“There have been nearly 70 mass shootings so far this year”

LV426 said:
Not sure what you're talking about here, but I remember reading Mansfield Park by Jane Austen which had this unforgettable quote:

“I pay very little regard to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.”

So not only is there a long literary history of "they" being used in the singular, but it's being used by some of the most famous authors in the Western World, like Shakespeare, Chaucer, Austen, etc.

Just wondering...do those authors predate your textbook from 25 years ago?
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Literature doesn't take precedence over accredited text books. The fact that you're unfamiliar with these simple traditional rules of grammar reveals that I vastly overrated you in the past.
Not anymore, obviously.
 
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NiftyNiblick said:
Literature doesn't take precedence over accredited text books.
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According to whom? Isn't that literature what is covered by those textbooks? I remember having to read Macbeth, Hamlet, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Little Women, and The Canterbury Tales, etc. in high school. Didn't you?
 
cawacko said:
I ask the same question. Guns aren't new and it sounds like powerful weapons have been around for awhile so the ability to commit such acts has been there. Something flipped in society where this went from a rare occurrence to more regular one. You can put more regulations on guns but that likely won't solve a whole lot because they'll still be access to guns for those who want them. We can try to remove guns from society but good luck with that. All that will do is mean law abiding citizens won't have any but criminals will.

Something has broken in society where clearly people view this as a viable act. Maybe the genie will never go back into the bottle but I'd like to think (or hope) that's not the case.
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Then explain why the assault weapons ban worked so well until republicans undid it?
 
evince said:
Then explain why the assault weapons ban worked so well until republicans undid it?
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It didn't, dumbfuck



FactCheck.org, Feb. 1, 2013: The final report concluded the ban’s success in reducing crimes committed with banned guns was “mixed.” Gun crimes involving assault weapons declined. However, that decline was “offset throughout at least the late 1990s by steady or rising use of other guns equipped with [large-capacity magazines].”

Ultimately, the research concluded that it was “premature to make definitive assessments of the ban’s impact on gun crime,” largely because the law’s grandfathering of millions of pre-ban assault weapons and large-capacity magazines “ensured that the effects of the law would occur only gradually” and were “still unfolding” when the ban expired in 2004.
 
The end of guns is coming. Over 350,000 kids have been in schools with shootings. There are more and more who live through the carnage and terror that American gun laws foster. When they are in power, they can end it. You cannot convince them that this is how we should live.
 
Nordberg said:
The end of guns is coming. Over 350,000 kids have been in schools with shootings. There are more and more who live through the carnage and terror that American gun laws foster. When they are in power, they can end it. You cannot convince them that this is how we should live.
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how do they plan on getting rid of them?
 
Yakuda said:
The only way to do that is confiscate all guns, and pass legislation to prohibit the manufacture, sales and possession of firearms except for the military. That's what they are patiently working toward.
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Yes, hopefully we will get there one day because your stupid hobby is the #1 killer of kids under 18.
 
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