O/T What’s the bloody world coming to.

[Brin]

I don't really know? Another 15 dead in the latest school shooting here today. I'm sure there will be plenty of candlelight vigils but as far as I'm aware I don't think those have brought anybody back to life yet.

Time to get out of here where our latest 'back to the office training' after Covid includes courses in "Stop the bleed" and "Dealing with an active shooter"

There’s no wonder you’re trying to get back here. Where else do you expect a massacre every other week than in the USA, a country way out of control with its gun laws. Thing is the 1st amendment screwed it for everyone when they brought that law in.

The suspect was armed with a handgun and an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, two law enforcement sources have confirmed. Obtaining one of these high powered rifles is like buying baked beans off a supermarket shelf.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

There’s no wonder you’re trying to get back here. Where else do you expect a massacre every other week than in the USA, a country way out of control with its gun laws. Thing is the 1st amendment screwed it for everyone when they brought that law in.

The suspect was armed with a handgun and an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, two law enforcement sources have confirmed. Obtaining one of these high powered rifles is like buying baked beans off a supermarket shelf.

But in the past they’ve brought in amendments to cancel earlier amendments, so why is the gun one so “ unamendable” ?

[wrinkly]

It's the 2nd amendment

[CAMiller]

But in the past they’ve brought in amendments to cancel earlier amendments, so why is the gun one so “ unamendable” ?

It's all down to something Mr. Booth often talked about. Munny! It's also down to 'scaremongering'. You need a gun to protect yourself from other people with guns just like in the days of Jesse James. There's no point in trying to argue about it with any Republican and tell them a civilized society can exist without the need for everyone to own an AR-15. They just look at you as if you are stupid. I guess 14 kids wouldn't be dead now if they had been armed

BTW Brin - it's not every other week, those are just the ones you hear about. It's more like 2-3 per day.

[Brin]

It's all down to something Mr. Booth often talked about. Munny! It's also down to 'scaremongering'. You need a gun to protect yourself from other people with guns just like in the days of Jesse James. There's no point in trying to argue about it with any Republican and tell them a civilized society can exist without the need for everyone to own an AR-15. They just look at you as if you are stupid. I guess 14 kids wouldn't be dead now if they had been armed

BTW Brin - it's not every other week, those are just the ones you hear about. It's more like 2-3 per day.

Chicago being the prime example....they average two per day but it increases significantly in the summer.

Last year's figures: 693
The number of mass shooting incidents in the United States in 2021.
When defined as four or more people shot, 2021’s total is 13.4 percent higher than 2020. The shootings have claimed 702 lives and injured 2,844 people. Though mass public shootings like the Boulder, Colorado, supermarket shooting; the metro Atlanta spa shootings; and the San Jose transit shooting garnered intense media attention, most mass shootings disproportionately affect Black and brown communities and receive relatively little coverage.

If you count all shootings, murder, accident and mishaps it totals more than 24,000 for the year! That is ridiculous.