On guns: "Do the right thing!"

[DGS49]

Our tired, bedraggled old President brought out the oldest, tiredest, emptiest Leftist comment, in his lame attempt to comfort the country in the wake of this horrific school shooting today.

He claims that "we" have to have the courage to "do the right thing" on guns.

And yet...the Left never comes up with any suggestion that would have had the slightest impact on the shooting that he is supposed to be addressing.

Ban "assault" weapons? Pure idiocy. An assault weapon is a single-shot firearm, just like a deer rifle. No more lethal than a deer rifle. But it looks scary. Biden claimed that when "assault weapons" were banned, mass shootings dropped by some absurd fraction. I'd really like to see the data that supports that statement.

This is not confirmed, but I've heard that the punk in Texas used a pistol and a long rifle. Not an "assault weapon." What does our addled President suggest? Apparently, he could not have purchased a handgun from a licensed dealer in Texas at his age.

Lefties never really grasp the fact that Bad Guys don't obey the law, so outlawing things often accomplishes nothing.

I just watched a video this morning of Joe Biden, in 1988, angrily telling a constituent that he graduated with three bachelor's degrees, went to law school on a full scholarship, and graduated near the top of his class...all of which were lies. Blatant, knowing lies, because he knew that the people hearing him had no way of verifying what he was saying in that moment.

What a piece of shit.

 

[Death-Ninja]

The guns, they are specifically the reason we are not yet slaves to psychopaths such as Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, the Clinton's, Obama's, Gates, Fauci ect ect ect....

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

We

Need

Machine guns

 

[DukeU]

He claims that "we" have to have the courage to "do the right thing" on guns.

What is the "right thing"?

Lay it out there *biden, we're waiting.

 

[occupied]

The price of being intractable about anything concerning guns is a classroom full of kids every now and then. It's a price the gun lobby and the right is quite comfortable with. Your hopes and prayers are insulting.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

The price of being intractable about anything concerning guns is a classroom full of kids every now and then. It's a price the gun lobby and the right is quite comfortable with. Your hopes and prayers are insulting.

A gun ban didn't work at the school?

Why is it going to work across the country?

 

[occupied]

A gun ban didn't work at the school?

Why is it going to work across the country?

Why do you think everything is a gun ban? Anything restricting guns in any way will never get a republican vote. This thread is pointless. Nothing can ever be done about this.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Why do you think everything is a gun ban? Anything restricting guns in any way will never get a republican vote. This thread is pointless. Nothing can ever be done about this.

What is your non-ban suggestion?

 

[petro]

This country lacks the balls to deal with criminally insane and dangerous individuals.
Every one of these shooters always raise a shitload of red flags ignored by officials leading up to extreme violence...
Every fucking one of them!!!

Instead of holding individuals responsible for their actions we blame an inanimate object and seek to curb the rights of law abiding citizens in order to placate the feelz.

This is clearly an issue of mental health, not the weapon used. But we can't call a male who wears a skirt mentally ill anymore. Because...Feelz...

 

[night_son]

The price of being intractable about anything concerning guns is a classroom full of kids every now and then. It's a price the gun lobby and the right is quite comfortable with. Your hopes and prayers are insulting.

Your kind have murdered one hundred million and more unborn American children in the name of political ideology. Weeping crocodile tears about twenty dead kids makes you look all the more reptilian. No amount of gun control in the world can keep your side from murdering hundreds of thousands and millions more American children.

 

[Leo123]

The price of being intractable about anything concerning guns is a classroom full of kids every now and then. It's a price the gun lobby and the right is quite comfortable with. Your hopes and prayers are insulting.

A gun in a classroom will not kill anyone by itself but, a well trained teacher could protect their students with one if needed. Guns are not bad. They are inanimate objects. There is no reason to limit law abiding citizens from buying or owning them.

 

[Leo123]

Why do you think everything is a gun ban? Anything restricting guns in any way will never get a republican vote. This thread is pointless. Nothing can ever be done about this.

There are already plenty of restrictions on owning guns for a law abiding citizen.

 

[Pellinore]

This country lacks the balls to deal with criminally insane and dangerous individuals.
Every one of these shooters always raise a shitload of red flags ignored by officials leading up to extreme violence...
Every fucking one of them!!!

Instead of holding individuals responsible for their actions we blame an inanimate object and seek to curb the rights of law abiding citizens in order to placate the feelz.

This is clearly an issue of mental health, not the weapon used. But we can't call a male who wears a skirt mentally ill anymore. Because...Feelz...

If it's a function of mental illness, and the availability of firearms plays no part, then why do we have a higher murder rate than other developed nations?

We're at 4.96 per 100,000, right between Cuba and Kenya. India is at 3.08; Canada, 1.76; UK and France are at 1.2. Germany 0.95, Italy 0.57, Japan 0.26.

What else is different between us and all of them?

 

[JusticeHammer]

The price of being intractable about anything concerning guns is a classroom full of kids every now and then. It's a price the gun lobby and the right is quite comfortable with. Your hopes and prayers are insulting.

Your stupidity is insulting.

 

[Woodznutz]

The price of being intractable about anything concerning guns is a classroom full of kids every now and then. It's a price the gun lobby and the right is quite comfortable with. Your hopes and prayers are insulting.

What's costing a 'classroom full of kids' is the unwillingness of the schools to protect those they have the responsibility to protect. Hell, they don't think their own lives are worth protecting.

"When seconds count, the police are only minutes away."

 

[petro]

If it's a function of mental illness, and the availability of firearms plays no part, then why do we have a higher murder rate than other developed nations?

We're at 4.96 per 100,000, right between Cuba and Kenya. India is at 3.08; Canada, 1.76; UK and France are at 1.2. Germany 0.95, Italy 0.57, Japan 0.26.

What else is different between us and all of them?

Screw useless statistical comparisons with other countries, I am more interested in what has happened to our youth that feel a need to act out in rage that was never witnessed back in my youth.
There is more than a coincidence that as society became more permissive and excusing of individual responsibility that many youth have become narcissistic and self absorbed with a sense of entitlement. Add to that easily influenced by social media and violent imagery and gaming not seen nor even imagined only a few decades ago. Now add the ridiculous garbage of gender dysphoria to fuck their heads even a little further.


This is far deeper than guns.

 

[Woodznutz]

If it's a function of mental illness, and the availability of firearms plays no part, then why do we have a higher murder rate than other developed nations?

We're at 4.96 per 100,000, right between Cuba and Kenya. India is at 3.08; Canada, 1.76; UK and France are at 1.2. Germany 0.95, Italy 0.57, Japan 0.26.

What else is different between us and all of them?

Some people think America is a big candy store and that because there is so much candy that they are entitled to have some of it without paying for it. When they find out they have to pay for the candy they get mad and kill people.

 

[Quasar44]

No American citizens should have access to these wmds

 

[Quasar44]

NRA is evil

 

[Pellinore]

Screw useless statistical comparisons with other countries, I am more interested in what has happened to our youth that feel a need to act out in rage that was never witnessed back in my youth.
There is more than a coincidence that as society became more permissive and excusing of individual responsibility that many youth have become narcissistic and self absorbed with a sense of entitlement. Add to that easily influenced by social media and violent imagery and gaming not seen nor even imagined only a few decades ago. Now add the ridiculous garbage of gender dysphoria to fuck their heads even a little further.


This is far deeper than guns.

I don't know how old you are, but in 1990 our murder rate was about twice as bad, neighborhood of 9. Our crime rate has gone down since then, which is good, but it is still waaaay higher than it should be. What is it about our country that keeps our crime rate so high, even though we've got all kinds of technology, a stable government, and stupid amounts of money?