Shooter apparently still at large.
Mass casualty situation.
Shooter apparently still at large.
Mass casualty situation.
maybe thoughts and prayers will work to stop the next one
cause the status quo seems to be doing such a great job
i know
i know
now is not the time to talk about it
but if we don't talk about it now, we won't ever talk about it cause it will just run into the next mass shooting that the thoughts and prayers didn't solve either
Last edited by goldfly; 02-14-2018 at 03:47 PM.
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This is the 19th school shooting this year
we still have 10 1/2 months to go in 2018
not just mass shooting like at dance halls,bars or malls
schools!
Will anything change ?
Not while the NRA is in charge
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/201...t-all-of-them/
The NRA’s largest 2016 outlay was the $30.3 million it spent in support of Trump.
but hey, a number of you will get a couple hundred a month ----
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
according to twitter, Don and Rick are on it.
Marco got $3+M from NRA
Don $30+M
They are on it
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
The NRA is a convenient boogeyman for the ill-informed.
In December, American Outdoor Brands, the owner of Smith & Wesson, reported that its profits had fallen 90% year over year, from $32m to just $3.2m. Sales fell 36%. Last October, Sturm Ruger, the US’s largest firearm manufacturer, announced its quarterly revenues had fallen 35%. Both companies will report their latest results shortly but neither is expected to announce a dramatic increase in sales.
“They call it the Trump slump,” said Robert Spitzer, a professor at the State University of New York at Cortland and the author of five books on guns.
[...]
The surge of gun purchases under Obama was largely driven by sales to existing gun owners. Sales spiked on Obama’s re-election and after his calls for new laws in the wake of tragedies like the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012, which claimed the lives of 20 children and six adults.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...mp-slump-sales
Seems like you might try a new tact instead of bitching and wailing about guns.
Remington: Bankrupt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-in-bankruptcy
But ... but ... the NRA!
Subtitle from The Guardian article: "With Trump in the White House, America’s gun manufacturers are in trouble after a golden era under Barack Obama"
Golden Era
Let that sink in before you descend into your little partisan claptrap.
Yes, we need firearms reform. We've needed reform for decades.
But these school shootings are about so much more than gun availability.
Sounds like yet again another societal failure to identify the shooter. So many red flags and nothing was done.
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Hawk, stop using data to convince the emotional leftists
I'm not sure how the relative financial health of the firearms industry is a relevant data point here.
And it's neither here nor there, but the total amount spent by the NRA in '16 is probably more than twice that $30M figure.
I'm genuinely interested to know what you guys think the non-firearm-related remedies are here.
goldfly (02-15-2018)
There is no one solution. There is not a simple solution to this. You can talk gun control, mental health, security in the schools, anything like that, but there is no one thing that will stop this. And even you put in let’s say, tougher gun laws, it’s not going to be a 100% foolproof solution. People will still find a way to get a gun. I wish I knew the answer. I don’t. I don’t think anyone does. The main thing anyone can do is if you see something suspicious, say something without hesitation. However, nothing prepares you for something like this.
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