The American mass shooting thread

[petee]

I've come to the conclusion that Americans really don't mind gun violence.
If they cared, they would do something about it.

"Americans"

 

[Badgers]

 

[editor]

Fuck's sake.

 

[Badgers]

Not had much coverage

 

[Ax^]

Private club so gambling den that went wrong




Saying that we all know the real danger to america is vaping

 

[Badgers]

New Hampshire

 

[Badgers]

2 die as at least 12 people shot at party near Greenville, authorities say

Greenville, Texas.
12 shot and 2 dead reported

 

[a_chap]

‘Horrific tragedy’: five dead at Halloween party in California Airbnb rental

California governor Gavin Newsom called the shooting a “horrific tragedy” but wrote: “This will barely make the news today. That’s how numb we have become to this.”

 

[spring-peeper]

‘Horrific tragedy’: five dead at Halloween party in California Airbnb rental

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tanyachen/airbnb-banning-party-houses-orinda-halloween-shooting

 

[Ming]

Have we had any in any other developed first world western democracy recently? It's definitely not guns though. It's violent video games. Which they definitely don't have in every other fucking developed first world western democracy.

 

[spring-peeper]

Have we had any in any other developed first world western democracy recently? It's definitely not guns though. It's violent video games. Which they definitely don't have in every other fucking developed first world western democracy.

Other countries?

Like in Canada?

Homicide at nightclub overnight brings Winnipeg’s total to 38

Investigation Underway After 5 Teens Shot In Toronto

Toddler stabbed in Winnipeg has died: family

 

[Ming]

Other countries?

Like in Canada?

Homicide at nightclub overnight brings Winnipeg’s total to 38

Investigation Underway After 5 Teens Shot In Toronto

Toddler stabbed in Winnipeg has died: family

Not like the States though matey. It's every week there.

 

[spring-peeper]

Not like the States though matey. It's every week there.

Daily



Little girl got shot on Hallowe'en

 

[Ming]

Daily



Little girl got shot on Hallowe'en

Didn't know about that.

 

[spring-peeper]

Didn't know about that.

Juvenile charged with shooting 7-year-old trick-or-treater in Chicago



Barely made the news - just one of many

 

[existentialist]

Interesting that the local authority for that Hallowe'en party shooting are looking at banning party rentals. Because it was party rentals travelling at hundred of miles an hour that penetrated flesh and took lives...

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Interesting that the local authority for that Hallowe'en party shooting are looking at banning party rentals. Because it was party rentals travelling at hundred of miles an hour that penetrated flesh and took lives...

I'm all for banning airBNBs in some cities. They drive up housing costs and lower the number of homes available for the people who live in the community. Some sections of San Francisco, which used to be family housing, has gone entirely over to short-term rentals owned by large investment companies.

 

[Orang Utan]

Air BnB parties are a big problem in the area I work in. Lots of noise and anti-social behaviour. Apparently people from more affluent areas hire them out cos they don't want to piss of their own neighbours or get their carpets ruined. So they inflict it on the less wealthy in an area that noise abatement officers are already overstretched. And they can buy drugs more easily off the locals.

 

[existentialist]

I'm all for banning airBNBs in some cities. They drive up housing costs and lower the number of homes available for the people who live in the community. Some sections of San Francisco, which used to be family housing, has gone entirely over to short-term rentals owned by large investment companies.

Sure, but that's another question. I just think it's breathtaking how, whenever a shooting takes place in the US, all the action is focused on ANYTHING BUT GUNS.

 

[spring-peeper]

Sure, but that's another question. I just think it's breathtaking how, whenever a shooting takes place in the US, all the action is focused on ANYTHING BUT GUNS.

That is a different take on things.

I see a business that is trying to make itself safer for people.

 

[spring-peeper]

Ottawa is trying to do something about their airbnb problem.

'Does it take two people getting shot to bring attention to this?': Short-term rental meeting draws a crowd

It's an interesting read because it shows both sides of the issue.

 

[Orang Utan]

That is a different take on things.

I see a business that is trying to make itself safer for people.

I see a business that wants to continue to be profitable

 

[Pickman's model]

sadly searches of the ditch found no trace of boris johnson

Heavily pregnant mother uses an AR-15 to kill a home intruder after two men burst into Florida home | Daily Mail Online

 

[8ball]

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sadly searches of the ditch found no trace of boris johnson

Heavily pregnant mother uses an AR-15 to kill a home intruder after two men burst into Florida home | Daily Mail Online

I give it 6 months before she appears in an NRA promotional video.

 

[8ball]

I've come to the conclusion that Americans really don't mind gun violence.
If they cared, they would do something about it.

They see it sort of like a very dangerous kind of horizontal weather.

 

[Bang to Rights]

I've come to the conclusion that Americans really don't mind gun violence.
If they cared, they would do something about it.

Afghanis, Irakis, Americans. They are living in war zones. What does "minding" have to do with it?

 

[spring-peeper]

Although the deaths did not take place on American soil, but the victims were dual-citizenship with Mexico and US.

Trump offered Mexico military help, but was turned down.

It would appear that some feel that Americans need protection.

Americans may 'have to take matters into our own hands' after Mexican cartel murders US nationals: Sen. Tom Cotton

The U.S. government may have to take unilateral action if the Mexican government doesn't act appropriately in response to the murder of American citizens in his country, according to Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.

Cotton, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told Neil Cavuto on Tuesday that Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's reaction does not necessarily inspire confidence that his nation will take swift action.

"Neil, unfortunately, it's plain that the Mexican government can't handle this," he said.

"President Lopez Obrador came into office almost a year ago saying that his strategy for dealing with the cartels was going to be more hugs, not bullets. That may work in a children's fairy tale, but in the real world when three American women and six American children were gunned down and burned alive the only thing that can counteract bullets is more and bigger bullets. If the Mexican government cannot protect American citizens in Mexico, then the United States may have to take matters into our own hands."

Thing is, the Americans make refugees stay in Mexico. America say Mexico is a safe country.

eta: love the comment that the only thing to protect against bullets is bigger bullets.....

 

[Bang to Rights]

It would appear that some feel that Americans need protection.

Ironic beauty.

love the comment that the only thing to protect against bullets is bigger bullets .....

Standard, American philosphy.

 

[ice-is-forming]

 

[Bang to Rights]

Aw yeah. Ozzie might not have any AR-15's but they have their share of "psychopathic suicidal teens".