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This thinking is mental. The only thing that kills 19 kids in one hour is a psycho with a gun. This is exactly the time to deal with it as the only thing lack o

This thinking is mental. The only thing that kills 19 kids in one hour is a psycho with a gun. This is exactly the time to deal with it as the only thing lack of action gives is more dead kids. Nobody needs these Rambo guns.

jimmygrapes 4y ago
While it might be true given the exact numbers, it is not true in general that only a gun can cause such destruction; a vehicle can do just as much damage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waukesha_Christmas_parade_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waukesha_Christmas_parade_atta... > During the immediate of the ramming, five people were confirmed killed and forty-eight others were injured. The five dead were identified as four women and one man. Four of the dead were members of the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies, a dance group composed solely of grandmothers. > Hospitals admitted 28 people, and nine were in critical condition. Seventeen children were among the wounded, three of whom remained hospitalized at Children's Wisconsin and listed in fair condition as of December 7. By November 23, the number of people reported injured had increased to 62 and the number of fatalities had increased to six after an eight-year-old child died at a hospital. The ages of the dead ranged from 8 to 81. Or an airplane, if you count the 9/11 attacks. Or a knife: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagamihara_stabbings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagamihara_stabbings > At 2:20 am on 26 July 2016, a man launched a knife attack at a center for the disabled people at Sagamihara, a town west of Tokyo, Japan. During the knife attack, 19 residents of the care center were killed, including nine men and ten women. An additional 26 people were wounded during the incident. Yes, yes, guns allow for more lethal, more targeted, and more rapid destruction. But make no mistake, somebody armed with a machete could have entered a classroom and done just as much harm. Someone driving a car into a crowd of kids crossing the street can do just as much harm. Guns are not the root cause, nor are they an enabler of the behavior any more than any other device.
- iostream24 4y ago
  Same old tired false arguments and a refusal to note that America is uniquely afflicted by gun violence among its peers, no that doesn’t mean dredge up stats on Nigerian crime in Lagos, but look precisely at Australia putting the lie to “but gun control doesn’t work”
Geonode 4y ago
And yet guns are more popular than ever, with millions of new gun owners every year and gun laws being rolled back in dozens of states. A new generation of safe, responsible gun owners across race and gender lines is blossoming all over the nation.
- iostream24 4y ago
  And a few bad apples, I see… might want to regulate your thing there before some bad apples get it taken away from you and ruin the party Responsible gun owners overwhelmingly favor basic regulations. The NRA are the only fanatics trying to stop any regulations.
  - Geonode 4y ago
    Quite wrong, we already have too many gun laws, and the NRA are partially responsible. But we're working on that.
bluefirebrand 4y ago
If you were determined, you could probably produce a gas that would kill 19 students in a minute with the things you could find in a high school chem lab.
- iostream24 4y ago
  But is this something actually happening on any regular basis anywhere? No. America uniquely experiences higher levels of gun violence than it’s developed peers simply due to the ridiculous notion that no regulations on guns are acceptable. Your argument wouldn’t hold water if we were talking about motor vehicles and you know it. A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed I see nothing about “ the right for every wacko to have an arsenal is sacred”

jimmygrapes 4y ago

While it might be true given the exact numbers, it is not true in general that only a gun can cause such destruction; a vehicle can do just as much damage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waukesha_Christmas_parade_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waukesha_Christmas_parade_atta... > During the immediate of the ramming, five people were confirmed killed and forty-eight others were injured. The five dead were identified as four women and one man. Four of the dead were members of the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies, a dance group composed solely of grandmothers. > Hospitals admitted 28 people, and nine were in critical condition. Seventeen children were among the wounded, three of whom remained hospitalized at Children's Wisconsin and listed in fair condition as of December 7. By November 23, the number of people reported injured had increased to 62 and the number of fatalities had increased to six after an eight-year-old child died at a hospital. The ages of the dead ranged from 8 to 81. Or an airplane, if you count the 9/11 attacks. Or a knife: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagamihara_stabbings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagamihara_stabbings > At 2:20 am on 26 July 2016, a man launched a knife attack at a center for the disabled people at Sagamihara, a town west of Tokyo, Japan. During the knife attack, 19 residents of the care center were killed, including nine men and ten women. An additional 26 people were wounded during the incident. Yes, yes, guns allow for more lethal, more targeted, and more rapid destruction. But make no mistake, somebody armed with a machete could have entered a classroom and done just as much harm. Someone driving a car into a crowd of kids crossing the street can do just as much harm. Guns are not the root cause, nor are they an enabler of the behavior any more than any other device.

iostream24 4y ago
Same old tired false arguments and a refusal to note that America is uniquely afflicted by gun violence among its peers, no that doesn’t mean dredge up stats on Nigerian crime in Lagos, but look precisely at Australia putting the lie to “but gun control doesn’t work”

Geonode 4y ago

And yet guns are more popular than ever, with millions of new gun owners every year and gun laws being rolled back in dozens of states. A new generation of safe, responsible gun owners across race and gender lines is blossoming all over the nation.

iostream24 4y ago
And a few bad apples, I see… might want to regulate your thing there before some bad apples get it taken away from you and ruin the party Responsible gun owners overwhelmingly favor basic regulations. The NRA are the only fanatics trying to stop any regulations.
- Geonode 4y ago
  Quite wrong, we already have too many gun laws, and the NRA are partially responsible. But we're working on that.

bluefirebrand 4y ago

If you were determined, you could probably produce a gas that would kill 19 students in a minute with the things you could find in a high school chem lab.

iostream24 4y ago
But is this something actually happening on any regular basis anywhere? No. America uniquely experiences higher levels of gun violence than it’s developed peers simply due to the ridiculous notion that no regulations on guns are acceptable. Your argument wouldn’t hold water if we were talking about motor vehicles and you know it. A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed I see nothing about “ the right for every wacko to have an arsenal is sacred”