Yesterday, the first thing I heard on the news was some axxhole in California killed ten and wounded ten more. What? There have been 33 mass killings in the USA since January 1st. There is an answer to this madness, but no political will to apply it. There are more firearms in the USA than people. Hunh?! Did you know that the gunman in the California murder spree was disarmed by a guy who wrestled him for over a minute and a half till he got the gun? It doesn’t always take a good guy with a gun to end a shooting, just a good and decent person with the resolve to do the right thing.
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To those of you outside the USA, the whole business of the Second Amendment and unchecked firearm murders is a mystery that defies commonsense and understanding. Here’s a look at that issue. It still makes no sense after reading it, but I guarantee I, as an American, don’t get it either. Australia and New Zealand figured it out, but that solution would cause fits and insurrection if applied here.
Second Amendment | Text, Meaning, Definition, & History | Britannica
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Mr Andy looks just as shocked as we all are.
It is beyond me. The answer is in Washington, and it looks like the next two years one branch is in the hands of residents of the asylum.
I am with you on that, dear friend.
I try to avoid politics here, but when they report 40 mass killings so far in January, I can’t help but think Congress is negligent – and paid for by the NRA and other pro-gun entities.
I also try to avoid politics here, but I am horrified.
Me, too. I don’t feel safer because here are more guns than people in the US.
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Please can I get your google account to know more about ourselves?
Look at the top of my posts. “Who I am” is about me, in fairly expanded detail.
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This is really so tragic and sad news… I hate all guns/weapons, etc. In my country, everyday day starts with this kind of news… The additional note for us, there is drug behind all events/ I mean murderers using drug… This is a new for us, so many things going badly… I think weapons/guns to be stopped to buy and to use… Also this kind of films, series, even games too… People are being affected. Can you believe this, just a few months ago a student, in elemantary school, injured her friend… This subject is a big problem and very important, world should discuss this… and we should put a good and nice stories to the young and youngest students…. They learn more than we expect or we want… But they don’t learn what is good…. what is right. Sad news, dear Doug, Andy understands us I think… Thank you, Love, nia
I am sick of hearing about even one more mass murder. Even after I put this together, one more person died, making the killing total 11. Then, some other person shat and killed more people in California.
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The news gets worse every day. This world in general is in a real crisis. Our species may have a limited time here.
I grew up down the street from a little boy who later on as an adult killed a number of co-workers and them himself. The shooting was many, many years ago, and even then, shootings were becoming more common. The little boy I knew was a gentle soul, who would pick up bumblebees in his hand to pet them. He loved animals, and life of all kinds. God only knows what happens to people that warps them to do such things. I still cannot reconcile the images of the little boy I knew and the photo in the newspaper from that day.
I am baffled by the way a mind can be turned to murder on a mass scale.
Amen!
Andy has the perfect expression in response to the news!!
“Whom the gods wish to destroyt, they first make mad.”
Indeed!
it is so sad to see how our world goes down to the abyss…;((((
I agree.
Bending the meaning of the constitution to suit what one wants to do is surely the problem
That and the fact that laws would be more effective if enacted at the national level, something that never happens because of big money from gun interests.
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Salute to the courageous person who disarmed the shooter….Thanks for sharing.
Indeed. What a courageous man. Many lives were saved by his action!
May God Bless America, Doug. 😭🙏🏻✝️❤️
IMO There’s a huge difference in a “well-regulated militia” and making guns easily available to everyone regardless of mental health. The world has changed, stress levels have increased, and legislators need to recognize that.
Oops, that was a reply to Doug’s post and not to any one commenter.
They need to get one thing straight: America is sick of this blood bath and their inability to respond to it with mor than “”thoughts and prayers”.
Going down the drain, sadly. Can’t even govern itself.
Nope, thanks to people voting for liberals. I’m sad for my country.
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Why dear
Looking at the current class of Republicans in the Congress, I’m inclined to see the problem is on the far right.