(Another) Mass Shooting in America.

karlypants wrote:
I'm talking more along the lines of the gun laws and the feel to need to own a gun.

They are obviously so far up their own arses that they cannot see the damage this is causing to your country.

I was born in the LLG, America is not my country.

Gun control is non-existent in the US, that is true, but it doesn't necessarily make the people stupid. Not condoning shooting cops obviosuly, but if you spent your life being pulled over or stopped in the street just because of your skin colour perhaps you'd lose your mind and do something stupid.

Little Lever Gutterside?

Natasha Whittam wrote:

karlypants wrote:
I'm talking more along the lines of the gun laws and the feel to need to own a gun.

They are obviously so far up their own arses that they cannot see the damage this is causing to your country.

I was born in the LLG, America is not my country.

Gun control is non-existent in the US, that is true, but it doesn't necessarily make the people stupid. Not condoning shooting cops obviosuly, but if you spent your life being pulled over or stopped in the street just because of your skin colour perhaps you'd lose your mind and do something stupid.

Ronnie Raygun wasn't particularly bright and they don't get higher than that?

Sadly another has happened -

Florida shooting: At least 17 dead in high school attack

At least 17 people have been killed in a shooting at a local high school in Parkland, Florida, police say.
The suspect has been named as Nikolas Cruz, 19, and is a former student at the school who had been expelled.
He reportedly pulled the fire alarm and caused chaos in the school before he started shooting, law enforcement officials told CBS News.
Students were forced to hide in classrooms as police scoured the building.

Loads more here -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43066226



Will they ever learn?

No they won't learn Sluffy, saw one of the kids who was actually in the school during the shooting being interviewed on GMB this morning and he said the usual American mantra of "if we all had guns this wouldn't have happened" 

I find it hard to have sympathy with Americans. They bloody love guns and this is the consequences of half the nation having them.

There are none so blind as those who will not see. Their obsession with guns and the right to bear arms is responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent lives. Nothing will change until they accept they have a serious problem and consider the possibility of staunch gun control. Until then, nothing will change.

They'll never overturn the second amendment without a civil war and any attempt to do so would throw the right wing militia's into paroxysms. What gets me is why do nutters with a grievance take it out on innocent kids It wasn't this guys classmates that got him expelled so why shoot them? I'd have thought that the focal point of his anger would have been elsewhere, but wiping out kids in school seems to have become a uniquely American thing.

Ten dead at a school in Santa Fe - 17 year old shooter gave himself up, too scared to commit his planned suicide apparently.

Trump still calling for teachers to be armed apparently also.

When will they ever learn?

Santa Fe school shooting: 10 dead and 10 wounded in Texas

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44173954

This sums it up very nicely

I do like this guy.

And another, the second in 10 days. This will go the way of the rest, calls to get rid of guns or at least automatic weapons for a few weeks then nothing happens and on to the next one and round we go again 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-61573377

I understand why some Americans want to maintain their constitutional right to bear arms - but the 2nd  amendment was made over 230 years ago when the population was small, predominantly rural and the government wanted to arm the people for a guerilla war against the British - and TBF it helped them gain independence 5 years later.
The US has changed beyond all recognition since then and it's not as if the reformers want to ban the right to bear arms - they just want to ensure that anyone who does isn't mental, is registered properly, has a valid reason for buying the weapon, buys a weapon appropriate to that need and the weapons themselves can be tracked - WTF is unreasonable about that?

Nowadays there are more than two guns for every person in America.