the last shooting / things that go on in America thread has definitely dissappeared

anyway

not the "happy ending" you would have expected

https://twitter.com/i/events/1371972779893944327

Suspect arrested after eight people, including six Asian women, were killed at Atlanta-area spas

Eight people, including six Asian women, were killed in shootings at three different businesses in Atlanta and Acworth, Georgia, on Tuesday, according to local police. A male suspect was arrested and charged with several counts of murder on Wednesday, police said. At a press conference in Atlanta on Wednesday, authorities identified the four victims killed in Cherokee County.

 

There are allegedly around 75M students in the US, if "only" around 500 a year are killed by these gunmen, perhaps that's seen as a low enough number by the Gun Lobby, to be deemed as acceptable enough for them to still be loons?!?!  

If it's an ongoing issue, and lets be honest they're never going to stop idiots getting guns, then perhaps they should spend money making the schools more like prisons - so they're nigh on impossible to break into (and out of).

I remember seeing an interview once with a bloke who said it was his rite to have guns, and he used them for hunting. One of the guns he had, was some sort of assault rifle that could fire several hundred rounds a minute.....fuck knows what he's going hunting with that 😶

9 minutes ago, Sweep said:

There are allegedly around 75M students in the US, if "only" around 500 a year are killed by these gunmen, perhaps that's seen as a low enough number by the Gun Lobby, to be deemed as acceptable enough for them to still be loons?!?!  

If it's an ongoing issue, and lets be honest they're never going to stop idiots getting guns, then perhaps they should spend money making the schools more like prisons - so they're nigh on impossible to break into (and out of).

I remember seeing an interview once with a bloke who said it was his rite to have guns, and he used them for hunting. One of the guns he had, was some sort of assault rifle that could fire several hundred rounds a minute.....fuck knows what he's going hunting with that 😶

Maybe a rookery of penguins?

Get em on the move, reckon you could scatter gun the cunts and do 100 easy.

2 hours ago, royal white said:

It seems some have already started arming themselves and why wouldn’t they 🤷🏻‍♂️

I don’t blame anyone in a crisis like this for arming themselves if it helps them feel safer. Not sure it does much when someone rocks up with a machine gun wearing a bullet proof vest though. 
 

Always the Republican argument is to arm yourself to the teeth as a response to gun violence. Absolute nonsense. Trumps solution was thick as pig shit, but that’s to be expected. The solution is banning guns. 
 

Boycott USA 2026 😂

How many mass shootings were there in Russian schools last year?

Im wondering if we need to have a rethink about who we consider friendly.

1 hour ago, London Wanderer said:

I don’t blame anyone in a crisis like this for arming themselves if it helps them feel safer. Not sure it does much when someone rocks up with a machine gun wearing a bullet proof vest though. 
 

Always the Republican argument is to arm yourself to the teeth as a response to gun violence. Absolute nonsense. Trumps solution was thick as pig shit, but that’s to be expected. The solution is banning guns. 
 

Boycott USA 2026 😂

Ban guns all you want, they’re not going away. 

Yanks are just strange.

21 minutes ago, royal white said:

Ban guns all you want, they’re not going away. 

Hardly any mass shootings here or in Australia since the bans 🙅‍♂️

1 hour ago, Spider said:

How many mass shootings were there in Russian schools last year?

Im wondering if we need to have a rethink about who we consider friendly.

I'm sure Vlad will welcome you with open arms.

22 hours ago, royal white said:

Maybe trumps idea of arming teachers wasn’t such a bad one! 

They looked into it in a few places, it seems the insurance was way too expensive, so they dropped the idea.

 

Also, off those that did it teacher's guns turn up in toilets, they took them off and then forgot to put them back on, they were found by guess who, kids.

13 minutes ago, tyldesley_white said:

They looked into it in a few places, it seems the insurance was way too expensive, so they dropped the idea.

 

Also, off those that did it teacher's guns turn up in toilets, they took them off and then forgot to put them back on, they were found by guess who, kids.

Now that's a step up from leaving your laptop on the tube

25 minutes ago, Cheese said:

Hardly any mass shootings here or in Australia since the bans 🙅‍♂️

Did here and Australia have approximately 120 guns per person in circulation?

 

Thought not

28 minutes ago, tyldesley_white said:

They looked into it in a few places, it seems the insurance was way too expensive, so they dropped the idea.

 

Also, off those that did it teacher's guns turn up in toilets, they took them off and then forgot to put them back on, they were found by guess who, kids.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/31/us/teachers-guns-schools.html

32 minutes ago, royal white said:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/31/us/teachers-guns-schools.html

Never said there where non, just explained it was looked into and had discarded it and issue's with those that had taken it up, but I suppose leaving a handgun in the toilets or lockeroom to you seems a good idea, me not so much

 

Texas superintendent resigns after student finds his gun in school bathroom | The Texas Tribune

Every Incident of Mishandled Guns in Schools | Giffords

 

Edited March 30, 20233 yr by tyldesley_white

3 minutes ago, tyldesley_white said:

Never said there where non, just explained it was looked into and had discarded it and issue's with those that had taken it up, but I suppose leaving a handgun in the toilets or lockeroom to you seems a good idea, me not so much

 

Texas superintendent resigns after student finds his gun in school bathroom | The Texas Tribune

 

Where did I say it was a good idea? Obviously that teacher is a bit of a clown, like numerous squaddies and policemen who have left their weapons hanging about. 

1 hour ago, royal white said:

Did here and Australia have approximately 120 guns per person in circulation?

Thought not

120 guns per 100 people you plonker.

2 minutes ago, Cheese said:

120 guns per 100 people you plonker.

Still, it's fucking loads.

How are they ever going to take them out of circulation?

7 minutes ago, Cheese said:

120 guns per 100 people you plonker.

My bad, 120 per 100. And you’re trying to compare them, a country that borders with South America, with 2 islands who already had strict gun control. Amazing .

At least we can now put the locked door argument to bed, as she shot through the locked door to get in 🙂

 

2 hours ago, mickbrown said:

Still, it's fucking loads.

How are they ever going to take them out of circulation?

They managed in UK following Dunblane. My dad and a few of his mates used to go target shooting using licensed pistols.

My dad had a Browning .22 automatic which had a magazine containing 10 bullets. 

The police officer responsible for firearm licensing just came round with a shit-load of documents outlining the level of compensation he’d receive and took the gun and ammunition away. 

I can’t remember the compensation but it was around half the value at the time.

Imagine all that in USA. I’d guess they have no idea who holds what weapon. It’d need to be done as a voluntary gun amnesty so they’d probably collect a few thousand then Pat their own backs telling the world they listened and have reduced the number of guns on the streets.

1 hour ago, MickyD said:

They managed in UK following Dunblane. My dad and a few of his mates used to go target shooting using licensed pistols.

My dad had a Browning .22 automatic which had a magazine containing 10 bullets. 

The police officer responsible for firearm licensing just came round with a shit-load of documents outlining the level of compensation he’d receive and took the gun and ammunition away. 

I can’t remember the compensation but it was around half the value at the time.

Imagine all that in USA. I’d guess they have no idea who holds what weapon. It’d need to be done as a voluntary gun amnesty so they’d probably collect a few thousand then Pat their own backs telling the world they listened and have reduced the number of guns on the streets.

In Houston we are now on our 4th buy back, seems to work at getting

guns, is it helping with gun deaths that is open to debate.

1 hour ago, tyldesley_white said:

In Houston we are now on our 4th buy back, seems to work at getting

guns, is it helping with gun deaths that is open to debate.

Have you got one mate?

 

2 hours ago, tyldesley_white said:

In Houston we are now on our 4th buy back, seems to work at getting

guns, is it helping with gun deaths that is open to debate.

Is it open to debate though, really? Ok, the guns handed in aren’t killing kids but for every gun handed back, I’d hate to guess how many aren’t handed back.

1 hour ago, gonzo said:

Have you got one mate?

 

I’d have a shed full, like Arnie had in Commando! 
 

“Right”? 
 

“wrong”

9 hours ago, London Wanderer said:

I don’t blame anyone in a crisis like this for arming themselves if it helps them feel safer. Not sure it does much when someone rocks up with a machine gun wearing a bullet proof vest though. 
 

Always the Republican argument is to arm yourself to the teeth as a response to gun violence. Absolute nonsense. Trumps solution was thick as pig shit, but that’s to be expected. The solution is banning guns. 
 

Boycott USA 2026 😂

We don't agree on much but bang on (apart from the last tongue in cheek sentence). Yes, even the Trump thing but we all know he is just playing to a large voting bloc.

No chance of it happening mind. They are all stark raving fucking mad if they can't see the smoking gun.

9 hours ago, Spider said:

How many mass shootings were there in Russian schools last year?

Im wondering if we need to have a rethink about who we consider friendly.

...and I wonder how much time Russia spends on pandering to minorities and 'activists'? About as long as it takes to chuck 'em in a van and drop them at a gulag.

Their authorities don't sit around wringing their hands wondering which soppy fucker they might upset or which lefty lawyer might take up a fight against them. Phoebe Plummer should go there to make a stand. I would happily pay her/it's flight costs.

A good chance that the population of Russia knows that doing anything which might be considered antisocial is unlikely to end well for them.