Where have they taken place with number killed in parenthesis?
- 11 in blue states: Rockford Illinois (0), Rockville Maryland (0), Richfield Minnesota (1), Baltimore Maryland (0), Minneapolis Minnesota (0), Buffalo New York (0), Baltimore Maryland (0), Dorchester Massachusetts (0), Yakima Washington (1), Washington DC (0), Chicago Illinois (0),
- 6 in purple states: Pittsburgh Pennsylvania (1), Beloit Wisconsin (1), Milwaukee Wisconsin (0), Kingsman Arizona (0), Erie Pennsylvania (0), Kentwood Michigan (0),
- 10 in red states: Sandord Florida (0), Birmingham Alabama (0), Olathe Kansas (0), Des Moine Iowa (1), Miami Gardens Florida (0), Dallas Texas (0), Charlotte North Carolina (0), Greensville South Carolina (1), Houston Texas (0), Uvalde Texas (21)
One would suspect that if this was really a problem with gun control that you would have more school shooting in the red states where guns are more easily found and laws are more lax. But as it stands there is little correlation to where you see school shootings. They happen in big cities, small towns, blue states, red states, purple states. Places where gun laws are strict and places where gun laws are lax.
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I spent last week thinking about what it means to be Black in a country where people hunt you and hope to livestream your murder. I will now spend this week thinking about what it means to be a parent in a country where your child may not come home one day because a teenager was able to so easily buy a gun. These statements are not hyperbole; they are empirical. There have been more than 200 mass shootings in America in 2022; 27 of those have been in schools. Texas recently lowered the minimum age for purchasing a gun. Hate crimes are at their highest level in more than a decade. White-nationalist language has been mainstreamed and amplified.
In Uvalde, children woke up yesterday morning. They may have had their favorite cereal for breakfast. They may have tied their shoes in double knots. They may have kissed their parents, who were hurrying off to work never once considering that they wouldn’t see their children when they got home. They may have laughed with their friends on the bus, telling the sort of jokes that make elementary-age bellies rumble with delight.
Now 19 of them will not come home. They never will.
I am a writer, but I feel as if language fails me in moments such as this. What vocabulary can describe the heartbeat of a parent pacing for hours outside a school, waiting to hear if their child survived? What sort of sentences can capture a fear that no family should have to hold? What words could ever be commensurate with the lost lives of so many little ones?
I want to live in a country where my presence is not seen by some as an existential threat. But this feels like a fantasy. I want to walk past the school where my son will attend kindergarten next year and see a place that will keep him safe. But this is impossible. We live in a country that has failed us. Where legislation is written—and erased—by the gun lobby. Where manipulations and distortions of Second Amendment rights prevent politicians from enacting any semblance of sensible laws that would at least attempt to prevent this. Where claims about what our Founders wanted supersede the slaughter we see right in front of us. Where the cocktail of easily accessible guns and the normalizing of extremist views makes nowhere feel safe. There is no other country in the world where this happens. And the fact that it does happen, and happens with such frequency, is reflective of a choice that has been made. But just because a choice has been made doesn’t mean that different choices aren’t possible. Different choices are possible.
Show your work Alky
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/school-gun-violence-robb-elementary-uvalde/638422/
This is what we should do.
The harm posed when people who should not have guns can easily avoid a background check is particularly evident in mass shootings, where one in three incidents involved shooters that were legally prohibited from possessing firearms at the time of the shooting, whether because they had a felony conviction, had been adjudicated mentally ill by a court of law, or had a domestic violence restraining order, among other reasons.7 These shootings resulted in 364 deaths and 125 injuries, or one in four deaths and one in 10 injuries, that may have been prevented with a stronger, more comprehensive background check system.8
Closing loopholes in our federal and state background check laws can prevent guns from ending up in the hands of those who are legally prohibited from having a firearm. Read more about how background checks save lives and protect communities.
https://everytownresearch.org/maps/mass-shootings-in-america/
The author is an African American citizen and father.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/school-gun-violence-robb-elementary-uvalde/638422/
You really wouldn't believe how many times people like Cali would look at me and my ex wife Lydia because she is not white.
People like him see him as existential threat because he is not white
Sure Alky, of course my son’s girlfriend is AA not your type of AA
LOL
Stupid locked up sot
Got door code?
From your website.
But while the U.S. has not seen a school shooting of this scale in a few years, gun violence on campuses is not a rare occurrence. According to Education Week, a group that’s been tracking school shootings since 2018, there have been at least 27 shootings on school property since the year began.
This could help us
Closing loopholes in our federal and state background check laws can prevent guns from ending up in the hands of those who are legally prohibited from having a firearm. Read more about how background checks save lives and protect communities.
It doesn't keep you from buying a gun unless you're nuts 😜
Unfortunately even in small towns its getting more common
The bottom line is even if these were included in federal legislation the Republican would filibuster it.
The bills advancing to the Senate include:
AB 1621 (Gipson) - Limiting Ghost Guns: Increasing Gun Safety in Our Communities
This bill seeks to increase public safety by further restricting “ghost guns” and the parts and kits used to build them, while protecting the rights of legal gun owners in California.
AB 2156 (Wicks) - Firearm Manufacturing
This bill would close loopholes that currently allow individuals and corporations to manufacture large numbers of firearms without complying with standard manufacturer requirements.
AB 2552 (McCarty) - Gun Show and Event Regulations
This bill ensures proper background checks at gun shows in California, and increases the safety and oversight of these events to prevent guns and ammo from getting into the wrong hands.
AB 2239 (Maienschein) - 10-Year Gun Ban Expansion
This bill adds additional misdemeanors to the list of crimes for which the 10-year ban from owning or possessing firearms applies.
AB 1929 (Gabriel) - Medi-Cal reimbursement for Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs
This bill will provide Medi-Cal reimbursement for violence prevention services for victims of gun violence
and other violent incidents.
No God in these kids.
Shitty or no Parents present.
A fourth-grader at Robb elementary school gave a chilling account of the shooting to a local TV station.
The boy, who was not named, told KENS5 that he and four classmates hid under a table with a cloth over it, which might have shielded them from the shooter’s view.
He also described how the massacre came to an end, with police storming the classroom and shooting dead the killer.
He shot the next person’s door. We have a door in the middle. He opened it.
When I heard the shooting through the door, I told my friend to hide under something so he won’t find us. I was hiding hard. And I was telling my friend to not talk because he is going to hear us.
The student said the killing ended with law enforcement breaking into the classroom, but not before the gunman killed one final student after she called for help:
When the cops came, the cop said, ‘yell if you need help!’ And one of the persons in my class said ‘help.’ The guy overheard and he came in and shot her. The cop barged into that classroom. The guy shot at the cop. And the cops started shooting.
Roger , what age is the shooter you called "kid"?
And what two Rifles did he buy? ( by make, model and caliber?)
Surely you can answer these questions given your breath of knowledge on this subject.
The US Misery Index is far worse now under Bidenomics, then when he first took office.
His policies have failed, as designed.
Gasoline @ All time high.
Biden rejoiced in this fact.
I'm glad that you didn't say this
Tucker Carlson suggested that coronavirus pandemic lockdowns ― not guns ― were to blame for recent mass shootings in the U.S.
On Wednesday, the Fox News host tried to connect recent shooting massacres in Buffalo, New York and Uvalde, Texas, to one of his favorite targets: COVID-19 mitigation measures.
Roger, you don't read Cali's post on the mental health issues that US Kids have suffered because if the lockdowns, mask wearing and distancing, the terror applied on them .
Monolog cut n paste Roger .
Yawn.
It is a AR-15 type called a DDM4 Rifle,..
They are semi automatic rifles large capacity weapons that fire as fast as you can pull the trigger and become they don't recoil strongly you can keep shooting as quickly as possible.
I have used semi automatic weapons but they were the same type used in Vietnam. It would kick back and I would wait until I got it down and fire again..
They also use small diameter bullets that penitrait bodies and damage your organs like you liver and they bleed out very quickly..
Roger which kills more people .
A, Rifles
B, blunt objects
* FBI data
The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
I spent last week thinking about what it means to be Black in a country where people hunt you and hope to livestream your murder.
Hey Roger...
You're not black!
Lol & Roger didn't write it.
He is a honky.
Hey roger, your DA Gascon let's people out early even if they did a crime with a gun
And often doesn't even bother prosecuting them
He calls it prosecutorial discretion
and equity.
No murder who is a minor even faces enhanced charges.
They are eligible for parole at 25
Biden doesn't even enforce gun laws his son breaks
The dems have broken the rule of law.
Now they want to confiscate guns from law abiding citizens
or actually just have a talking point while they destroy America
Joe lost what tiny minds he had left.
"President Joe Biden suggested Thursday that Americans were purchasing guns like AR-15s for the sake of killing people."
Lol & Roger didn't write it.
He is a honky.
But he voted for Joe Biden who opposed school bussing because he didn't want his kids growing up in a racial jungle...
So he feels he can associate with Negros (as he calls them)!
John Hayward
https://twitter.com/Doc_0/status/1529796811623477248
No political movement killed more people over the past decade than Black Lives Matter and the Left's shameless exploitation of George Floyd. It's not close, and its not debatable. Of course, the media doesn't dwell on those deaths or construct blame narratives around them.
actually dead black men don't matter to black lives matter
just the narrative matters
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
I spent last week thinking about what it means to be Black in a country where people hunt you and hope to livestream your murder.
Reminiscing about your party's 'good old days' when Klanners would round up blacks (or negroes as you call them alky) and lynch 'em?
No wonder you long for the days of George Wallace lately, eh alky?
I have used semi automatic weapons but they were the same type used in Vietnam. It would kick back and I would wait until I got it down and fire again..
You're so full of shit, alky.
I'd venture a safe bet that you never fired a Vietnam-era M-16. The M16 fired 5.56x45 NATO (.223 cal.).
It didn't kick at all and was semi-auto/full auto with a sustained rate of fire of 800 rounds/min in full auto on the latest version.
You're such a fucking liar.
You really wouldn't believe how many times people like Cali would look at me and my ex wife Lydia because she is not white.
They were probably looking at Lydia's fat lip and eye that was swollen shut, alky.
You fucking wife beater.
No M 16s don’t kick. They may “walk” slightly on the older versions with full auto, which is why full auto is now a 3 round burst.
Shit I was firing them when they had the forward assist
Anonymous Caliphate4vr said...
No M 16s don’t kick. They may “walk” slightly on the older versions with full auto, which is why full auto is now a 3 round burst.
Shit I was firing them when they had the forward assist
The alky feels compelled to lie about so many things, but his favorites seem to be things he never experienced, but only dreamed of.
He's a legend in his own mind.
One would suspect that if this was really a problem with gun control that you would have more school shooting in the red states where guns are more easily found and laws
One would suspect Lil Schitty wouldn't skew his opinion by comparing the populations of the red vs blue states to see if that is part of the equation...But being a lazy fuck trying to make a point....he just throws out bullshit to see what sticks!!!!! Sad life of rat shown in his 3:17 post.....sad a wife beater claiming others act the same way he does!!!!
Here's an interesting thought:
Dysfunctional Republicans Bail on Gun Violence
May 26, 2022 at 4:28 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 85 Comments
Jonathan Bernstein:
“What I do know is that that Democrats are a normal U.S. political party, which means that they are mainly pragmatic problem-solvers.
That is, what US political parties are usually good at
is finding out what makes their constituents unhappy
and attempting to do something about it.
"They listen to voters in their districts;
to the party coalition that nominates them;
to their strongest supporters.
Some of their solutions may turn out to be highly ideological. Some are not.
They’re generally willing to cut deals to pass something, figuring that something is better than nothing.
If it doesn’t have the votes, or it’s implemented and it doesn’t work,
they’ll try something else…”
“What’s gone horribly wrong is that one of the two major parties,
the Republican Party,
has mostly abandoned all of that.”
The White House announced Thursday that President 0Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will visit Uvalde, Texas, on May 29 in the aftermath of the Robb Elementary School shooting massacre.
Biden announced the visit two days after an 18-year-old gunman opened fire inside Robb Elementary, killing 019 fourth-grade students and two teachers.
It marked the 27th school shooting in the U.S. this year, according to 0records kept by Education Week and it’s the second deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.
A friend of mine is a veteran of the Vietnam War and he said the M16 fired 5.56x45 NATO (.223 cal.).recoiled because the bullets are heavier than the new ones
And now note what Teegan left out
I don’t have the expertise on guns and violence that some of my Bloomberg Opinion colleagues or many academic experts have. So I really don’t know which of the gun-control policies Democrats have proposed would be helpful, which would make little difference and which would create new risks.
Just doing something isn’t an answer for anything, stupid old man.
The husband of the teacher has died 😢
The death toll from the Uvalde school shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers reached the campus’ extended family Thursday, when the husband of one of the slain teachers died of a heart attack.
Guadalupe “Joe” Garcia – the husband of 46-year-old Irma Garcia, who was shot and killed while sheltering children in her classroom – died two days after the mass killing that shattered his family, a cousin of his wife confirmed on a verified GoFundMe page.
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
A friend of mine is a veteran of the Vietnam War and he said the M16 fired 5.56x45 NATO (.223 cal.).recoiled because the bullets are heavier than the new ones
And I’ve fired those vintage M-16s at Basic Training, they don’t kick, as I said they may “walk” ever so slightly right to left in full auto. Fuck a 60 doesn’t kick
https://gun-parts-by-teddy.myshopify.com/products/ar-15-m16-fixed-stock-buffer-spring-click-on-image-for-more-details
That spring in the stock of the 16 stops the kick. You lied again Alky
Scott said that gun control doesn't work.
The world over, mass shootings are frequently met with a common response: Officials impose new restrictions on gun ownership. Mass shootings become rarer. Homicides and suicides tend to decrease, too.
After a British gunman killed 16 people in 1987, the country banned semi-automatic weapons like those he had used. It did the same with most handguns after a 1996 school shooting. It now has one of the lowest gun-related death rates in the developed world.
In Australia, a 1996 massacre prompted mandatory gun buybacks that saw, according to some estimates, as many as 1 million firearms melted into slag. The rate of mass shootings plummeted from once every 18 months to, so far, only one in the 26 years since.
RINO ALLERT
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has directed Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) to work with Democratic lawmakers on a "bipartisan solution" to gun violence.
Driving the news: McConnell told CNN he "encouraged" Cornyn to work with Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) "and others who are interested in trying to get an outcome that's directly related to the problem."
Between the lines: Senate Democrats had already expressed interest in having Cornyn as the point of contact for talks, given the shooting happened in his state, Axios' Alayna Treene reports.
Cornyn has shown compassion and willingness to work with Democrats on similar issues before.
The big picture: Senate lawmakers on both sides held small-group discussions to gauge bipartisan support for the passage of bills following the shooting at a Texas elementary school in which a gunman killed 19 kids and two adults.
Be smart: Any sort of gun-related legislation would need 60 votes to pass the Senate.
The latest: Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a bill that would have created new federal offices focused on domestic terrorism.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D) had scheduled a vote on the bill in response to a shooting in Buffalo, New York, that resulted in the deaths of 10 Black people
Hey Reverend....
For every person killed with a rifle (of any sort for any reason) over 20 people will be killed with a handgun...
Now as a common sense troubleshooter who solves problems for a living as I am.... looking for a logical reason to understand your thought process.
Can you tell me why the logical solution to gun violence is to ignore the problem that is over 20 times bigger than the problem that you seem to want to focus all your energy on?
When approximately 1 out of every 5000 rifles are used in a murder, how do you think it is fair that the 4999 law abiding citizens who are following their first amendment legal constitutionally protected right to own a gun should suffer because of the one person (generally with a mental illness) flips out and shoots some people?
Meanwhile how many of those handgun murders make the headlines, cause a President to go visit a town, demand that we do something to prevent it? How many of these criminal are not found, or arrested and not prosecuted, or prosecuted and let out on probation... all probably with the same gun waiting for them when they get home?
Are you really "serious" about gun violence?
Or are you just really "serious" about political rhetoric?
Just curious....
Scott said that gun control doesn't work.
You claimed you would stop lying about me Roger.
What I offered the other day is that we had a 10 year ban on assault rifles and it did effectively nothing statistically to draw down gun violence in this country whatsoever.
Those are just documented facts. Not an opinion.
And it was a specific suggestion about "assault rifles" and not about "gun control". Two entirely different things.
But it would be "raciiisssttttt" to go after handguns because 52% of our murders happen to be committed by a certain segment of our population that makes up only 12% of the whole... and their weapon of choice is the handgun.
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
A friend of mine is a veteran of the Vietnam War and he said the M16 fired 5.56x45 NATO (.223 cal.).recoiled because the bullets are heavier than the new ones
So we go from you personally firing those Vietnam era M-16s to a “friend”
LMAO fucking hack
And I fired those Vietnam era 16s in basic in 1980 and no they didn’t kick, as I said on full auto they’d slightly “walk” right to left
https://gun-parts-by-teddy.myshopify.com/products/ar-15-m16-fixed-stock-buffer-spring-click-on-image-for-more-details
That buffer spring prevented it. You’re a liar Alky
A fucking 60 barely kicks and that’s a belt fed machine gun
In Australia, a 1996 massacre prompted mandatory gun buybacks that saw, according to some estimates, as many as 1 million firearms melted into slag. The rate of mass shootings plummeted from once every 18 months to, so far, only one in the 26 years since.
And during peak Covid BULLSHIT Australia returned to it's roots as a penal colony, sending "citizens" to internment camps.
And that is why WE have a Second Amendment, alky. Hillary advocated for those "buy back" (LOL) confiscations. Fuck her and fuck you.
What we need is constitutional carry with no restrictions. That scumbag in Texas needed to be met with force so brutal and overwhelming they needed his dental records to identify his worthless ass. Instead he was met by an unlocked door, a "Gun Free Zone" sign, and a hoard of cops too fucking cowardly to "protect and to serve."
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
A friend of mine is a veteran of the Vietnam War and he said the M16 fired 5.56x45 NATO (.223 cal.).recoiled because the bullets are heavier than the new ones
BULLSHIT.
And nice job plagiarizing my comment to make yours.
The round was mostly 55 gr, with 77 gr being tracer rounds. They simply don't kick unless you're a pussy or "in the rear with the gear" as they used to say.
As a point of comparison my .270 and .280 deer rifles use 135 gr to 150 gr. rounds. Those kick. But you don't really feel it when you're on the target looking at a freezer load of venison.
I bet I wouldn't feel the recoil taking out some ANTIFA scumbag either.
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