Another week, another school shooting

[CorvallisBMW]

This time just miles from my house.

The epidemic of gun violence in this country is not limited to just one cause. It has both a human and a machine aspect; it is about both mental health and about firearms. Just as a gun cannot go on a shooting spree without a person, a person cannot go on a shooting spree without a gun.

If you ignore half of the equation, you are guaranteed to arrive at the wrong answer. Sadly, for all to many in the pro-gun camp, they are dedicated to doing just that.

[Farbin Kaiber]

A person without a gun can still go on a crowded street fair attack in an automobile. So there's that.

[peter321]

Who knew a psycho with a gun would go to a place that has a ban on all weapons?

[mrsleeve]

Stop giving these people the attention they crave in the media and this shit will all but go away.

[ELVA164]

Stop giving these people the attention they crave in the media and this shit will all but go away.

This is absolutely the problem I've noticed recently. Each of these idiots seems to have some idiotic "cause," and the news channels can't seem to get enough of sharing it with the whole country and giving it as much analysis as humanly possible. Ridiculous.

[e30vert]

A person without a gun can still go on a crowded street fair attack in an automobile. So there's that.

Yeah, old people who cannot tell the brake from the accellerator pedal do it all the time.

[BraveUlysses]

A person without a gun can still go on a crowded street fair attack in an automobile. So there's that.

Yet they don't. What a stupid fucking argument

[z31maniac]

Stop giving these people the attention they crave in the media and this shit will all but go away.

Why this isn't all of it, I definitely agree. America is such a nation of rubber-neckers.

I like that there is a station in Canada that refuses to name/picture/etc the guy from Moncton that went on a cop killing spree.

I wish American news stations would do the same..........unfortunately that doesn't sell advertising.

[CorvallisBMW]

A person without a gun can still go on a crowded street fair attack in an automobile. So there's that.

Yet they don't. Why not?

[JinormusJ]

America is such a nation of rubber-neckers.

[agent]

Thanks for your poignant contribution. ^

OP, how do you propose we keep rifles out of the hands of high school students? In your estimation, what could/would have prevented this incident?

[slammin.e28]

Thanks for your poignant contribution. ^

OP, how do you propose we keep rifles out of the hands of high school students? In your estimation, what could/would have prevented this incident?

Door to door, collect all guns.

Door to door, collect everyone with a mental disorder.

Done. :roll:

[Jon325i]

It is sad that an aspect of modern American culture is to sensationalize the bad things that are happening. Murder, corruption, substance abuse, infidelity......all these things get a lot of spot light time. It reminds me of the saying, "good news travels fast, bad news travels faster." You know we're doomed as a society when the media promotes a 'special segment' for good news.....like it's something out of the ordinary.

I realize these school/cop/workplace shootings brings up the whole right to bare arms and the 2nd amendment. Even if we did abolish guns altogether, someone will grab a knife, a club, a car, or fabricate some explosive device to inflict harm on others. None of these objects kill people by themselves......it's the nut jobs wielding these 'weapons'....that's the real problem.


Jon

[z31maniac]

^Name another 1st world country that has had 74, yes that's right SEVENTY FOUR school shootings since Sandy Hook in Dec of 2012.

Let that number sink in.

Can you find another 1st world country that has had 74 mass attacks on schools using something other than guns?

[Jon325i]

^Name another 1st world country that has had 74, yes that's right SEVENTY FOUR school shootings since Sandy Hook in Dec of 2012.

Let that number sink in.

Can you find another 1st world country that has had 74 mass attacks on schools using something other than guns?

I totally get what you're saying....that is a troubling statistic too. My point is even with every gun removed from society's hands.....someone, somewhere, who has snapped mentally.....will go out and do something to harm targeted or innocent people. Will the number of incidents be reduced? Hard to say. Will the number of deaths decline? Maybe. But these kinds of events will continue to happen.

Jon