The 'Americans Getting Shot' Thread

[tomcat]

...thoughts and prayers...thoughts and prayers...thoughts and prayers...thoughts and prayers...thoughts and prayers...thoughts and prayers...thoughts and prayers...thoughts and prayers...*phew...gasp!*......thoughts and prayers...thoughts and prayers...thoughts and prayers...thoughts and prayers...etc...

[AntRobertson]

Maybe what they need is prayers and thoughts? That'll stop shootings. And guns. More guns.

The only thing that will stop a bad guy with a gun are prayers and thoughts and guns.

[uncle junior]

^more guns needed.

[AntRobertson]

Definitely more guns: guns; prayers; guns; thoughts; guns.

In that order.

[Mr Earl]

^ how about a tiny bit of education?

[uncle junior]

Prayers are ok...just keep it out of the schools. It's really about guns...more guns..and the 2nd amendment though.

[AntRobertson]

how about a tiny bit of education?

Yeah, how about it.

[SKkin]

how about a tiny bit of education?

[Mr Earl]

^take away guns, bring on more nany state, and start your virtue signaling.

[Mr Earl]

Yeah, how about it.

I apologize, you have nary a clue how education works do you!

[AntRobertson]

I apologize

Apology accepted.

Just don't do it again.

[Grampa]

In other news, 100 people gathered in Alabama to hold a candle light vigil for a Taco Bell that burned down.

Priorities are being taken care of.

Alabama residents hold candlelight vigil for Taco Bell that burned down - Story | WNYW

[Mr Earl]

Apology accepted.

Just don't do it again.

No worries, I couldn't expect you to understand what education means.

It's quite obvious that for you and many like you, what passes for education is little more than nany-state indoctrination.

Most schools and universities for the past 40-50 have been reduced to government sponsored indoctrination camps.

It's no wonder people are flipping out and raging with firearms or whatever is handy. The UK they have fewer firearms so they are busy cutting each other up or running people down with vehicles.

[AntRobertson]

It's quite obvious that for you and many like you, what passes for education is little more than nany-state[sic] indoctrination.

Most schools and universities for the past 40-50[sic] have been reduced to government sponsored indoctrination camps.

Ah huh.

[Mr Earl]

^ Take comfort in the fact that you represent several generations of lost causes.

[AntRobertson]

The 'Americans Getting Shot' Thread

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you have nary a clue how education works do you

I couldn't expect you to understand what education means.

It's quite obvious that for you and many like you, what passes for education is little more than nany-state indoctrination

Take comfort in the fact that you represent several generations of lost causes

You are doing it wrong.

[uncle junior]

NYT reporting there's a fear that Americans are becoming numb to mass shootings. .....they're years late on that scoop

[AntRobertson]

Yeah, it's pretty much a rote response at this point then move on to the next one.

I was thinking about that yesterday. Saw a buried article that the NRA were having their latest exhibition thing just down the road from where the Vegas shooting was. It also noted that the manufacturer of the bump-stock that was used in that shooting wouldn't be attending, but noted that immediately following the incident they had received so many orders that they had to temporarily suspend taking them - which correlates to research that shows following mass shootings gun sales increase and gun control legislation decreases.

Because America. Because guns. Because fucking nuts.

[harrybarracuda]

NYT reporting there's a fear that Americans are becoming numb to mass shootings. .....they're years late on that scoop

I wonder which one numbed them (that's assuming it was just schools).....

Below are some of the worst U.S. school shootings in the last 20 years:BENTON, Kentucky, Jan. 23, 2018 - A 15-year-old boy kills two fellow students, both also 15, at Marshall County High School in western Kentucky with a pistol and wounds 13 others. Authorities give no motive for the attack.
AZTEC, New Mexico, Dec. 7, 2017 - A 21-year-old man disguised as a student enters the local high school, kills two students and then shoots himself to death.
SAN BERNARDINO, California, April 10, 2017 - A man dies of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after killing his estranged wife at North Park Elementary School. An 8-year-old student is also shot to death.
ROSEBURG, Oregon, Oct. 1, 2015 - A man opens fire on the campus of Umpqua Community College, killing nine people before he is shot dead by police.
MARYSVILLE, Washington, Oct. 24, 2014 - A freshman at Marysville-Pilchuck High School fatally wounds four students in the cafeteria before killing himself.
SANTA MONICA, California, June 7, 2013 - A one-time digital media student fatally shoots his father and brother, sets their house on fire, and then kills three people at Santa Monica College. The gunman kills himself.
NEWTOWN, Connecticut, Dec. 14, 2012 - A man fatally shoots his mother, then kills 20 children and six adults before killing himself at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
OAKLAND, California, April 2, 2012 - A former nursing student kills seven people and wounds three at Oikos University, a Korean Christian college.
CHARDON, Ohio, Feb. 27, 2012 - Seventeen-year-old student at Chardon High School kills three students and wounds three in school cafeteria.
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama, Feb. 12, 2010 - A biology professor at the University of Alabama at Huntsville opens fire during a staff meeting, killing three faculty members and wounding three.
DEKALB, Illinois, Feb. 14, 2008 - A former graduate student kills five students and wounds 16 at Northern Illinois University before taking his own life.
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Feb. 8, 2008 - Nursing student at Louisiana Technical College kills two classmates and herself in a classroom.
BLACKSBURG, Virginia, April 16, 2007 - A gunman slaughters 32 people and kills himself at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, popularly known as Virginia Tech.
NICKEL MINES, Pennsylvania, Oct. 2, 2006 - A gunman kills five girls in a one-room Amish schoolhouse, before killing himself.
SHEPHERDSTOWN, West Virginia, Sept. 2, 2006 - A 49-year-old man shoots himself and his two sons to death during a visit to the campus of Shepherd University.
RED LAKE INDIAN RESERVATION, Minnesota, March 21, 2005 - A 16-year-old high school student kills seven people and wounds several others in a shooting rampage after killing two people off campus. He then kills himself.
COLD SPRING, Minnesota, Sept. 24, 2003 - Fifteen-year-old student fatally shoots a freshman and a senior at Rocori High School.

TUCSON, Arizona, Oct. 29, 2002 - A failing student shoots and kills three professors and then himself at the University of Arizona School of Nursing.
GRUNDY, Virginia, Jan. 16, 2002 - A recently dismissed graduate student kills a dean, a professor and a student at the Appalachian School of Law and wounds three others.
SANTEE, California, March 5, 2001 - A student at Santana High School kills two students, wounds 13.
LITTLETON, Colorado, April 20, 1999 - Two teenagers rampage through Columbine High School, fatally shooting 12 students and a teacher and wounding more than 20 others before killing themselves.
JONESBORO, Arkansas, March 24, 1998 - Two boys, ages 11 and 13, fire on their middle school from woods, killing four girls and a teacher and wounding 11 others.

[Hugh Cow]

No worries, I couldn't expect you to understand what education means.

It's quite obvious that for you and many like you, what passes for education is little more than nany-state indoctrination.

Most schools and universities for the past 40-50 have been reduced to government sponsored indoctrination camps.

It's no wonder people are flipping out and raging with firearms or whatever is handy. The UK they have fewer firearms so they are busy cutting each other up or running people down with vehicles.

Unfortunately the inescapable fact is in 2017 the total number of homicides was 723 in England and Wales. The USA has already exceeded that number in deaths by gun alone as of the first 23 days of 2018. There has been 1088 homicides with 744 deaths by gun alone. The police in 2017 killed more than 900 people in the USA. By comparison the police in England and Wales in 2017 killed 5 people, 4 of which were terrorist related. Of course I realise there is no relationship to gun ownership and gun deaths and all these statistics from around the world do not prove anything.
In fact the NRA the most unbiased gun lobby group in America and possibly the world, has stated categorically that all these deaths in no way related to the 357 million odd guns in the USA and furthermore most of these deaths could have been prevented if people were allowed to carry ICBMs. The only way to stop bad people with an ICBM is by good people with an ICBM.

[Norton]

The police in 2017 killed more than 900 people in the USA. By comparison the police in England and Wales in 2017 killed 5 people, 4 of which were terrorist related

Slackers.

[uncle junior]

11 school shootings already this year.

[Hugh Cow]

Sorry my mistake the gun death figure is now 745.Someone must've got shot and killed while I was writing the last post.

[harrybarracuda]

[SKkin]

there's a fear that Americans are becoming numb to mass shootings

I think this writer is on to something:

And that is my last pathology: it is one of the soul, not one of the limbs, like the others above. Americans appear to be quite happy simply watching one another die, in all the ways above. They just don’t appear to be too disturbed, moved, or even affected by the four pathologies above: their kids killing each other, their social bonds collapsing, being powerless to live with dignity,or having to numb the pain of it all away.

If these pathologies happened in any other rich country — even in most poor ones — people would be aghast, shocked, and stunned, and certainly moved to make them not happen. But in America, they are, well, not even resigned. They are indifferent, mostly.

from:

Why We’re Underestimating American Collapse
https://eand.co/why-were-underestima...e-be04d9e55235