Buffalo Mass Shooting

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any news yet on how this guy was able to legally purchase this gun?

Totally legal purchase from a local shop. He passed the background check.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/reported-mass-shooting-upstate-york-tops-supermarket/story?id=84721175

He also had a gun in his vehicle that was a gift from his father. So his parents clearly were OK with guns in the home, despite his known threats in the past. I really wish the parents would be on the hook for this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any news yet on how this guy was able to legally purchase this gun?

Totally legal purchase from a local shop. He passed the background check.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/reported-mass-shooting-upstate-york-tops-supermarket/story?id=84721175

He also had a gun in his vehicle that was a gift from his father. So his parents clearly were OK with guns in the home, despite his known threats in the past. I really wish the parents would be on the hook for this.

But sure, let's keep expressing compassion for these parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any news yet on how this guy was able to legally purchase this gun?

Totally legal purchase from a local shop. He passed the background check.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/reported-mass-shooting-upstate-york-tops-supermarket/story?id=84721175

He also had a gun in his vehicle that was a gift from his father. So his parents clearly were OK with guns in the home, despite his known threats in the past. I really wish the parents would be on the hook for this.

If they allowed access to guns after the school threat/incident they should absolutely be held accountable here.

[Anonymous]

I’m done with this country. It’s getting worse by the day. I’m very thankful my dad pushed me to pursue getting my Irish citizenship when I was in my early 20s. I’m officially making plans to make the move.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will admit that I always feel a small tang of sorrow for the shooter. At 18, especially after being brainwashed and bought into an ideology, you don't realize how your life will now be over. You don't have the benefit of 40-yo you saying, hey dude, this isn't worth it. No one wants to be in prison for 70 years.

He totally understood his actions that day. Not excusing that. But just think back to the dumb stuff I did at 18 and not realizing the potentially long-term consequences of those things.

It's OK to have these feelings for the perps. As long as your feelings for the victims are 100x stronger.

You feel sorrow because you think his life as white male had more potential and promise and value than those of the elderly Black people he killed. You hate seeing a white boy’s life destroyed by his own actions more than you hate seeing an innocent Black person’s life taken by his actions.

Those with empathy like this are some of the LEAST likely people to be harboring racist feelings. So stop making assumptions. I am one of them and I feel this same way for all sorts of people who do wrong, regardless of their race.

[Anonymous]

What's so weird is how the rest of us can just be going along with the ups and downs of our own lives and then you have people like this who care so much about other people's lives. I just don't get it. Isn't your own life enough to get through the challenges and celebrate the good parts? How some people can care so much about the supposed wrongs of other people is beyond me.

[Anonymous]

This is good.

[Anonymous]

if the parents gave him a gun they should spend their retirement and savings defending themselves and their son. And then jail.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:if the parents gave him a gun they should spend their retirement and savings defending themselves and their son. And then jail.

+1. If the parents owned the gun and didn’t keep it locked up they should go to jail, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's so weird is how the rest of us can just be going along with the ups and downs of our own lives and then you have people like this who care so much about other people's lives. I just don't get it. Isn't your own life enough to get through the challenges and celebrate the good parts? How some people can care so much about the supposed wrongs of other people is beyond me.

“Supposed wrongs?” Wow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's so weird is how the rest of us can just be going along with the ups and downs of our own lives and then you have people like this who care so much about other people's lives. I just don't get it. Isn't your own life enough to get through the challenges and celebrate the good parts? How some people can care so much about the supposed wrongs of other people is beyond me.

WTF are you babbling about?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:if the parents gave him a gun they should spend their retirement and savings defending themselves and their son. And then jail.

+1. If the parents owned the gun and didn’t keep it locked up they should go to jail, too.

Do you mean like how DC holds the parent responsible for violent crimes committed by their 18+ year-old sons?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's so weird is how the rest of us can just be going along with the ups and downs of our own lives and then you have people like this who care so much about other people's lives. I just don't get it. Isn't your own life enough to get through the challenges and celebrate the good parts? How some people can care so much about the supposed wrongs of other people is beyond me.

WTF are you babbling about?!

PP is "babbling" about the idiots who feel

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:if the parents gave him a gun they should spend their retirement and savings defending themselves and their son. And then jail.

+1. If the parents owned the gun and didn’t keep it locked up they should go to jail, too.

Do you mean like how DC holds the parent responsible for violent crimes committed by their 18+ year-old sons?

I think everyone should be held accountable if they do NOT report a child or adult who made previous threats (schools, family, etc) AND has access to a gun.

Red flag laws.