'No Way To Prevent This,' says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

HeavyG

JohnInCarolina

nolaegghead

Guns save lives?  But guns don’t kill people, people kill people.  Who’s the **** responsible party here, the inanimate lethal objects or the people who use them?

JohnInCarolina

lousubcap

How sad it is.  

nolaegghead

Seriously?  We are voting these **** in to represent guns?

JohnInCarolina

Well, at least we know where their loyalties lie.  

nolaegghead

Considering 30% of guns sold in the US are imported, definitely a weird flex.  Next they will be wearing Mercedes necklaces.

HeavyG

It is unbelievable to me that anyone could seriously think this is a good idea. What a country...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/09/missouri-gop-children-guns-open-carry/

Ozzie_Isaac

https://nypost.com/2023/02/09/lawyer-dead-after-mri-discharges-gun/

lousubcap

^^^^  the ultimate in overdoing. 

I'm guessing it does a real number on a computer hard drive as well. 

There is a good reason why all those artificial medical pieces, parts aren't made of steel. 

Edit for spelling-

nolaegghead

Ozzie_Isaac said:

https://nypost.com/2023/02/09/lawyer-dead-after-mri-discharges-gun/

Poor poor idiot.  I hope he hadn't reproduced yet.

Canugghead

lousubcap said:

^^^^  the ultimate in overdoing. 

I'm guessing it does a real number on a computer hard drive as well. 

There is a good reason why all those artificial medical pieces, parts aren't made of steel. 

Edit for spelling-

Thanks to you know who, now we have to give reason for the edit, lol

JohnInCarolina

Ozzie_Isaac said:

https://nypost.com/2023/02/09/lawyer-dead-after-mri-discharges-gun/

lousubcap

@Canugghead - I resemble that post but I'm fine with it.  No worries. And for sure no one has to justify the edit.  I just offer it up on the off-chance an earlier post reader might wonder how I may have pivoted in the edit. 

It is Friday.

HeavyG

"As Gov. Ron DeSantis prepared for an election night party in downtown Tampa last year, city officials received a surprising — and politically sensitive — request.

The Republican governor’s campaign wanted weapons banned from his victory celebration at the city-run Tampa Convention Center, a city official said in emails obtained by The Washington Post. And the campaign suggested that the city take responsibility for the firearms ban, the official said — not the governor, who has been a vocal supporter of gun rights."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/10/desantis-campaign-emails-gun-free-event/

Love the hypocritical behavior. Just like the NRA Annual Convention which bans the carrying of weapons onsite. What could they possibly be afraid of I wonder???

HeavyG

Nuther day in 'Murica - today, Michigan State Uni.

dmchicago

Someone needs to come up with an operation "Thoughts and Prayers." team like Operation BBQ or Jose Andres so there can be a team of volunteers cranking out T's & P's for the victim's families at these totally unstoppable events.

 

Canugghead

https://twitter.com/realTuckFrumper/status/1626362697133731840?s=20

dmchicago

From an Assistant Professor at Michigan State 

“My intuition told me he’s walking down the hall and he’s going to enter through the door I’m closest to” by the front of the room, he said. 

“So, I threw myself at that door and I squatted and I held the door like this,” he said, holding his hands clenched tight in front of his face, “so that my weight would keep it and I was putting my foot on the wall.” All the time, he said, he was aware the gunman could shoot through the handle he was holding.  

He told his students to kick out the windows of the ground-floor room so they could escape. The bottom panes would not break, but those above did, and some students were able to scramble out, he said.  

Others did not go. “They were trying to cover the wounds (of the injured) with their hands so they didn’t bleed to death,” Díaz-Muñoz said. “They were heroic because they could have escaped through the windows. They stayed, helping their classmates.” 

Canugghead

https://twitter.com/sairasameerarao/status/1638597513560162312?s=20

#Murica

HeavyG

Thoughts & prayers!

It's funny how the "pro life party" worships guns more than, you know... actual life.

Legume

Yet another school shooting today.

I read an article the other day that said the majority of guns being used in crimes now are stolen guns.  Most often handguns stolen from parked cars - under the seat, in center console, etc.  It also said cars with gun and 2A associated decals are targeted.  "This car protected by S&W" but what is protecting the S&W?

HeavyG

Legume said:

Yet another school shooting today.

I read an article the other day that said the majority of guns being used in crimes now are stolen guns.  Most often handguns stolen from parked cars - under the seat, in center console, etc.  It also said cars with gun and 2A associated decals are targeted.  "This car protected by S&W" but what is protecting the S&W?

It should be an automatic/mandatory felony to leave a gun in an unsecured/unsafe/unlocked location. 

It should be an automatic/mandatory felony to charge parents that leave a gun in an unsecured/unsafe/unlocked location. If a six year old child can get to the gun it was not stored securely/safely.

johnmitchell

^^^I agree 100% with this comment. 

dmchicago

Legume

https://news.yahoo.com/largest-source-stolen-guns-parked-151110574.html

dmchicago

Legume

Can we just get rid of schools?  That sounds like good regressive policy.

lousubcap

More on the above Nashville school shooting-

 "Few gunmakers saw a semiautomatic version of the rifle — with its shrouded barrel, pistol grip and jutting ammunition magazine — as a product for ordinary people. It didn't seem suited for hunting. It seemed like overkill for home defense. Gun executives doubted many buyers would want to spend their money on one." WaPo on the AR-15: The gun that divides a nation. The American gun obsession has its costs. Over and over. Today, the 128th mass shooting of 2023 took place at a school in Nashville. CNN: At least 3 children and 3 adults killed in Nashville elementary school shooting. Meanwhile, state and local governments are protecting kids from naked statues and banning books, not guns. "