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    Quote Originally Posted by prawnograph View Post
    The suspect in a mass shooting that killed five people and wounded 17 at a Colorado Springs LGBTQ nightclub appeared in a court hearing on Wednesday with obvious facial injuries, mumbling their name while slumped to the side in a wheelchair.

    Aaawwwww, the poor mass murderer got hurt . . . he's lucky they didn't literally kick the shit out of him

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    What doesn't surprise me is:

    A new analysis of 358 mass shootings in America in 2015 found that three-quarters of the victims whose race could be identified were black.

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    Aaawwwww, the poor mass murderer got hurt . . . he's lucky they didn't literally kick the shit out of him
    I think Mr. Fierro literally did.


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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    I think Mr. Fierro literally did.
    That'd be nice.


    One thing, though, the guy wasn't fit to appear in court . . . hardly an example of good jurisprudence. He's fucked anyway, they couldn't wait a few days for when he is corpus mentis?
    Quote Originally Posted by prawnograph View Post
    mumbling their name while slumped to the side in a wheelchair.

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    Authorities said he apparently shot himself.
    Apparently the shooter in Virginia had bought the gun that day.

    Walmart shooter purchased handgun legally the same day, authorities say | Virginia | The Guardian

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    Victims of the Uvalde school shooting that left 21 people dead have filed a lawsuit against local and state police, the city and other school and law enforcement officials seeking $27-billion due to delays in confronting the attacker, court documents show.
    The lawsuit, which was filed in federal court in Austin on Tuesday, says officials failed to follow active shooter protocol when they waited more than an hour to confront the attacker inside a fourth-grade classroom.
    It seeks class action status and damages for survivors of the May 24 shooting who have sustained “emotional or psychological damages as a result of the defendants’ conduct and omissions on that date.”
    Among those who filed the lawsuit are school staff and representatives of minors who were present at Robb Elementary when a gunman stormed the campus, killing 19 children and two teachers in the deadliest school shooting in the U.S. in nearly a decade.
    Instead of following previous training to stop an active shooter “the conduct of the three hundred and seventy-six (376) law enforcement officials who were on hand for the exhaustively torturous seventy- seven minutes of law enforcement indecision, dysfunction, and harm, fell exceedingly short of their duty bound standards,” the lawsuit claims.
    City of Uvalde officials said they had not been served the paperwork as of Friday and did not comment on pending litigation.
    The Texas Department of Public Safety and the Uvalde Consolidated School District did not respond to requests for comment.
    A group of the survivors also sued Daniel Defense, the company that made the gun used by the shooter, and the store where he bought the gun. That separate lawsuit seeks $6 billion in damages.

    Uvalde shooting victims seek $27-billion, class action in lawsuit - The Globe and Mail
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    Yes I saw that too ,tragic.

    I cannot remember the last time I read of a young child old shooting someone in a mature democracy , outside of the USA of course.


    The U.S. Is the Only Country Among Its Peers in Which Guns Are the Leading Cause of Death Among Children

    Child and Teen Firearm Mortality in the U.S. and Peer Countries | KFF

    The lack of will power of electors to control guns is a complicit tragedy in infanticide and kind of removes any moral authority from this flawed democracy where aged die due to lack of free care and kids because teh NRA can buy politicians and the rest are afraid to stand up to the except for the usual thoughts and prayers mantra.

    Just to put in context see the graph

    USA dead kids IN LAST RECORDED YEAR

    FOUR THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY SEVEN



    UK 8 , EVEN IF ALLOW FOR 6 TIMES POP 48

    Child and Teen Firearm Mortality in the U.S. and Peer Countries | KFF
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    Aussies have beaten the UK again

    Table 1
    The U.S. Is the Only Country Among Its Peers in Which Guns Are the Leading Cause of Death Among Children Ranking (number of deaths) by leading cause of mortality for children ages 1-19 years, U.S. and peer countries, 2020


    The 'Americans Getting Shot' Thread-nhfnvnhc-jpg


    https://www.kff.org/global-health-policy/issue-brief/child-and-teen-firearm-mortality-in-the-u-s-and-peer-countries/

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    Mormon insurance agent shot and killed his wife, five kids and mother-in-law then himself at their Utah home after his spouse filed for divorce
    5 January 2023
    A Mormon family – including five children – were found shot dead inside of their rural Utah home by the family patriarch on Tuesday. The children's father then turned the gun on himself.

    The bodies of Michael, 42, and Tausha Haight, 40, their five children and Tausha's mother, Gail, 78, were found on Wednesday in the town of Enoch with gunshot wounds.
    The children were only identified as three daughters, aged 17, 12, and 7, and two sons, aged 7 and 4 years old.
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    Utah murder-suicide underscores frequency of family killings
    7 January 2023
    A murder-suicide that left eight members of one family including five children dead in a small Utah town is the latest in what has become an all-too-common occurrence in troubled households across the United States.
    Though shocking, family mass killings are an all-too-common tragedy across the country.
    They've happened nearly every 3.5 weeks for the last two decades on average, according to a database compiled by USA Today, The Associated Press and Northeastern University.
    Family mass killings are in fact the most common type of mass killing, making up about 45% of the 415 mass shootings since 2006, according to the database. They happen twice as frequently as mass shootings in which members of the public are killed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by prawnograph View Post
    Mormon insurance agent
    Moron insurance agent TFIFY

    Of course in Blighty he'd be having a tea and bicky between seeking asylum or them curiously missing Gold tablets

    Of course in the and of the free even the mentally sub normal can shoot the family , school or President as is their right to bare arms

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    The only thing that stops a bad six year old with a gun is a...............


    Oh.

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    ^ That'll teach 'er...

    I'll get my coat...

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    I saw this too as a news post on YouTube. I was a bit shocked (but then I shouldn't be).

    How did a 6 year old kid have access to guns?! Shake my head...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Troy View Post
    That'll teach 'er...

    I'll get my coat...
    Haven't we all been there, but lacked the opportunities of a gun-liberal society such as ...America ?

    I'll bet that the teachers have had the desire to pluck a few pupils also.


    A one off, I'd hope

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    ^ indeed...

    ...the kid is still in custody. What's the law in the US regards criminal responsibility? In the UK, a child under 10 cannot be charged, (12 in Scotland).

    How on earth did the kid get hold of the gun? The gun owner is criminally negligent for failing to keep the gun safely.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Troy View Post
    ^ indeed...

    ...the kid is still in custody. What's the law in the US regards criminal responsibility? In the UK, a child under 10 cannot be charged, (12 in Scotland).

    How on earth did the kid get hold of the gun? The gun owner is criminally negligent for failing to keep the gun safely.
    In answer to your question (or one of them):

    Virginia law does not allow six-year-olds to be tried as adults.
    In addition, a six-year-old is too young to be committed to the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice if found guilty.
    A juvenile judge would have authority, though, to revoke a parent's custody and place a child under the purview of the Department of Social Services.

    Virginia teacher shot in classroom by pupil, 6, 'showing signs of improvement' in hospital | US News | Sky News

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    So what do they do with him?

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    Quote Originally Posted by DrWilly View Post
    So what do they do with him?
    He'll probably get an interview on Fox news and be invited to speak at the next CPAC conference.

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    Beeb reporting that the gun used was his mother's Taurus 9mm. One hopes she will be taking responsibility for this incident, along with the rest of US society.

    You have to be living in a really f##ked up society if a mum feels the need to carry a pistol ... ever.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Troy View Post
    One hopes she will be taking responsibility

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    Quote Originally Posted by DrWilly View Post

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    What will run out first, morons with guns, victims or ammo?

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    Quote Originally Posted by david44 View Post
    What will run out first, morons with guns, victims or ammo?
    Who knows. Probably none of the above proving the adage, you can't fix stupid.

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