Yet another mass shooting - grim

Home of the brave yet a huge black pick up truck could have taken the shooter out but sped off.
 
I'm in Texas right now coming home tomorrow at last, if you don't hear from me in 48 hours love and best wishes to you all, see you on the other side
 
So part of their society that it's expected and accepted now.
Just another reason to dislike the USA and what they have become.
 
My brother, and his family, live in Colorado, but previously California since 1968. Colorado citizens can carry guns on the street if concealed but some states allow guns to be carried on show. There are more guns in the hands of private individuals than there are men, women and children in the US. My niece and her husband have a loaded 9mm Glock on top of their fridge, in case of intruders. When we visited, a few years ago, they couldn't understand why we didn't want to visit and be shown around a state of the art weapons shop. It's a strange culture and their "Right to bear arms" dates back to the Constitution where it was conceived to defend against the armies of King George III, in the War of Independence 250 years ago, and will never change.

#UTB
 
Mass shootings account for only 1% of gun deaths in the usa.
Every year in the area of 18.5k children are shot in the us. 3.5k die from those injuries.

More children get shot in the usa every year, than servicemen. The death toll for Iraq and Afghanistan up to 2019 was just 7k.

Children die, by orders of magnitude, at a higher rate than soldiers.
 
Alan_Breck said:
Colorado citizens can carry guns on the street if concealed but some states allow guns to be carried on show.
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That’s no Longer the case though as the NRA challenge to state law basically opens up the whole of the us now.

www.bloomberg.com

Supreme Court Opens Path to More Guns in Public in Big US Cities

A divided US Supreme Court struck down a New York law that limited who could carry a handgun in public, issuing a landmark ruling that could mean more guns on the streets of big cities even as officials vowed to try limit the impact.
www.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com
 
Alan_Breck said:
their "Right to bear arms" dates back to the Constitution
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Btw it doesn’t as the right to bear arms has nothing to do with the constitution it’s called the second amendment for a reason it was added on after.

“The Constitution was written and signed in 1787. It was a charter of government that came to be ratified by the states, and it continues to be the supreme law of the land.”

The bill of rights was ratified in 1791… 4 years later.


Jim jefferies jokes it called an amendment for a reason so it can be amended.
 
The actual data on the amount of firearms in the US is somewhere between 350m-400m(estimates being around 1.31 firearms per person). To put that into perspective if they banned guns and between 3995 and 4566 guns where taken out of circulation every day it would take 240 years(the amount of time since USA gained independence) to rid the country of guns.
 
Btw it’s also a myth that these can’t be removed. As they did just that in 1930’s

“The Eighteenth Amendment (Amendment XVIII) to the United States Constitution established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States. The amendment was proposed by Congress on December 18, 1917, and was ratified by the requisite number of states on January 16, 1919. The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment on December 5, 1933—it is the only amendment to be repealed.“
 
Druss_The_Legend said:
The actual data on the amount of firearms in the US is somewhere between 350m-400m(estimates being around 1.31 firearms per person). To put that into perspective if they banned guns and between 3995 and 4566 guns where taken out of circulation every day it would take 240 years(the amount of time since USA gained independence) to rid the country of guns.
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Oh the genie is well and truly out of the bottle now as you say it’s too far gone.

I’ve mentioned this before but my friend in the us and they published a gun ownership map in her area as part of a disclosure thing and she was shocked to see she was the only house in her area with out a gun.

They scrapped the policy after it was said burglars could use it to target houses without guns as an easier location.

Here’s the article

 
Jedi boro said:
Btw it doesn’t as the right to bear arms has nothing to do with the constitution it’s called the second amendment for a reason it was added on after.

Jim jefferies jokes it called an amendment for a reason so it can be amended.
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It can be amended but the US constitution set a high bar to do so.

2/3's of each of the House & Senate have to propose the amendment & then it has to be ratified by 3/4's of the States.

Meanwhile the Republicans & NRA are busy campaigning against any restrictions at all and being supported by the Trump appointed nutters to the Supreme Court.

I can't see anything changing until the absurdity of the current laws is brought home to the right by a mass shooting that directly impacts the Republican Party / NRA.

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