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A country where you can buy a machine gun but can't put a tenner on Trap 2 at Romford.

We'll never die

I read much the same story late last evening.

I anticipate more detail when inquests and enquiries are held.

Tragic for the families, but also terrible that every schoolchild in the USA needs to be taught how to respond to a shooting threat in a place where they should feel safe and happy.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

If a country ends up so peculiarly full of hatred and fear that little kids have to scurry past metal detectors and armed guards through fear of being shot, in order to learn their ten times tables, then perhaps they're better off just not leaving their homes to begin with. Trump is obliged to state this view to the audience in question, so realistically he's not even offered an opinion.

Maybe in certain situations 'more guns' can offer certain security, but this town spent a massive amount of their budge on policing and it didn't achieve much of anything. There will always be a human component. What happens when the person tasked with protecting the kids goes postal? Lots of questions. Armed local response can fail. Essentially it did here and Federal agents had to make their own decision, as local police wanted to wait longer and longer [Link]

When assualt weapons were banned shooting dropped, when it ended up it went back up. I'm sure we'll get lots of 'correlation' arguments, but really the single most sensible move would be to ban or make it very difficult to buy guns that belong primarily in the military rather than the hands of an 18 year old boy. Taking away guns is never going to happen. Just make the change going forward. Acknowledging realities that no-ones politics should cloud is the way to move forward. Of course that won't happen though, as this is America and people are encouraged to operate by mentalities that drag them emotionally this way and that to their own and others detriment.

The single most effective and healthy thing the individual there could do is turn off their TV, unplug the Internet and concentrate on living life rather than buy into narratives. Buying into different flavours and brands of rage isn't good for your health. It's just the modern day crack most are into.

Edited by BlueJay (28 May 2022 11.37am)

It's certainly a logical response. It would work in most countries, but I think it'd be a bloody mess if a government tried to do this is the States. It's just not a 'well' country.

In many countries that you wouldn't even expect many of most civilians are armed. They just don't treat their gun like it's an extention to their cock. The best they can do stateside I feel is a ban on gun sales going forward that there is no sane argument for owning in the first place. Even that will be used as some kind of 'they will take away your guns next!!' slippery slope though. Many Americans essentially both prop up both the mentality and method of these regular school shootings occuring. Then their dim witted answer is 'more of the same please'. If that's what you want, unfortunately that's what you get.

Edited by BlueJay (28 May 2022 11.38am)

And Kylie.