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Anonymous wrote:The gunman purchased 1,657 total rounds of ammunition. There is never a reason to need that much ammo at once. Why is there no law that a)prevents this, and b)triggers a call to law enforcement when the person is trying to buy this amount?! There needs to be tracking and accountability for sales of these rifles and their ammunition. This is what we mean by common sense gun laws. This is why I pay attention to how my representatives vote and why I vote for Democrats.

You have no idea what is a normal amount of ammunition for a gun owner to have. People buy 1000 round boxes all the time. You can easily shoot through 100-200 rounds per hour of target practice.

There is already tracking and accounting of sales of rifles from gun stores. It was no mystery where/when/how the shooter in this case bought the guns.

Don't be ignorant.

Don’t be an enabler of mass slaughter of children.

Anonymous wrote:Republican politicians got shot up at a baseball game and still thought gun rights are more important. The cult believes guns are more important than lives. Even their own or the lives of children

I mean, more and more the GOP is looking like a death cult.

The only plus with this is they will eventually extinguish themselves, while taking many of the rest of us with them.

Anonymous wrote:On the one hand:
8 and 9 year olds just got their faces blown off
On the other hand:
I hate liberals and want them to stop calling me stupid for voting for policies that get 8 and 9 year old’s faces blown off.

It’s tough ya know.

One of my conservative Christian Republican friends just had to go into counseling because they seem to be freaking out at the disconnect between what they actually believe and what their church and the GOP is now telling them to do.

She is one of the very few thoughtful ones.

Anonymous wrote:On the one hand:
8 and 9 year olds just got their faces blown off
On the other hand:
I hate liberals and want them to stop calling me stupid for voting for policies that get 8 and 9 year old’s faces blown off.

It’s tough ya know.

Vote Republican for More Mass Shootings! It's the only way!

Anonymous wrote:On the one hand:
8 and 9 year olds just got their faces blown off
On the other hand:
I hate liberals and want them to stop calling me stupid for voting for policies that get 8 and 9 year old’s faces blown off.

It’s tough ya know.

We all have our burdens to bear.

On the one hand:
8 and 9 year olds just got their faces blown off
On the other hand:
I hate liberals and want them to stop calling me stupid for voting for policies that get 8 and 9 year old’s faces blown off.

It’s tough ya know.

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Anonymous wrote:The gunman purchased 1,657 total rounds of ammunition. There is never a reason to need that much ammo at once. Why is there no law that a)prevents this, and b)triggers a call to law enforcement when the person is trying to buy this amount?! There needs to be tracking and accountability for sales of these rifles and their ammunition. This is what we mean by common sense gun laws. This is why I pay attention to how my representatives vote and why I vote for Democrats.

You have no idea what is a normal amount of ammunition for a gun owner to have. People buy 1000 round boxes all the time. You can easily shoot through 100-200 rounds per hour of target practice.

There is already tracking and accounting of sales of rifles from gun stores. It was no mystery where/when/how the shooter in this case bought the guns.

Don't be ignorant.

Then allow people to purchase and use as much as ammo as they like -- but only at the site where they will be practicing shooting targets. No taking the ammo home. Just like you can drink at a bar but you can't take the bottle home.

When the second amendment was written, not only was it referring to a militia, but the person only has the gun. The government issued ammo when their services were needed. So we could go that way too.

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Anonymous wrote:The gunman purchased 1,657 total rounds of ammunition. There is never a reason to need that much ammo at once. Why is there no law that a)prevents this, and b)triggers a call to law enforcement when the person is trying to buy this amount?! There needs to be tracking and accountability for sales of these rifles and their ammunition. This is what we mean by common sense gun laws. This is why I pay attention to how my representatives vote and why I vote for Democrats.

You have no idea what is a normal amount of ammunition for a gun owner to have. People buy 1000 round boxes all the time. You can easily shoot through 100-200 rounds per hour of target practice.

There is already tracking and accounting of sales of rifles from gun stores. It was no mystery where/when/how the shooter in this case bought the guns.

Don't be ignorant.

Then allow people to purchase and use as much as ammo as they like -- but only at the site where they will be practicing shooting targets. No taking the ammo home. Just like you can drink at a bar but you can't take the bottle home.

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Anonymous wrote:The gunman purchased 1,657 total rounds of ammunition. There is never a reason to need that much ammo at once. Why is there no law that a)prevents this, and b)triggers a call to law enforcement when the person is trying to buy this amount?! There needs to be tracking and accountability for sales of these rifles and their ammunition. This is what we mean by common sense gun laws. This is why I pay attention to how my representatives vote and why I vote for Democrats.

You have no idea what is a normal amount of ammunition for a gun owner to have. People buy 1000 round boxes all the time. You can easily shoot through 100-200 rounds per hour of target practice.

There is already tracking and accounting of sales of rifles from gun stores. It was no mystery where/when/how the shooter in this case bought the guns.

Don't be ignorant.

Awwwwwww. Poor you might have to have some rules around your target practice habit.

There are rules set in our society around all kinds of things from driving cars to smoking.

Republican politicians got shot up at a baseball game and still thought gun rights are more important. The cult believes guns are more important than lives. Even their own or the lives of children

Anonymous wrote:The gunman purchased 1,657 total rounds of ammunition. There is never a reason to need that much ammo at once. Why is there no law that a)prevents this, and b)triggers a call to law enforcement when the person is trying to buy this amount?! There needs to be tracking and accountability for sales of these rifles and their ammunition. This is what we mean by common sense gun laws. This is why I pay attention to how my representatives vote and why I vote for Democrats.

You have no idea what is a normal amount of ammunition for a gun owner to have. People buy 1000 round boxes all the time. You can easily shoot through 100-200 rounds per hour of target practice.

There is already tracking and accounting of sales of rifles from gun stores. It was no mystery where/when/how the shooter in this case bought the guns.

Don't be ignorant.

I vote for whoever is least scary and not trying to drastically change the way we live, think, raise our kids. Both choices are pretty awful, to be honest, if we go down partisan lines. But everyone votes for what matters to them personally at the end of the day. Asking people to abstain regardless how they vote is just messed up. Gross hypocrisy.

So it's OK if someone else's kids die because of your vote. What happens if it's your child someday? It can't be, right? Your family is exceptional and immune to any impact from guns in society. You honestly believe that it's "equally awful" that someone is trying to "drastically change the way we live, think, and raise our kids." What exactly do you mean by that? Your child might hear that gay people can be honest, hardworking, good members of society? Or is that they may have to wear a mask to prevent the spread of disease? What issues overrule death by gun in your mind?

The gunman purchased 1,657 total rounds of ammunition. There is never a reason to need that much ammo at once. Why is there no law that a)prevents this, and b)triggers a call to law enforcement when the person is trying to buy this amount?! There needs to be tracking and accountability for sales of these rifles and their ammunition. This is what we mean by common sense gun laws. This is why I pay attention to how my representatives vote and why I vote for Democrats.

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Anonymous wrote:Reality check: more people die annually from falling out of bed than from school shootings. If we really want to save lives, we can save more lives with less effort than by trying to reduce school shootings. Yes, school shootings are emotional events (and many people are bad at math), but that doesn't mean that passing reactionary legislation is the best way to save lives in the US.

- Not a Republican

Are these people being pushed out of bed? No. People have the option of installing a railing to keep them in bed if this is an important issue to them.

It’s not just school shootings. Guns need to be regulated.

Please be real. The chances of being in a school shooting are lower than dying from a car or bus crash to or from school. That does not mean ignore it. But please keep in perspective.

Guns are the leading cause of death for children in the US PP. this is not JUST about school shootings. This is about reducing the number of guns out there to protect kids everywhere, not just at school.

Yes, don’t let them narrow the issue to “just” school shootings. This is so much bigger than that. Gun violence is a leading cause of death among young children.

Can you please provide the link to reputable statistics source which also includes health related issues, drownings and car accidents. I am not negating, I want to see the proof.

Here’s a starter:

https://www.vox.com/23141259/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-child-family-social-policy

“Guns now kill more kids than car accidents, in part because, through design changes and new regulations, cars have gotten safer while guns have only become more accessible and lethal.”

Another issue is that a lot of guns are incredibly lousy from a quality control or "likelihood of operating as intended" standpoint. Quality control is expensive, and gun manufacturers have also very successfully lobbied to be exempt from a variety basic safeguards. That makes their toys incredibly unsafe for the operator--for instance, very likely to go off accidentally while you're carrying them around or just handling them.

They're really more like hand grenades and people accidentally shoot themselves or others at very high rates, but the nature of the product makes it easy to blame the operator. There are plenty of stories out there of people who just went out in their field with a friend for target practice and ended up shooting themselves or the friend, often just while carrying the gun.

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Anonymous wrote:Today, Uvalde has taught us that even police officers with guns aren't able to protect your children. Even when they have backup. And lots of guns.
And by the way, the Parkland officer ran away from the school too.
These police officers are probably men who have grown up believing that they would be able to shoot the bad guys. Ha.

It would appear that cowardice on their part was a major factor.

This is also probably related to the fear of shooting kids accidentally which would make them face trials potentially. So, yeah, it's cowardice, but not necessarily because they were afraid to be shot, they were way better equipped than unarmed parents rushing into the building. It's because they were afraid to be facing legal scrutiny of their actions if they were to cause the death of a child directly vs. indirectly when shooter kills them. Yeah, I know, grasping at straws here.

IMO, the past couple of years of demonizing cops has left us with the cowards. The best cops have left the field and anybody with half a brain isn't interested in joining either.

Demonizing cops and defunding the police movements were clearly Democrat's agenda at least then, probably not so much now. If this is the end result we get, then couldn't Republicans turn it around and start blaming Democrats for the increased casualties caused by paralyzing the cops? I am just playing purely logical debates here. They could and they will and they are already doing it. My personal opinion is that both parties using this for political gain is tone deaf.

No wonder Republicans get so twisted. We wanted accountability for the police. Turns out we were correct to demand that since the police massively failed again.

There you go blaming the police instead of the actual killer.

TBH - the police couldn't win here in your book. Had they stormed the room earlier, and accidentally shot one or more of the children in order to take out the killer, the left would be harping about that.

It has been determined and stated by the police that the order to not enter the room was wrong. Wrong.