Wendy's Chili: Giltric: Dr_luckyz: I hate how ordinary these stories are becoming, very sad.

It's like missing white girl syndrome but for firearms crimes during an election cycle.

Notice it's usually the crazy white guy who gets all the coverage but not the black gangbanger who rapes and shoots a 90 year old woman?

Show us the "black gangbanger" who injures or kills 70 grandmas in a shooting spree, you pathetic, racist piece of shiat.




He might get one or two grannies but then the flying hot grease would engulf him from all directions.

Giltric: Dr_luckyz: I hate how ordinary these stories are becoming, very sad.

It's like missing white girl syndrome but for firearms crimes during an election cycle.

Notice it's usually the crazy white guy who gets all the coverage but not the black gangbanger who rapes and shoots a 90 year old woman?

I'll bet you spend a lot of time being confounded about why people are always calling you a racist...

Dimensio: Unconfirmed speculation regarding an event for which few meaningful details have been released justified imposition of new gun control laws such as a 1000% taxation on ammunition purchases and prohibiting civilian ownership of a very rarely criminally class of firearms by arbitrarily classifying them as "assault weapons". Additionally, this vaguely reported incident justifies claiming that shootings are becoming commonplace despite violent crime rates in recent years being substantially lower than violent crime rates twenty years ago.

You forgot to attribute made up quotes to people with your vague, useless platitudes.

Seriously though, aside from the access to guns, the common thread in all of these stories is some guy slipped through the cracks of an overburdened mental health system.

We have to accept that there are some people that will be institutionalized for life due to their problems. It's not their fault, but trying to mainstream insane people by giving them drugs that may or may not work and then relying on them to actually take the meds religiously?!?

Biness: SOMEONE CALL WALKER, TEXAS RANGER

That wasn't a shooting.
Chuck Norris sneezed and the bystanders were injured by the shrapnel ejected from his nose.

Gun sales went up 40% the weekend after the Auora shooting. I am starting to think, much like the windshiled repair guys who spread rocks on our road, these are the result of the gun manufactures and/or ambulance companies.

letrole: The amusing thing here is the way that guns and politics are being blamed for spree shootings.

Spree shootings are caused by a lack of personal restraint. In some cases, such as Charles Whitmore, the fellow was suffering from madness with an organic cause ie a brain tumour. He left diaries and letters that showed jumbled and irrational thoughts.

But in nearly all cases, this lack of personal restraint comes from the breakdown of society.

1. If suicide is no longer a sin,
2. If public disobedience and and defiance against authority are glorified,
3. If fame or celebrity is rewarded without merit,
4. If Right and Wrong are no longer absolute,
5. If erratic behaviour is no longer shameful,
6. If internal or self justification is held as a virtue,

-- then it will all continue along this path until society completely collapses, and a new order reforms from the ashes

GTFO with that nonsense while the bodies are still warm.

GAT_00: Dimensio: Unconfirmed speculation regarding an event for which few meaningful details have been released justified imposition of new gun control laws such as a 1000% taxation on ammunition purchases and prohibiting civilian ownership of a very rarely criminally class of firearms by arbitrarily classifying them as "assault weapons". Additionally, this vaguely reported incident justifies claiming that shootings are becoming commonplace despite violent crime rates in recent years being substantially lower than violent crime rates twenty years ago.

You forgot to attribute made up quotes to people with your vague, useless platitudes.

"It was like a war zone."

PanicMan: meat0918: Seems like we need to reinvest in America's mental health facilities.

I've always been of the opinion that strict gun laws...and the amount of money, time, and effort required to enforce them...would much be better spent on mental health care.

They posted an "active shooter" warning on their website, much like a traffic accident alert on google maps or something.

This implies that there are maybe a lot of shooters out there, but they're only going to report on the active ones. Good jorb, Texas!

Real question: will mass shootings become more common?

/I think they will. To many guns, too much stress.

meat0918: Seriously though, aside from the access to guns, the common thread in all of these stories is some guy slipped through the cracks of an overburdened mental health system.

If you vote republican, you're part of the problem. They happen to be the more guns/less health party.

meat0918: Seriously though, aside from the access to guns, the common thread in all of these stories is some guy slipped through the cracks of an overburdened mental health system.

We have to accept that there are some people that will be institutionalized for life due to their problems. It's not their fault, but trying to mainstream insane people by giving them drugs that may or may not work and then relying on them to actually take the meds religiously?!?



More than 20,000 Texans who receive state-funded mental health services would lose care under budget cuts proposed this week by the Department of State Health Services.

The agency - acting on an order from state leaders to reduce its 2012-13 budget by 10 percent - released a list this week of $245.9 million in proposed cuts. And while services across the agency were affected, mental health programs took the hardest hit - $134 million in proposed cuts.

RexTalionis: tallen702: Yeah.... right.... because automatic weapons are so inexpensive and any criminal can get their hands on them right?

There's mod kits for semi-automatic rifles. Some of them are as cheap as a piece of stamped metal.

Then again, it could be how journalists conflate all weapons with either a Glock or an AK-47.

Any "conversion device that will readily enable fully automatic operation of a firearm is itself regulated as a "machine gun" under the National Firearms Act of 1934. Such devices are not easily available to civilians.

Giltric: Texas, automatic weapon, barricaded in a house.

Were the cops serving a warrant on a violent offender or cartel member?

Wonder if it's one of those weapons that people didn't bother tracking from Holders Fast and Furious program.

College Station is over 300 miles away from Neuvo Laredo, the closest town if you take a straight shot into Mexico. I somehow doubt these were super-evil Eric Holder guns. They were probably legally purchased.

hdhale: PanicMan: meat0918: Seems like we need to reinvest in America's mental health facilities.

I've always been of the opinion that strict gun laws...and the amount of money, time, and effort required to enforce them...would much be better spent on mental health care.

Even if it didn't stop one shooting It would probably save more lives in any case. Suicides heavily outnumber homicides committed with guns and access to mental health professionals is sorely lacking in the US

blatz514

I'm starting to get afraid at coming into work.

/works at a university


Perhaps you can take advantage of the educational opportunities available to you.

MayoSlather: DarnoKonrad: Guns don't kill people, bullets do.

People are so ignorant. Bullets nor guns kill people; The loss of blood and/or obliteration of vital organs does.

No, silly. What kills you is the stopping of your heart.

Question, if everyone in 'Mercia loves and owns guns, how come we never read about the guy who tried to shoot others, but got himself killed by a legal gun owner?

lennavan: meat0918: Seems like we need to reinvest in America's mental health facilities.

I think we could do with a little toning down of the political rhetoric as well.

Heh, we're just getting started.

Vegan Meat Popsicle: Giltric: Dr_luckyz: I hate how ordinary these stories are becoming, very sad.

It's like missing white girl syndrome but for firearms crimes during an election cycle.

Notice it's usually the crazy white guy who gets all the coverage but not the black gangbanger who rapes and shoots a 90 year old woman?

I'll bet you spend a lot of time being confounded about why people are always calling you a racist...

Probably not, since he only time he is out in public is when his mom drives him to his HammerSkins meetings.

meat0918: detroitdoesntsuckthatbad: What the heck is going on lately? Is the the death heat?

Media glorifies Sideshow Bob + a lot of angry people lately = copycats.

Yeah, pretty much.

Also no missing white shark attack victims this year, which was why the Aurora shooter got so much airtime.

Private_Citizen: Real question: will mass shootings become more common?

That's the plan. Hard to shill the need for firearms if nobody is getting shot at.

Waiting for the mass shooting outside a Catholic Mass in Massachusetts

Just Another OC Homeless Guy: Elzar: God dammit - Obama is going to take our guns for sure. The only way to prevent this is to mandate all college students carry weapons.

/ Hoping our new republican dream team can somehow make this so


REQUIRE that all gun owners pass three tests:
- weapon proficiency (being able to hit the target)
- gun safety
- psychological stability

Then I have no problem with arming the general population (those who pass all three tests)..

This would seem to me to fall under the "well-regulated" part of that pesky Second Amendment, so I'm sure our friends at the NRA would have no problem with it, right? RIGHT??

InmanRoshi: meat0918: Seriously though, aside from the access to guns, the common thread in all of these stories is some guy slipped through the cracks of an overburdened mental health system.

We have to accept that there are some people that will be institutionalized for life due to their problems. It's not their fault, but trying to mainstream insane people by giving them drugs that may or may not work and then relying on them to actually take the meds religiously?!?



More than 20,000 Texans who receive state-funded mental health services would lose care under budget cuts proposed this week by the Department of State Health Services.

The agency - acting on an order from state leaders to reduce its 2012-13 budget by 10 percent - released a list this week of $245.9 million in proposed cuts. And while services across the agency were affected, mental health programs took the hardest hit - $134 million in proposed cuts.

The GOP has been cutting mental health budgets for decades. They just assume you'll end up in prison, as so many do, and then they get treated there. But once their sentence is up, they can't keep their meds, and you fall back.

If only it were easier to get a gun in Texas, someone might have been able to stop this shooting in progress

Chinchillazilla: I think we should start by banning clock towers.

How will we know when to start shooting?

Ordinary Genius: Question, if everyone in 'Mercia loves and owns guns, how come we never read about the guy who tried to shoot others, but got himself killed by a legal gun owner?

Because you don't pay attention? We get those stories every few weeks.

Oh great, that means Jesse Jackson will be sticking his carp face into Texas news cameras.

walkerhound: Vegan Meat Popsicle: walkerhound: Sounds like some guy was barricaded in his house and shot at officers trying to gain entrance. Not like he was walking around shooting coeds or anything.

So the important thing is, nobody pretty got shot?

You should be tapped to deliver the news to the shooting victims.

"your husband was shot in the line of duty, ma'am. He's gonna get an all expense paid trip to the best hospital in town and then a medal and 6-12 months off full pay." That should about cover it.

Hero treatment for getting shot. Ironicus nootiboot.

HotWingConspiracy: meat0918: Seriously though, aside from the access to guns, the common thread in all of these stories is some guy slipped through the cracks of an overburdened mental health system.

If you vote republican, you're part of the problem. They happen to be the more guns/less health party.

I vote Democratic. I've given up on the idea that voting 3rd party will change things, because the only lesson the Democrats get is "The more conservative candidate won", not "Gee, we should move left to get more votes".

Why didn't all those people have guns? It's obviously their fault for not being prepared.

If everyone had automatic weapons on their person at all times, this wouldn't be a problem!

Coco LaFemme: RexTalionis:
meat0918: Seems like we need to reinvest in America's mental health facilities.

I truly believe that would go a long way to helping. Seriously. Sick people who can get access to medication, doctors, therapy, or even in-patient care, are less likely to do shiat like this.

Aurora shooter had therapy didn't he?

Do I have to be outraged now or can I wait until all the facts of the situation come in?

meat0918: I vote Democratic. I've given up on the idea that voting 3rd party will change things, because the only lesson the Democrats get is "The more conservative candidate won", not "Gee, we should move left to get more votes".

This.