Another shooting.

[Tredman]

And again

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-43066528

'Many dead ' so far and 14 victims. Likely to be many more. 18th school shooting this year in America (it's fucking February). Not really anything can be said.

 

[visage]

Thoughts and prayers, obviously. Oh, and we need to arm teachers. Obviously.

 

[Tony Towner]

...but what if a rustler comes onto your farm and tries to steal your cattle, how are you going to defend your property?

 

[Alan]

But guns don't kill people...

 

[YoungWolf]

And again

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-43066528

'Many dead ' so far and 14 victims. Likely to be many more. 18th school shooting this year in America (it's fucking February). Not really anything can be said.

Jesus, this is horrific. So sad and so fucking scary.

 

[Keef]

And again

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-43066528

'Many dead ' so far and 14 victims. Likely to be many more. 18th school shooting this year in America (it's $#@!ing February). Not really anything can be said.

We are 6 weeks into the new year,
3 shootings a week
That's one every 2 days roughly!
Written like that it's beyond comprehension or even worse it's one every day and a half,because schools are shut weekends

 

[Derby Wolf]

Reading on Reddit and several teachers are confirming their schools are doing active shooter drills with participants using blanks to prepare staff and students for the sounds of a shooting.

How the fuck did we end up here?

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

The scary stat is that more Americans have been killed by shootings at home in the States than were killed in Vietnam.

 

[Tony Towner]

IF you believe in the right to bear arms, surely that shouldn't include this? Used in Sandy Hook and again today.

 

[Langers]

It's all just so fucked up. 18 school shootings in 2018 - and it's still only February? Active shooter drills in schools? Umpteen elected senators who have accepted multi million dollar donations from the NRA?

And tonight, American networks seem perfectly happy to broadcast harrowing video clips taken by terrified students at the scene, but deem it necessary to bleep out any offensive language. Wouldn't want any inappropriate content on the news, right? There could be kids watching.

This thread is going to run and run with countless more posts from countless more incidents like this with countless more innocent lives lost because the laws won't change.

What a fucked up country.

 

[Alan]

Reading on Reddit and several teachers are confirming their schools are doing active shooter drills with participants using blanks to prepare staff and students for the sounds of a shooting.

How the $#@! did we end up here?

Those sorts of drills have been in use here for years. Probably since Columbine.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Try the banning guns drill. Works fucking ace for us

 

[Alan]

It's all just so $#@!ed up. 18 school shootings in 2018 - and it's still only February? Active shooter drills in schools? Umpteen elected senators who have accepted multi million dollar donations from the NRA?

And tonight, American networks seem perfectly happy to broadcast harrowing video clips taken by terrified students at the scene, but deem it necessary to bleep out any offensive language. Wouldn't want any inappropriate content on the news, right? There could be kids watching.

This thread is going to run and run with countless more posts from countless more incidents like this with countless more innocent lives lost because the laws won't change.

What a $#@!ed up country.

There are no arguments you can make. The conservatives here are absolutely certain that criminals will get guns no matter what you do. So to them, making guns illegal means criminals still have guns, but no one else does.

 

[Alan]

Try the banning guns drill. Works $#@!ing ace for us

It will literally never happen in this country. I'd bet my life on it.

17 confirmed dead.

 

[Derby Wolf]

Those sorts of drills have been in use here for years. Probably since Columbine.

I knew the drills were but didn't know they had started using fake weapons/blank rounds in addition to.

 

[Alan]

I knew the drills were but didn't know they had started using fake weapons/blank rounds in addition to.

Every school district will have made that sort of decision individually but it isn't unheard of.

 

[Tony Towner]

The electoral college will ensure it will never change. Republicans would never do it and Democrats would never get in to do it.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

The scary stat is that more Americans have been killed by shootings at home in the States than were killed in Vietnam.

Sure I've seen a similar stat before but think they had shootings on home soil trumping every war they've been in combined, rather than just Vietnam.

 

[Lichens]

The electoral college will ensure it will never change. Republicans would never do it and Democrats would never get in to do it.

What’s the electoral college got to do with it

 

[AndyWolves]

There are no arguments you can make. The conservatives here are absolutely certain that criminals will get guns no matter what you do. So to them, making guns illegal means criminals still have guns, but no one else does.

I know it's not your argument but if this was true then where are all the gun owning heroes who stopped the shooter's?