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

nolaegghead

Paranoid, delusional, sad.

nolaegghead

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/debunking-myths-the-gun-lobby-perpetuates-following-mass-shootings/

JohnInCarolina

Area man who has stockpiled a small arsenal in his own home has concerns about not being able to purchase more to keep compensating.

caliking

"soft targets"... 9 year old kids. Seems like you have it all figured out.  

Have your buddies already told you where the next one is going down @wildthing?

caliking

I've posted earlier about New Zealand being an example of how a conscientious polity can do something to impact gun violence, but here's a reminder.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/how-to-prevent-gun-massacres-look-around-the-world

Apparently, in the US, enjoying your freedumb involves making conditions ripe for killing our children and citizens. 

nolaegghead

The gun rights movement really boils down to creating enough distrust of government (run by deep state george soros blood drinking evil libtards) to convince people that if they don't have weapons, they're defenseless against it and it's out to get everyone's guns so it can control the people.

All this is wrapped around a solution of authoritarianism.   Look at all the authoritarian countries out there.  They suck. 

JohnInCarolina

dmchicago

@lousubcap

You ok?

JohnInCarolina

dmchicago said:

@lousubcap

You ok?

He is!  I talked to him shortly after the bank incident.

lousubcap

Yep- just now getting to  the forum after all the challenges of getting this back up.

Thanks for asking. 

Acn

lousubcap

A move forward.

This from TN:

"Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, a Republican, signed an executive order on Tuesday aimed at streamlining and optimizing background checks for gun purchases in the state. The move comes two weeks after a 28-year-old shooter legally purchased seven firearms and killed three adults and three children at a private school in Nashville." Tennessee governor who lost friends in Nashville shooting strengthens background checks. "Lee's announcement comes a day after a shooter opened fire at a bank in Louisville, Kentucky, killing five people, including a 'very close friend' of Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear."

https://www.semafor.com/article/04/11/2023/tennessee-gov-bill-lee-gun-background-che?utm_"

nolaegghead

Takes a few personal friends to get killed before most any republican pushes gun control.  

It’s a tragedy/miracle 

JohnInCarolina

Canugghead

  

Canugghead

  

Legume

Thoughts and prayers for Dadeville, Alabama this morning as well.

JohnInCarolina

Legume

JohnInCarolina

http://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1647593279179964417?s=20

caliking

JohnInCarolina said:

http://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1647593279179964417?s=20

That's  because Trump told them to go there, as he spooged on their faces. 

Botch

Jordan Klepper is having his "1-week-audition" to host The Daily Show, and the first half of his monologue here talks about his visit to the NRA show last weekend (the second half of this video is good but not relevant to this thread).  Jordan would be a fine host for TDS, but he has an incredible talent for interviewing, uh, "misled" folks, on the fly, and I'd sure hate to lose that...
 
I used to be kinda proud that I was raised in South Dakota, but really can't be after this.  

https://youtu.be/O8sqnXnCjDw

nolaegghead

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/04/opinion/nashville-shooting-guns.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

nolaegghead

Looking forward to Klepper hosting this week.  I’m pretty sure he’s not gonna get the permanent job based on some of his high caliber competition, but he’s hilarious and a quick thinker.

JohnInCarolina

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-upstate-woman-shot-wrong-driveway-20230417-bwf5x4uyxvcaxhdc322kxk6ouu-story.html

HeavyG

'Murica!

Botch

The interview with the gent from Montana was particularly interesting.
 
https://youtu.be/LmJkxCpSKMY

JohnInCarolina

http://twitter.com/TheGoodLiars/status/1649512389212094465?s=20

Bodine

We have social problems in America, mostly due to the turn away from god and religion..
Mental illness going untreated, and the closing of sanitariums as well.

Legume

Bodine said:

We have social problems in America, mostly due to the turn away from god and religion..
Mental illness going untreated, and the closing of sanitariums as well.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that our "using guns to kill lots of people" problem is a bit out of reach for organized religion although it would be a great message for religions to take on as it's unlikely there are countless preachers, pastors and priests that are secretly murdering people and subsequently getting some cover up help from their church.

3 of U.S.’s biggest religious denominations in turmoil over sex abuse, LGBT policy

Nation Mar 3, 2019 3:04 PM EDT

It has been a wrenching season for three of America’s largest religious denominations, as sex-abuse scandals and a schism over LGBT inclusion fuel anguish and anger within the Roman Catholic, Southern Baptist and United Methodist churches. There’s rising concern that the crises will boost the ranks of young people disillusioned by organized religion.

“Every denomination is tremendously worried about retaining or attracting young people,” said Stephen Schneck, a political science professor at Catholic University. “The sex-abuse scandals will have a spillover effect on attitudes toward religion in general. I don’t think any denomination is going to not take a hit.”

“You have very top-down, patriarchal institutions representing a kind of power that civil society has left behind.” – Natalia Imperatori-Lee, religious studies professor at Manhattan College