Hedgecutter Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 2 hours ago, Sherrif John Bunnell said: No doubt Abbott will have plenty of thoughts and prayers for the families affected. I'm seeing this guy on the news just now and he's reading his piece off a bit of paper in a tone that would be no different than if it was about McPake going to EEP. Absolutely no emotion on show in a manner in which you can almost guarantee he's simply thinking "the anti-NRA are going to have a field day with this..." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetmonster Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 1 hour ago, Sherrif John Bunnell said: It was a toss up on whether mental health issues or computer games were going to get the blame first. Actually the shooter's apparently Latino, so I'm a bit surprised they've gone for mental illness straight off. No doubt some despicable c**t will start giving it large about 'southern border crisis' soon enough. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Job Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 They decided after Sandy Hook the murdering of children was a price worth paying to own a gun Reading some comments on social media from people saying it’s “unbelievable this could happen” when it’s entirely believable and almost expected this sort of thing will happen in the US 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 "Mass shootings only happen in states like California with strict gun laws" . Last week. Today in Texas. Quote The tragedy in Uvalde was the deadliest school shooting in Texas history, and it added to a grim tally of mass shootings in the state that have been among the deadliest in the U.S. over the past five years. In 2018, a gunman fatally shot 10 people at Santa Fe High School in the Houston area. A year before that, a gunman at a Texas church killed more than two dozen people during a Sunday service in the small town of Sutherland Springs. In 2019, another gunman at a Walmart in El Paso killed 23 people in a racist attack. The shooting came days before the National Rifle Association annual convention was set to begin in Houston. Abbott and both of Texas’ U.S. senators were among elected Republican officials who were the scheduled speakers at a Friday leadership forum sponsored by the NRA’s lobbying arm. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inanimate Carbon Rod Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 2 hours ago, Mr. Brightside said: What a fucking cesspool America is. For me they actually do need to do more about mental health, but most of that relies on parents actually doing something about these wee guys in their teens instead of burying their heads in the sand. 2 hours ago, SweeperDee said: “You can’t ban guns cause it would take guns away from the good guys and bad guys will still be able to get guns it’s like drugs” You can’t argue with that level of sheer stupidity. I tend to counter that with most mass shootings are committed with legally bought firearms, whilst bad guys do bad things with guns, most of yer cartel, biker gangs and gangsters own guns to further criminal enterprise not shoot up schools. 2 hours ago, Hauzen said: In response to the shooting in Uvalde, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says the solution may be arming teachers. Speaking to conservative news outlet Newsmax, Paxton said that "having potentially teachers and other administrators be armed" would help stop future attacks while authorities arrived. "First responders typically can't get there in time to prevent a shooting. It's just not possible unless you have a police officer on every campus," he said. "I think you're going to have to do more at the school." Fucking hell. I read an account that this shooter had already been engaged by police and had been wearing heavy armour thus if cops with significantly more range time couldnt stop him a teacher with a gun from their handbag has no chance. America needs to get fucking real. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 It's not great when a basketball coach speaks more sense and more passionately than the politicians. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Brightside Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 Some of the responses are simply fucking nuts ; "arm the teachers" "put metal detractors in schools" absolutely crazy stuff. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 Lest we forget about what a notorious American born newspaper columnist had to say about the UK gun laws enacted in the aftermath of Dunblane. “The men - and they are virtually all men - come in two at a time. They have aluminium suitcases, safes, plastic bags and set expressions. “Nanny is confiscating their toys. It is like one of those vast Indian programmes of compulsory vasectomy. “It is as if the state had decided to round up all the model train sets or the stamp collections, an operation causing immense distress to thousands of innocent enthusiasts, and just about as pointless. “Thanks to a sweeping ban on handguns introduced here in the wake of the Dunblane, Scotland, massacre of school children last year, law-abiding gun-owners are now handing over their weapons here at a rate of 50 to 60 a day.” He went on: “An entire pastime will have been exterminated. Britain will be the only country in the world where it is forbidden to practise for an Olympic sport. “The British taxpayers will have to cough up about one billion pounds in compensation; and still the shooters will receive 25 per cent less than the full value of any improvements to their weapons.” He concluded: “It is no use the shooters protesting that this will do nothing about the myriad of illegal weapons, or legal shotguns; or that the existing law should have ensured that guns were taken away from Thomas Hamilton, the loner who killed 16 small children in a moment of madness at Dunblane last March. “The owners of all the 160,000 handguns are penalized for the dementia of a couple of their number, and because no one, in the current climate, dare speak for them.” 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 I never understood why firing a gun was ever an Olympic sport in the first place. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sophia Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 3 hours ago, Sherrif John Bunnell said: Lest we forget about what a notorious American born newspaper columnist had to say about the UK gun laws enacted in the aftermath of Dunblane. Thank goodness self regarding blowhards like that are restricted to polemic and never get near positions of real influence 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williemillersmoustache Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 Too fucking depressing and tragic for words. The tragedy itself of course but that there just isn't the political will or ability to enact the enormous societal changes required here. Without forgetting the viticms and their families, imagine how fucked up and awful a place an 18 year old must have been in to do this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dons_1988 Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 Just seen ted Cruz say ‘we know that legislation against guns doesn’t work to prevent this, we do know that what works is chasing down felons and criminals and those with mental health issues’. Where do you start with this lunacy? Biden doesn’t have enough about him to make any changes here unfortunately. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aufc Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 f**k America 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leith Green Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 49 minutes ago, Dons_1988 said: Just seen ted Cruz say ‘we know that legislation against guns doesn’t work to prevent this, we do know that what works is chasing down felons and criminals and those with mental health issues’. Where do you start with this lunacy? Biden doesn’t have enough about him to make any changes here unfortunately. Even if he did - and he has said he is sick and tired of it, has told his people that this type of event only happens in the USA - his problem is that the Republicans and some Democrats simply wont change the elements of a constitution which was written in 1787. As for Ted Cruz, he probably thinks the 400m guns in circulation in the USA is "not quite enough to keep us safe" - a complete fanny. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty dingus Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 Her is how 2 republican law makers celebrate the season of goodwill to all men. I think being armed has gone beyond hunting and protection from home invasion, The right wing fundamentalists are arming for a civil war. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 Severe lack of thoughts and prayers with this latest nutter...bound to work this time 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 What a fucking mind set to instill into a whole country. Poor wee kids. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin_Nevis Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 12 minutes ago, dirty dingus said: Her is how 2 republican law makers celebrate the season of goodwill to all men. I think being armed has gone beyond hunting and protection from home invasion, The right wing fundamentalists are arming for a civil war. Kid in the Packers hoodie is absolutely going to be a spree killer 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinky67 Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 Monstrous absolutely monstrous and it’s allowed to happen time after time. A country where a woman’s uterus is more regulated than guns 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loonytoons Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 Kid in the Packers hoodie is absolutely going to be a spree killer [emoji23]That was exactly my thoughts too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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