Conservatives across the grifter spectrum have been saying the latest Texas shooter was either an illegal immigrant and/or a cartel soldier...
Guns and mental health are a huge problem but America is under attack by conservative "influencers, politicians, and news personalities". There is definitely an effort to take advantage of American media illiteracy. Our enemies can't physically attack us so they wind up the dumbest amongst us to create discord and chaos.
Quote by noll
So how do you think the problem of school/mass shootings in the US can be solved then?
I think it's time we consider legalizing fully automatic weapons.
Republicans: "It's not the guns, it's mental health!"
Also Republicans:
Quote by Chryses
Then argue your case before the SCOTUS.
Looks like I cornered you with logic... once again.
Quote by Chryses
Go ask the SCOTUS.
Sounds like the right to bear arms isn't absolute.
Quote by Chryses
The number of times the right of the people to keep and bear Arms is protected by the Constitution: 1
Good luck, Felix.
So why can't Americans have submachine guns?
Quote by Chryses
... chuckling ... "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to , shall not be infringed."
Everyone is entitled to his or her fantasies. Enjoy yours.
Number of times a well regulated militia has fought American Tyranny: 0
Number of times a well regulated militia has killed Americans citizens in a mass shooting: 176,972,091
I don't know, maybe it's not a great idea, seeing stories like this everyday. No priests as counselors either. Thanks.
What a relief, Ted has copied and pasted his thoughts a prayers for the people of Texas.
Problem solved.
Every republican accusation is a confession.
https://twitter.com/SawyerHackett/status/1654909456528941060
Quote by noll
You're making claims as to what is or isn't Christianity to an atheist 😜
I'm agnostic and I know more about Christianity than a great great number of Christians.
That's no excuse, tulip.
Quote by Buz
Donald Trump isn't and never has been a believer or follower of Jesus Christ. Trump is and always has been a phony and a hypocrite, only worshipping himself. When prompted he has never been able to quote a single Bible verse. He's never read it. Trump, however, does have a posse of butt sniffing hypocrite preachers, best described as money-grubbing pharisees.
He won't name one because all of them are his favorite, he's that holy. Bless 🙏
Quote by Chryses
I’m delighted to read that PBS is referring to the January 6 participants as rioters. The BBC is also referring to it as the “US Capitol riot case”
Yeah well not the law, Penny Chryses. The LAW referred to it as sedition.
"Four members of the Proud Boys, including their former leader Enrique Tarrio, were convicted on Thursday of seditious conspiracy for plotting to keep President Donald J. Trump in power after his election defeat by leading a violent mob in attacking the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021."
That's Patriot Cruz with Patriot Tarrio
No way he actually believes this... Something seriously up about this guy.
Quote by WellMadeMale
I'm waiting for the Trump campaign to start showing images of the attempted, poorly designed and failed coup d'etat while warning us that THAT is what awaits America if Trump isn't immediately voted back into power.
Might be the most truthful he's been in a while
Quote by noll
Like the suggestion that armed security guards, or "good folks with guns", will be the solution to your problem?
Yes just like Uvalde, the good guys with guns saved the day or something.
Quote by Tantaleyes
Now that you've acknowledged the additional regulations, how've they worked out?
Whaaaa??
They were actually working... The the assault weapons ban was let to expire... Then mass shootings went up again.
Haha omg
Quote by Ironic
The facts that mass shootings were lower before regulation than after don't need a gun to back them up.
*Edited by moderator.*
But why were the regulations put in place? Because gun violence was:
A. On the decline?
B. Staying the same?
C. On the rise?
Quote by Dani
Yes, when there were fewer regulations that increased accessed to guns, especially specific types, like there exists today and in the time of increasing mass shootings. While it's true that there were fewer mass shootings when there were fewer regulations, it's disingenuous to disregard that current regulations exist to make gun access easier, not limit it, and mass shootings have risen exponentially as a direct result of guns being regulated in a way that yields more access, especially to assault rifles.
It's like saying "I was healthy before I got diabetes!" Then you get placed on medication... then you lose your health insurance... then your diabetes worsens because you still have diabetes but without the same levels of medication... then saying "I was healthier before I got diabetes!!!"
*Edited by moderator.*
Before the 1994 ban:
From 1981 – the earliest year in our analysis – to the rollout of the assault weapons ban in 1994, the proportion of deaths in mass shootings in which an assault rifle was used was lower than it is today.
Yet in this earlier period, mass shooting deaths were steadily rising. Indeed, high-profile mass shootings involving assault rifles – such as thekilling of five children in Stockton, California, in 1989and a1993 San Francisco office attackthat left eight victims dead –provided the impetusbehind a push for a prohibition on some types of gun.
During the 1994-2004 ban:
In the years after the assault weapons ban went into effect, the number of deaths from mass shootings fell, and the increase in the annual number of incidents slowed down. Even including 1999′sColumbine High School massacre– the deadliest mass shooting during the period of the ban – the 1994-2004 period saw lower average annual rates of both mass shootings and deaths resulting from such incidents than before the ban’s inception.
From 2004 onward:
The data shows an almost immediate – and steep – rise in mass shooting deaths in the years after the assault weapons ban expired in 2004.
Breaking the data into absolute numbers, from 2004 to 2017 – the last year of our analysis – the average number of yearly deaths attributed to mass shootings was 25, compared with 5.3 during the 10-year tenure of the ban and 7.2 in the years leading up to the prohibition on assault weapons.
We calculated that the risk of a person in the U.S. dying in a mass shooting was 70% lower during the period in which the assault weapons ban was active. The proportion of overall gun homicides resulting from mass shootings was also down, with nine fewer mass-shooting-related fatalities per 10,000 shooting deaths.
Taking population trends into account, a model we created based on this data suggests that had the federal assault weapons ban been in place throughout the whole period of our study – that is, from 1981 through 2017 – it may have prevented 314 of the 448 mass shooting deaths that occurred during the years in which there was no ban.
And this almost certainly underestimates the total number of lives that could be saved. For our study, we chose only to include mass shooting incidents that were reported and agreed upon by all three of our selected data sources: theLos Angeles Times,Stanford UniversityandMother Jones magazine.
Furthermore, for uniformity, we also chose to use the strict federal definition of an assault weapon – which may not include the entire spectrum of what many people may now consider to be assault weapons.
Quote by Tantaleyes
*Edited by moderator.*They are. You don't even know what you're talking about.
Yes I do *edited by moderator*...
Quote by Tantaleyes
You're the one who brought the faulty logic into the thread. That's on you.
Guns in the US are more regulated now than they were in the past, but mass shootings are more frequent now than then
*Edited by moderator.*, no they're not. You don't even know what you're talking about.
Quote by JustAMan
Lush should remove people like you who continue to sling hateful comments and insults, routinely putting others down for their beliefs and opinions.
