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As long as T-Rump and McConnell are in power, as many as we can get. Until the mental health problem we have IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND SENATE is "taken care of", we must endure.
90% of America wants something done about assault weapons … minimize the damage that can be done BY a hate stimulated individual (mentally unhealthy condition, to be sure). A racist, a white supremacist, a right wing Brown Shirt, a right wing bigot …. ALL mentally ill …. and they ALL back the fascist in the White House, stimulated by Herr Miller. 90% of Americans have no say in the matter. T-Rump, Moscow Mitch, Herr Miller … the American Reichstag, is in control, we must VOTE them out, …. or die. ;-(
The hypocrite again spews his hatred towards the Party trying to protect millions if innocent unborn lives, while supporting a Democrat Party keeping the deaths of of viable babies legal.
His weapon of choice is not the so called assault rifle, but the forceps.
Until people learn to value life more than they do all their guns we'll be flying the flag half mast on a nearly monthly basis. Right now we can't do anything because the words "Gun control" means "gun banning" to the idiots out there that can't discern the difference.
If you could EVER listen to your own words, you might actually learn something.
You said... "Until people learn to value life more than they do all their guns we'll be flying the flag half mast on a nearly monthly basis."
Now I want you to replace that one word "guns" with the word "abortions".
You mindless hypocrites are so lost, you can't even grasp the inhumanity of the very thing that has cheapened innocent life.
You lost souls blame the weapon of choice rather than a culture creating these monsters.
How about answering the one simple question I repeatedly put forth.
Why is it a few decades ago, we hardly ever had these mass shootings of complete strangers with no connection to the killers, when we had many semi automated rifles with even fewer restrictions.
ANSWER THAT QUESTION, and you might get down to the core problem.
IT'S OUR CULTURE, NOT THE WEAPON OF CHOICE!
Start addressing the core reason because you could ban all the guns in the world, and these monsters would use trucks!
Ah so until we address the matter of you wanting to remove the rights of bodily autonomy for women, we can't ever talk about anything else including the nearly monthly mass murders by a shooter? Gotcha. So when are you going to be concerned for the children and adult children who are murdered by a psycho wielding an automatic or semi-automatic? I'm just curious so I can pencil that in my calendar. Unless of course you are only concerned with those in the womb and don't give a damn about those out of it.
So when are you going to be concerned for the children and adult children who are murdered by a psycho wielding an automatic or semi-automatic? I'm just curious so I can pencil that in my calendar. Unless of course you are only concerned with those in the womb and don't give a damn about those out of it.
I honestly doubt that most people actually care about whether strangers (born or unborn) are killed.
It seems that people have been convinced that FEELING concern is virtuous, and they do not go further to actually DO anything beyond talking or writing.
If the gun control advocates actually cared about how many people die, they would be much more concerned about traffic deaths, medical errors, and suicide than about "mass" shootings.
If the anti-abortion folks actually cared about the babies, they would camp outside the clinics and offer to pay the pregnant women carry the babies to full term, and then would adopt the kids when they were born.
In reality, folks care more about looking like they care than about making anybody's life longer or better.
Very very true. It's much easier to complain and say you want to fight against someone instead of actually DOING it. There are a lot of keyboard warriors.
The answer is: As many mass shootings as there will be before we get rid of His Cowardly Majesty (Who is a large part of the mental illness problem we have in our country! :-) AND the Duke of Kentucky, Moscow Mitch, who is working JUST as hard to sell America to Putin.
ROAD ISLAND GRANDPAW has any of your PARTY POLITICIANS said a word about the guns in the hands of felons ??????? Come STUPID what you got to say !!!!!!!!!!!!
Think about why mass shootings rate a news story or debate topic, but traffic deaths don't.
Even if we do not limit the topic to mass shootings, but include all gun homicides in the US, the number of victims is still fewer than a third of those killed by auto accidents. That means that the word mass in mass shootings is irrelevant. If how many people die was the important part, we would be MUCH more concerned about access to cars than to guns.
When I look at the evidence, it seems to me that most of us care very little about other people dying, and we do not seem to care at all about complete strangers dying. It does not matter if they are shot by a gun or launched through a windshield; if we do not know them, we are mostly unbothered.
Sure, a lot of people have been convinced they are more virtuous if they care that somebody died, so they pretend that mass shootings matter to them, but if the deaths were really a problem for them, they would be just as vocal about more common causes of death.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson made a cogent point: "Often our emotions respond more to spectacle than to data." (Twitter, August 4, 2019 )
Even if we actually cared, nobody has actually come forward with a viable plan for preventing murder. The best they can ever do is propose methods to change how people kill each other.
Never mind that murder is already illegal, the important think is how people do it.
Think about why mass shootings rate a news story or debate topic, but traffic deaths don't.
Well, let's start with the fact that most gun deaths are realistically preventable, whereas most traffic deaths are not. Then let's toss in the fact that you're a moron who thinks gun deaths are part of a national news conspiracy and should therefore be permitted to continue for that reason.
Then let's toss in the fact that you're a moron who thinks gun deaths are part of a national news conspiracy and should therefore be permitted to continue for that reason.
I said nothing about whether anything should continue. I was merely answering the question, and explaining a main reason the problem is unlikely to be solved in the real world (Because people do not actually care about strangers dying.)
I doubt here is any news conspiracy, national or otherwise.
The point is merely that how many people are actually affected by a problem is not relevant to whether people express outrage/concern, etc.. What matters is whether problem is sensationalized. This is how we know that people are only pretending to care about the strangers who die in mass shootings, and that the outrage is disingenuous.
Well, let's start with the fact that most gun deaths are realistically preventable, whereas most traffic deaths are not.
There is no reason to believe that carelessness is any harder or easier to control than cruelty, anger, and mental illness. Most large American businesses have safety programs, and in general, they are very effective.
Certainly it would be no more difficult to control cars than firearms.
Traffic deaths are realistically preventable/reducible by EXACTLY the same methods as are suggested for preventing/reducing gun deaths. Restrict access to cars or guns to people who:
- are well trained
- are law abiding
- are conscientious enough to stay focused on safe operation
- are mentally healthy and have no desire to harm themselves or others
- use/maintain the safety features (trigger locks / breaks & tires)
- prevent kids or other unqualified people from accessing them
- and can pass a background check that demonstrates that they have had no lapses in any of these.
Limit where they can go.
Certainly price makes it easier to control car purchases than gun purchases.
It would be easier to identify who had bought a secondhand car because you cannot hide a car in your backpack or waistband.
It would also be easier to ensure automatic safety features are in cars than in guns.
Hi Marcus. I find it amusingly ironic that you write essays and then complain about people "missing" your point. If there's a point in there anywhere then do yourself a favour and throw everything else away so people can find it. Only a fool could possibly believe other people have either the time or the inclination to search through 10,000 words for the possibility of finding a "point".
I said nothing about whether anything should continue.
I said nothing about the Sun being hot. Do you think that means I do not believe the Sun is hot?
I doubt here is any news conspiracy, national or otherwise.
What you were alluding to was crystal clear, idiot. You think the media unfairly prioritise shootings above traffic deaths. Hence, you think the media is engaged in a conspiracy to suppress traffic deaths.
The point is merely that how many people are actually affected by a problem is not relevant to whether people express outrage/concern, etc.
But clearly it is. You have shown us no evidence that people are not "concerned" about traffic deaths, which would be required in order for your "point" to be valid.
Look, you're probably a nice guy, but you're an idiot. I'm not being mean. That's just how it is. You're perfectly entitled to your opinion, of course, but I just wish you could understand on some level that it is the opinion of an idiot. Hence, please try to express it in less than 10,000 words next time.
There is no reason to believe that carelessness is any harder or easier to control than cruelty, anger, and mental illness.
Wtf are you even talking about? Traffic deaths are not preventable because cars are the best individual means of long distance transport. They serve a purpose other than killing people. Capiche?
Only a fool could possibly believe other people have either the time or the inclination to search through 10,000 words for the possibility of finding a "point".
If you do not have the time to read, what are you doing on this site?
Feel free to stop reading whenever you reach the limits of your attention span.
10,000? Really? Apparently counting is not your strong suit.
I know you were exaggerating for effect, but these are not long pieces. If you think anything I write is a long piece, maybe this is the wrong format for you. Have you thought about going to Twitter?
This is a mental health problem, not a gun problem. Like President Trump said, the trigger doesn't pull it's self, the person behind it does. I'm all for background checks, but you DON'T have the right to take guns away from law abiding, and mentally stable patriots. ALL of the dictators took the guns, and people died under an oppressive regime. Furthermore, since you Godless liberals took God out of the public square, these things started to happen. You have YOURSELVES to blame!
This is a mental health problem, not a gun problem.
You got that right. People like you are MENTALLY ILL. You see the results of what guns have done to your country and out of sheer BULLHEADED STUPIDITY you blame everything EXCEPT the guns.
Ironically though, disingenuous idiots like yourself have the PRECISE OPPOSITE OPINION when asked about Islamic terrorism. In that case, Islam is the problem, not mental health.
Your double standards are stupid and there is a complete absence of reason in every position you take on every subject known to man.
Ironically though, disingenuous idiots like yourself have the PRECISE OPPOSITE OPINION when asked about Islamic terrorism. In that case, Islam is the problem, not mental health.
Yup. Also, just an FYI. Yeshua is another Brontoraptor alt account.
Brontoraptor is a paid corporate shill who tells lies on the internet for money. That basically makes him the moral equivalent of a sewer rodent.