Today's Mass Shooting

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It doesn't matter how many rampage shootings you have in one day; two, three, five, ten, twenty.... NOTHING WILL HAPPEN because US politicians do not have the intestinal fortitude to stand up to the pro-gun lobby. They are cowards one and all, afraid of losing their NRA rating and their dirty campaign money.
 
Regarding Dayton - at their press conference, the police said they are working to identify the shooter, who is deceased. That means even they don't know who he is yet, so any name you may have seen attributed to the shooter online is almost certainly wrong.
 
Don't worry, I'm sure right wing social media is already figuring out how this is really the fault of ANTIFA. They sure worked hard earlier to pin the El Paso shooting on them.
 
Trump Tweets

Today’s shooting in El Paso, Texas, was not only tragic, it was an act of cowardice. I know that I stand with everyone in this Country to condemn today’s hateful act. There are no reasons or excuses that will ever justify killing innocent people....

....Melania and I send our heartfelt thoughts and prayers to the great people of Texas.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets

Today’s shooting in El Paso, Texas, was not only tragic, it was an act of cowardice. I know that I stand with everyone in this Country to condemn today’s hateful act. There are no reasons or excuses that will ever justify killing innocent people....

....Melania and I send our heartfelt thoughts and prayers to the great people of Texas.
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"Thoughts and prayers."

I'm developing a reflexive antipathy to this now over-used expression. To my erstwhile friends to my south...

... FU.

Get your ◊◊◊◊ together.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets

Today’s shooting in El Paso, Texas, was not only tragic, it was an act of cowardice. I know that I stand with everyone in this Country to condemn today’s hateful act. There are no reasons or excuses that will ever justify killing innocent people....

....Melania and I send our heartfelt thoughts and prayers to the great people of Texas.
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I don't think Trump wrote that.
 
smartcooky said:
It doesn't matter how many rampage shootings you have in one day; two, three, five, ten, twenty.... NOTHING WILL HAPPEN because US politicians do not have the intestinal fortitude to stand up to the pro-gun lobby. They are cowards one and all, afraid of losing their NRA rating and their dirty campaign money.
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Is it only the politicians though? If people did not vote for the politicians policies, then politicians would very quickly start changing their policies.

Who are the "gun lobby", how many US voters are making up that "gun lobby"? Is that the majority in the US?

If the majority of voters in the US really cared more about the vast numbers of innocent people shot dead every year, then how is it possible for US politicians to ignore the will of that majority and still get elected by a minority?

I think US voters just don't want to stop it. They think those lives are a price worth paying in exchange for them continuing to keep & use their guns.
 
Sideroxylon said:
How about you guys get some sensible gun laws? Just thinking out loud outside the box.
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We certainly need those, but given how many non-gun murders we have it would, although help enormously, still leave us with a murder rate many times that of other comparable countries.

This is a multi-layered problem.
 
JoeMorgue said:
We certainly need those, but given how many non-gun murders we have it would, although help enormously, still leave us with a murder rate many times that of other comparable countries.

This is a multi-layered problem.
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Just an idea. Maybe deal with the gun layer with some national gun control legislation? But it has to run the gauntlet of the NRA bought politicians and campaign of bull ****.
 
Sideroxylon said:
Just an idea. Maybe deal with the gun layer with some national gun control legislation? But it has to run the gauntlet of the NRA bought politicians and campaign of bull ****.
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The NRA is just boogeyman. If you look at the raw numbers and money most of the hardcore lobbyist groups throw around in Washington the NRA is incredibly small potatoes and their membership numbers, even if we take them at face value and I certainly don't (on account of I was apparently a member of the NRA for almost 4 years and literally didn't know it, so I question how many active members they actually have) is only 5 million, a tiny fraction of people even if you're only counting gun owners.

If the NRA can stall out one of the biggest political debates in modern American history with the piddling amount of money and power it has, the real big leaguers like the US Chamber of Commerce, the American Realtor Association, and AARP would all have solid gold palaces staffed with virgins built for them on the far side of the moon.
 
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That tree of "liberty" is really thirsting for the blood of innocents right now. And still americans cling to a text from the 18th century while clutching their beloved guns in the other hand.

Get used to it. It will never change. Why? Because they don't ******* care.
 
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JoeMorgue said:
We certainly need those, but given how many non-gun murders we have it would, although help enormously, still leave us with a murder rate many times that of other comparable countries.

This is a multi-layered problem.
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The state of my house is a multi-layered problem, but I will still change the bulbs when they don’t work.
 
angrysoba said:
The “thoughts and prayers” comes across almost as trolling. Which means maybe he did write it.
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Yeah, I can't imagine anyone serious today would literally say "thoughts and prayers" in response to a shooting like this. Are they so oblivious to not realize the backlash there is against it?

Then again, given its trump, of course....

But again, you have to be completely tone-deaf to think saying thoughts and prayers has any meaning any more.
 
pgwenthold said:
Yeah, I can't imagine anyone serious today would literally say "thoughts and prayers" in response to a shooting like this. Are they so oblivious to not realize the backlash there is against it?

Then again, given its trump, of course....

But again, you have to be completely tone-deaf to think saying thoughts and prayers has any meaning any more.
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It could be “vice signaling”. Let me make sure that everyone knows I don’t give a ****.
 
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