Mass shooting at Virginia Beach Municipal Center (UP: 12 dead, 4 injured, see threadmark)
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There's like a million things you could do that aren't even banning guns. Increase funding for mental health programs. Increasing funding for background check systems. Making background checks more stringent.
We'll do none of it.
More pointedly.
America: "We can't do anything about guns, there are too many of them already out there"
Also America: "50% of people are women but nope, we will work day and night for 50 fucking years, stacking courts, changing laws, subverting the democratic process to get abortion laws overturned."
Anybody who says it is "too hard" is straight up wrong.
"Since 2013, we've closed the background check loophole in 20 states, disarmed domestic abusers in 28 states, passed Red Flag Laws in 15 states. Last year we passed stronger gun laws in 20 states; 9 signed by Republican Govs. We outmaneuvered and outspent the @NRA in the midterms."
Absolutely agree.
It is just as much how much effort they are willing to put in that makes it embarrassing. Maximum effort into one thing because it is their "Beliefs", while doing little to nothing about the other. Make sure the child is born so they may grow to die in a hail of bullets.
I dig.
Our fuckin president hasn't even said anything.
It is possible to ban guns.
Australia did it after Port Arthur.
New Zealand did it after Christchurch
Australia did it after Port Arthur.
New Zealand did it after Christchurch
He's too busy endorsing racist cuntbags for the UK prime minister spot.
Neither country "banned" guns, onlycertain types of guns.
I'm not a gun guy and if guns were banned it wouldn't bother me, but no other county in the world that allows guns has problems the magnitude of those in the USA. Banning guns is an answer, but not a viable one. You're better off banning classes of guns, forcing background checks and training, just like every other civilized country in the world.
Yup. If you look at the responses by Virginian Republicans it is without a single hint of irony or self awareness "This is awful. Thoughts and prayers."
These fuckin bastards.
Been out for the evening but I just saw this, lived in VA Beach for quite a bit of the time I was stationed out there in Norfolk, crazy to hear. This brought down my good night.
Had no idea a shooting even happened until I went to YouTube and saw some headline videos about it. We're so conditioned to shootings due to the huge number of them that I didn't so much as flinch when reading, as shitty as that is. It's more like, "another shooting, won't be long until the next one I bet." it's sad, RIP to the victims and their families. May they get the counseling they need to process their grief.
From who? Are you in witness protection? This paranoia is insane.
If somebody actually invaded your house you'd be too nervous and clogged with adrenaline to find your gun, load it, and aim properly in that 5-10 second window before they shoot you first or just drive off with whatever they stole. And then even IF you shoot them, depending on your state you'll be in a long court case to prove it was self defense, or at the very least deal with their family suing the shit out of you
The tough guy armed hero myth isn't based in reality, it's literally NRA marketing that you fell for
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Thoughts and prayers
seriously, you care more about inanimate objects than actual lives
I see justice has already been dispensed, but hopefully you do get to see this. I am both shocked and disappointed at how inappropriate and self-centered your post was after an actual tragedy. Another tragedy in a list too long and too full of them already. You've been around long enough to know better and yet all you can think of to offer to this conversation -- while the bodies are barely cold no less -- is how someone can't take your gun. How you refuse to be affected.
I'd like to think you can do better, but the fact that you had the audacity to make such a callous comment -- and as your only comment and for all here to see -- suggests otherwise.
You, sir, are a coward. Small and petty.
What's sad I that this incident isn't even trending on social media anymore. I mean I guess it could be that it's Friday and not every knows about it yet, but there seems to almost no attention being paid to it.
Have we really gotten that used to this shit?
Have we really gotten that used to this shit?
In civilized parts of the world, you'd be laughed out of the building for saying something like that.
They are basically RTAs at this point. Equally devastating, almost as common. RIP to the victims. Please wise up America, stop kowtowing to the fucking NRA.
It'll be the same old blah blah knives blah blah cars blah blah mental health, it's about time the people in charge of the country start thinking about the people who are affected physically, mentally and emotionally by these incidents and not be thinking about the people affected financially by making changes.
In America, it's not if, it's when will your life be affected by gun violence?
The government refuses to act because it's filled with greedy psychopaths, and the amount of guns already out "in the wild", legal or not, is insane. As I always say, it's an infestation. You can't escape it.
The government refuses to act because it's filled with greedy psychopaths, and the amount of guns already out "in the wild", legal or not, is insane. As I always say, it's an infestation. You can't escape it.
In 2017 there were more deaths by firearms in the USA (39,773 Source: CDC) than were killed in Road Traffic Accidents (37,133 Source: National Traffic Highway Safety Administration).
THIS!
Your gun is locked the fuck up in a safe. Dudes rush in, you got no time, you're fucked anyway.
Either that, or you are not a responsible gun owner as you, no doubt, claim in denial of statistics and facts.
When you care more about your guns than human lives. This is America.
This is very sad for two reasons: lives were both lost and traumatized. One death is too many, 12 is a tragedy. The second reason is the collective hopelessness we are experiencing. We have seen this too many times. We know how media will respond to a tee. We know nothing will change, or prevent a future attack. I am more depressed than shocked.
What is left of my heart goes to the victims - to all who were there when it happened.
What is left of my heart goes to the victims - to all who were there when it happened.
