Another mass shooting

[Sparko]

Here is an obivious inflection point with equally obvious blame for the GOP NRA cabal.

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

If it was only as simple as if mentally ill people didn't have guns they wouldn't shoot people.
Well, maybe it is that simple.

What's not simple is how and why it is so easy for "mentally ill" people to get and possess guns.
As long as guns and "mentally ill" people exist, the problem/s will continue. Unless you eliminate all guns and all "mentally ill" people. Which of course can and will never happen.

"Mentally ill" or not, I feel if someone uses a gun to shoot other people that person was "mentally well" enough to be able to use a gun and shoot someone else, and yet "mentally ill" enough to do it.

Has there ever been an instance in American history where a person used a gun to purposely kill an INNOCENT person where the person who used the gun to purposely kill an INNOCENT person couldn't have been deemed/diagnosed as being "mentally ill"?

[jfish26]

This whole “mental illness” thing is just squid ink. And it’s disgusting that the pubs have co-opted a gravely serious issue (being mental health problems), and blamed its sufferers for the gun violence arising from the pubs’ addiction to the NRA’s money and influence.

[ousdahl]

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

My guess is we have multiple people on here who will read that and instead of thinking how horrifying that is/was, their first thoughts will be something/s to the extent of....

Gee, that's only one person and it's not me so why would/should I care.
Gee, if the teacher was armed he wouldn't have been shot.
Gee, we don't have a gun problem in this country - see, it's a mental health problem. That and guns don't kill people, people kill people.
Gee, we should have an armed guard at every entrance/exit of every school and things like this wouldn't happen.
Gee, I wouldn't have been scared. I would have been packing and I would have shot the guy.
Gee, the person/people interacting need better cell phone carriers if their texts weren't going through.

[Shirley]

[dolomite]

Who knows, maybe this will start a trend?

https://apnews.com/article/albuquerque- ... 58975724d7

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

Thankfully NOT a mass shooting.
Kudos to the guy that knocked him out. He may have saved the guy's and other people's lives.
Thankfully the chick with the gun pussied out.

[Shirley]

Full disclosure: I own multiple guns.

[Overlander]

Full disclosure: I own multiple guns.

Address?

[Shirley]

UNC is under lockdown again:

[KUTradition]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/educatio ... -violence/#

… Last school year, news reports identified more than 1,150 guns brought to K-12 campuses but seized before anyone fired them, according to an investigation by The Washington Post. That’s more than six guns each day, on average. Nationwide, 1 in 47 school-age children — 1.1 million students — attended a school where at least one gun was found and reported on by the media in the 2022-2023 school year...

but it’s words in books that are the enemy, tainting the minds of kids

smfh

[jfish26]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/educatio ... -violence/#

… Last school year, news reports identified more than 1,150 guns brought to K-12 campuses but seized before anyone fired them, according to an investigation by The Washington Post. That’s more than six guns each day, on average. Nationwide, 1 in 47 school-age children — 1.1 million students — attended a school where at least one gun was found and reported on by the media in the 2022-2023 school year...

but it’s words in books that are the enemy, tainting the minds of kids

smfh

I feel like I’m in the wrong generation to really weigh in on the psychological and developmental impact of this. In that I’m too young to have lived through actual, no-shit fear of nuclear annihilation at the hands of the Soviets, and too old to have lived, as a child, through the normalization of active shooter drills.

[KUTradition]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/educatio ... -violence/#

… Last school year, news reports identified more than 1,150 guns brought to K-12 campuses but seized before anyone fired them, according to an investigation by The Washington Post. That’s more than six guns each day, on average. Nationwide, 1 in 47 school-age children — 1.1 million students — attended a school where at least one gun was found and reported on by the media in the 2022-2023 school year...

but it’s words in books that are the enemy, tainting the minds of kids

smfh

I feel like I’m in the wrong generation to really weigh in on the psychological and developmental impact of this. In that I’m too young to have lived through actual, no-shit fear of nuclear annihilation at the hands of the Soviets, and too old to have lived, as a child, through the normalization of active shooter drills.

i could agree with that

those of us born in the 80s lived a fairly easy, worry-free life while growing up

[Shirley]

In my case we started filing out of the room single file to sit up against the cinder block windowless walls of the school hallway with our head between our knees and our hands clasped behind our heads when I was in first grade. The threat was kind of "real", but it was distant, amorphous, and for those in the US, had never actually happened.

The nightly news-informed, frequently occurring potential massacre kids going thru "active shooter drills" today might easily, vividly envision, seems light years of magnitude greater than what we might have felt.

They deserve so much better, and our society is failing them. No other developed country in the world allows this. It's shameful. It's sickening. Where the fuck is our sense of responsibility as parents and adults?

[dolomite]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/educatio ... -violence/#

… Last school year, news reports identified more than 1,150 guns brought to K-12 campuses but seized before anyone fired them, according to an investigation by The Washington Post. That’s more than six guns each day, on average. Nationwide, 1 in 47 school-age children — 1.1 million students — attended a school where at least one gun was found and reported on by the media in the 2022-2023 school year...

but it’s words in books that are the enemy, tainting the minds of kids

smfh

I feel like I’m in the wrong generation to really weigh in on the psychological and developmental impact of this. In that I’m too young to have lived through actual, no-shit fear of nuclear annihilation at the hands of the Soviets, and too old to have lived, as a child, through the normalization of active shooter drills.

i could agree with that

those of us born in the 80s lived a fairly easy, worry-free life while growing up

Young whippersnapper!

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1713379776923058181

[jfish26]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1713379776923058181

But tell me again how he’s not alt-right.

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

Maine.
https://www.sunjournal.com/2023/10/25/m ... -lewiston/

[jhawks99]

The fuck?