What We've Learned From Mass Shootings

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The main ingredients for all these mass shootings is hate and anger, and the easy availability of assault rifles, 100 round drum magazines, and ammunition. What we need to do is control who gets these weapons, and hold the owners of their weapons responsible for what their weapons does.

[Into the Night]

OR A TRUCK! that can kill 86 and injure 456

Or 'military grade weapons', such as the repeating (lever action) rifles and bow and arrow used by the Sioux to kill 90 soldiers (the exact number is unknown) while defending their village. The 7th cavalry unit was annihilated, along with Custer, and the 12th unit suffered heavy losses and was forced to retreat.

Every gun is a 'military grade weapon'.

[Into the Night]

so because motor vehicles kill people mass shootings mean nothing

got it troll

Mass shootings occur in 'gun free' zones, dude. They don't occur in shooting ranges for a reason.

[volsrock]

The main ingredients for all these mass shootings is hate and anger, and the easy availability of assault rifles, 100 round drum magazines, and ammunition. What we need to do is control who gets these weapons, and hold the owners of their weapons responsible for what their weapons does.

We had more KKK type hate in the 20s and 60s

The main ingredient is DRUGS!

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We had more KKK type hate in the 20s and 60s

The main ingredient is DRUGS!

What drugs do you use????????????????

[reagansghost]

The main ingredients for all these mass shootings is hate and anger, and the easy availability of assault rifles, 100 round drum magazines, and ammunition. What we need to do is control who gets these weapons, and hold the owners of their weapons responsible for what their weapons does.

right wingers love to ascribe the blame to the 'mentally ill', which says two things:

1. they themselves must be mentally ill

2. it is far too easy for the mentally ill (or right wing zealots) to obtain weapons

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right wingers love to ascribe the blame to the 'mentally ill', which says two things:

1. they themselves must be mentally ill

2. it is far too easy for the mentally ill (or right wing zealots) to obtain weapons

Couldn't agree with you more.

[Getin the ring]

The main ingredients for all these mass shootings is hate and anger, and the easy availability of assault rifles, 100 round drum magazines, and ammunition. What we need to do is control who gets these weapons, and hold the owners of their weapons responsible for what their weapons does.

punishing law abiding citizens will stop mass shootings huh?
what an idiot, don't be an idiot

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punishing law abiding citizens will stop mass shootings huh?
what an idiot, don't be an idiot

You're not referring to mass shooters as law abiding citizens, are you???????????

[volsrock]

You're not referring to mass shooters as law abiding citizens, are you???????????

u right law abiding citizens obey the Gun Free Zones etc!

So dont try to keep one from buying a rifle and 5k rounds of ammo

[Celticguy]

They damn well should be. These quacks prescribe 'medicines' that result in suicidal and homicidal tendencies.

Or they fail to prescribe meds that would keep them sane.
Or they fail to note when they go off their meds.

But they know and fail to act.

[PoliTalker]

Hello ThatOwlWoman,

Mental health professionals can't do much if the homicidal/suicidal person is not under their care. Let's hold the feet of family members, work colleagues, classmates/teachers/other personnel to the fire as well. But even if you see that your brother, for instance, has had marked mental changes and appears to be spiraling, and you report it to your parents/the school/somebody -- it is incredibly hard to get a person committed in order to get the mental health help they desperately need. Few parents, for instance, will report an angry, threatening kid to the police because they don't want him locked up with even worse ppl, even if it's for his own good.

We need to limit civilian access to high-capacity clips, and institute a reporting system and treatment for these folks and is effective.

Very good article, thanks for posting it, Poli.

You're welcome, ThatOwlWoman. As soon as I read it I knew it would make a good topic for this crowd. Fascination with guns and abortion trumps everything else around here.

[PoliTalker]

Hello reagansghost,

right wingers love to ascribe the blame to the 'mentally ill', which says two things:

1. they themselves must be mentally ill

2. it is far too easy for the mentally ill (or right wing zealots) to obtain weapons

3. That white supremacy is a mental illness.

[ThatOwlWoman]

The main ingredients for all these mass shootings is hate and anger, and the easy availability of assault rifles, 100 round drum magazines, and ammunition. What we need to do is control who gets these weapons, and hold the owners of their weapons responsible for what their weapons does.

Well said.

I see that one of our resident Daily Stormers, volsrock, is busy trying to deflect from the fact that mass shootings are committed almost exclusively by white males to crime stats allegedly showing that more criminals are black than white. It's not working. The entire nation knows who these shooters are, and it's not what he pretends.

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Well said.

I see that one of our resident Daily Stormers, volsrock, is busy trying to deflect from the fact that mass shootings are committed almost exclusively by white males to crime stats allegedly showing that more criminals are black than white. It's not working. The entire nation knows who these shooters are, and it's not what he pretends.

Gun nuts have been very well indoctrinated by the NRA, so it's quite easy for them to see what thy want to see.