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Mass US Shootings Finally Addressed ?

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Mass US Shootings Finally Addressed ?

Post by screen glare » Thu Aug 08, 2019 7:32 am

After the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting and dismemberment slaughter - I was certain Congress would pass common sense gun safety laws. The massacre of five and six year olds and their teachers via a shooter firing an automatic weapon of war in classrooms right before Christmas - stirred such searing, nauseating revulsion in most Americans - I thought Congress would finally stand up to the NRA gunmaker lobby and pass legislation to curtail the crime of frequent mass murder shootings.

It didn’t happen.

That’s when I realized not enough Americans felt they personally could be shot and killed next. I reasoned the frequency rate of such horrific gun downs would have to increase to nearly back to back episodes - to shock most of us into demanding Congress do something.

That’s what’s finally now happened after the El Paso and Dayton mass shootings. That back to back alarming rapidity - combined with the racist white supremacist shooter’s manifesto - mirroring Trump’s hateful words and sentiments in videos of his rallies rerunning on all media platforms - has moved most Americans to demand Congress finally find its collective spine.

This time most of the nation will not relent.
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Re: Mass US Shootings Finally Addressed ?

Post by screen glare » Thu Aug 08, 2019 10:19 am

Ah. LL 101’s entered the thread.

It’s Howdy Doody Time!



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Re: Mass US Shootings Finally Addressed ?

Post by bmw » Thu Aug 08, 2019 11:51 am

screen glare wrote:
Thu Aug 08, 2019 7:32 am
This time most of the left will not relent.
There. Fixed that for ya.

It comes as no surprise that the same people who want full government control over every aspect of everyone's life are also bent on disarming those people. Tyranny doesn't work too well when the citizens are armed.



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Re: Mass US Shootings Finally Addressed ?

Post by screen glare » Thu Aug 08, 2019 1:59 pm

Nonsense responses LL and bmw:

1. Common sense gun laws will mean total disarming of all citizens?

2. A guy with a knife can kill just as many humans in 30 seconds as a guy with an automatic assault rifle?

3. “This time most of the nation will not relent” needs “fixing” to instead read the left will not relent? (Most Americans ARE left leaning re gun safety measures.)

4. Common sense gun laws will render the USA into 1930’s Germany?


All absurd responses from numb skull wooden heads on this board.
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Re: Mass US Shootings Finally Addressed ?

Post by screen glare » Thu Aug 08, 2019 2:10 pm

Meanwhile our beloved country is unique in the world in the high number of gun massacres, and resulting numbers of victims dead and injured - men, women, and children.

Please both of you remove the sawdust from where your brains should be.



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Re: Mass US Shootings Finally Addressed ?

Post by screen glare » Fri Aug 09, 2019 11:20 pm

And Jumpy, when you or your loved one ( got any?) is shot in a mass shooting in a public place - you be sure - though grievously injured for the remainder of your life - to hold that thought.

I actually think you would change your heart and mind rather quickly, Jumpy.



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Re: Mass US Shootings Finally Addressed ?

Post by screen glare » Sun Aug 11, 2019 3:49 pm

I apparently know more about your honest human reaction than you!



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Re: Mass US Shootings Finally Addressed ?

Post by MWmetalhead » Sat Aug 24, 2019 9:58 am

So, LL101, do you think a bunch of mentally ill wackos possessing firearms constitutes a "well regulated militia" ?

Also, do you think allowing a mentally unstable wackos to possess firearms accomplishes the aim of achieving "the security of a free state" ?

Should felons who are incarcerated be allowed to carry heat?



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Re: Mass US Shootings Finally Addressed ?

Post by MWmetalhead » Sat Aug 24, 2019 10:10 am

This is an interesting read. People like Hannity and Levin - who profess to love Ronald Reagan - would piss all over a modern-day politician whose stances on gun control and immigration were identical to those of Reagan!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... ng-history



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Re: Mass US Shootings Finally Addressed ?

Post by screen glare » Sun Aug 25, 2019 6:46 am

The USA is the only country in the industrialized world that cannot curtail frequent, massive, injurious and fatal shootings in every kind of location imaginable.

Those who are paralyzed by the 200+ year old wording of the second amendment to the Constitution pretend that an amendment has never before been added, subtracted, edited, or in any way changed or altered as new data rendered all or part of it obsolete for a modern reason or reasons.

Those who insist that the wording of the second “musket era” amendment is forever a sacred cow fall into two camps: they are frozen in time by threats of the NRA gun maker lobby, or they fear the government will confiscate all guns and ban the sale of all guns forever after.

Two recent mass shootings “back to back” in America have caused more Americans to examine their thinking on this issue. Wait until in one week there is a mass shooting per day - resulting in high death counts - with all kills occurring within 1 minute or less at each public location. And all of the massacres are well covered by the news media.

That increasingly likely scenario - in this era of Trump’s “whip-em-into-rant-and-resent-mode” rallies - may cause enough voter conversion on gun safety to move lawmakers to fear inaction more than a pummeling by ‘lil’ Wayne LaPiere.

Voters must deeply and urgently sense that they or their children could actually feel fear, pain, and be slaughtered in a mass shooting - to finally pose a bigger ballot box threat to lawmakers than ‘lil’ Wayne.



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Re: Mass US Shootings Finally Addressed ?

Post by Bryce » Sun Aug 25, 2019 10:36 am

Another mass shooting that has failed to garner "wall to wall" coverage by the media or politicians.
Shooting at Maryland toddler's birthday party leaves 7 adults wounded, police say
The shooting occurred Saturday night near the Camp Springs and Morningside areas of Prince George's County, officials said. Roughly 12 people were in attendance at the 2-year-old's birthday party when someone started shooting.

Three of the seven people who were shot — all between the ages of 18 and 20 — remained critically injured, but Prince George's County Police Chief Henry Stawinski said they were all expected to survive.
Bet it wasn't a AR or AK.


New York and Chicago were all in with respect to their sanctuary status — until they were hit with the challenge of actually providing sanctuary. In other words, typical liberal hypocrisy.

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Re: Mass US Shootings Finally Addressed ?

Post by screen glare » Wed Aug 28, 2019 9:46 am

Odd response.



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Re: Mass US Shootings Finally Addressed ?

Post by Bryce » Sat Aug 31, 2019 2:32 pm

Another mass shooting.
BREAKING: 17-year-old arrested for football game shooting, charged with 9 counts of attempted murder
https://www.wkrg.com/news/breaking-tee ... d-murder/

The gun wasn't purchased at a gun show and the subject didn't have a background check prior to purchase.


New York and Chicago were all in with respect to their sanctuary status — until they were hit with the challenge of actually providing sanctuary. In other words, typical liberal hypocrisy.

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Re: Mass US Shootings Finally Addressed ?

Post by MWmetalhead » Sun Sep 01, 2019 7:50 am

How did he obtain the weapon? Didn't see any mention in the story.



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Re: Mass US Shootings Finally Addressed ?

Post by Turkeytop » Sun Sep 01, 2019 8:44 am

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