Anonymous
Post 04/10/2023 12:37     Subject: This time it’s Louisville, KY with the shooter
Anonymous wrote:
But to get rid of guns all together isn’t going to happen.
Besides the 2nd amendment which other amendment are you ok with getting rid of?
Because that’s really the heart of the issue.
Neither political party is willing to alter an amendment bc once you start then it it’s a slippery slope.



This is always the over reactionary knee jerk comment. No one is saying get rid of ALL guns. The Second Amendment was ratified in 1791 to permit state militia to own and bear firearms for the purpose of fighting against a tyrannical government. The primary weapon available at that time was the single-shot musket. Amendments were meant to be revised with the times and it's been 232 years.
Also cue someone saying we should ban knives and scissors too.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2023 12:32     Subject: This time it’s Louisville, KY with the shooter
I hate that this is on an off Topic. It all makes me so sad.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2023 12:30     Subject: This time it’s Louisville, KY with the shooter
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Gov Beshear (a democrat) said he has a good friend who is one of the victims.

Sadly, I fear that will make the Rs in KY even more resolute to not let this change anything.

+1

But it doesn’t matter. Governor Lee’s wife had a friend who was killed in the Nashville shooting. Rep. Scalise almost died. They still don’t care.


Sending thoughts and prayers.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2023 12:29     Subject: This time it’s Louisville, KY with the shooter
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Gov Beshear (a democrat) said he has a good friend who is one of the victims.

Sadly, I fear that will make the Rs in KY even more resolute to not let this change anything.

+1

But it doesn’t matter. Governor Lee’s wife had a friend who was killed in the Nashville shooting. Rep. Scalise almost died. They still don’t care.


It’s not about caring or not caring.
Yes we clearly need to enact more bans on access to guns and step up other protocols for identifying individuals who might be a risk.


But to get rid of guns all together isn’t going to happen.
Besides the 2nd amendment which other amendment are you ok with getting rid of?
Because that’s really the heart of the issue.
Neither political party is willing to alter an amendment bc once you start then it it’s a slippery slope.

Anonymous
Post 04/10/2023 12:22     Subject: This time it’s Louisville, KY with the shooter
I'm so ***ing sick of this.
I read your title, OP and I immediately let out an "ughhh" and felt sick to my stomach.

I used to live in Nashville and that one really messed me up.

I've lived abroad in other countries. One of those being South Africa... and even people in South Africa, a country with a lot of violent crime, think America is a very "controversial country" with out of control gun violence. People in the UK seem to think we are all gun-toting Americans.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2023 12:09     Subject: This time it’s Louisville, KY with the shooter
Anonymous wrote:Gov Beshear (a democrat) said he has a good friend who is one of the victims.

Sadly, I fear that will make the Rs in KY even more resolute to not let this change anything.

+1

But it doesn’t matter. Governor Lee’s wife had a friend who was killed in the Nashville shooting. Rep. Scalise almost died. They still don’t care.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2023 11:57     Subject: This time it’s Louisville, KY with the shooter
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Reports of five dead and six injured by a shooter at a bank in Louisville. Maybe red states will start to change their view if more shootings happen in their states? Thoughts and prayers aren’t working, so it’s long past time to try something else.

I’m sorry for the victims and families (unless they’re anti gun control in which case you get what you get.)

How much worse will it get before it gets better? Columbine should have been enough, and definitely Sandy Hook. Maybe it’s time to start posting pictures of the carnage so people will start to understand the damage guns do, especially assault rifles. Nothing else is working.


Red states already have higher rates of gun violence and death: accident, homicide, and suicide. It doesn't matter, for several reasons: feelings about the second amendment, thinking they won't be affected (especially since blue cities in red states have a lot of the homicides and rural white voters distance themselves from that), huge campaign contributions from groups that oppose even very popular and minor changes to gun laws


That is a lot of statements with no support.


And yet, the death rates from firearms in red states are higher (do you dispute that?) and they are not passing laws to change that...if anything, going to more open carry.and easier permits for young adults or no permits required at all. To what do you attribute that?


I question everything when not supported.

California has had 25 mass shooting since 1982 - the most of any state. Last I checked it was not a red state.

California also has 40 million people. PP was talking about RATES. Are you familiar with that concept?
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2023 11:53     Subject: This time it’s Louisville, KY with the shooter
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Reports of five dead and six injured by a shooter at a bank in Louisville. Maybe red states will start to change their view if more shootings happen in their states? Thoughts and prayers aren’t working, so it’s long past time to try something else.

I’m sorry for the victims and families (unless they’re anti gun control in which case you get what you get.)

How much worse will it get before it gets better? Columbine should have been enough, and definitely Sandy Hook. Maybe it’s time to start posting pictures of the carnage so people will start to understand the damage guns do, especially assault rifles. Nothing else is working.


Red states already have higher rates of gun violence and death: accident, homicide, and suicide. It doesn't matter, for several reasons: feelings about the second amendment, thinking they won't be affected (especially since blue cities in red states have a lot of the homicides and rural white voters distance themselves from that), huge campaign contributions from groups that oppose even very popular and minor changes to gun laws


That is a lot of statements with no support.


And yet, the death rates from firearms in red states are higher (do you dispute that?) and they are not passing laws to change that...if anything, going to more open carry.and easier permits for young adults or no permits required at all. To what do you attribute that?


I question everything when not supported.

California has had 25 mass shooting since 1982 - the most of any state. Last I checked it was not a red state.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2023 11:45     Subject: This time it’s Louisville, KY with the shooter
We should never utter the shooter’s name. Should not be mentioned on news, either.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2023 11:44     Subject: This time it’s Louisville, KY with the shooter
Anonymous wrote:
The Blue States are to blame too, since no lefty politician has come out with a GUN BAN. Everyone is to blame.

We need a gun ban, with possible exceptions for hunting weapons, to pacify the hunting crowd. Mass shooters usually buy their guns ad hoc, so it's not like this country awash in guns should just despair. If people are not allowed to buy guns anymore, there will be way, way, fewer shootings.

We also need a gun buyback program. Don't tell me DoD has a 842 BILLION budget but the feds don't have enough money to buy guns back from people. This is a matter of national security. Many more people die from domestic gun violence than US soldiers die abroad.

Bonus: if the police knows there's less likelihood a gun is present at a stop, they won't be so trigger happy when they see someone rifling through their bag or glove box.



How do you propose “the leftys” get a gun ban enacted into law?
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2023 11:43     Subject: This time it’s Louisville, KY with the shooter
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Apparently a former employee of the bank.

Circumstances don’t matter, though, nothing will change.


Thanks, my initial guess had been a robbery.


The thing about these shootings is that they're all based on emotional and psychological issues.

and all involve guns


Obviously. The point is that robbing a bank with a gun is nothing new. Mass shootings are. Mass shootings are based on emotional and psychological issues.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2023 11:41     Subject: This time it’s Louisville, KY with the shooter

The Blue States are to blame too, since no lefty politician has come out with a GUN BAN. Everyone is to blame.

We need a gun ban, with possible exceptions for hunting weapons, to pacify the hunting crowd. Mass shooters usually buy their guns ad hoc, so it's not like this country awash in guns should just despair. If people are not allowed to buy guns anymore, there will be way, way, fewer shootings.

We also need a gun buyback program. Don't tell me DoD has a 842 BILLION budget but the feds don't have enough money to buy guns back from people. This is a matter of national security. Many more people die from domestic gun violence than US soldiers die abroad.

Bonus: if the police knows there's less likelihood a gun is present at a stop, they won't be so trigger happy when they see someone rifling through their bag or glove box.

Anonymous
Post 04/10/2023 11:41     Subject: This time it’s Louisville, KY with the shooter
Gov Beshear (a democrat) said he has a good friend who is one of the victims.

Sadly, I fear that will make the Rs in KY even more resolute to not let this change anything.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2023 11:35     Subject: This time it’s Louisville, KY with the shooter
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Apparently a former employee of the bank.

Circumstances don’t matter, though, nothing will change.


Thanks, my initial guess had been a robbery.


The thing about these shootings is that they're all based on emotional and psychological issues.

and all involve guns
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2023 11:33     Subject: This time it’s Louisville, KY with the shooter
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Apparently a former employee of the bank.

Circumstances don’t matter, though, nothing will change.


Thanks, my initial guess had been a robbery.


The thing about these shootings is that they're all based on emotional and psychological issues.