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Today's Mass Shooting

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Ranb said:
But 2004 isn't; that's when Congress allowed it to sunset.
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And these shootings are just one of the perks of being an american. Then you get the gun nuts harrassing the supposed victims for being fake actors in a false flag attack to take their guns away.

Ah real american values. That is what is making america great.
 
ponderingturtle said:
I am trying to figure out how to run betting pools on mass shootings. Because as random events nothing can be done about, they are perfect for gambling on. That way people can feel something other than powerless frustration when there is a mass shooting.
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Over-under on number of people killed in the next one? We would probably need to set a minimum number to be considered a "mass shooting", so as to avoid having to pay out the under for every garden variety murder.
 
I watched a documentary about the Aurora mass shooting. What was particularly depressing was that in the USA, only those most closely linked to that shooting were bothered by it. Whereas in Scotland , with Dunblane, the entire country felt the affects. It was as if we had all be shot at.

With no possibility of a national consensus that mass shootings are a problem for the whole country and a far more selfish attitude of, well I am OK, it was only some people in Aurora who were shot, the USA will never be able to deal with this situation.
 
Nessie said:
I watched a documentary about the Aurora mass shooting. What was particularly depressing was that in the USA, only those most closely linked to that shooting were bothered by it.
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America did cry, and so that documentary did lie.
 
William Parcher said:
America did cry, and so that documentary did lie.
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The point was made by me, not specifically by the documentary. I doubt the documentary makers realised they were revealing how quickly Aurora was yesterdays news and the victims forgotten.

That point of how quickly people put a mass shooting behind them is also being expressed in this thread, from its title to comments like "It's yesterday's mass shooting now. Move on."
 
Nessie said:
I watched a documentary about the Aurora mass shooting. What was particularly depressing was that in the USA, only those most closely linked to that shooting were bothered by it. Whereas in Scotland , with Dunblane, the entire country felt the affects. It was as if we had all be shot at.
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That's kinda ridiculous if that documentary said that only those close to the Aurora shooting were bothered by it. I was extremely bothered by it having attended a midnight screening of TDKR myself replete with people in costume, masks and fake guns. It changed the way some theater chains operated -disallowing those costumes, masks and fake guns.

With no possibility of a national consensus that mass shootings are a problem for the whole country and a far more selfish attitude of, well I am OK, it was only some people in Aurora who were shot, the USA will never be able to deal with this situation.
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This is not the "national consensus."
 
William Parcher said:
America did cry, and so that documentary did lie.
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The public outcry against lax gun laws which followed Dunblane forced the government to restrict handgun ownership. That will never happen in the US so the shootings will carry on regardless of how much you cry.
 
Nessie said:
The point was made by me, not specifically by the documentary. I doubt the documentary makers realised they were revealing how quickly Aurora was yesterdays news and the victims forgotten.

That point of how quickly people put a mass shooting behind them is also being expressed in this thread, from its title to comments like "It's yesterday's mass shooting now. Move on."
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That is mostly frustration, and the knowledge that these things will always happen regularly and there is simply nothing that we can do about it. Hell there have been 11 school shootings this year. So more than 1 every 2 schooldays.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/kentucky-attack-11th-school-shooting-23-days-2018-article-1.3775723

It frankly is normal in the US.
 
Aurora was in the news for.... such.... a.... long.... time....

Special report programs about it on TV for like forever it seemed.

But you can go ahead and jump the shark on this.
 
xjx388 said:
That's kinda ridiculous if that documentary said that only those close to the Aurora shooting were bothered by it. I was extremely bothered by it having attended a midnight screening of TDKR myself replete with people in costume, masks and fake guns. It changed the way some theater chains operated -disallowing those costumes, masks and fake guns.
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Yes yes yes, and people go to church to, the shooting there last year, even though it was a white peoples church didn't change anything either. This is just the way things are and there is no point in making a big deal over them. It won't change anything.
 
Dr. Keith said:
To be fair, we have really good first responders, so the KY shooting is the first shooting death in a school this year.
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Please don't take this as a dig at you. Do you realise that you are only saying that because you have been normalised to mass shootings?
 
Nessie said:
Please don't take this as a dig at you. Do you realise that you are only saying that because you have been normalised to mass shootings?
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Dear friend, dig away. I am fully aware that it is an abomination that our firefighters are so damn good at treating gun shot wounds.
 
The first month of the year isn't even over yet, and someone has already died from a mass shooting?
 
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