Neither will the topic. Thanks for trying.Doctor CamNC4Me wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 12:55 pmI read a thing yesterday; there are nearly 400,000,000 firearms in the US. This won’t get fixed.
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I give.
Neither will the topic. Thanks for trying.Doctor CamNC4Me wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 12:55 pmI read a thing yesterday; there are nearly 400,000,000 firearms in the US. This won’t get fixed.
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From Yahoo:Jersey Girl wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 9:43 pmNeither will the topic. Thanks for trying.Doctor CamNC4Me wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 12:55 pmI read a thing yesterday; there are nearly 400,000,000 firearms in the US. This won’t get fixed.
- Doc
I give.
I know it’s tough to stay on track when Low Hanging Fruit does his drive-by’s, but I saw this and thought you might find it interesting with regard to Hale’s thought process. I suspect now Hale had a fantasy of doing a sort of commando type first-person shooter action, where one would empty the magazine of a weapon, drop it, and unholster the next weapon for a fairly uninterrupted shooting spree. This lets me know Hale didn’t feel comfortable unloading and loading a magazine. I also suspect Hale screwed up loading the mags, and chambering rounds in the first place, since so much time went by and so few rounds were expended. Perhaps Hale got a jam and simply dropped the weapon; I’d be surprised if any of the weapons were properly oiled and ready to be fired.The shooter's parents thought Hale had recently sold his only gun, but Hale had in fact legally purchased seven firearms from five different local gun shops, Drake said.
Hmmm. Maybe THIS is the answer. Planned obsolescence. Gun companies get to sell more guns that degrade too fast to be useful so they can sell even more. TikTok posers and political campaigns can buy largely useless firearms in quantity to parade around and push the weird button buying a gun seems to activate for some folks. And they don't really work for killing so one unhealthy culture is constrained by another.Doctor CamNC4Me wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 12:08 amPerhaps Hale got a jam and simply dropped the weapon; I’d be surprised if any of the weapons were properly oiled and ready to be fired.
A country ran by men who speak in stream-of-idiot-consciousness.Some Schmo wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 7:24 amSeriously, I would love all the idiot MAGAtes to form their own country just to watch how spectacularly it failed, from all the selfishness and whiny damned bastards fighting over stupid, made up crap with nobody there to be reasonable.
I'd give it two weeks, assuming the majority of the guns went with them. It would basically be a country full of prison inmates. How fun for them. You prop up cameras in strategic locations and you've got the reality crap show of a lifetime. Full retard arena brawl. Pop your popcorn now!
Wait, there’d be no need for firearms and open carry in the New Confederacy, right? After all, everyone would be of the same honest, Christian law-abiding mindset, with all of the miscreants and evil criminal libtards left behind in the old US. So what would one need their EC for?Some Schmo wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 7:24 amSeriously, I would love all the idiot MAGAtes to form their own country just to watch how spectacularly it failed, from all the selfishness and whiny damned bastards fighting over stupid, made up crap with nobody there to be reasonable.
I'd give it two weeks, assuming the majority of the guns went with them. It would basically be a country full of prison inmates. How fun for them. You prop up cameras in strategic locations and you've got the reality crap show of a lifetime. Full retard arena brawl. Pop your popcorn now!
Well, Marjorie Green and Lauren Boebert would live there, two gun fetish morons on the same "side" who already don't get along.canpakes wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 1:13 pmWait, there’d be no need for firearms and open carry in the New Confederacy, right? After all, everyone would be of the same honest, Christian law-abiding mindset, with all of the miscreants and evil criminal libtards left behind in the old US. So what would one need their EC for?
For a moment there, I thought you were describing one of the posters here.
I’ll keep trying. I was thinking about this year’s # of mass shootings https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/repo ... s-shooting and I want to say it’s not looking great https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/past-tolls given our numbers. But I do think there are, in fact, underlying issues I think I can at least try to suss out.Jersey Girl wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 9:43 pmNeither will the topic. Thanks for trying.Doctor CamNC4Me wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 12:55 pmI read a thing yesterday; there are nearly 400,000,000 firearms in the US. This won’t get fixed.
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I give.
I appreciate seeing your views and analysis of this issue, but I am very far from convinced that the underlying issues and problems you listed are significantly less prevalent or problematic in other countries with far less gun violence than our own. The one difference that is overwhelmingly and incontrovertibly enormous between the USA and other developed countries with much lower gun violence and mass shooting incidents is the availability of firearms and the comparative weakness or lack of regulations concerning gun ownership and safety. I don't think it is either honest or reasonable to dismiss that as the primary cause of the enormous disparity between us and other nations concerning the prevalence of gun violence and mass shootings. Certainly the claim that adding even more guns to the equation, while at the same time weakening existing gun regulations or repealing them altogether, will somehow only make us all safer, as many conservatives seem to be arguing, is insane!Doctor CamNC4Me wrote: ↑Sat Apr 01, 2023 7:15 pmI’ll keep trying. I was thinking about this year’s # of mass shootings https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/repo ... s-shooting and I want to say it’s not looking great https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/past-tolls given our numbers. But I do think there are, in fact, underlying issues I think I can at least try to suss out.
Obviously there are glaring differences between us, the US, and other countries where mass shootings are rare to non-existent. I think the actual problem, guns aside, is more insidious and subtle. So, here’s my Big Reveal:
Americans are stressed out. Shocker, I know.
The kind of stress I’m talking about is more of a character trait. And we’re fearful which feeds into stress. And it’s a low-key fear every single day. I think this stress, fed by fear, causes some of us to just snap. Here in the US, it seems to be a normal state of affairs, to be so stressed that it’s normalized.
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