Another mass shooting

[jhawks99]

Pretty sure there are plenty of guns in Laurel county.

[Shirley]

Pretty sure there are plenty of guns in Laurel county.

Well, not sure that's possible.

They must be like chocolate, sex, and money, i.e., there's no such thing as "too much", because I heard there are ~ 120 guns for every 100 people in the US.

[jfish26]

A manhunt remains underway Saturday night for a man considered armed and dangerous after “numerous” people were shot near Interstate 75 in Southern Kentucky.

Seven people were injured but none were killed, London Mayor Randall Weddle said in a Facebook video Saturday night. Weddle said some of the injuries were from a crash associated with the incident rather than gunshots...

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/n ... 128111007/
Another white guy with an AR15.

Randy should be along any minute now to share that "everyone knows" that he is trans.

Meanwhile, it sounds like despite the fact that he was out on bail after being arrested for making terroristic threats, he was still able to buy an AR15 and 2,000 rounds of ammo.

Nah, this wasn’t at a school. That’s where the mental illness tampons are.

[Overlander]

A manhunt remains underway Saturday night for a man considered armed and dangerous after “numerous” people were shot near Interstate 75 in Southern Kentucky.

Seven people were injured but none were killed, London Mayor Randall Weddle said in a Facebook video Saturday night. Weddle said some of the injuries were from a crash associated with the incident rather than gunshots...

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/n ... 128111007/
Another white guy with an AR15.

Randy should be along any minute now to share that "everyone knows" that he is trans.

Meanwhile, it sounds like despite the fact that he was out on bail after being arrested for making terroristic threats, he was still able to buy an AR15 and 2,000 rounds of ammo.

Nah, this wasn’t at a school. That’s where the mental illness tampons are.

Tampons could plug some bullet holes.

[KUTradition]

schoolyard triage

[jfish26]

Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance (Ohio), putting a lie to the “pro-life” mantle his party claims, calls mass shootings a “fact of life.” That cringeworthy admission reflects Republicans’ willingness to allow an endless string of mass murders. Scores of dead children each year is a fact of life as long as Second Amendment absolutists, a minority of Americans, hold the rest of us hostage. (The Harris-Walz campaign responded to Vance’s statement: “Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Walz know we can take action to keep our children safe and keep guns out of the hands of criminals. Donald Trump and JD Vance will always choose the NRA and gun lobby over our children.”)

We do know how to reduce gun violence; Republicans simply refuse to challenge the MAGA movement’s gun fetish. The center-left think tank Third Way has documented the disparity between blue states with stricter gun laws and red states with lax gun laws. “The red state murder rate was 33% higher than the blue state murder rate in both 2021 and 2022,” the group reported this year. “2022 was the 23rd consecutive year that murder plagued Trump-voting states at far higher levels than Biden-voting states. … From 2000 to 2022, the average red state murder rate was 24% higher than the average blue state murder rate.”

When felon and former president Donald Trump talks about violent crime (which overall has plunged during Joe Biden’s presidency), he points the finger blue states, specifically big cities (generally run by Democrats, with large non-White populations). In fact, “since 2016, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama have had the three highest murder rates in the country,” Third Way counters. “These three red states have consistently had the highest murder rates for over 15 years now.”

The gun problem is as much a democracy problem as anything else. Gun measures such as universal background checks and red-flag laws garner supermajorities. Even in deep-red Tennessee, for example, large majorities support raising the age to 21 to purchase an assault rifle (64 percent), requiring safe storage of weapons (76 percent) and mandating universal background checks (80 percent). When it comes to an outright ban on assault-style weapons, support is nearly as high. Multiple polls show 60 percent or more favor such a measure. But as long as heavily gerrymandered states produced hyper-conservative state legislatures and the Senate filibuster allows sparsely populated red states to dominate, the popular will is thwarted.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... -gun-laws/

[Sparko]

A lot of the gun problems originated as part of Russian psyops to agitate toward a viable civil war. The NRA was easily manipulated.

[jfish26]

A lot of the gun problems originated as part of Russian psyops to agitate toward a viable civil war. The NRA was easily manipulated.

That's part of it.

Another part is that, like many other prominent issues, Rush and his buddies figured out that THEY'RE CUMMIN' FOR YER GUNZZZZ!!!! is a highly effective way to raise money and drive turnout. Only the people in their teens and twenties during Rush's heyday grew into your dutiful Mike Johnsons and Josh Hawleys - they didn't get that it was a bit.

And then Citizens United blew the guardrails off the economics of our elections, and then Shelby County blew the guardrails off voter suppression.

That, friends, is how you end up with a representative democracy that is neither representative nor democratic.

[twocoach]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/09/us/video ... 023-digvid

Of course both father and son are wearing big crosses around their neck.

[jfish26]

Oh, but it’s trans people who are mentally ill.

Trump/RNC are hosting debate watch party at a gun superstore in Georgia less than an hour away from last week's Apalachee High School mass murder.

The same store Ron DeSantis went to immediately after last year's mass murder at a Nashville school.

https://x.com/chrisharriskc/status/1833 ... q_-8Yt1KMA

Would these flag-humpers have held a November 2001 (or 2002, if you want to be a stickler for detail) election rally at a mosque?

(Hint, take it to the other thread, but the answer is the same as the answer to the question, “Would these cross-humpers support the posting of key Quran texts in public schools?”).

[Overlander]

Oh, but it’s trans people who are mentally ill.

Trump/RNC are hosting debate watch party at a gun superstore in Georgia less than an hour away from last week's Apalachee High School mass murder.

The same store Ron DeSantis went to immediately after last year's mass murder at a Nashville school.

https://x.com/chrisharriskc/status/1833 ... q_-8Yt1KMA

Would these cross-humpers support the posting of key Quran texts in public schools?”).

Easy there buddy.
There is only 1 TRUE made up, fictional, all knowing religious deity

[KUTradition]

https://www.wftv.com/news/local/sheriff ... utType=amp

[Shirley]

A manhunt remains underway Saturday night for a man considered armed and dangerous after “numerous” people were shot near Interstate 75 in Southern Kentucky.

Seven people were injured but none were killed, London Mayor Randall Weddle said in a Facebook video Saturday night. Weddle said some of the injuries were from a crash associated with the incident rather than gunshots...