Nashville Primary School shooting

It was New York State's laws on carrying which were overruled.

Had a quick scan of an article about it & it states:
In his June opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that law-abiding citizens have the right “to carry handguns publicly for their self-defense.” He allowed for the possibility of restrictions on that right, but said that any rules would have to be justified with analogies to regulations that were in place in early American history.

So the US Supreme Court is no longer filled with the best legal minds reconsidering the legal decisions of lower courts and tribunals ensuring the law is correctly applied, and that the legal limits on the powers of public institutions are followed but instead filled with mystics reading runes and trying to imagine what a bunch of 18th century slave owners meant when they said:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Which as @Liamo says is apparently...
guns [into] the hands of domestic abusers, felony defendants and people who use marijuana, guns with serial numbers removed and guns ... for young adults in Texas and ... possession of homemade “ghost guns.”
 
I don't disagree with your sentiment but I do feel that they would even choose to fight fire with fire instead and crazily buy even more guns as a reaction.
That's exactly what has happened repeatedly. Whenever a new school shooting occurs in the US, people go out and buy more guns.

Why do US gun sales increase after school shootings?

As this article states, after various school shootings:

... the reaction among many Americans who support the constitutional right to bear arms is to buy more, statistics suggest.

Even more reprehensibly, as also mentioned:

The firearms industry has also been known to use mass shootings as a marketing tool ...
 
I wouldn't say it is a horrible country, it just has some horrible people in it.

We all know the gun laws need changing but it brings in too much money for politicians to act and the NRA is a powerful organisation.
Yes your right Norman, I should have worded it better. I'm actually going to the states in October with Nashville being one of our stop off points.
 
This is just mind-blowing. How is this normal or sane in any way, shape or form?
It isn't is it?

It's basically a cult. That's the Christmas card of a cult.

One thing to take the view guns are a necessary evil, however misguided that view is. It's another altogether to glorify them and put them in the hands of kids.

Frightening.
 
This is last year's Christmas card from Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles, a Republican who represents the district that Covenant School is in in Nashville.

There is absolutely no political will to change the system to protect people from harm from gun violence.

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No words!!!

I reckon American's think The Purge films are some sort of docuseries or gameshow.

I just cant get my head around it
 
These episodes make me feel empty ..and void of hope for the future of this earth...
As a species we are utterly deplorable but the virus of child shooting and murder goes back centuries... child sacrifices etc..
But wtf is it with people wanting to murder innocent children.
It makes my stomach turn and puts football....debt....and other such matters appear irrelevant.
 
Yes your right Norman, I should have worded it better. I'm actually going to the states in October with Nashville being one of our stop off points.

Nashville is great, a real fun city. The Gulch is a pretty cool area, and if you're into music then be sure to pop into Jack White's Third Man Records.
 
It’s the price they have to pay for.. Democracy? - out of two candidates the one with the fewest votes can be president. Freedom? - highest prison rates in the world. Justice? - private prisons run for profit. Truth? - where do I start..
 
The US will never ban guns so I wonder if the only way they can begin to tackle this is through the pocket. Why not make the arms manufacturers and retailers liable for compensating victims of gun crime? That will do two things, it will incentivise them to want stringent background checks performed on people before they sell to them I'd have thought and it will push prices up massively, which will price people out of the market eventually.
 
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