Must Read Man sprays Maryland newsroom with gunfire, kills at least five

[vogie]

Which other country in the world would describe this as acceptable or normal.

[digger70]

6 hours ago, faraday said:

Yup, as above, & so the gun carnage continues in the US, which then somehow gets defended by the gun totin' crowd.

 

Laughable really, if it wasn't so tragic.

Yep ,,,,,If some of the People there would have carried a Gat they could have Shot the Bastard,,, I am all for that even in Thailand,,,too many braindead people on the road here, One must be able to defend oneself.

[zydeco]

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

The Nazi’s started their persecution of the Jews by dehumanizing and scapegoating them as the cause of the problems being faced by ordinary working Germans.

 

The same process is now taking place in the US.

The people dehumanizing Jews in the US are mainly on the Left and in the Democratic Party, with the Sharptons, Ellisons, and the just nominated Ocasio-Cortez.

[JCauto]

So here's the latest evidence, from that quack institution Harvard.

 

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-and-death/

 

This book chapter summarizes the scientific literature on the relationship between gun prevalence (levels of household gun ownership) and suicide, homicide and unintentional firearm death and concludes that where there are higher levels of gun ownership, there are more gun suicides and more total suicides, more gun homicides and more total homicides, and more accidental gun deaths...This article examines homicide rates of Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) from 1996 to 2010.  Differences in rates of homicides of LEOs across states are best explained not by differences in crime, but by differences in household gun ownership.  In high gun states, LEOs are 3 times more likely to be murdered than LEOs working in low-gun states.

 

The numbers speak for themselves.

[Kieran00001]

4 hours ago, MalandLee said:

Sorry mate the NRA will NEVER permit referendums in the USA...

 

Nothing to do with the NRA, there is no provision in the constitution for public referendums, it is against federal law.  However each state can have a legislative referral, which is a type of referendum, and they can impose gun restrictions on their state, like they have done, and nothing the NRA can do to stop that, other than lobby, which obviously they have but they have not succeeded in preventing restrictions being passed in most states.

[Guest Jerry787]

Trump voters, as well Trump mount then up shouting fake news and so on and those "white" skinner with red hat "make america great again" goes around US killing everybody.

1- stop gun trade
2- take trump to a retirement house and make more pace message and not war message.

where are now the trump supporters  ? hiding the head under the sand  ?
 

 

[Ks45672]

6 hours ago, Damrongsak said:

???  I've been around guns all my life.  Had my very own rifle at about age 13.  Took it on an airplane as an unaccompanied minor one time.  Up in the cabin.  With ammo.

 

I have 10 handguns and 10 rifles/shotguns and a couple-three thousand rounds of ammunition.  Probably have well in excess of 150 knives.  Dozens of deadly drills, saws, grinders.  Perhaps 60 hammers and countless screwdrivers, some as long as 2 feet.  I have a half dozen lawn mowers and weed eaters that will hurt you in a heartbeat. 

 

Tools and toys... Restrain morons and madmen ...

 

 

You should seek psychiatric help.... 

 

[Berkshire]

1 hour ago, Kieran00001 said:

 

2/3 of American want the gun laws made stricter, the citizens are mostly sensible and appalled by their silly law.

You're right of course.  What I've noticed is that the NRA--very much like hardcore Trump supporters--are relatively small in number.  But they're very vocal, well-funded, media savvy, and batshit crazy.  That's why our cowardly politicians are deathly afraid of them and will not oppose. 

 

To put it another way, those who are pro-gun-control are not nearly as devoted to the cause.  Just think about it.  Many of these gun owners would literally fight to the death to keep their guns.  Is the other side willing to fight to the death to take it away?  That's why the gun lobby always win. 

[Ks45672]

Why did nobody in the office have a gun?? 

Don't they even have a security guard who should have been on that door? 

[Odysseus123]

1 hour ago, Ks45672 said:

You should seek psychiatric help.... 

 

Yes-he posts that on  every thread relating to guns..

 

It may be possible that he has never owned anything more lethal than a slingshot made of clothes pegs and a used condom -but hey,who knows, as it is the internet after all.

[Ks45672]

Just now, Odysseus123 said:

Yes-he posts that on  every thread relating to guns..

 

It may be possible that he has never owned anything more lethal than a slingshot made of clothes pegs and a used condom -but hey,who knows, as it is the internet after all.

Anyone who needs to open dozens of guns probably has an underlying insecurity or disorder they should address..... 

I haven't used a gun in years and feel safe enough in most of the world..... 

 

 

[vogie]

1 minute ago, Ks45672 said:

In Switzerland every household is armed 

 

Yes with Swiss army knives.

[Kieran00001]

2 minutes ago, Ks45672 said:

In Switzerland every household is armed 

 

 

They have the equivalent of approximately one gun per household but not every household is armed, the militia is voluntary and only 11% of them take their guns home, the rules for obtaining a gun license are strict, not every household is eligible, those housing convicted criminals or the mentally ill cannot have guns in the house.

[dunroaming]

9 hours ago, nausea said:

And this is news? Should be a footnote somewhere, another mass shooting in the US (yawn). Guns + people = mass shootings.

Yes it certainly is monotonous and hardly worth front page coverage.  You reap what you sow and Americans appear to be happy with what they sow.

[Kieran00001]

10 minutes ago, Andaman Al said:

You are missing the point. In Canada they don't take them out when they go shopping or in McDonalds. The only places they do that apart from the US are the sh*t hole countries...agreed? Therefore the US belongs to a global group of countries that are labeled sh*t hole countries, which makes the US what exactly?

 

I appreciate your point, there is actually nowhere, not even the sh!ttiest of shi!ty countries where people hang out in restaurants armed with military weapons just to exercise their right to do so, the only comparable examples are places where they actually have a reason to carry them, such as Yemen.  Of course Canada is a very different situation, their guns are for hunting, as is Switzerland's, theirs are for the militia, and unlike the US, their militia is well regulated and so has the likes of armories in every village.  My point was really that there isn't a direct link to sh!tty countries and unchecked gun ownership, plenty of the worst countries do not allow what some states in the US allow, I do however agree that what they allow does put them down with the sh!tty countries, below them really.

[metisdead]

Some off topic trolling posts and the replies have been removed. 

[samran]

https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/troll-with-a-gun-how-jarrod-ramos-started-by-stalking-a-female-classmate-20180630-p4zoq7.html

 

clearly a guy who needed is second amendment rights protected.

 

well done NRA, well done...

[pornprong]

On 6/29/2018 at 8:23 AM, dcutman said:

How is that guns or US gun laws make people go out and kill a bunch of other people?

I would imagine if a person is hell bent on killing a bunch of people and didnt have a gun he/she would find another way to accomplish that mission.

Sorry people, its not the tools that can kill people, its the people that want to kill people. That is where the focus should be.

 

Ahhh, the old "guns don't kill people, people kill people" nonsense.

American tragic situation teaches us that it is, more often than not, people with guns that kill people.

Take away easy access to guns and it becomes a whole lot harder to "kill a bunch of people".