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Mass shooting in small town Texas

I see americans are still hard at work jacking up that price of freedom. You must really love those guns.
 
Vixen said:
Police shoot him dead after a 'pursuit', it is being reported.

If this fellow was in combat gear and armed with an AK-assault, could be a neo-nazi survivalist, with a handy captive audience for his target...?
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Well, to be fair, information is sketchy about the perp.

All we know really is that it is a pretty obscure target for a mass shooter and that very obscurity leads me to suspect that it likely is some wingnut with a grudge and not terrorism. But so far that is total speculation on my part.
 
There is now video labeled 'How US mass shootings are getting worse' on the page linked in first post. It claims 60% white, 20% black, 20% other for shooters. But what's interesting is the increase in last 20 years. Check this graph:

https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/files/2015/07/132.png

Also interesting is that the first increase in 90s was during Clinton's "assault weapons" ban. Anyway there might be some correlation with increase of guns owned, which go sharply up since 90s. Still, guns were available before 90s, just as easily as they are today.

Looks like it's videogames after all !?
 
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erlando said:
I see americans are still hard at work jacking up that price of freedom. You must really love those guns.
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Gun killings have been on the decline as far as I can tell. What is being jacked up in your opinion?

Ranb
 
Dr.Sid said:
Gun homicides are on the decline. Mass shootings are on the increase though.
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That only matters if the mass shooting victims are somehow more dead or more worthy of our sympathy than those who were decent enough to die alone and were not worthy of breaking news style attention by the mass media.

I speak for myself, but the number of people killed at one time doesn't change the way I feel about the victims. Who the victims are (those at Sandy Hook for example) matters more to me when I read about them.
 
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PhantomWolf said:
Not if the ones that are targeted for disarming are the ones that are most likely to snap and go on shooting sprees. Notably the ones that have mental issues known about by family and friends such as serve depression or anger, but never have it reported to the authorities.
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This. ^^^

The straw-man always puts what we have now against total abolition.

It's not. It's reasonable to require universal background checks, to close gun show loopholes, and possibly to require some sort of certification. None of that should take any guns away from “responsible gun owners”.
 
Ranb said:
That only matters if the mass shooting victims are somehow more dead or more worthy of our sympathy than those who were decent enough to die alone and were not worthy of breaking news style attention by the mass media.

I speak for myself, but the number of people killed at one time doesn't change the way I feel about the victims. Who the victims are (those at Sandy Hook for example) matters more to me when I read about them.
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I think these two are simply unrelated. Mass killings by gun are more related to mass killings by car or bomb, than to general homicides, IMHO.
 
Lukraak_Sisser said:
I'm far from a Trump supporter, but what exactly did you expect him to do from Japan where it is the middle of the night right now?

This is exactly the type of message any leader from any country at a similar time sends when woken up in the middle of the night.

The question remains what will he do later once things become clearer, but to condemn this pretty much is condemning that he breathes air.
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Agreed. I'd prefer Twitter wasn't his go to platform, but aside from that, no issues with the initial message.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Paul Ryan on Twitter
"Reports out of Texas are devastating. The people of Sutherland Springs need our prayers right now."

The murdered victims were in a church, praying. If prayers did anything, they'd still be alive, you worthless dick.
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A bit churlish, that.
 
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