Another Mass Shooting in the Good Ol' USA

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Why Are White Men Stockpiling Guns?
Research suggests it's largely because they're anxious about their ability to protect their families, insecure about their place in the job market and beset by racial fears.

My personal research suggests that it's all about penis size fears (racial and otherwise). White American men would be better served spending their money on a good penile implant than on some fucking gun.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by BigElCat

Some times they do, bro. Doug Schroeder, a small town police chief knew this perp personally. Knew he was shooting everybody in sight with an AK-47. Ran him down and shot him dead (IIRC with a pump shotgun, or maybe an AR rifle).

I saw this poster and it immediately reminded me of my personal experiences with coppers and their reactions to "possible man with a gun" incidents. It's just anecdotal evidence of course, but my experience as a mental health profession is that most of our beliefs and most of our character is based on our personal experience. I can't tell you how many men, but it was a whole bunch of them, who came in to counseling pissed off at the world, aggressive and often violent with their own kids and wives/girlfriends, and others, self-destructive with lousy impulse control, who...when we addressed the brutality of their own fathers, would say something like...

"Oh hell...if my old man hadn't beaten my ass I would be dead or in prison now."

OK...nevermind.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Since you've chosen to get so specific:
1. Raise purchase age to 21 (he was 18 as was the kid in Buffalo).
2. Red flag law (he showed self-destructive and violent signs like self-mutilation).
3. Forbid autoloading firearms and limit magazine capacity to 5 rounds (federal law already restricts magazine capacity to 3 rounds to hunt migratory game birds (ducks, geese, doves and they're harder to hit than humans)).
4. In keeping with strict conservative constitutional originalism, restrict unlimited firearms access to flintlocks only (I'm joking here, but conservatives always insist adamantly upon originalism).

Originally Posted by BigElCat

Now this is sensible. All this military-like crap in the hands of the US public is the work of the devil.

I'm open to negotiation, I'll keep my mag fed AR shotgun. Turn in the mags over 5 rounds.

All the stuff in Finn's list is good stuff. Number 4 may be tongue in cheek, but accurate nonetheless. The constitutional originalism amongst American cons is amongst the most hypocritical of their blather. And number 3 would just about do it.

Auto-loading is the problem. But magazine loading, even limited to 3 or 5 rounds...that's three or five children dead, and a magazine can be pit out and replaced in 3 to 5 seconds, so then it's six to ten dead children, nine to fifteen dead children, etc., etc. Nope...no magazine loaded weapons. And since all handguns outside of muzzle loaded flintlocks are auto-loading firearms (revolvers auto-load), handguns should be forbidden as well. If you want a long barreled hunting rifle or shotgun single shot. If you're a hunter who knows how to shoot, and if you're a hunter with a conscience, you don't take a shot unless you know it's going to take down the game. Break down shotguns and single shot hunting rifles are all one needs when they're out to kill something.

Red-flag laws should be in place...but making red-flag laws and expanded background checks the end-all for this problem, like certain cons are suggesting? Nope. Red-flag laws and expanded background checks considering the extent of this problem, is like trying to patch a crack in the Hoover Dam with a wad of Juicyfruit gum.

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

My personal research suggests that it's all about penis size fears (racial and otherwise). White American men would be better served spending their money on a good penile implant than on some fucking gun.

But then you couldn't gather around with other W-A-M and wave your penile implants around without having your manhood being called into question.

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by RickeyM

Four People Killed in Shooting at Tulsa Medical Center



Waiting for some idiot Repube to call for arming hospital workers now.

It's been reported that the shooter who went there to kill his doctor, and anyone that got in his way, bought his weapon right before going to the hospital to kill him. Maybe this shooting could have been avoided if there was a so-called cooling off period between going to order a rifle and actually taking possession of it like with hand guns?

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by RickeyM

It's been reported that the shooter who went there to kill his doctor, and anyone that got in his way, bought his weapon right before going to the hospital to kill him. Maybe this shooting could have been avoided if there was a so-called cooling off period between going to order a rifle and actually taking possession of it like with hand guns?

IMHO, cooling off period is another bandaid on a severed head intervention.

[Oerets]

The gun lobby knows and fears what steps are needed to lesson this carnage.

Thinking by doing little to nothing will somehow continue to work. Not ever thinking the tide may turn in the populace feelings. Restrictions once considered mild to be replaced by extreme ones because of all the rage.

The new approach of going after the manufacturers for targeting kids may be a start. Put them at jeopardy of settlements by victims. Hit them where it hurt$.....

[Chicks]

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In a move that could tip the scales in the war against Russia, U.S. President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky have reached an agreement to ship Americans’ four hundred million firearms to Ukraine.

“The Second Amendment calls for a well-regulated militia necessary to secure a free state,” Biden said. “I can’t think of a better description of what’s going on in Ukraine right now.”

Zelensky said that he welcomed the transfer of armaments to Ukraine, but expressed surprise that the cache included more than twenty million assault rifles.

“We, of course, could really use military-style weapons, because we were invaded by Russia,” he said. “But why on earth did so many Americans have them? Were they afraid of being invaded by Canada?”

[BigElCat]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

And since all handguns outside of muzzle loaded flintlocks are auto-loading firearms (revolvers auto-load), handguns should be forbidden as well.

Well, you're wrong on this point. Revolvers don't auto-load, with the exception of a few collector items.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_revolver

And, if I may borrow your 'style' of logic; since you're wrong about this, that means you're wrong about everything. Therefore, everyone should be required to carry a handgun.

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by BigElCat

Well, you're wrong on this point. Revolvers don't auto-load, with the exception of a few collector items.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_revolver

And, if I may borrow your 'style' of logic; since you're wrong about this, that means you're wrong about everything. Therefore, everyone should be required to carry a handgun.

Double-action does, single-action not without thumb.