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  • Brisketexan
    Brisketexan

    No, Nicole.   That's not true.  Sure, every single human being has some innate bias etc. that colors their perspective, and different speakers PUSH different narratives.  But what is happening with th

  • hornmpa96
    hornmpa96

    That’s not true. As has been pointed out in this thread multiple times, other countries who had mass shooting events immediately changed their gun laws to make it harder or impossible to obtain the we

  • Chuckie Finster
    Chuckie Finster

    The "we can't solve 100% of the problem so we shouldn't make any attempt at all" line of thinking is a big reason why we are where we are. 

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10 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

This is insane:


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So now the play is it’s really “the Left’s” fault and the answer is more institutionalization, incarceration, and… whatever “fortification” means (obviously must not mean checking for guns)?

Or is it the “Deus Vult” bullshit that God’s plan requires brutally murdering kids with assault rifles?

Yep. Like clockwork, the right has come out with their standard trio of responses: 1)) it’s too soon to talk politics, BUT…. 2) thoughts and prayers, and we need more God and Jesus, and 3) the solution to there being so many highly lethal guns out there is…we need more people with more guns.

We are the worst fucking society. I hate it. I hate that they’ve won. That they’ve created their dream, and the inevitable result is a little girl with her face blown off. Oh…who am I kidding. “A” little girl with her face blown off - no, it’s been dozens of them. We’ll get up to the hundreds, probably in the next 5 years. Every one of them a trophy to put on the shelf as a symbol of their victory. It’s over. They’ve won. This is who we are, and what we will be, forever.

It’s not who we will be forever, but the change is going to involve more blood and unrest and maybe a lot of it.
28 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

 

It's fucking insane, most people and tons and tons of gun owners and enthusiasts want these things banned, yet it feels like we will never be able to achieve this.

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I've never owned a gun. I have no desire to own a gun. I haven't fired a gun since summer camp when I was probably 12. This is all insanity. 

5 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

If we just take away the drag queen's guns and books we'd be a lot safer.

even worse are the ILLEGAL drag queens. 

11 hours ago, DDD Dad said:

Who’s gonna pay for all of that?

Bigger question is which political donor is going to receive all the money that gets spent on fortification.

Ironically, the left should arm itself with the express goal of repealing the Second Amendment.

2 hours ago, aggie08 said:

"The only thing that can stop guns is more guns" has got to be the dumbest idea going in a country full of really dumb ideas.

And those same jackasses think the best way to reduce deficits is to decrease the amount of tax revenue you bring in.  GQP is shit at math.

2 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Ironically, the left should arm itself with the express goal of repealing the Second Amendment.

That is what it likely eventually comes to.

1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

Sure I do.  Here's a clip:

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Here's a magazine:

Join NRA - National Rifle Association

All you need now is a rage and a neg and you've hit for the cycle.

The thoughts and prayers aren't working. Or they are, and this god of theirs really likes dead kids and violence. Which is it?

2 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

All you need now is a rage and a neg and you've hit for the cycle.

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53 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

That Twitter account is satire.

Look up.

8 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

All you need now is a rage and a neg and you've hit for the cycle.

I did it!

Just now, Red Five said:

The thoughts and prayers aren't working. Or they are, and this god of theirs really likes dead kids and violence. Which is it?

It's all part of the Republican Party's plan to capture more of the white vote because of the left's seeming inability to protect innocent people from violence and the other. We're heading straight into the arms of fascism.

 

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12 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

If Sandy Hook couldn't make a difference, a photo of a single child killed won't move the needle.

 

 

SecondAmendies would have a great place for selfies! The sane among us could station snipers on nearby billboards. The gun nuts will get their chance to wear their guns at a real shooting! Profit.

I believe strongly that pictures from these scenes should be published widely. The fantacists who believe these situations would be solved by arming teachers need to see what they suggest risking and what their historic response to child slaughters has wrought.

Consider a comparison with marching local Germans into the concentration camps to see what Nazi-ism led to. Matthew McConaughey's description of the Uvalde child indentifiable only by her shoes was moving. Very moving. It's rare that a non-visual representation can evoke a response such as a photo would garner at a glance. McConaughey's effort was a rarity.

Publish the photographs. This is what we allow. This slaughter site is a lower priority in our gun culture than ownership of weapons designed to do this kind of damage in just seconds. This is who we are.

This is what we allow ourselves to grow accustomed to while still thinking of ourselves as a great and serious country. 

We're none of that shit and haven't been since the country embraced Reagan and Limbaugh and Fallwell. We have never been as great as we insist that we are. Hubris is at the heart of Greek tragedies.

24 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

That is what it likely eventually comes to.

Which is the endgame the gun nuts actually want. The notion that they can mow down some of their leftist neighbors with their semi-auto freedom machines is one of the pillars of the conservative wet dream.

That's odd. I haven't seen a fucking thing change in Texas. 

11 hours ago, TexEx15 said:

Fortification for soft targets huh? Schools (elementary through college), churches, malls, Walmart, movie theaters, festivals, bars, restaurants, night clubs, private residences. But sure it’s us who are not serious. 

 

11 hours ago, DDD Dad said:

Who’s gonna pay for all of that?

 

11 hours ago, TexEx15 said:

Maybe we start by posting the 10 commandments in all of them. 

 

11 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Mexico. Or Iraqi oil. Take your pick. 

Naw. A tax hike for the top 2%.

A corollary of our collective failure to manage guns in the US is a pessimism that we’re capable as a people of seriously addressing climate change. If you can’t even rally the troops to a clear cut, man made problem that regularly kills children as seen on TV, what hope is there that enough of the audience will be moved by a slower-unfolding disaster with multiple etiologies and somewhat localized effects? We couldn’t even all agree that masks are not a personal infringement during a modern plague. We are a nation of dumbfucks that need to get on the same page.

Yeah you'd think we as many guns as we have in this state that there would be no soft targets and these guys would think twice before going on killing sprees. It's almost like they don't care about the consequences once they've decided they want to kill people. So I dunno, maybe limit their ability to get these weapons. Nah, that's crazy talk. Forget I said it. 

It's like there's an epidemic of faulty brakes in cars killing people. We keep installing the faulty brakes in more cars, and more people die as a result every year. "More faulty brakes! This won't stop until we've put faulty brakes in everyone's cars!". 

People sending out Christmas cards posing with their faulty brakes, etc. 

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1 minute ago, Red Five said:

It's like there's an epidemic of faulty brakes in cars killing people. We keep installing the faulty brakes in more cars, and more people die as a result every year. "More faulty breaks! This won't stop until we've put faulty brakes in everyone's cars!". 

People sending out Christmas cars posing with their faulty brakes, etc. 

Mass shootings will continue to happen as long as we are governed by radicals who believe the Second Amendment protects the right of individuals to own weapons of mass destruction.

2 minutes ago, Red Five said:

It's like there's an epidemic of faulty brakes in cars killing people. We keep installing the faulty brakes in more cars, and more people die as a result every year. "More faulty brakes! This won't stop until we've put faulty brakes in everyone's cars!". 

People sending out Christmas cards posing with their faulty brakes, etc. 

Don't worry folks.  The day will eventually come when the last surviving person can wave their semi in the air and shout "I made it, Ma!  Top of the heap!"

11 minutes ago, Degenerate Gardner said:

A corollary of our collective failure to manage guns in the US is a pessimism that we’re capable as a people of seriously addressing climate change. If you can’t even rally the troops to a clear cut, man made problem that regularly kills children as seen on TV, what hope is there that enough of the audience will be moved by a slower-unfolding disaster with multiple etiologies and somewhat localized effects? We couldn’t even all agree that masks are not a personal infringement during a modern plague. We are a nation of dumbfucks that need to get on the same page.

Well the good news is that we've fucked up education so much that more dumbfucks are on the way.

10 hours ago, Hermanator said:

Oh they want to talk about a lack of mental health institutions in this country?

Well let's see in 1980 democrat president Carter signed the Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 to bolster the funding for mental health institutions in the US. A year later republican president Reagan signed the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 that repealed pretty much all of it and cut budgeting for mental health even further. In the 42 years since republicans have been responsible for further cuts. 

So that's on you republican fucks too. The entire problem is on you. 

I recall reading at the time about the particularly cruel twist in this story. The act Carter signed called for moving patients from large scale institution to better small scale accommodations. The big institutions closed down, but Reagan's move killed funding for the second part. The mental patients have nowhere to go and find themselves homeless.

If you look, you'll see where homelessness starts becoming a prominent issue. Crazy people are wandering the sidewalks! I guess they just don't care about being homeless, but they're making the sidewalks unpleasant! 

Non-profits and some churches have made efforts, but they don't have the resources the government does. Now they're scorned. Our previous president suggests criminalizing their plight, rounding them into concentration camps, and making our beautiful streets great again.

Cruelty is our brand. @Brisketexan

3 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

Well the good news is that we've fucked up education so much that more dumbfucks are on the way.

Oh and more good news.  Abortions are a lot harder to get in many places now so more unwanted children for that fucked up education system to try to make "not dumbfucks"

Clevon is out there....and he's coming for your soul.  

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3 hours ago, aggie08 said:

"The only thing that can stop guns is more guns" has got to be the dumbest idea going in a country full of really dumb ideas.

In the 70s, anti-war groups responded to the notion of using armed forces to keep the peace with this slogan:

Fighting for peace is like fucking for chastity.

So it fits right in with our history of dumb ideas regarding shooting people we don't even know.

6 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

Oh and more good news.  Abortions are a lot harder to get in many places now so more unwanted children for that fucked up education system to try to make "not dumbfucks"

Clevon is out there....and he's coming for your soul.  

It's a sadistic arithmetic the Christian Taliban have working right now.

We need to zealously do away with abortion because its killing unborn kids (their god cannot prevent abortion, apparently), but we need to zealously protect people's right to kill born kids (their god needs these kids as Jesus freedom martyr space ghosts).

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126 days into the year and there have been 129 mass shootings in Texas.

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Meanwhile, on Texags…..

https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3376894

They are obsessed with shooter's legal status as if that :

1) undercuts gun control advocates’ arguments. It doesn’t. 

2) make one fucking difference to the eight people who lost their lives yesterday on a shopping trip to the mall. It doesn’t. 
 

Oh and more good news.  Abortions are a lot harder to get in many places now so more unwanted children for that fucked up education system to try to make "not dumbfucks"
Clevon is out there....and he's coming for your soul.  

The gun nuts want more kids. More targets.
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Meanwhile, on Texags…..
https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3376894
They are obsessed with shooter's legal status as if that :
1) undercuts gun control advocates’ arguments. It doesn’t. 
2) make one fucking difference to the eight people who lost their lives yesterday on a shopping trip to the mall. It doesn’t. 
 

I was reading it earlier. There several comments that are straight white Christian nationalist. As in not even trying to hide it. These are our neighbors that are electing the likes of Abbott and Cruz. It’s time we treat those people as the enemy. Stop being dismissive about them. That “they just have a different political stance”. They are enabling this shit with their gun fetishism, white Christiana fascism. Enemies of you and your family. We have the same types on this site that don’t give a shit because “hey, it wasn’t my kid that died”. They do not care. A bunch of tiny dicks compensating for the fact that they are in fact not superior to everyone else.

It's worth repeating as it highlights how stupid we are for letting this go on...

Guns are the leading cause of death for US children and teens since surpassing car accidents in 2020.

Children are more likely to be killed by a gun than in a car accident

1 hour ago, Surly Bevo said:

Oh and more good news.  Abortions are a lot harder to get in many places now so more unwanted children for that fucked up education system to try to make "not dumbfucks"

Clevon is out there....and he's coming for your soul.  

That's what they want.  The men enacting these laws know their wives, daughters, and mistresses, will just be able to travel to NY or CA and get an abortion.  But they want more poor people and more crime. The cruelty is the point.  

 

https://law.stanford.edu/publications/the-impact-of-legalized-abortion-on-crime-over-the-last-two-decades/.    More crime is the goal.  They know legal abortion leads to less crime.

 

Donohue and Levitt (2001) presented evidence that the legalization of abortion in the early 1970s played an important role in the crime drop of the 1990s. That paper concluded with a strong out-of-sample prediction regarding the next two decades: “When a steady state is reached roughly twenty years from now, the impact of abortion will be roughly twice as great as the impact felt so far. Our results suggest that all else equal, legalized abortion will account for persistent declines of 1% a year in crime over the next two decades.” Estimating parallel specifications to the original paper, but using the seventeen years of data generated after that paper was written, we find strong support for the prediction and the broad hypothesis, while illuminating some previously unrecognized patterns of crime and arrests. We estimate that overall crime fell 17.5% from 1998 to 2014 due to legalized abortion— a decline of 1% per year. From 1991 to 2014, the violent and property crime rates each fell by 50%. Legalized abortion is estimated to have reduced violent crime by 47% and property crime by 33% over this period, and thus can explain most of the observed crime decline.

Do we have any demos on the Allen shooter yet? White male between 18-22 is the leader in the clubhouse, right?

Do we have any demos on the Allen shooter yet? White male between 18-22 is the leader in the clubhouse, right?

Greg Abbott says he’s an illegal wetback who shot other illegal wetbacks and should be pardoned because he’s a veteran who shot an evil antifa protestor, but Greg has a tendency to speak before the facts are out, so who knows?
5 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Do we have any demos on the Allen shooter yet? White male between 18-22 is the leader in the clubhouse, right?

He was in his 30s.

He was in his 30s.

And from what it sounds like had been living at his parents house for quite some time. So doing well at life.
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According to the 2A people, including several here, red-flag legislation is dangerous because there is the potential for it to be abused by a "vindictive ex-wife" against a responsible (male) gun owner, which may result in the confiscation of their guns. 

But incarcerating people that are "deemed to be threat" -- whatever that would entail -- is ok? Am I reading that right?

38 minutes ago, yoladu said:

Meanwhile, on Texags…..

https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3376894

They are obsessed with shooter's legal status as if that :

1) undercuts gun control advocates’ arguments. It doesn’t. 

2) make one fucking difference to the eight people who lost their lives yesterday on a shopping trip to the mall. It doesn’t. 
 

We have a decent percentage of posters on this site that would agree with a lot of what’s posted over there. They’re just smart enough not to come in here and post it. 

5 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

We have a decent percentage of posters on this site that would agree with a lot of what’s posted over there. They’re just smart enough not to come in here and post it. 

Well, that's because CR is not welcoming to disparate opinions.  You know, however fucking indefensible, evil and stupid those opinions might be.

Yes, I hear it’s a terrible place. 

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