Las Vegas carnage and overlooking the obvious.

[The Derp]

Mine are locked in a safe, save the one I have here on my desk

So you say.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

So an older white man who likely voted for Trump (i.e., white supremacist mentality) killed 50+ people who likely voted for Trump (because they share his white supremacist mentality) + injured 200+ more people (likely white supremacists) who likely voted for Trump, at a country music concert where headliner Jason Aldean likely voted for Trump (because he shares Trump's white supremacist mindset) and where the concert was full of likely Trump supporters (i.e., likely white supremacists).

Uh, I'll let white folks handle this one.

I'm calling for a complete and total shut down of all white men from entering the USA until they figure out what the hell is going on!

#stopwhiteonwhitecrime

Where did you dig up any of that horseshit?

I think we have found a racist and it is not the shooter,

 

[basquebromance]

White House Press briefing: 2nd & 3rd questions from the media right out of the gate were about gun control.

 

[basquebromance]

Gun shop in Mesquite, NV confirms Paddock was "customer and purchased firearms from our store". "All checks and procedures were followed."

 

[skookerasbil]

In order to state the obvious we must first be able to see the obvious. This is a difficult task because the obvious is very good at hiding in plain sight. It exists not in a camouflaged way but in a normalized way. In the United States a lot of people have become very rich by riding the excitement of violence and presenting it to the viewing public as entertainment.


The entertainment industry, particularly Hollywood and network television, long ago sacrificed originality and creativity for the time-tested formula of delivering bullets into human flesh. It’s a blueprint that became the gift that keeps on giving for movie makers and actors but its success has a dark side.


On Oct. 2nd a man named Stephen Paddock acted out in reality what he had been conditioned over a lifetime to be acceptable entertainment fantasy. Paddock like the rest of us had been subjected to a constant barrage of human carnage on both the big and little screen so producers, directors, actors and sponsors could sell tickets or advertised products.


Car chases, gunfights and human bloodshed never seems to get old and actual, thoughtful productions of public entertainment are few and far between because the profits just aren’t there. And we shouldn’t fall prey to the redeeming social value argument that predictably displays good winning over evil. The crowds are drawn to witness the action not the lessons of the aftermath.


There’s been a lot bandied about in recent years regarding the indoctrination of populations in Muslim countries to attack others in western civilizations. But they don’t hold a candle to American movie makers and television producers. One system prays to a religious god while the other bows to the god of the almighty dollar.


It doesn’t stop there. Media organizations like Fox News and CNN will cash in on this big time. The endless procession of talking heads will sell a lot of toothpaste and spaghetti sauce. Theories will abound and the experts will strut their hour upon the stage. Of course the obvious will be totally overlooked as usual because no one can see it.


The obvious cannot be seen because no one wants to see it. If we want to understand why our society is falling apart then we need to stop looking at someone else’s house for a culprit. We need to take a long, hard look at ourselves.

On October 2nd, the suspect was dead!

And how many more with arsenals are out there alive? Are you one of them?

Ray you're wasting your breath............they implemented the SAFE Act in Connecticut and New York in 2013.......banning "assault" weapons. 3% and 4% complied respectively. C'mon now............they talked about going door to door but dropped that idea in about 1/2 a second.

 

[skookerasbil]

File the loony banter under Progressives think all problems in the world can be solved if we just get the institutions just right. They all missed the memo that all of life boils down to necessary tradeoffs..........suck vs suckier in almost all cases. Take your pick.........as good as it gets s0ns.

 

[skookerasbil]

And this environment we introduce easy access to war weapons. Yes, we do need to look at our own house. Our media glorifies the man with the gun, and treats the man that builds our society as a hopeless nerd. We pay third string linemen far more than our best scientists. People on Wall Street that do nothing but shuffle paper are paid far more than the engineers that create our infrastructure. And they pay a smaller percentage of their income in taxes.

war weapons?

My shotgun is a war weapon to some.

Holds five below and one in the chamber, so weapon of mass destruction to some.

Hate to see their faces if they ever saw a real battlefield weapon...

For either an AK or an AR, you can empty a 30 shot clip in under ten seconds. That is not a hunting weapon, that is a war weapon. Designed specifically for killing people.

lol.........most states they are illegal.

But what of the millions of 30 rd magazines that are out there. What? Make a mandate for the folks to turn them in tomorrow? C'mon now........like I said.........states that have gone recently with these "assault" weapons bans cant even get the folks to turn in the weapons much less the magazines.

 

[Ray9]

An incredible societal paradox exists in that the entertainment industry is loaded with advocates of confiscatory gun control. Hollywood’s guns have been blazing almost since the advent of motion pictures and there has always been a pot of gold at the end of every bullet’s path. It’s not the guns-it’s the profitable glorification of the beautiful people using them on the big screen.

 

[2aguy]

And this environment we introduce easy access to war weapons. Yes, we do need to look at our own house. Our media glorifies the man with the gun, and treats the man that builds our society as a hopeless nerd. We pay third string linemen far more than our best scientists. People on Wall Street that do nothing but shuffle paper are paid far more than the engineers that create our infrastructure. And they pay a smaller percentage of their income in taxes.

The 8 million rifles that law abiding gun owners own...are not weapons of war. I am just getting caught up...but the fully auto weapons he used are not common...and are the most scrutinized weapons you can buy...having to go through the ATF to get them...or you get them illegally.....

 

[WinterBorn]

So it will be legal to have GUN Silencers. So to protect the shooters hearing.
Not to protect their victims btw.

Not true, A suppressor (they don't actually silence a gun) will do just as much for protecting the hearing of the victim as the shooter.

My point was they (NRA) claim it's for hunting deer. But they will make these events in Vegas able to get more kills, as they won't
be able to tell so easy with them on these guns, where the bullets are coming from. WHEEE! Mass shooters please stock up. 100% American BORN Terrorist need the right tools in hand. With their automatic guns.

btw.. They work great.

The NRA claims suppressors are for deer hunting? Can you provide a link?

 

[Rustic]

And this environment we introduce easy access to war weapons. Yes, we do need to look at our own house. Our media glorifies the man with the gun, and treats the man that builds our society as a hopeless nerd. We pay third string linemen far more than our best scientists. People on Wall Street that do nothing but shuffle paper are paid far more than the engineers that create our infrastructure. And they pay a smaller percentage of their income in taxes.

Have you no spine?

 

[Pogo]

Why do liberals always want to shoot people?

-Geaux

Just in our blood.....Where do you live again?

Just follow the trolley tracks. To Wisconsin.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

"Durn tootin’, great shootin’. Cool dude sertin’ he’s 2nd Mendment rahts. Hell yeah! Every country has its psychopaths. In US they have guns" - Richard Dawkins

Girlyman Gungrabbers

Why isn't concert security armed with hunting rifles? They better be now.