Only in America

[pErvinalia]

You're never going to get rid of mental health issues. But you can get rid of guns.

[Svartalf]

will you also get rid of bows, crossbows, knives and hammers, baseball and cricket bats and lead pipes?

[Tero]

will you also get rid of bows, crossbows, knives and hammers, baseball and cricket bats and lead pipes?

Those, and medieval weapons, axes for throwing, are found at every drug bust here. The trunk of the car of the dealer. They are not illegal. The guns are after they have served time.

[Tero]

Well, Jeff forgot to mention they still need to shoot the shooter. Unless he shot himself.

jefftiedrich
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#BREAKING: Well-Regulated Militia Opens Fire In Lewiston, Maine; Cheap Thoughts And Useless Prayers Now Being Rushed To The Scene ... more on this soon-to-be-forgotten-and-then-repeated story as it develops ...

[pErvinalia]

will you also get rid of bows, crossbows, knives and hammers, baseball and cricket bats and lead pipes?

You really can't commit mass murder with those.

[Svartalf]

Try and look up what happens when Indonesians go amok...

[Tero]

[Tero]

The shooting desk employee came to work. 9 to 5 job maybe?
https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prev ... 1850961776

[Cunt]

has someone come out to promote their gun laws yet? That is always the most convincing show of sympathy.

No-one should have the right to defend themselves with deadly force. It's SO hard to govern with having to gain the consent of the governed, after all.

[Tero]

Always a good week for gun sales. After a mass shooting.

[Cunt]

Always a good week for gun sales. After a mass shooting.

I think that's the scam.
1. Be politician
2. purchase stock in firearms
3. wait for news of gun story freakout
4. speak hotly about restricting access to guns
5. profit (or repeat if not rich enough)

[Tero]

More guns for all! Line up now! Lunatics first.

It's hard to find much in common in the 72-year-old man who killed 11 people in Monterey Park in January; the six people aged 15 to 20 who killed four people at a Sweet 16 birthday party in Dadeville, Ala., in April; the 33-year-old man who killed eight people at an Allen, Texas, shopping center in May; and the 59-year-old retired police sergeant who killed four in Trabuco Canyon in August — or any of the other perpetrators of horrid mass shootings in 2023.

But there is no consistent profile. Perpetrators are Americans of all stripes, committing a peculiarly American crime.

The one thing they have in common is guns, which are more plentiful than ever in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic and unrest in the wake of George Floyd's murder in 2020 helped spur a huge spike in gun sales.

Next month, the court will hear arguments in a case challenging a federal law barring a person under a domestic violence restraining order from possessing firearms.

https://news.yahoo.com/editorial-maine- ... 40142.html

[Cunt]

Is there a difference in number of deaths when comparing police-ended mass shootings vs armed citizen-ended mass shootings?

[Brian Peacock]

Good question. Also perpetrator ended mass-shootings as well.

[Cunt]

Is there a difference in number of deaths when comparing police-ended mass shootings vs armed citizen-ended mass shootings?

Found a little on it. Almost looks like the creation of 'gun free zones' might have...um...backfired.

https://www.conservapedia.com/Mass_shoo ... d_citizens

According to an analysis of FBI data by Jacob Paulsen in 2018, 94% of all mass shootings were thwarted by law-abiding armed citizens.[1] Also in 2018, the Crime Prevention Research Center, reported that nearly 98% of all mass public shootings in the U.S. since 1950 occurred in a gun-free zone.[2][3][4] Additionally, "[o]f the 97 countries where we identified mass public shootings, the U.S. ranks 64th per capita in its rate of attacks and 65th in fatalities. Major European countries, such as Norway, Finland, France, Switzerland and Russia, all have at least 25 percent higher per capita murder rates from mass public shootings."[5] Student deaths by active-shooters are nine times more likely in gun-free zones.[6]