https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/31/midland-texas-shooting-odessa
20 injured. Suspect dead. Thoughts and prayers.
20 injured. Suspect dead. Thoughts and prayers.
Shooting in West Texas - 31 Aug 2019 - Casualties confirmed
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can we not have an exclamation point in the title
White male shooter. Shot dead at the scene. No motive confirmed as yet.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-shooting-death-toll-midland-odessa-suspect-dead
5 dead now, more than 20 injured. Possibly two shooters.
5 dead now, more than 20 injured. Possibly two shooters.
Yet another senseless act of violence. RIP to the victims.
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Feels like every few days now. Wonder what it's going to take for gun control to change in the US. There has to be a tipping point eventually.
Already covered in the Gun Control thread. It will only be a Hong Kong style mobilisation of the people for things to change over there. The GOP are owned by the NRA so they will never do anything.
There likely won't be - they've already had children and politicians as victims, and little's changed. Just this weekend, Trump was talking of opening more mental health facilities...anything other than changing the culture of insanely profitable gun sales & political donations.Morpheus 7 said:
Shithole.
If Sandy Hook didn’t tip the scale, I don’t think anything will.
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Every time this happens, I reflect with the same sense of incredulity on the gun laws in the US and the apparent lack of ability or motive to change them.
No doubt there will be the usual demands for change, and no doubt they will be shouted down by the gun lobby. The line "the only way to stop a bad man with a gun is a good man with a gun" will surely be trotted out at some point. Alas, for some good people at least, the good man once again arrived too late. When will the people in the US understand that the best option is for the bad man not to have a gun in the first place?
I used to think that it was a US problem, so nobody else's business really. The reality though is that gun manufacturers depend on the US market for their business, and if the laws there were similar to the laws here in the UK, there would be less manufacturers and less guns in existence. I wonder how many illegally held guns in the UK originated from the US.
No doubt there will be the usual demands for change, and no doubt they will be shouted down by the gun lobby. The line "the only way to stop a bad man with a gun is a good man with a gun" will surely be trotted out at some point. Alas, for some good people at least, the good man once again arrived too late. When will the people in the US understand that the best option is for the bad man not to have a gun in the first place?
I used to think that it was a US problem, so nobody else's business really. The reality though is that gun manufacturers depend on the US market for their business, and if the laws there were similar to the laws here in the UK, there would be less manufacturers and less guns in existence. I wonder how many illegally held guns in the UK originated from the US.
When all black people decide to buy a gun, they will change the law.
Yep. As others have said above. Sandy Hook was the one for me. If going into an Elementary School and massacring 6-7 year olds wasn't enough to go "hold on, these gun laws need looking at" then nothing will.
Just been trotted out. Julian Castro responded by mentioning that Texas already has open gun carry and police officers were injured in the incident, presumably armed. Didn't stop the other guy driving 10 hours to El Paso either.
That's what Dave Chappelle said in his last special.
All black people. Not two black pantas.Yup.
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"Let me just finish this putt..."
At least he knows not to start with the 'thoughts and prayers' crap.
I hate knock off fantas
Nothing will change. The idiot president will come back with something about the shooters being deranged individuals and then saying that this is not a direct cause of having no gun control blah, blah, blah. I feel for the victims and their families as well as the future victims when the next one happens in a couple of days and the victims of the following one a few days later and so on and so on.
My cousin drove past it in progress-he’s fine. Now to check on my friends in the area.
Feck all this...
Feck all this...
Civil war is the only thing now.
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Good luck, man.
And Muslims
Trump and NRA would happily sell them many.
Guns guns. Need more guns. It's the only answer after all.
Still amazes me that something written 200 years ago in the days of civil militia carries on as a birth right.
Cue the talks of Paul Blart: Mall Cops should be armed as well.
Still amazes me that something written 200 years ago in the days of civil militia carries on as a birth right.
Cue the talks of Paul Blart: Mall Cops should be armed as well.
Thread by a madman.
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When someone starts killing bales of money
Just wow. NO to anything that would possibly help the situation but YES to prayers and thoughts.
Feck off.
Same for me. I'm puzzled about the logic behind using their constitution as an excuse to keeping their guns at all costs
The good ol' US of A is beyond help, wipe it off, start again.
Amazing how someone can be so terrible.
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When shooters regularly target members of the NRA and GOP politicians. They only care about themselves.