US school shootings double in a year to reach historic high

Oscillator said:
More and more guns. We have the highest per capita rate of gun ownership of any developed nation on earth by a wide margin. That means there are more guns laying around that can be diverted to (stolen or sold) people who wish to do harm. This is emboldened by the last couple of decades of NRA lobbying to halt any meaningful gun legislation to protect people and a rise of the type of gun owner who fetishizes these things as opposed to using them as a tool.
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so your explanation of why there are so many more school shootings is that guns turned people mentally ill and evil????? did they change the way they manufacture guns? did they find some new evil metal to make them out of?
 
Oscillator said:
The fact of the matter is: we have ZERO evidence that our massive gun ownership levels make us safer.
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I hear this a lot from anti gun nuts, yet they can't ignore the fact that when government feels it needs to be safer, they bring in more guns..........why is that? and why can't you see that it does work that way for civilians?
 
domer76 said:
Cherry picking. Just remove all males and the rate goes down even more.

White males females and all of the races combined is nowhere near the black murder rate not even close!!!
Stupid fuck with a high school education.
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If you combine white males in all of the races combined... It's still nowhere close to the black murder rate
 
NiftyNiblick said:
If we're being honest, I have not studied the profiles of school shooters.
Also, as you know, I'm not an anti-gun zealot, although I was opposed to the repeal of the Brady law.

My actual concern about the NRA is that it's politically a far right organization,
and if it's not directly encouraging the school massacres,
it's not discouraging them either.
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At its first meeting after Parkland, the NRA draws attention to mass shootings

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2018/05/politics/nra-convention-trnd-cnnphotos/




The NRA says its Houston convention will 'reflect on' the Uvalde school shooting

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/26/1101616818/nra-convention-uvalde-school-shooting
 
NiftyNiblick said:
If we're being honest, I have not studied the profiles of school shooters.
Also, as you know, I'm not an anti-gun zealot, although I was opposed to the repeal of the Brady law.

My actual concern about the NRA is that it's politically a far right organization,
and if it's not directly encouraging the school massacres,
it's not discouraging them either.
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Most school shooters are under 25. Apparently we were taught something different because we didn't shoot up schools.

It's not necessarily right wing, it's just most who support the 2nd. Amendment are on the right.
We NRA members hate seeing these kids shooting other kids. We are a gun safety organization.
 
RB 60 said:
Most school shooters are under 25. Apparently we were taught something different because we didn't shoot up schools.

It's not necessarily right wing, it's just most who support the 2nd. Amendment are on the right.
We NRA members hate seeing these kids shooting other kids. We are a gun safety organization.
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The NRA has always been a gun safety organization,
a wildlife preserving organization,
and a Bill of Rights protecting organization, Arby.

They were largely respected.

Then we started to see and hear their leadership at The Conservative Political Action Conference

and saw that they were batshit crazy people who seriously needed to be institutionalized.

That changed everything, I'm afraid.
 
NiftyNiblick said:
The NRA has always been a gun safety organization,
a wildlife preserving organization,
and a Bill of Rights protecting organization, Arby.

They were largely respected.

Then we started to see and hear their leadership at The Conservative Political Action Conference

and saw that they were batshit crazy people who seriously needed to be institutionalized.

That changed everything, I'm afraid.
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Didn't they get rid of those corrupt assholes?

99.9% of the membership are good people pushing safe and responsible gun ownership, even if you disagree with our politics.


As for the hating, that comes from the anti-gun zealots.
 
RB 60 said:
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As for the hating, that comes from the anti-gun zealots.
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Well, despite my position on para-military weapons, I'm otherwise not one of those.

I had fun target shooting with my friends when I was a teenager.
We had places to shoot less than a half-hour outside of the city.
I assume that we still do.

Most Bostonians only bitch about M-16 and AK-47 type stuff.
That will still piss off most 2nd Amendment enthusiasts, however.
 
NiftyNiblick said:
Well, despite my position on para-military weapons, I'm otherwise not one of those.

I had fun target shooting with my friends when I was a teenager.
We had places to shoot less than a half-hour outside of the city.
I assume that we still do.

Most Bostonians only bitch about M-16 and AK-47 type stuff.
That will still piss off most 2nd Amendment enthusiasts, however.
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I recently sold my M1-A and the 2 clips/magazines I had with it (I made $800) to one of the guys in my gun club. He, like I did, has been shooting it in the club's .30 Cal. league and plans to use it for serious competitions. The only reason I really bought it was to make a few bucks on it. If I were younger and still into the competitions, I'd surely have kept it for that.
 
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