Georgia School Shooting

bob22 said:
It's not just music and rap culture. They are glorified period. Magazines, web sites, tv shows, YouTube videos , social media all devoted to the glorification of the gun.
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Yes, have been since Hollywood was created. Ever hear of the tv show Gunsmoke called that for a reason and today you have the John Wick movies where people count the dead bodies as they pile up, it is who we are just having to live with the consequences (mentally ill with guns).
 
wolves82 said:
There are always several factors to blame: Mental health, poor parenting, social media influencing weak minds, the proliferation of easy-access weapons in the country. Blaming this 100% on any of these factors is foolish. But totally resolving any of these factors of blame is equally ignorant.

Yes, people kill people. But people with guns kill more people than people without guns. Mentally ill people with easy access to guns kill the most people. This is not complicated.

Why anyone would be opposed to common sense gun regulations is beyond me. You need to be registered and pass a test to drive a car. You need to be registered to vote. Why would it be so bad to force registration to own a weapon? Why would any sane person think a background check for a gun purchase is a problem? Why does anyone need an automatic rifle? Just a few common sense regulations would help slow down the insanity that we are witnessing.

Had it been done decades ago, as it should have been, the climate would be much different. Government (both parties) have been failing us for decades on this topic. Yet you all sit here staunchly defending the a-holes from your chosen party. It is inexplicable.
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Eventually you go to the point of what you would like...more gun control.

Nobody needs and nobody has an automatic rifle.
 
There is a societal component at play too. Everyone is told, from a very young age, how special they are and how important they are individually and that they are owed happiness and anything that makes them happy is okay. We used to have bigger families and were far more communal and community oriented as a society. More of a collective of us, all doing our little part as individuals to advance the communal causes. Yes, we’ve always prided our rugged individualism, but it was typically celebrated when it was used to benefit the many.

We are now isolating ourselves more than ever and it has definitely hurt society. You don’t typically see kids shooting up schools that are heavy into athletics, activities and belong to big families. It’s almost always the introverted loners who also have heard how special they are as an individual, but they aren’t feeling it from anyone. Some of them succumb to the need for notariety, or jealousy of those who are happy with life, and act out in rage.
 
Stirred not Shaken said:
Because our individual freedoms should not be dictated by a few mentally deranged individuals. America is not like the rest of the world very few other countries except maybe for Mexico has the gun ownership that the USA has. "We" tamed America with the gun in one hand and the bible in the other, guns are a big part of American history, it is who we are. I don't want the gov. to infringe on my ability to own any type of gun, put the crazies away, this kid had mental issues should have been locked up but that is not happening so.... wait till the next mass shooting as unfortunate as that is.
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Sadly, we never know who the crazies are until they do something like this. How would you propose we solve for that? Or do we just wait and clean up the mess afterward?

Does it really infringe one's freedoms to have a background check and a registration process before becoming a gun owner? Do you even give a second thought to your freedoms when your auto tags expire and you must renew them, or when you get that new driver's license? Come on now...

I am not suggesting that anyone lose their guns. I grew up hunting and have a secured handgun at home for protection. I still see no rationale for owning an AR / AK; those are weapons with one obvious purpose. Primarily I am suggesting controls on the front end. If you have a gun at home, have your registration there. If you have concealed carry, you must also carry your permit and gun registration, just like you have your drivers license and registration with your proof of insurance in the car. Simple. It is for the good of us all.

And yes, I know, the criminals will not follow the process. Caught with an unregistered gun, gun gets confiscated, you go to jail. Selling an unregistered gun, you go to jail. Common sense stuff. If the politicians had acted on this 20+ years ago as they should have, it would be a much better society today.
 
Irwin20 said:
Brings back memories. I went to HS 25 miles east of Pittsburgh. Come October/ November you always saw a few pickups in the school lot with rifles on a rack behind the front seat. No one thought twice about it.
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We had a rotary wall phone in the mud room, with a cord Mom had sprung out from stretching to all corners of the kitchen, and a corded phone in the living room that could reach the dining room table.

No shooting in my video games.

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I was expected to clean my .22 rifle if I went plinking, which I was permitted to do unsupervised after 6th grade.
 
wolves82 said:
Sadly, we never know who the crazies are until they do something like this. How would you propose we solve for that? Or do we just wait and clean up the mess afterward?

Does it really infringe one's freedoms to have a background check and a registration process before becoming a gun owner? Do you even give a second thought to your freedoms when your auto tags expire and you must renew them, or when you get that new driver's license? Come on now...

I am not suggesting that anyone lose their guns. I grew up hunting and have a secured handgun at home for protection. I still see no rationale for owning an AR / AK; those are weapons with one obvious purpose. Primarily I am suggesting controls on the front end. If you have a gun at home, have your registration there. If you have concealed carry, you must also carry your permit and gun registration, just like you have your drivers license and registration with your proof of insurance in the car. Simple. It is for the good of us all.

And yes, I know, the criminals will not follow the process. Caught with an unregistered gun, gun gets confiscated, you go to jail. Selling an unregistered gun, you go to jail. Common sense stuff. If the politicians had acted on this 20+ years ago as they should have, it would be a much better society today.
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What good is a background check if it doesn’t even catch drug abuse and felony records, allowing Hunter Biden to sail through his?
 
cjb5656 said:
There is a societal component at play too. Everyone is told, from a very young age, how special they are and how important they are individually and that they are owed happiness and anything that makes them happy is okay. We used to have bigger families and were far more communal and community oriented as a society. More of a collective of us, all doing our little part as individuals to advance the communal causes. Yes, we’ve always prided our rugged individualism, but it was typically celebrated when it was used to benefit the many.

We are now isolating ourselves more than ever and it has definitely hurt society. You don’t typically see kids shooting up schools that are heavy into athletics, activities and belong to big families. It’s almost always the introverted loners who also have heard how special they are as an individual, but they aren’t feeling it from anyone. Some of them succumb to the need for notariety, or jealousy of those who are happy with life, and act out in rage.
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Yeah. We pretty much know they are isolated, dejected, and hopeless loners. What are we gonna do about it? Wishing everybody was the Cleaver clan will not solve sh_t.
 
wolves82 said:
Sadly, we never know who the crazies are until they do something like this. How would you propose we solve for that? Or do we just wait and clean up the mess afterward?

Does it really infringe one's freedoms to have a background check and a registration process before becoming a gun owner? Do you even give a second thought to your freedoms when your auto tags expire and you must renew them, or when you get that new driver's license? Come on now...

I am not suggesting that anyone lose their guns. I grew up hunting and have a secured handgun at home for protection. I still see no rationale for owning an AR / AK; those are weapons with one obvious purpose. Primarily I am suggesting controls on the front end. If you have a gun at home, have your registration there. If you have concealed carry, you must also carry your permit and gun registration, just like you have your drivers license and registration with your proof of insurance in the car. Simple. It is for the good of us all.

And yes, I know, the criminals will not follow the process. Caught with an unregistered gun, gun gets confiscated, you go to jail. Selling an unregistered gun, you go to jail. Common sense stuff. If the politicians had acted on this 20+ years ago as they should have, it would be a much better society today.
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You trust our Government?
 
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ProV1 said:
Yeah. We pretty much know they are isolated, dejected, and hopeless loners. What are we gonna do about it? Wishing everybody was the Cleaver clan will not solve sh_t.
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The Cleavers only had two kids, though. Wally was clearly well adjusted, but I could see Beaver going off the rails someday. Weird kid.
 
Stirred not Shaken said:
Social media and the availability of AR 15's which is the weapon of choice.
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You're an idiot.

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I could have most any physically normal adult human able to do what Thomas Crooks did (but to a basketball - still orange, for you!) with this in a few hours. This is, functionally, just about the same weapon. You gonna outlaw my PA deer rifle as well ? My "coyote-getter"? F--- off. You're a gaslit drama queen, fluffed up over cosmetics -

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Colt Gray, 14, was quizzed by police in May 2023 over internet posts that contained images of guns, the FBI said.

Gray allegedly denied being behind the posts while his father said that there was hunting guns in the family home – but that his son, then 13, did not have unsupervised access to them.

Now, one year on, Gray is accused of carrying out a mass shooting using an AR-style rifle at his school Apalachee High School in the city of Winder.
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So they identified this loser, alerted the necessary people to monitor him and question him, etc. but these hillbillies love their guns too much to make sure he doesn't get any potential access to them. Astounding
 
BlueJayFan said:
So they identified this loser, alerted the necessary people to monitor him and question him, etc. but these hillbillies love their guns too much to make sure he doesn't get any potential access to them. Astounding
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My friend from Georgia used to bristle at being labeled a hillbilly. He would always say he wasn’t from Kentucky and both of his legs were the same length. He insisted the proper term for him was redneck.
 
BlueJayFan said:
Deep red district in Georgia. Likely inbreeding galore I'm sure
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That’s not what I saw in that student body. I saw a ton of Hispanics, blacks and whites. It appeared to be pretty racially diverse. Anything within an hour of downtown ATL these days stands a good chance of being fairly cosmopolitan. Extremely high growth and tons of transplants.
 
cjb5656 said:
Our FBI seems to be a real top notch operation. Maybe they would have more time to devote to potential school shootings if Biden/Harris didn’t have them so busy worrying about the grave threat of domestic terror from crazy organizations like Catholics who wish to return to the Latin mass?
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And parents at school board meetings.
 
BlueJayFan said:
Deep red district in Georgia. Likely inbreeding galore I'm sure
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Navy Relieves USS John S. McCain Commanding Officer

MANAMA, Bahrain – The commanding officer of USS John S. McCain was relieved Aug. 30 due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command the guided-missile destroyer.
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US Navy warship commander relieved of duty following image of him shooting rifle with scope mounted backward

The commanding officer of USS John McCain has been relieved of his duties, the Navy has announced, following a photo of him that was posted to social media in April.
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lotr10 said:
Is it liberating for you to express such high level bigotry openly?
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Bigotry for calling southern white gun lovers hillbillies and making fun of hillbilly culture lmfaoooooo

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