politicians know its the right thing to do too, but it would just lose their control, power and money. So bubba gump will keep getting angry so that republicans can maintain power and stay rich.

Here's the top ten recipients of NRA donations

 
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Ian1779

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  • May 25, 2022
  • #18
Americans that obsess over the 2nd amendment are virtually identical to a religious radical that obsesses over a 1500 year old story book.
They can’t see it, and would never accept it even if they could.
 
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clint van damme

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  • May 25, 2022
  • #19
Ted Cruz already been out defending the right to carry guns.
That man is vermin.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • May 25, 2022
  • #20
The truth is that actually even Republican voters want tighter gun control, even it it’s just a universal background check. But the laws will never pass because the NRA has a financial grip on their politicians and act to block even the slightest move towards more regulation. It’s one of the areas where it’s pretty much just Republicans taking the backhanders and donations.

At schools over here we have fire drills, over there they and the children have drills and training in how to react to a mass shooter coming on site. With this shooting and the one in Buffalo recently the shooter himself wasn’t even 20. That I find especially terrifying.
 

clint van damme

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  • May 25, 2022
  • #21
clint van damme said:
Ted Cruz already been out defending the right to carry guns.
That man is vermin.
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Just read hes been paid to speak at an NRA event in Houston in 3 day time. But don't worry, he's praying for the victims.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • May 25, 2022
  • #22
Have seen a lot of praise for the ‘good guy with a gun’, which is all well and good, but 21 people were already dead by the time he could intervene. The shooter always has the advantage of pre planning, surprise and having a powerful rapid firing weapon.
 
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RegiswasGod

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  • May 25, 2022
  • #23
Brighton Sky Blue said:
schools over here we have fire drills, over there they and the children have drills and training in how to react to a mass shooter coming on site. With this shooting and the one in Buffalo recently the shooter himself wasn’t even 20. That I find especially terrifying.
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Sadly, our schools are now following suit and are also having those drills too. Well secondary schools are, anyway. Not primary
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • May 25, 2022
  • #24
RegiswasGod said:
Sadly, our schools are now following suit and are also having those drills too. Well secondary schools are, anyway. Not primary
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We haven’t had one yet, though there is a policy for ‘on site intruders’. Over there it is very much embedded into them like a fire drill.
 

tisza

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  • May 25, 2022
  • #25
Gun crime biggest cause of death in children and adolescents in USA. Same people talking about protecting rights of unborn children are the ones not trying hard enough to keep those children alive after they have been born.
 
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RegiswasGod

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  • May 25, 2022
  • #26
Brighton Sky Blue said:
We haven’t had one yet, though there is a policy for ‘on site intruders’. Over there it is very much embedded into them like a fire drill.
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My daughters secondary school had one last week. Lockdown alarm. Doors all have to be locked, they get under the tables. It's so sad. Those poor kids over in the States need the government to take better care of them.
 
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SBT

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  • May 25, 2022
  • #27
The country is dying a slow death. I’m just so glad I left when I did. I’m convinced it will see some kind of democratic catastrophe in my lifetime. Right now the entire country is being held hostage by a Senate that is wildly powerful and equally unrepresentative - it makes the Rotten Boroughs of the 19th century look like a beacon of democracy. A government that is too paralysed to act in the face of repeated disaster - even when one party controls the House, the Senate and the presidency - isn’t one that can last very long.
 
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TomRad85

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  • May 25, 2022
  • #28
Nothing is gonna happen over there boys, its pointless discussing it. Fact of the matter is if I lived in the states I'm telling you now that I'd want a gun as they are already in the hands of far too many lunatics who would never give them up.

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SBT

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  • May 25, 2022
  • #29
TomRad85 said:
Nothing is gonna happen over there boys, its pointless discussing it. Fact of the matter is if I lived in the states I'm telling you now that I'd want a gun as they are already in the hands of far too many lunatics who would never give them up.

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Miraculously I survived nearly a decade in the States without a gun. Not having one in my house also seriously reduced the risk of some clown (likely me) accidentally using it on myself or one of my loved ones either.

The mentality you’ve just described is what’s killing the country.
 
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clint van damme

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  • May 25, 2022
  • #30
robbiekeane said:
The right to bear arms is such an antiquated law from way back when you'd have much of the country with one house every few miles and i'd sure as fuck want to be able to protect my family with a rifle back then too. That was a completely different time.

Unfortunately it's not going to change because its about money and power. The NRA are one of the biggest funders of the republican party and its been drilled into all of the southern and flyover state moron populations that gun control = constraining your freedom of choice = communist = democrats

The sad thing is that deep down the politicians know its the right thing to do too, but it would just lose their control, power and money. So bubba gump will keep getting angry so that republicans can maintain power and stay rich.

Here's the top ten recipients of NRA donations

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Are you still in the states?
 

TomRad85

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  • May 25, 2022
  • #31
SBT said:
Miraculously I survived nearly a decade in the States without a gun. Not having one in my house also seriously reduced the risk of some clown (likely me) accidentally using it on myself or one of my loved ones either.

The mentality you’ve just described is what’s killing the country.
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Well I'm not moving there, so you don't have to worry. But if someone forced me to move to that shit hole that's exactly what I'd do.

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Evo1883

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  • May 25, 2022
  • #32
Backward shit hole , might be harsh but it's true
 
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David O'Day

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  • May 25, 2022
  • #33
Most Americans be they Democrats, Republicans or Independents want universal background checks but sadly elected republicans are so in sway to the NRA that fuck all will happen yet a fucking again.

If there is a hell below then Wayne La Pierre is sure to go
 

robbiekeane

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  • May 25, 2022
  • #34
clint van damme said:
Are you still in the states?
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No in Australia now, might move back in the future though but hard to think about doing that when this shit goes on in 2022. It used to be that people would say "oh well thats the south" but it happened last week in Buffalo. Mental.
 

robbiekeane

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  • May 25, 2022
  • #35
Evo1883 said:
Backward shit hole , might be harsh but it's true
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It's so different by state though for most things. California or New York City versus Texas or like Idaho or whatever is chalk and cheese.

This crazy mass shooting shit could happen anywhere though I guess, even if it's way more common in the shithole gun loving states
 
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