TOP (02-15-2018)
I just listened to a radio news report on this mass shooting and not once did the report use the words children/teenagers/youth or in anyway indicate that the victims were not adults. They were referred to as either victims or people.
I wonder why it was reported that way?
When guns are banned, only the criminals and the government are armed. In Germany 2016:
July 22
Munich, Germany: 9 dead, 27 injured
At about 6 PM, 18-year-old David Ali Sonboly, a German-Iranian local, opened fire on a group of people near the McDonald's in the Olympia shopping mall with a reactivated 9mm Glock 17 pistol he'd bought on the dark web, likely form Slovakia. He killed nine individuals: 14-year-old girls Armela Segashi, Can Leyla, and Sabina Sulaj, 14-year-old Roberto Rafael, 15-year-old Selcuk Kilic, 17-year-old Hussein Daitzik, 18-year-old Guilliano Kollmann, 21-year-old Dijamant Zabergja, and 45-year-old Sevda Dag. He also injured at least 27 people before ultimately shooting himself in the head near the mall; officials found over 300 bullets in his backpack when they found his body. Although early reports suggested Sonboly might have been one of many attackers operating in and near the mall, it now appears that he acted alone—and had been planning the attack for at least a year. Sonboly's motives were, as of publication, still vague, but he may have acted on an obsession with school shootings, possibly fueled by psychiatric issues from being bullied for which he had received treatment. Authorities are also trying to determine why he targeted these individuals, many of whom he'd lured to the food court via a fake Facebook account created in May through which he offered free food, but none of whom were his classmates despite his obsession with school shootings.
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Also using an illegal gun in 2016
July 2
Zitiste, Serbia: 5 dead, 22 injured
Sometime aftermidnight, a 38-year-old man identified only as Z.S. in official reports saw his ex-wife out with friends at a local café. An argument ensued, and Z.S. left the café, only to return at about1:40 Am with an illegal Kalashnikov-type automatic rifle—one of thousands of such guns floating around the nation since the wars that engulfed the Balkans during the 1990s. He fired three shots into the air, then targeted his wife and one other woman, shooting them dead on site, before opening random fire on everyone else in the café. The shooter ultimately hit 25 more people (including at least three minors), three of whom died on the way to hospitals in neighboring cities and seven of whom required surgery and were, as of publication, still in critical condition. Z.S. tried to flee the site, but at least one person at the café grabbed his gun and wrestled it away from him. Soon after local police caught up with and apprehended the shooter.
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Allow me to clarify then, 18 should the right age to buy alcohol and 21 should be for firearms. I would further suggest that all applicants for a licence, have to get a certificate from a doctor stating that they don't suffer any mental problems. Any doctors found falsifying certificates should be struck off.
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But, I also don't think that the vast majority became murderers either. All the men in my family (my dad and uncles) were mainly from the 'greatest generation', the WWll guys. They were responsible men who believed one of their major roles was to protect their families and property. They all had a gun stashed away somewhere in the house. None of them ever talked about guns, went to shooting ranges or sport hunting.
I came of age in the peace & love flower power generation. Yet, at that same time it seemed to be when certain groups with violence came out, too. Then, came the breakdown of families, more divorces or no marriage at all, kids with no responsible male father figure to guide young kids into responsible adulthood, the "me" generations, faithless with no focused direction and discipline, more violence when people didn't get whatever they wanted in life immediately, and it has snowballed ever since.
And, I love critters, too. For years while living in my home town of Miami, I used to volunteer at Pelican Island in Biscayne Bay.....loved helping out the "pellies", LOL. When I got involved with horses here in Ocala, I learned and practiced equine massage therapy. I still try to be involved with the local pet rescue as well. Still, I eat beef, poultry, pork, fowl, wild game and seafood though.
In a perfect world there would be no guns at ALL.....for ANYONE. It's not. As long as there is an element of humanity out there bent on killing other human beings, there are those of us who would simply like to defend ourselves if and when needed. jmho.
Last edited by Stretch; 02-15-2018 at 12:49 PM.
Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
pain in abortion.
Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
which has begun. To abort life is to end it.
dukkha (02-15-2018), ThatOwlWoman (02-15-2018)
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