19 Children, 2 Teachers Killed In Texas Shooting

[tumbling.dice]

Shooting at an elementary school kills 14 children and 1 teacher. The shooter was an 18 year old.

We'll see if Alex Jones has the balls to say anything this time.

[neonspectraltoast]

18 children, 3 adults now.

[Vanilla Gorilla]

Put me in the category of this one is just too horrid to even want to read about. Jesus

[tumbling.dice]

Well at least the country's leaders have finally reached a consensus on what the plan of action should be.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with these families."
—Rep. Darrel Issa, R-CA

"[My wife] & I are fervently lifting up in prayer the children and families in the horrific shooting in Uvalde."
—Senator Ted Cruz, R-TX

"My thoughts and prayers are with the victims, the injured, and their families."
—Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-AZ

"Our prayers are with the victims and their families of the despicable act of violence in Texas this afternoon."
—Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, R-AZ

"[My wife] and I will keep the victims and their families in our prayers, and we ask all Ohioans to do the same."
—Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine

" The entire country is praying for the children, families, teachers, and staff and the first responders on the scene."
—Mitch McConnell, R-KY

"[My husband] and I join with Iowans in praying for all the parents, families, students and staff involved."
—Iowa Gov. Kim Renolds

Etc., ad nauseam.

[Ravynswood]

In other words - no actual action. They wonder why it's only in America that these things happen.

NRA have a convention in Texas this weekend. Uh huh.

[Ravynswood]

And none of them were schools either. That was my point.

[6-eyed]

Loverofcatsandfooty, mass shootings ARE terrorist acts

[Ravynswood]

6-eyed Not all of them. Port Arthur here in Australia wasn't. Sandy Hook wasn't either. Christchurch in New Zealand was. It all depends on the reasons.

[6-eyed]

Shooting at an elementary school kills 14 children and 1 teacher. The shooter was an 18 year old.

We'll see if Alex Jones has the balls to say anything this time.

15 people are dead and your first thought is Alex Jones?

[Ravynswood]

21. 19 kids and 2 adults.

[tumbling.dice]

Wasn't my first thought, but the similarity to Sandy Hook is obvious and the Alex Jones lawsuit has been in the news. I bet he keeps his mouth shut this time.

[Ravynswood]

Oh no doubt! But then he wasn't the only one who was screaming "it didn't happen" certainly at the time.

[Loverofcatsandfooty]

Geez they really need to ban those guns.

[Ravynswood]

They can't. The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution prevents that from being legal.

[GLEN......]

Put me in the category of this one is just too horrid to even want to read about. Jesus

My Thoughts Exactly.

Lets Hope That Any Pics Of The Incident Never Appear On The "YNC".....



Cheers Glen.

[Vanilla Gorilla]

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[Pete's Draggun]

Black rifle sales are gonna sky rocket.

High Capacity magazines will be cleaned out of retailers/online stock by the 4th of July.

Fear of a govt seizure/ban as always.
That never happens😪

Robb Elementary will be demolished after all investigations are completed.

Memorial Erected in place of school.

Now back to the N̶R̶A̶ NBA finals

[Ravynswood]

That's the trouble, Pete. Too many people scared and that's how bad decisions are taken out of sheer and unjustified paranoia. If they just started thinking they would stop wanting the guns and side with those who support our gun laws in Australia as the right way to go. We haven't had a mass shooting since 1996 because of them. But they have to fix the Second Amendment first. That's the big problem.

[Pete's Draggun]

Ravynswood

Thx for link

And ....WoW 😳

[Vanilla Gorilla]

There werent many mass shootings before the gun laws either

[Ravynswood]

There were more before than after, Gorilla. Hoddle Street. Queen Street. Strathfield.

[Meliai]

I just dropped my son off at school.
I'm so upset.

People bring up things like Alex Jones because this is so commonplace everyone is operating on a script. If not Alex Jones, then some other crazy will say it didn't happen and it's a conspiracy.
and then conspiracy nuts will be all o er the internet within hours repeating the same thing and calling people sheep while being too dumb to understand the irony.
Republicans will offer thoughts and prayers on social media but nothing else.
Democrats will pay lip service to gun control but they won't actually introduce legislation.
A few on both sides might mention mental health, but mental health services will remain absurdly expensive and absymally inaccessible to the people who need it the most.
gun nuts will start freaking out about gun control despite there being no evidence that Democrats will ever pass gun control. Gun sales and NRA memberships will skyrocket.
Anyone who *does* try to do anything will be ridiculed by psychopaths who have been trolling on the internet so long they've lost all real sense of humanity and compassion (see: Parkland)

Nothing will change. America's abscess will continue to rot and politicians will continue to blink sleepily at it and do nothing.
no one ever does anything.

[Ravynswood]

Meliai
I feel your pain and I already said to Pete that the real problem is America's Second Amendment and that has to be fixed otherwise the NRA will just run any legislation to the Supreme Court who will strike it out under that Amendment.

What has to happen is the people need to rise up and demand all of their representatives in the House in Washington DC (no matter what their politics) support strong gun controls and point to Australia as the poster child for it working - and commit to changing the Second Amendment to make it happen. Otherwise tell them they will not have your vote come Super Tuesday in November. The same for the 34 Senators (no matter what their politics) who are up for election at the same time.

In Australia just this past weekend the people revolted - on climate change, women's rights and a federal corruption commission. Independents won seats in our House because of it. Now of course in Australia voting for adults over 18 is compulsory - unlike the US where it's not. But it's why one needs to use their vote - and the catch cry in the November in the US needs to be gun control. No more Robbs. No more Sandy Hooks. No more Columbines etc etc etc. And tell the NRA to take their education lines and stuff them up their arse. The solution isn't educating the people. The solution is taking the guns off them. It works.

[Meliai]

Americans have protested. Politicians know the majority of Americans favor stricter gun control.
but our government is feckless and ineffective. They're great at working on behalf of lobbyists, and they do okay managing international affairs because there's usually some contracts to hand out, some money to give to Raytheon or whatever. There's always money for Raytheon but fuck the mentally ill, amiright

But the US government is completely incompetent at handling domestic affairs. And one can understand why. There's simply no money to be made in working for the people who elect you. Money is elsewhere. Money comes from gun lobbyists, etc.

You would think at the very least the government could manage the safety of their own buildings, but time and time again they look at massacres occurring in schools and scratch their heads and say there's nothing they can do.

It's not just gun control. It's the entire culture of the country. You don't gut mental health funding and become the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world and expect it to all work itself out.

[Ravynswood]

Oh I agree it's a culture problem, and those who are voted into power (Republicans) represent that. They want freedom and think that taking away guns takes away freedom. And they fall back on the Second Amendment to support it. That's why the Second Amendment needs to change. Personally I would just repeal it.

[Meliai]

Interestingly enough more people favored stricter gun control before mass shootings became so common, which in my opinion is indicative of how the NRA and other gun advocates has manipulated and politicized mass shootings for their own agenda.

[Ravynswood]

Look at the spike around the time of Sandy Hook (December 2012). I think Sante Fe in 2018 was the peak. I'll wager it'll jump again in the wake of this.