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  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,142
    Breaking news is another mass shooting just carried out in the states. 
  • Hastingsaddick
    Hastingsaddick Posts: 4,079
    Just reported on R5L that there has been another shooting, this time in Ohio.
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,007
    Usual tweets and statements from Trump and others saying "thoughts and prayers with El Paso", "terrible tragedy" etc etc, absolutely nothing will be done about it, then in a week it'll all be forgotten about.

    Said this many times before, but if the US wasn't prepared to wake up and sort out their gun laws after Sandy Hook 7 years ago, then it never will. 

    "More than 200 state-level gun laws have passed since Sandy Hook, but every major attempt at federal legislation has failed".
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,007
    Chippycafc said:
    Breaking news is another mass shooting just carried out in the states. 
    Reports saying at least 7 killed so far and more injured.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    Loony tune conspiracy web sites still push that Sandy Hook was a put up job and actors used and people paid off to keep the secret. What’s even more shocking is that an awful lot of people believe it.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,846
    Not sure what the problem is.

    Am sure most Americans accept this as an acceptable price to pay now and then to protect their rights. 

  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    Like a lot of things American. Travel 50 miles inland from the coast and attitudes are very different. Not just about gun law either.
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,007
    Apparently the 250th mass shooting of 2019 in the US and it's only day 215 of the year.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    MrOneLung said:
    Not sure what the problem is.

    Am sure most Americans accept this as an acceptable price to pay now and then to protect their rights. 
    MrOneLung said:
    Not sure what the problem is.

    Am sure most Americans accept this as an acceptable price to pay now and then to protect their rights. 



    I agree with this .. and the truth is probably that any nutter, grudge holder, terrorist or suicidal maniac who is determined enough, has planned carefully and has access to automatic weapons and/or TNT, is able to cause mayhem and inflict heavy casualties almost anywhere where lots of people congregate. Nowhere is safe, no shopping malls, churches, 'festivals', college campuses, concerts. Security will always get better, but there is only so much that can be done to ensure the safety of the 'general public'
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,640
    Me and Jnr were in Texas last summer and nicer people you couldn't wish to meet.
    There is a definite split in attitudes though between the over 50s and the young. Hopefully the young can force something to happen regarding gun control.
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  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,331

  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,441
    Hopefully Trump can focus on the Muslim terrorist threat...
  • Athletico Charlton
    Athletico Charlton Posts: 14,273
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jY2PzzjO3zo

    This video shows the lunacy of the US in just 2 mins.

    RIP to those who died, thoughts to those injured and affected, but sadly I cant see anything changing.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,080
    Huskaris said:
    Trump's probably too busy tweeting about Sadiq Khan losing control of London's streets to comment. 
    What gets me about that is the amount of Brits who are pro Trump and wave the star spangled banners at protests.
  • EveshamAddick
    EveshamAddick Posts: 7,013
    “I was very shocked” - quote from local resident at latest shooting.

    Given the numbers of mass shootings averaging more than one a day this year alone. how can anyone be shocked?
  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,446
    Another young white right-wing male terrorist. 

    Apparently the El Paso shooter sent out a manifesto about the 'takeover of Texas by Hispanics' and was a Trump supporter. Surprise surprise.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    and this type of thing gives cause for concern in the UK

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/crime/man-charged-after-60-guns-discovered-hidden-in-car/ar-AAFhWQb?ocid=spartandhp

  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,467
    SELR_addicks said:
    Another young white right-wing male terrorist. 

    Apparently the El Paso shooter sent out a manifesto about the 'takeover of Texas by Hispanics' and was a Trump supporter. Surprise surprise.
    Yeah, this cannot go unnoticed. This was YET ANOTHER shooter who was an open white supremacist and Trump supporter. 

    Also, brought in to police custody safely. 
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,283
    Lincsaddick said:
    and this type of thing gives cause for concern in the UK

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/crime/man-charged-after-60-guns-discovered-hidden-in-car/ar-AAFhWQb?ocid=spartandhp

    Why? What's the connection to what's happened overnight in the US? These handguns were almost certainly for use by organised criminals and the illegal drugs trade. 
  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,446
    Lincsaddick said:
    and this type of thing gives cause for concern in the UK

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/crime/man-charged-after-60-guns-discovered-hidden-in-car/ar-AAFhWQb?ocid=spartandhp

    At least the UK are stopping and confiscating them. 

    Americans would just wave them right through. 
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  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,827
    Ban guns.  Simple solution.  All this prayers and thoughts rubbish is idiotic.

    Ban guns and you will materially reduce the number of shootings.  Anything else is just cognitive dissonance and  waffle.  


  • CharltonMadrid
    CharltonMadrid Posts: 5,091
    The El Paso shooting is terrorism, plain and simple. I imagine it will be passed off as someone with 'mental issues' though.
  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,446
    edited August 2019
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9AXGPo1vvM&feature=youtu.be

    He was "taken into custody without incident" and without any law enforcement officers firing their weapons, according to El Paso Police Department Sgt. Robert Gomez. He later told investigators he wanted to shoot as many Mexicans as possible, two law enforcement officials told ABC News.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    Bournemouth Addick said:
    Lincsaddick said:
    and this type of thing gives cause for concern in the UK

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/crime/man-charged-after-60-guns-discovered-hidden-in-car/ar-AAFhWQb?ocid=spartandhp

    Why? What's the connection to what's happened overnight in the US? These handguns were almost certainly for use by organised criminals and the illegal drugs trade. 
    crackers/totally unnecessary argumentative response as ever .. errr .. more illegal guns mean more potential shootings and murders .. how's the retirement home down there in Bournemouth ? .. keep taking the tablets
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    SELR_addicks said:
    Lincsaddick said:
    and this type of thing gives cause for concern in the UK

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/crime/man-charged-after-60-guns-discovered-hidden-in-car/ar-AAFhWQb?ocid=spartandhp

    At least the UK are stopping and confiscating them. 

    Americans would just wave them right through. 
    SELR_addicks said:
    Lincsaddick said:
    and this type of thing gives cause for concern in the UK

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/crime/man-charged-after-60-guns-discovered-hidden-in-car/ar-AAFhWQb?ocid=spartandhp

    At least the UK are stopping and confiscating them. 

    Americans would just wave them right through. 

    a bit like drugs seizures perhaps, stop 10/20/30%. looks good, but what about that percentage which evades detection and confiscation ? .. who knows apart from the crims
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,331
    This is taken from the El Paso shooter's Twitter profile. It may give a clue as to his political stance. 


  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,034
    edited August 2019
    SELR_addicks said:
    Another young white right-wing male terrorist. 

    Apparently the El Paso shooter sent out a manifesto about the 'takeover of Texas by Hispanics' and was a Trump supporter. Surprise surprise.
    The takeover of Texas by Hispanics? Think he needs a history lesson.
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,000
    SELR_addicks said:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9AXGPo1vvM&feature=youtu.be

    He was "taken into custody without incident" and without any law enforcement officers firing their weapons, according to El Paso Police Department Sgt. Robert Gomez. He later told investigators he wanted to shoot as many Mexicans as possible, two law enforcement officials told ABC News.
    Whereas an unarmed black man can be shot dead by cops despite following instructions exactly. Strange that.
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,668
    se9addick said:
    SELR_addicks said:
    Another young white right-wing male terrorist. 

    Apparently the El Paso shooter sent out a manifesto about the 'takeover of Texas by Hispanics' and was a Trump supporter. Surprise surprise.
    The takeover of Texas by Hispanics? Think he needs a history lesson.
    Couldn't make it up. 
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,441
    Imagine the carnage if we had the same level of gun ownership in the UK. I doubt Brexit would have been delayed....
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