The 'Americans Getting Shot' Thread

[happynz]

...how much gun legislation did Obama sign?

Obama could only sign whatever legislation was put before him.

[AntRobertson]

How many more straw men and attempts to obfuscate?

[buriramboy]

Obama could only sign whatever legislation was put before him.

What legislation has been put before Trump that he hasn't signed then seeing as he is now responsible for all gun deaths yet Obama wasn't during his 8 years? I seem to remember a few massive school shootings during the Obama years but not the outrage you now have that Trump is on the throne.

[AntRobertson]

Precisely nobody has said that Trump’s responsible for all gun deaths... until you, just now.

Mayhe you should debate yourself over it.

[Troy]

^ wot he said and this thread has been going longer than Trump has been in office.

Still love the possible irony of the nra being trashed on Trump's watch...

[buriramboy]

^ wot he said and this thread has been going longer than Trump has been in office.

Still love the possible irony of the nra being trashed on Trump's watch...

But why wasn't the NRA trashed on Obama's watch, he had 8 years and managed to get obamacare through so some sort of gun control should have been a piece of cake. Doesn't the president have some powers or ability to sign executive orders or some shit. Point still stands where was all the outrage and protests when mass school shootings took place on Obama's watch.

[misskit]

NRA donations spike after Parkland shooting

Despite the backlash hurled at the NRA following last month's Florida high school shooting, the gun lobby group's donations from supporters tripled in the days after the massacre, CNN reports.Citing FEC records, the network reports the NRA's Political Victory Fund got $248,000 in January and more than $779,000 in February.


The details: The Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks political spending, tells CNN it's unclear what caused the spike, but say it might have been in response to calls for strict gun control measures.

https://www.axios.com/nra-donations-...source=sidebar

[AntRobertson]

^^LULZ... This could be the first time in recorded history someone loses a debate with them self.

[uncle junior]

But why wasn't the NRA trashed on Obama's watch

I quit reading after this.

[Thailandbound]

pproximately 7,000 pairs of shoes were displayed on the lawn outside the U.S. Capitol Tuesday to represent the number of children killed in U.S. shootings since the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. (WJLA/Ryan Hughes)


7K pairs of shoes cover Capitol lawn to honor kids killed in shootings since Sandy Hook
by Sam Ford/ABC7 News

WASHINGTON (WJLA) - Approximately 7,000 pairs of shoes were displayed on the lawn outside the U.S. Capitol Tuesday to represent the number of children killed in U.S. shootings since the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. The memorial was created by organizers advocating for gun reform. Shoe donations were accepted at several locations in the D.C. area Monday, prior to the construction of the display.

7K pairs of shoes cover Capitol lawn to honor kids killed in shootings since Sandy Hook | WLOS

[david44]

Not sure we can help Americans shooting each much.

Of course thanks to modern comms Americans are being shot all over the Middle East due to a misunderstanding about the democracy they are bringing.
Here in LOS to avoid temptation perhaps keep them away from armed angry Thai women and high balconies.

It's Congress elected by American adults many of whom are literate and have had a dozen years of "education" appears to have only two solutions, they run out of ammo or Americans.

One of the few places you hear adults talk of a dream, God as a real living bloke and the Trumpets, destiny rides forth.

It took N Europe a millenium from the dark ages to the enlightenment and another 500 to reject religion, the process stalled in the Med by misyogeny mullahs and Papacy.

Perhaps the young settlers who erased the native culture may be civilized by 3018 if Yellowstone hasn't petrifed them first.

[Thailandbound]

It took N Europe a millenium from the dark ages to the enlightenment and another 500 to reject religion, the process stalled in the Med by misyogeny mullahs and Papacy.

Good point, but good people can't stand by and do nothing. The good thing about America is free speech and if you look at their history (60's and 70's), people protested for things they believed in. I believe that many people will take on power and meaning and hopefully one day make a small change that makes a difference in regards to gun laws. If people don't do anything, then they continue to be sheep and show they agree with the people in power.

I don't know if things will change, but many thousands of people in different states are doing their part to rally for gun reform.

[Latindancer]

SEVEN THOUSAND ?? Schoolkids ? Since 2012 ? Seriously ?

Jesus...I hadn't been keeping count. That's astronomical !

[tomcat]

many thousands of people in different states are doing their part to rally for gun reform

...unfortunately, thoughts and prayers are ineffective...

[Troy]

I'm quite surprised Cyrille hasn't commented on the BBC grammatical error today:

"US cop sacked for shooting dead black man"

I mean, if he was already dead, who the hell cares....

Alton Sterling: Cop dismissed over deadly Baton Rouge shooting - BBC News

If you can't trust trained cops with guns what chance do you have with the untrained masses?

[tomcat]

I'm quite surprised Cyrille hasn't commented on the BBC grammatical error today

If you can't trust teachers with keyboards what chance do you have with the untrained forum posters?

...ftfy...

[lom]

and his peanut size brain and why he's orange

He is a Russian informer, they named him Agent Orange.

[uncle junior]

Ted Nugent says Parkland students ‘have no soul,’ calls them ‘mushy-brained children’


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.1c0ea55c422e

[Cujo]

What a khunt this bitch is.
What is it with these right wing assholes?

Fox News host Laura Ingraham takes week off after David Hogg comments


11 companies boycott The Ingraham Angle over Twitter attack

The Fox News host Laura Ingraham announced late on Friday that she would take the next week off, after 11 advertisers dropped her show over her mockery of a teenage survivor of the Florida school shooting.




Ingraham said on air she would take Easter week off with her children and a “great line-up of guest hosts” would fill in. In an email on Saturday, a Fox News spokeswoman said the break had already been planned.


Ingraham taunted David Hogg, 17, on Twitter on Wednesday. In response, Hogg called for a boycott of advertisers on The Ingraham Angle.


Ingraham wrote that Hogg had been “Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it. (Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA...totally predictable given acceptance rates.)”


Hogg is a survivor of the 14 February shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, a suburb of Fort Lauderdale. He and other classmates have become the faces of a youth-led movement for gun control reform, last weekend leading a huge protest march in Washington DC.


Hogg tweeted a list of a dozen companies that advertise on The Ingraham Angle and urged his supporters to demand they cancel their ads.


On Thursday, Ingraham tweeted an apology.


“Any student should be proud of a 4.2 GPA,” she wrote, “incl[uding] David Hogg. On reflection, in the spirit of Holy Week, I apologize for any upset or hurt my tweet caused him or any of the brave victims of Parkland.


“For the record, I believe my show was the first to feature David immediately after that horrific shooting and even noted how ‘poised’ he was given the tragedy. As always, he’s welcome to return to the show anytime for a productive discussion.”


The apology did not stop companies dropping her show. The first to cancel were Nutrish, a pet food line created by the celebrity chef Rachael Ray; TripAdvisor; the online home furnishings seller Wayfair; Nestlé; Hulu; Expedia; and Stitch Fix, an online personal shopping service.


According to CBS News, four more companies dropped the show on Friday: Johnson & Johnson, Office Depot, the dieting company Jenny Craig and the Atlantis Paradise Island resort.


Hogg wrote on Twitter: “An apology in an effort just to save your advertisers is not enough. I will only accept your apology only if you denounce the way your network has treated my friends and I in this fight. It’s time to love thy neighbor, not mudsling at children.”


After Ingraham announced her time off, he added that she should: “Have some healthy reflections this Holy Week.”


He told CNN: “I think it’s great that corporate America is standing with me. They cannot push us around, especially when all we’re trying to do here is save lives.”


Elsewhere on Friday, the rock musician and Donald Trump supporter Ted Nugent said students calling for gun control were “mushy brained children”.


The National Rifle Association board member was a guest on the Joe Pags Show, a nationally syndicated conservative radio program. Parkland survivors were wrong to blame the NRA for mass shootings, he said, adding that “the evidence is irrefutable, they have no soul”.


The gun-control measures such activists support would amount to “spiritual suicide”, he said.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...ham-david-hogg

[raycarey]

But why wasn't the NRA trashed on Obama's watch, he had 8 years and managed to get obamacare through so some sort of gun control should have been a piece of cake. Doesn't the president have some powers or ability to sign executive orders or some shit.

you really should get better informed.

that way you'll be less likely to post this sort of nonsense....or some shit.

[raycarey]

Since 2012 ? Seriously ?

and it was in december 2012. it's only been a little over 5 years.

[AntRobertson]

Ted Nugent says Parkland students ‘have no soul,’ calls them ‘mushy-brained children’


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.1c0ea55c422e

Ted Nugent is a good example to kids...
































...of what a right-wing hypocrite arsehole looks like.

[tomcat]

...^just another windy ignoramus in the echo chamber...

[AntRobertson]

Actually I was going to say 'a typical right-wing hypocrite arsehole' but Nugent really is a special kind of fuckwit.

It takes actual practise and effort to be as much of a fuckwit as he is.

[misskit]

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