3 children dead in private Christian elementary school shooting in TN

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone educate me on why AR-15s are legal for anyone other than the police/military? Are they used for hunting? They seem very impractical for personal protection.

They are basically penis prosthetics.

Replying to this without reading the rest of the thread so apologies if already covered.

In recent years, especially since the election of Obama, the gun industry has been on steroids marketing these guns - and every mass shooting that stirs the conversation about control ends up selling tens of thousands more of them as people rush to get one before they are banned again.

The Sandy Hook families successfully sued Remington for the marketing strategy of the Bushmaster assault rifle (similar type weapon) used to slaughter their kids and educators. The Bushmaster actually had one marketing campaign that focused on possessing the weapon as taking back the purchaser’s ‘man card’ - so absolutely this weapon is tied to toxic masculinity and oppressive patriarchy.

Assault weapons and the M-16/AR-15 specifically were intended to be deployed in war zone of Vietnam to turn the tide by more efficiently slaughtering the enemy. We could have a long discussion about the karma that might be implicated by Americans suffering this sickening scourge of assault weapons on our streets and so many mass shootings perpetrated with them when the weapons were first deployed in our horribly misguided misadventures in Southeast Asia.

Certainly assault rifles have no place in civilian hands. Besides the faster capacity firing which can be illegally modified to more fully automatic for very little coin, the weapons also fire at a much higher velocity making the wounds largely unsurvivable especially by the small bodies of children - there is a chilling report on this aspect in WashPo yesterday.

We must ban these weapons again, and figure out how to get the hundreds of thousands already in civilian hands turned in to gun buy back programs. Surely we have as much capacity for common sense as the Aussies?

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I mean I don't think this problem can ever be solved because even after dozens of their kids were slaughtered and Greg Abbott doubled down on the door being the problem.... Not guns. Are there s***** law enforcement, Uvalde still voted him into office. Now I can understand the state of Texas overall voting for him but that town?

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone educate me on why AR-15s are legal for anyone other than the police/military? Are they used for hunting? They seem very impractical for personal protection.

They are basically penis prosthetics.

Replying to this without reading the rest of the thread so apologies if already covered.

In recent years, especially since the election of Obama, the gun industry has been on steroids marketing these guns - and every mass shooting that stirs the conversation about control ends up selling tens of thousands more of them as people rush to get one before they are banned again.

The Sandy Hook families successfully sued Remington for the marketing strategy of the Bushmaster assault rifle (similar type weapon) used to slaughter their kids and educators. The Bushmaster actually had one marketing campaign that focused on possessing the weapon as taking back the purchaser’s ‘man card’ - so absolutely this weapon is tied to toxic masculinity and oppressive patriarchy.

Assault weapons and the M-16/AR-15 specifically were intended to be deployed in war zone of Vietnam to turn the tide by more efficiently slaughtering the enemy. We could have a long discussion about the karma that might be implicated by Americans suffering this sickening scourge of assault weapons on our streets and so many mass shootings perpetrated with them when the weapons were first deployed in our horribly misguided misadventures in Southeast Asia.

Certainly assault rifles have no place in civilian hands. Besides the faster capacity firing which can be illegally modified to more fully automatic for very little coin, the weapons also fire at a much higher velocity making the wounds largely unsurvivable especially by the small bodies of children - there is a chilling report on this aspect in WashPo yesterday.

We must ban these weapons again, and figure out how to get the hundreds of thousands already in civilian hands turned in to gun buy back programs. Surely we have as much capacity for common sense as the Aussies?

+1 Amen!! Agree with all you wrote!

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Anonymous wrote:I mean I don't think this problem can ever be solved because even after dozens of their kids were slaughtered and Greg Abbott doubled down on the door being the problem.... Not guns. Are there s***** law enforcement, Uvalde still voted him into office. Now I can understand the state of Texas overall voting for him but that town?

+1
That's what all this GOP fan dancing (trans/mental health/crime is up/corrupted youth/Tiktok/exterior door, etc.) Is about. Giving those who are disturbed by the shooting something to cling to so they can still vote R. Really the common thread is the gun(s).

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Just watched the body camera footage and those cops did a great job. Glad they got that SOB.

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I agree that those cops didn't amazing job, but wouldn't it be even more amazing if they didn't have to risk their lives against in AR-15?.
It seems Democrats care more about cops and Republicans do.

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Anonymous wrote:https://nypost.com/2023/03/27/mother-of-nashville-school-shooter-audrey-hale-shared-several-gun-control-posts-on-social-media/amp/

Oh wow, my heart goes out to the shooter’s family as well. It doesn’t sound like one of those scenarios in which some gun nuts encouraged their ill kid to get into guns. I can’t imagine the pain of knowing your child did something this horrific while also going through the grieving process for that child. I hope that mother has a good support network because she is going to have a lot of conflicting emotions as she deals with her grief.

Just curious how your opinion of shooter’s family might have changed now that we know they were forcing him to live as a female in their home and refusing to accept his trans identity in any way.

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Anonymous wrote:Sane people don't go around mass murdering people. Clearly this woman was mentally ill (even her parents had concerns about her well-being). The problem is mental illness, not guns.

+1000

But what would this mentally ill person have done without legally purchased guns? Not shoot 6 people dead.

There are other ways to harm than just guns. Such as bombs, using cars as a weapon, poisonous gas, etc.

If someone wants to kill, they’re going to do it. Taking one tool away to kill won’t solve that.

Then why don’t we see this happening with the same frequency in other countries?

That is just NRA utter no sense. Ignore the NRA fools and focus on supporting pro gun control representation.

I remember when the NRA was pro gun control…. Back when the Black Panthers were walking around open carrying.

It is a vile, racist, evil organization that hates America and all it stands for.

The same NRA supports black people and legal carry. They recognized the Black Panthers as the radical organization that they are.

You thnk cops recognize black peoples right to have guns?

+1000000 Cops don't even recognize black people should be able to have cell phones. They literally murder people for carrying a phone in their hand.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dp87a/cops-keep-shooting-black-men-with-cell-phones-assuming-theyre-guns

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Anonymous wrote:I agree that those cops didn't amazing job, but wouldn't it be even more amazing if they didn't have to risk their lives against in AR-15?.
It seems Democrats care more about cops and Republicans do.

Yep, absolutely. Nobody but the gun manufacturers win this horrifying game of phallus substitution.

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Anonymous wrote:Official Depart of Justice research:

There are an estimated 1.5 million defensive gun uses in America every year:

https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles/165476.pdf

The most likely person to be shot with a gun is it's owner. Suicide. That's a fact. You aren't likely to kill a mass shooter with your gun. You're likely to kill yourself or you family member will kill themselves.

26,000 suicides by gun per year. At least some of those wouldn't happen if someone had to use a more timely and less instant death method.

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I’m disappointed at the press photographers so greedily trying to get their money shot after a tragedy like this. The pic of the crying kid on the school bus which is plastered on the CNN website makes me so angry. What about that poor child’s privacy? That child just experienced a traumatic event. The press are just as disgusting as the politicians who do nothing. I’m sick of people turning tragedy into profit.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m disappointed at the press photographers so greedily trying to get their money shot after a tragedy like this. The pic of the crying kid on the school bus which is plastered on the CNN website makes me so angry. What about that poor child’s privacy? That child just experienced a traumatic event. The press are just as disgusting as the politicians who do nothing. I’m sick of people turning tragedy into profit.

This has been going on for a long time. Remember the Oklahoma bombing pics of the fire fighter carrying the baby. In real time, it must be tough to know what to capture.

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Agree with PP. Take that photo down.

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Looks homicidal.

Audrey posted homicidal images on her web page before the murders.

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Anonymous wrote:Official Depart of Justice research:

There are an estimated 1.5 million defensive gun uses in America every year:

https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles/165476.pdf

The most likely person to be shot with a gun is it's owner. Suicide. That's a fact. You aren't likely to kill a mass shooter with your gun. You're likely to kill yourself or you family member will kill themselves.

26,000 suicides by gun per year. At least some of those wouldn't happen if someone had to use a more timely and less instant death method.

Mental illness -- huge factor