Red Mosquito

verb_to_trust wrote:

Superblood Wolfmoon wrote:I'm not trying to score points here, as seems to be the MO for most around here anymore. My fucking heart hurts too much, and frankly, I've given up on anyone having the decency to be affected by the deaths of schoolchildren in a burst of violence. It took one time for this to happen in Australia for the majority of people there to say "never again," and decide that guns in the hands of every individual probably isn't the best idea. Verb is right, that will never happen here, and I believe it's because this country lost its moral compass a long, long time ago.

We never had a moral compass in this country. Dark dark shit right from the very beginning.

This is not untrue.

spike wrote:Verb also repeatedly suggested we just let Covid run rampant and do absolutely nothing. Then when stuff was done, he decided none of it was worthwhile. Just a defeated individual.

I think it's pretty clear at this point I was right about covid. Look at guns like uncontrolled covid spread.

Well clearly all of the gun toting Texans walking around to protect shit isn’t the answer

verb_to_trust wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:

Superblood Wolfmoon wrote:I wish the brutal killing of 14 elementary school kids would cause this nation to pause for at least a few minutes and question why we are here, and whether this is where we want to be, but it didn't happen the last time so I don't expect it to now.

We can reflect all we want. You have to have solutions and nobody is ever able to identify any after things like this happen.

I try to be on your side sometimes but this is fucking ignorant.

Okay what's your plan then?

First and foremost, stop using the need for a "solution" as some kind of excuse. There is no "solution", existing guns aren't going anywhere. But there are mitigations that will reduce, not eliminate, but reduce the rampant violence. Let's start there.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Well clearly all of the gun toting Texans walking around to protect shit isn’t the answer

They aren't going anywhere so now what?

verb_to_trust wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Well clearly all of the gun toting Texans walking around to protect shit isn’t the answer

They aren't going anywhere so now what?

There clearly are solutions, but gun owners don’t want to hear it. You act as though nothing can be done. It can but it will take enough people with the balls to stand up and pass stricter gun laws.

Maybe don’t joke around on here with people who think the ones doing the shooting are the ones with “balls” as a start

Gun laws won't move the needle. Our fame obsessed society is the bigger problem. These incels all know they will be memorialized on the news.

I currently have a third grader, and I had one when Sandy Hook happened, so this just really hits close to home. I'm already an empathetic person, but I remember coming home that day in 2012 and seeing our Christmas tree, and the presents underneath it, and breaking down thinking how those families' homes were just like mine, except those presents would never be opened.

I just hugged my son extra tight and long when he came home from school, knowing that there are 14 families out there who will never be able to do that again. Defenseless children, the most innocent among us. Strange to think how the same people who fight so hard to protect them when they're just bundles of cells do nothing to protect them once they're alive.

verb_to_trust wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Well clearly all of the gun toting Texans walking around to protect shit isn’t the answer

They aren't going anywhere so now what?

To be clear, your answer to 14 elementary school kids getting murdered in school is “do nothing”?

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Well clearly all of the gun toting Texans walking around to protect shit isn’t the answer

They aren't going anywhere so now what?

To be clear, your answer to 14 elementary school kids getting murdered in school is “do nothing”?

Playing this game doesn't help ruddo.

There's no reason in this day and age that we can't put more severe restrictions on guns.

You 2nd amendment lovers can still own guns; it should be harder to get a gun.


(I own guns, but have no qualms about getting rid of most of them in the near future.)

Armed guards at all K-12 schools now. If we can send $40B to Ukraine, we can afford to protect our kids.

The 2nd Amendment is the most powerful amendment to the Constitution. In one stroke, it takes away all other rights any individual has. It’s very sad and even more strange that a majority of the anti-abortion people are also gun owners. They scream that the lives of the unborn must be protected at all costs but THEN if there’s even a hint their gun rights might be tweaked, not taken away, but tweaked, that’s totally unacceptable. Dead kids shot up in an elementary school is a perfectly fine price to pay so fucks like Mac can go wave his dick around and pretend to be GI Joe while praising the shooter for having the balls to go thru with their plan of killing a large number of people. But the poor woman who is brutally raped and gets pregnant from it, that child must be protected.

Goddamn. What the fuck has happened to this country?

My father-in-law is a retired LEO. He's coming here in a couple weeks and wanted to pass along his service weapon to us to have for protection. I was OK with it, and my wife and I were planning to take gun safety classes. In light of this tragedy, I told her he can keep it. I don't want a gun around me or my family. I want nothing to do with any of it anymore. This country's fetishizing of guns and gratuitious violence is not something I can identify with, and I want no part in it.

macphisto wrote:Armed guards at all K-12 schools now. If we can send $40B to Ukraine, we can afford to protect our kids.

Sure! I mean there was an armed officer at the Parkland shooting, but he just called for backup and never went inside. I bet he's just a bad apple though. And we'd only need 130,000 guards anyway.

macphisto wrote:Armed guards at all K-12 schools now. If we can send $40B to Ukraine, we can afford to protect our kids.

Yes, this is the least we can do to protect kids. However, most parents don't want their kids educated in an institution that looks more like a prison. But you know, whatever it takes for you and your pals to get your rocks off shooting ARs.

wease wrote:The 2nd Amendment is the most powerful amendment to the Constitution. In one stroke, it takes away all other rights any individual has. It’s very sad and even more strange that a majority of the anti-abortion people are also gun owners. They scream that the lives of the unborn must be protected at all costs but THEN if there’s even a hint their gun rights might be tweaked, not taken away, but tweaked, that’s totally unacceptable. Dead kids shot up in an elementary school is a perfectly fine price to pay so fucks like Mac can go wave his dick around and pretend to be GI Joe while praising the shooter for having the balls to go thru with their plan of killing a large number of people. But the poor woman who is brutally raped and gets pregnant from it, that child must be protected.

Goddamn. What the fuck has happened to this country?

Dream another dream. This dream is over.

Superblood Wolfmoon wrote:My father-in-law is a retired LEO. He's coming here in a couple weeks and wanted to pass along his service weapon to us to have for protection. I was OK with it, and my wife and I were planning to take gun safety classes. In light of this tragedy, I told her he can keep it. I don't want a gun around me or my family. I want nothing to do with any of it anymore. This country's fetishizing of guns and gratuitious violence is not something I can identify with, and I want no part in it.

I haven't fired a gun since I was like 12