Yep. The sheer size is daunting. Heck even if you grandfather in previous registered owners and stopped selling new guns, you are talking about a couple of hundred million registered guns out there. That will last a few generations.
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Mass shooting in Thousand Oaks, CA, 13 dead including suspect (Shooter was US Marines vet)
- Thread starter Cosmic Bus
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Yep. The sheer size is daunting. Heck even if you grandfather in previous registered owners and stopped selling new guns, you are talking about a couple of hundred million registered guns out there. That will last a few generations.
NRA lobbyist have made funding pretty much impossible to research gun related crimes. That's why they can spout their bullshit all the time without recourse.
I moved to a new town in middle school and I ended up becoming good friends with this guy almost immediately. I ended up going over to his house after school one day and his dad chilling in their garage listening to music and cleaning a gun. He talked about how it was important to keep the clean and yada yada and then proceeded to take me on a tour of 4 fucking gun locker's worth of rifles and shotguns (like 20-ish guns) and then like another dozen handguns. It was insane how many guns they had and apparently most of the houses on that block were like that.
I told my parents about that and they never let me go over there again, haha.
I highly doubt it's a coincidence that it happened to be college country music night. Then again, who knows, it could be anything. We may never know for sure.
My brain can't even process this.
Coincidence has flown out of the window.
This motherfucker had to have known. Either that, or the scourge of this sort of violence is beyond control.
Condolences to the victims. Can't say anymore because nothing ever changes in NRAmerica.
Perhaps they should follow NRA's route and arm everyone everywhere in America.
Perhaps they should follow NRA's route and arm everyone everywhere in America.
Sad that this bar didn't do enough to defend its patrons. They should have had AI enabled ceiling turrets to eliminate threats like this.
They have ID'd him but it hasn't been released. I just got an AP alert stating that, the only actual info they gave was he was 29 years old.
Can you even imagine being one of the Las Vegas survivors then being here for this, ugh.
RIP to the ones lost.
You guys just need to make gun ownership illegal already or at least put so many hoops and barrels to own a gun. From the stories I read it's almost like voting has more hoops than obtaining a weapon
You guys just need to make gun ownership illegal already or at least put so many hoops and barrels to own a gun. From the stories I read it's almost like voting has more hoops than obtaining a weapon
This is why gun violence is so bad in Chicago among many other things.
Can we not make assumptions on the shooter? This is like Fox News' predicting that a shooter will be a brown illegal immigrant. It doesn't matter who it is until we know who it is, then we can figure out motive etc.
I wonder if it's related in any way to the group from this Vice piece a few weeks back:
You have to be kidding me. This is always so depressing, when people react to a tragedy like that in such a clueless way.
its getting to the point, that this is going to be common place. survive that one? well they died in this one. =(
How long until the Islamic terrorist narrative comes out and Trump uses this as a way to hammer home his immigrant message even if this guy was an American citizen?
because its just another day in america, unless this shooter is Muslim, then it would be fucking huge.
The shame of the United States is not that it hasn't prevented this. It's that it quite frankly hasn't even tried.
I am american and I can confirm. This is the new normal.
The NRA has won again. Fear won against love again.
In other gloomy news, it looks like we've lost our battle on
global warming. Mankind is is now doomed unless we start shooting aluminum particles or some other shit into the atmoshphere in hopes of deflecting enough sunshine that it will stop global warming from wiping out 90% of all human cities and wealth, causing untold wars and genocides, and probably be the first Gigadeath event in human history.
I'm sorry.
Crazy fucker with a gun.
That's the only detail I need to know about the shooter.
Well, as usual, my assumptions are slowly being filled into the blanks.
White male?
Jack in the box and his adminstration will be right on it! /s
At this point, its not even enough to ban/stop all gun sales in America. We'd also need to somehow remove all guns already out there, which is impossible. These mass shootings will never end, and all I can hope for is that I or anyone I love is not caught in one.
Man sucks this is the new normal.
Condolences to the victims and families.
The middle eastern angle was terrible.
Condolences to the victims and families.
The middle eastern angle was terrible.
These shootings can happen in red areas too like that texas shooting and Republicans will still defend their guns. Republicans will literally let the blood of their own children flow for their guns. Perverted devils.
This is the new normal.
Wake up, read about the newest shooting, say "oh my God", go on about your day. On occasion, the country will actually stop and pay attention if one seems worse than usual.
And I'd be on the next plane out of that sorry ass country.
Shot at and nearly killed, twice. Jesus Christ.
I woke up to see this sad news. I see Trump has already tried to fake empathy. Fuck all those politicians with their crocodile tears and their cut and pasted speeches. They should not get to comment any more until they fucking do something. By their actions, this is the country they want. When they did nothing after Sandy Hook, this is the country they want. When they did next to nothing after Vegas, this is the country they want. The only significant movement after Vegas was regarding bump stocks, which are still mostly legal over a year later. When they intentionally spread fear and fake news, this is the country they want.