The 'Americans Getting Shot' Thread

[Neo]

It's been said before... this is the Americans getting shot thread. Why don't you start a thread about mass shootings in the UK and see who gives a shit... it's just not as prolific or stunning as American idiocy.

[Humbert]

Merry Christmas America! Dumb fuk gun nuts.

Nevada Lawmaker Sends Christmas Card Featuring Fully Armed Family

[panama hat]

pharmacy school was quite easy and enjoyable for me

I'm sure it was - most playschool courses are

I am amused

Small minds are easily amused, n'est-pas!?

your trying to belittle my profession

Nope, my niece is a pharmacist - but she's not a gun-totin' moron - you're missing the point, as usual

Please try harder Panama, you are falling behind.

Try harder? Like this:

Is that all, you got Panama [at][at][at][at]?

Understood, but the anti-American sentiment does get a little old after reading so much of it. If everyone enjoys doing this, maybe we should pick others homelands to discuss like England, Scotland, Wales, Canada or even Australia.

That would be an un-welcome turn-about for some of the idiots on this board, and a welcome bit of fairness to spread the crap around where it belongs.
Unfortunately, all it would do is spread crap around, and there's already pleanty of that on these boards. Best to let the wankers wank. They'll stop when they want something from us (or get tired of Putin's cold embrace).

It's been said before... this is the Americans getting shot thread. Why don't you start a thread about mass shootings in the UK and see who gives a shit... it's just not as prolific or stunning as American idiocy.

Not often I agree with Neo but this has been stated before. It's a thread about the US, you complain about England, Scotland etc.... . . . so START a thread about it instead of laying the victim all the time.
THAT is tedious to the extreme

[MrG]

pharmacy school was quite easy and enjoyable for me

I'm sure it was - most playschool courses are

I am amused

Small minds are easily amused, n'est-pas!?

your trying to belittle my profession

Nope, my niece is a pharmacist - but she's not a gun-totin' moron - you're missing the point, as usual

Please try harder Panama, you are falling behind.

Try harder? Like this:

Is that all, you got Panama [at][at][at][at]?

Understood, but the anti-American sentiment does get a little old after reading so much of it. If everyone enjoys doing this, maybe we should pick others homelands to discuss like England, Scotland, Wales, Canada or even Australia.

That would be an un-welcome turn-about for some of the idiots on this board, and a welcome bit of fairness to spread the crap around where it belongs.
Unfortunately, all it would do is spread crap around, and there's already pleanty of that on these boards. Best to let the wankers wank. They'll stop when they want something from us (or get tired of Putin's cold embrace).

It's been said before... this is the Americans getting shot thread. Why don't you start a thread about mass shootings in the UK and see who gives a shit... it's just not as prolific or stunning as American idiocy.

Not often I agree with Neo but this has been stated before. It's a thread about the US, you complain about England, Scotland etc.... . . . so START a thread about it instead of laying the victim all the time.
THAT is tedious to the extreme

If it were an intelligent discussion it would be one thing. But it's not. It's a rant-fest. And if it's disrupted with an observation it is, like I said, predictably unwelcome.

[slackula]

Merry Christmas America! Dumb fuk gun nuts.

Nevada Lawmaker Sends Christmas Card Featuring Fully Armed Family

Obviously they do not watch Star Trek!

[slackula]

This is quite amusing, MO State Rep Stacey Newman has just trolled RW gun-nut brigade and made quite a clever point at the same time:

Missouri Dem Proposes Placing Same Restrictions On Guns As Abortions

Missouri state Rep. Stacey Newman (D) pre-filed a bill Tuesday that would restrict access to firearms in the same way her state restricts access to abortion.

Newman's bill includes a 72-hour waiting period for purchasing guns and watching a 30-minute video on firearms fatalities before purchasing. It also requires the firearms dealer be at least 120 miles from the purchaser's residence.

The bill would require that a gun purchaser visit an emergency room at the nearest "urban hospital" on a weekend between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. "when gun violence victims are present."

Within 72 hours of their purchase, the individual also must meet with at least two families who have been victims of firearm violence and two faith leaders who have presided over funerals in the last year of a child gun violence victim.

The bill was pre-filed for the 2016 session, which begins in January, and is unlikely to get traction. Here's the full text.

Newman tried a similar approach in 2012 when she unsuccessfully proposed a bill to limit vasectomies unless the procedure "would protect him from serious injury or prevent his death," according to the River Front Times.

[MrG]

Cujo, your red for the above post reads "You fucking Yanks are too sensitive".
The irony is that it bother you that much. It simply shows you belong under the protection of the American University PC crowd.

[Cujo]

Cujo, your red for the above post reads "You fucking Yanks are too sensitive".
The irony is that it bother you that much. It simply shows you belong under the protection of the American University PC crowd.

Wish I could red you again for not making sense.
There seems to be a common thread running through these right wing patriotic type Yanks.

[harrybarracuda]

Another top quality front page. "NRA's sick gun jihad against America".

[RPETER65]

Despite what liberals would have you believe: hate is what drives men to slaughter innocent people -- not guns. And the government can't make us safer until it recognizes th

Despite what right-wing God botherers think, hate doesn't fire projectiles at high velocity which, upon impact, obliterate tissue, bones and organs. That would be guns. Guns do that.

And praying to some sky fairy or mouthing empty and hollow platitudes following will neither repel bullets or do anything to address the issue of the U.S. having mass shootings at an abhorrent rate.

For you and your non believer buddies. The point you miss , is when the U.S. took God out of schools and other govnt. institutions they also took away a lot of the morality that comes with true belief in God.

If you need a belief in a God and the threat of damnation hanging over you to know what is right or wrong or moral then you've already got some pretty serious issues.

Actually it is the hate in the person that fires the projectile,the gun is only an instrument on it's own it can fire nothing.

[RPETER65]

Another top quality front page. "NRA's sick gun jihad against America".

That is the best distortion of facts you could come up with.

[harrybarracuda]

New York Times in rare front-page editorial calls for outlawing some rifles
Source: Reuters - Sat, 5 Dec 2015 07:07 GMT
Author: Reuters

By Alex Dobuzinskis

Dec 5 (Reuters) - The New York Times, in its first front-page editorial in nearly a century, on Saturday called for outlawing the kinds of rifles used in the California shooting massacre this week that left 14 people dead.

The newspaper's editorial comes three days after Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, a married couple, carried out the mass shooting in San Bernardino with legally-purchased, .223 caliber assault-style rifles. FBI officials have said they are investigating the shooting as an "act of terrorism."

The couple also had semi-automatic pistols, and U.S. officials have said Malik is believed to have pledged allegiance to a leader of the militant group Islamic State.

"Certain kinds of weapons, like the slightly modified combat rifles used in California, and certain kinds of ammunition, must be outlawed for civilian ownership," the New York Times editorial said.

The editorial went on to argue that an act to outlaw such weapons would "require Americans who own those kinds of weapons to give them up for the good of their fellow citizens."

The piece made brief mention of other U.S. mass shootings. "Let's be clear: These spree killings are all, in their own ways, acts of terrorism," it said.

President Barack Obama has called for legislation to make it harder for criminals to get guns. He has noted mass shootings do not happen as frequently in other advanced countries and said the United States should address the problem.

Republicans in Congress have mounted heavy opposition to gun control measures.

The debate over gun control has long been one of the most contentious political issues in the United States, with the right to gun ownership enshrined in the U.S. Constitution's 2nd Amendment.

In a post on the website of the libertarian magazine Reason, senior editor Brian Doherty criticized the editorial, and in particular the call for citizens to eventually give up certain rifles.

"What the Times is calling for is, beyond its countable costs in money and effort and the likely further erosion of civil liberties, also (as they surely know) calling for a massive political civil war the likes of which we haven't seen in a long time," Doherty wrote.

It is the first time The Times has run an editorial on the front page since 1920, when the newspaper expressed dismay at the nomination of Warren G. Harding as the Republican presidential candidate. Harding went on to win the general election that year. (Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore)

New York Times in rare front-page editorial calls for outlawing some rifles

[Ozcol]

Hairy the law of logical argument anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about.

[baldrick]

the day the seppos ban assault rifles is the day the mexicans can be thankful for the disruption of supply and a marked decrease in their everyday massacres

[RPETER65]

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) just said, “Sensible gun laws work. We’ve proven it in California.” She knows that San Bernardino is in California, right?

[harrybarracuda]

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) just said, “Sensible gun laws work. We’ve proven it in California.” She knows that San Bernardino is in California, right?

Actually they wouldn't have been able to buy the weapons in California if Jerry Brown hadn't vetoe'd the bill to ban them.

They were already illegal until the gun manufacturers changed the design of the weapon to get round existing laws.

[MrG]

Cujo, your red for the above post reads "You fucking Yanks are too sensitive".
The irony is that it bother you that much. It simply shows you belong under the protection of the American University PC crowd.

Wish I could red you again for not making sense.
There seems to be a common thread running through these right wing patriotic type Yanks.

If you think I'm a Right Winger then you're dumber than the expression on your av's face.

[Neverna]

I hope none of you guys are thinking about gatecrashing their Christmas party!

[fishlocker]

Merry Christmas America! Dumb fuk gun nuts.

Nevada Lawmaker Sends Christmas Card Featuring Fully Armed Family

Pistol envy?

[panama hat]

Uniform guidelines across all states stops idiots going to gun shows and importing guns from elsewhere . . . seems obvious to most except for rpeters

[Storekeeper]

Comments?

[fishlocker]

Just give up. If you wrote a book they would burn it.

[bsnub]

^ Drunk again eh?

[Bettyboo]

Actually it is the hate in the person that fires the projectile,the gun is only an instrument on it's own it can fire nothing.

Let's look at a simple parallel in London today:

Hate filled man injures 4 with a knife.


If we chose to offer some critical thought one might consider what such a headline might read in a NY subway station:

Hate filled man kills 20 with gun.

[RPETER65]

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) just said, “Sensible gun laws work. We’ve proven it in California.” She knows that San Bernardino is in California, right?

Actually they wouldn't have been able to buy the weapons in California if Jerry Brown hadn't vetoe'd the bill to ban them.

They were already illegal until the gun manufacturers changed the design of the weapon to get round existing laws.

The point is her total idiocy.