OK, when 45,000 people die from pencil stabbings every year, then I'll be the first to call for pencil control.
Good one.
OK, when 45,000 people die from pencil stabbings every year, then I'll be the first to call for pencil control.
A concrete thinker would easily believe that inanimate objects are the problem. Do you also read your horoscope? Go to a palm reader to tell you your fate as written in the stars or your hand?
Good one.
That's not the actual problem because people commit suicide and kill each other IN EVERY STATE, at rates FAR HIGHER than in CA.
The actual problem are the guns.

OK, when 45,000 people die from pencil stabbings every year, then I'll be the first to call for pencil control.

Another racist white lib that wants to ban law abiding Black Americans from legally owning firearms.![]()
And when 100,000 Americans die from fentanyl ... you say keep the border open.
When young girls are hacked to death with machetes ... you say keep the border open.
When they are sex trafficked ... you say keep the border open.
So what is your idea for helping to reduce mass-shootings?
Assuming you have one.
And when 100,000 Americans die from fentanyl ... you say keep the border open.
When young girls are hacked to death with machetes ... you say keep the border open.
When they are sex trafficked ... you say keep the border open.
lot's of minorities in New York City and Los Angeles but they don't seem to be skewing the overall statewide homicide statistics to levels seen in Missouri.St. Louis, Mo. has a homicide rate of over 60. They have had democrat mayors for over 70 years. It is the murder capital of the U.S. because of white libs.
Better mental healthcare. It's easy to see who's doing most of the shootings. Considering there's twice as many gun suicides as murders, the low-hanging fruit is to treat the causes of most suicides. Have you noticed that most mass shooters are suicidal? They're literally going out with a bang.
Treat the mental illness, usually depression in their cases, and the shooting will never happen. Sure, raise age requirements. Upgrade background checks...the same system would be used by employers and renters to verify a person is a legal resident.* <-- a Twofer!
Note, too, that most of these suicidal mass shooters telegraphed their intentions to the entire fucking planet via social media. Why was nothing done until it was too late? Where's the political support there?
Nikolas Cruz was a known nutjob. Why didn't his medical plan cover an annual mental health check? Especially after, as the cops knew, a mental health episode?
If a person has a heart attack, do the cops just send them home...or is the person taken to the hospital? It's not just a matter of separating nutjobs from guns, which should be done. It's mainly a matter of treating all nutjobs before they are a danger to themselves or others.
If Democrats really wanted to save lives, why don't they give a shit about this more than they do guns?** Let's not forget, they'd not only be saving about 10K murder victims and 20K suicide by firearms victims but also the other 20K suicides who used a necktie on a doorknob, drug OD or cut themselves in a warm tub with a warm drink.
Over 50K dead Americans annually related to mental illness and the Democrat solution is the same one they've had since 1992: Ban guns.
Now tell me it's all the fault of the Republicans. LOL
*Not the law of unintended consequences. Just the lack of foresight by concrete headed idiots only looking at the present, not the future....or maybe it's the LW backdoor into stopping indentured servitude in the US? Who knows?
**Their priorities are telegraphed for all to see just like the Republican priorities. Republicans refuse to move in a direction of better mental healthcare...probably because they'd lose too many voters. LOL
I'm still trying to figure out if BigDog is just a troll typing one-handed or if he's a bitter, demented geezer. Lately, I've been leaning toward the latter. He seems too far gone to know the difference.lot's of minorities in New York City and Los Angeles but they don't seem to be skewing the overall statewide homicide statistics to levels seen in Missouri.St. Louis, Mo. has a homicide rate of over 60. They have had democrat mayors for over 70 years. It is the murder capital of the U.S. because of white libs.
So your logic is that black people in Red states are to
blame for high murder rates in those states, and white people in Red states are massively depressed and suicidal, explaining the extremely high gun mortality in those states
The data thus indicate that high murder rates tend to accompany high levels of inequality in the distribution of income. It is suggested that anomie serves as the key link between the two variables because of the significance of income distribution for social norms according to the value orientation of industrial societies. While the basic value commitments in industrial societies restrict the range of legitimate inequality, the objective levels of inequality exceed them in reality. This discrepancy between socially induced expectations concerning income distribution and actual patterns of distribution undermines general respect for social rules and regulations. This breakdown in the normative order is reflected in the high murder rates of industrial nations with high levels of income inequality.
Well, thought out.
And I never said it was Repub's fault.
Nor did I say I agree with the Dems ideas on this.
However, you are excluding the fact that it is MEGA EASY to acquire hand guns on the black market.
The Virginia Tech shooter killed 33 - using just two, semi-automatic pistols.
Unless you are talking about shootings like the Vegas Shooter?
Rifles are NOT necessary for most, mass shootings.
And 3D printed guns are already a thing.
With 3D printers getting cheaper every year.
They will just get easier and easier to manufacture.
https://legionary.com/3d-printed-guns-in-2021-everything-you-need-to-know/
https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-3d-printers
Beefing up background checks or raising wait times will eventually be meaningless.
When almost anyone will be able to 3D print a gun.
There is nothing wrong with the mental health angle.
Power to it.
But unless you plan on locking up everyone who seems suicidal - in case they might, 3d print a gun and go on a rampage?
Trying to tackle the mental health angle won't stop, mass shootings either.
Sorry, there was no intention to blame you. My intention was to point out the political party trends.
So what if guns are available by vending machine? The problem is that all of these mass shootings are by nutjobs...and nobody gives a shit until
they shoot someone.
Why do you jump to the extreme of locking up anyone who is suicidal? The mass shooters didn't wake up one day as a nutjob. They started becoming sick and only got sicker until they committed murder. No one did a damn thing to stop them.
Thanks for denying better mental health care is a solution. Carry on.![]()
(1) make it illegal for anyone - police, MSM, anyone - to post ANY details of mass shooters (assuming they are caught, right away).
The bloody, moronic cops? Posting the names and details of these mass shooters after they are dead/in custody is pure idiocy.
We know that many, mass shooters do it for attention.
To go down in history.
Remove that from them...you remove some of their reason to commit them.
(2) give every teacher in America a federal, bonus pay if they agree to carry a concealed weapon at school.
Even buy them a gun and a training course to properly use it.
However, they MUST carry the gun EVERY DAY in class.
And they MUST carry it concealed.
(3) pass a federal law giving a legal 'carry permit' to EVERY, American, legal gun owner.
In every state.
And even give income tax reductions to these gun owners who can prove that they ARE carrying their guns concealed (they MUST be concealed - for obvious reasons).
For a minimum number of days per month/year.
Wrong. I'm stating that gun control laws as they are today do little or nothing to prevent such shootings. Adding more won't fix the problem as the problem is people, not guns. But for politicians, controlling people is much harder than controlling guns so those politicians take the easy way out.