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Why Americans don't do anything about mass shootings[W:465]

Casper said:
Lie, as always. Many suggestions have been made and you and your ilk reject them all, at this point everyone here knows what your only agenda is, and it has little to do with school safety.
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Suggestions that do not work anywhere on the planet. You may as well suggest a plan involving unicorns and bridge trolls.
 
jimbo said:
But that's the problem. Banners, and make no mistake, they are banners., have moved the goal posts from assault style, which are gussied up semi autos, to semi autos, which includes most weapons currently in use, hoping nobody notices. The exceptions are single shots, bolts, revolvers, slides, and levers. We noticed. We're not buying it.
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Muskets would be the only exceptions and even then they would require that they be locked up at a police station and gun powder would banned, for our safety of-course.
 
Casper said:
Muskets would be the only exceptions and even then they would require that they be locked up at a police station and gun powder would banned, for our safety off-season.
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As yes....this you see is the truth in your mind. LOL
 
Ikari said:
It's an interesting dynamic, I think that we don't see any of this occur at private schools. Though I guess if we're going to scale it, we'd expect 3 deaths at the private school and perhaps that's still small enough that things can be policed properly within the private school system that it could be caught before anything happened. But I do wonder if it's just perhaps demographics (since private schools can choose their students) or if there is something else going on in the private school system that would promote fewer shootings.
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What I think is going on in private schools is parents who care. My neighborhood has maybe 25% private school students. When you pop $20 K for something you are already paying for, you care.

Although I don't consider a few shootings out of millions of non shootings a major problem, it is a matter of concern and something we need to get a handle on. One thing certain, it's not the guns. Many of us grew up in households with guns over the mantle and in open gun racks. Many started hunting and otherwise handling firearms at 8 or 9. Yet it never occurred to us to shoot anybody.
 
jimbo said:
What I think is going on in private schools is parents who care. My neighborhood has maybe 25% private school students. When you pop $20 K for something you are already paying for, you care.

Although I don't consider a few shootings out of millions of non shootings a major problem, it is a matter of concern and something we need to get a handle on. One thing certain, it's not the guns. Many of us grew up in households with guns over the mantle and in open gun racks. Many started hunting and otherwise handling firearms at 8 or 9. Yet it never occurred to us to shoot anybody.
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No no....it can't be the guns. It has to be something else. Stop looking at the guns....it MUST be something else....ANYTHING ELSE. LOL
 
vegas giants said:
Suggestions that do not work anywhere on the planet. You may as well suggest a plan involving unicorns and bridge trolls.
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So You say based on nothing, seems you are the one using unicorns and trolls as your basis.
 
Casper said:
So You say based on nothing, seems you are the one using unicorns and trolls as your basis.
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Just tell me the state or country your plan works
 
vegas giants said:
No no....it can't be the guns. It has to be something else. Stop looking at the guns....it MUST be something else....ANYTHING ELSE. LOL
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Good to see you are coming around, or having sort of disconnect with reality, either way.....
 
Casper said:
Muskets would be the only exceptions and even then they would require that they be locked up at a police station and gun powder would banned, for our safety of-course.
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You're correct. Banners, including those on this forum, claim that as long as one gun, any gun, is available, the requirements of the second have been met.
 
jimbo said:
You're correct. Banners, including those on this forum, claim that as long as one gun, any gun, is available, the requirements of the second have been met.
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How many NRA members does it take to change a light bulb?

Answer: MORE GUNS!
 
jimbo said:
What I think is going on in private schools is parents who care. My neighborhood has maybe 25% private school students. When you pop $20 K for something you are already paying for, you care.

Although I don't consider a few shootings out of millions of non shootings a major problem, it is a matter of concern and something we need to get a handle on. One thing certain, it's not the guns. Many of us grew up in households with guns over the mantle and in open gun racks. Many started hunting and otherwise handling firearms at 8 or 9. Yet it never occurred to us to shoot anybody.
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There's certainly been a shift as of late that has led to these sorts of events becoming far more common than they had been. I think that blaming the guns is the easy way out, because fundamentally the gun isn't causing people to choose to act out violently against their peers. They're a multiplier for sure, but not the root cause. I think if we want to address the problem, we need to speak to the root cause and not to some low hanging fruit that will do nothing to address the fundamental psychology of why this is happening.

I'm not sure if parents of kids going to private school are more or less likely to be involved, I'm not sure if those stats exist. It may just be a matter of scale since private school population is only 10% of public school. So it may just be an artifact of that, but surely something has changed over the last few decades that has led to kids being more prone to acts of extreme violence. Not sure what that is, but we really need to figure this out.
 
Casper said:
I already asked you to show where t has been tried and did not work, you Failed to answer, noted.
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Thank you for again admitting no one will even try this crazy plan. LOL
 
vegas giants said:
Thank you for again admitting no one will even try this crazy plan. LOL
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Actually adding security is happening in many school districts and will continue to. But then your agenda is not school safety, common knowledge.
Still cannot answer the question i see, thanks for playing....
 
Thoreau72 said:
May I ask what it is that Americans are SUPPOSED to do about this? Aside from weeping and gnashing teeth, what are we SUPPOSED to do?
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Resist, resist, resist Trump... All this faux gun outrage is nothing more than a wedge issue.
 
Casper said:
Actually adding security is happening in many school districts and will continue to. But then your agenda is not school safety, common knowledge.
Still cannot answer the question i see, thanks for playing....
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Your plan is laughed at all over the developed world. LOL
 
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