The 'Americans Getting Shot' Thread

[uncle junior]

Americans hardly ever eat at KFC -

ffs...

[Grampa]

ffs...

They don't.

Trust me.

I've lived in 4 cites and 2 towns.

There LOTS of other fast food places and restaurants.

KFC's market share has got to be very LOW in the US.

I'll google it now.

Are you from the US, Uncle Jr.?

[Grampa]

And I'd like to add.

Today, according to the link a poster provided above there are now 4,000 KFCs in the US, but in 1994 there were 5,149.

That's a decline of a little more than 20% in the US.

By 1994, KFC had 5,149 outlets in the US, and 9,407 overall, with over 100,000 employees.

^{And Uncle Jr:}

By 2015, the company was struggling, having lost business to other retailers and being surpassed by Chick-fil-A as the leading chicken retailer three years previously.

^{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFC}

[Grampa]

And being serious, there is a demographic. Don't take this the wrong way:

A "very strong percentage" of sales come from African American customers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFC

[Grampa]

And this. KFC is in decline still: Uncle Jr., google is your friend.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFC

In the same year, Advertising Agenoted that KFC was losing market share to its smaller chicken restaurant rival, Chick-fil-A.^[133] In 2011 Bloomberg News referred to KFC US as "an also-ran to McDonald's Corp".^[134] In 2012, Forbes magazine described how many of the KFC outlets were "aged and uninviting", and that the chain "hasn't introduced an exciting new food item in ages".^[135]

KFC was described in 2012 by Bloomberg Businessweek as a "muscular player" in developing regions, specifically Africa, China and India, while noting its falling market share in the US to rivals such as Chick-fil-A and Popeyes.^[136] Some analysts speculated that KFC would begin spinning off its ailing US operations.^[136] That year, the company began divesting control of company-owned US restaurants to franchised operations, with the intention of reducing overall company ownership from 35 percent to 5 percent.^[136]

[Troy]

Here is an article:

Every mass shooting over last 20 years has one thing in common... and it's not guns


(NaturalNews) The following is a republishing of an important article written by Dan Roberts from AmmoLand.com. It reveals the real truth about mass shootings that bureaucrats and lawmakers are choosing to sweep under the rug: psychiatric drugs. If you want to know the real reason why mass shootings are taking place, this is the "inconvenient truth" the media won't cover.

https://www.naturalnews.com/039752_m...pressants.html

Of course it's GUNS you fukcing nutter...

White killer = medication and muslim = terrorist is just complete and utter bollox and you need to wake the fukc up and realise this.

Stop making excuses for allowing people to carry guns period!

[harrybarracuda]

You've missed the point - again.

<snip>

I googled and just put up the first thing.

THAT's the point you fucking moron.

[HermantheGerman]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43071710

Looks like ....

[HermantheGerman]

The new Pledge Allegiance to the Flag for U.S. students:

"I pledge allegiance to the Flag and pray to God I won't be rolled out of school with a toe tag"

[Hugh Cow]

Unbelievably, some of these same proponents of the second amendment will wax lyrical about the stupidity of Thais. Trying to prevent the mentally ill from obtaining weapons is impossible. Anyone who cannot see a link between gun ownership and gun deaths is already mentally unstable and should not be allowed to own anything more deadly than a plastic spoon.

[Maanaam]

Trump tweets, "My prayers and condolences to the families of the victims of the terrible Florida shooting. No child, teacher or anyone else should ever feel unsafe in an American school."

Is it just me and am I being overly cynical? I get the impression that Trump's words were carefully selected to subliminally lay blame on school security and that school security issues will be what the government talks about and tries to do something about. Keep away from talking about guns, lets talk about school security.

[tomcat]

am I being overly cynical?

...when discussing tRump and his actions, it is impossible to be overly cynical...

[Mr Earl]

^Trump derangement syndrome brings out the best in people.

[Maanaam]

Now Trump is also suggesting it's mental illness that's the problem.
"So many signs that the Florida shooter was mentally disturbed, even expelled from school for bad and erratic behavior. Neighbors and classmates knew he was a big problem. "

School security and, since he's not Muslim, mental health.
Lets not talk about how an 18 year old can buy an assault rifle. And lets not consider that if he had been Muslim, neither mental health nor gun laws nor school security would be at the top of Trumps ravings.

[Dandyhole]

RIP to the latest set of innocents murdered in the American way.

[AntRobertson]

Every mass shooting over last 20 years has one thing in common... and it's not guns

Quite right. They all shot people by making gun-fingers, pointing them at people, and going: 'Pew-pew! You're dead!'.

[Dandyhole]

^Trump derangement syndrome brings out the best in people.

Blimey earl, see that free wanking subscription to xhamster has finally dehydrated your thinking head

[Grampa]

Of course it's GUNS you fukcing nutter...

I assume you're referring to me.

I did not write the article.

The article title is over-the-top to emphasis the point of the article.

You should have understood that if you're a native English speaker.

[Troy]

^ I understood it was bollox and I am a native English speaker, which clearly you are not.

[Grampa]

^ I understood it was bollox and I am a native English speaker, which clearly you are not.

No, I'm a native French Quebecoise speaker.

[AntRobertson]

Apparently shooter dude went and had McD's after his little spree.

Mass shooting, crappy fast food.

I don't think it's possible to get any more American than that... unless maybe he drove a pick-up to the restaurant?

[tomcat]

I don't think it's possible to get any more American than that... unless maybe he drove a pick-up to the restaurant

...and hung his MAGA cap on the vehicle's gun rack...

[AntRobertson]

his MAGA cap

Funny you should say that...

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-new...ooter-12035298



#MAGA!

[AntRobertson]

And it is possible to get more Amerikan!

Mass shooting and then...

The sheriff said Cruz headed to a Wal-Mart and bought a drink at a Subway restaurant before walking to a McDonald's

[harrybarracuda]

Funny you should say that...

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-new...ooter-12035298



#MAGA!

Well that puts the mental illness beyond doubt then.