Another school shooting. Damn.

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
02/14/2018 at 21:04 • Filed to: None

I heard on the news tonight that there are more retail establishments in the United States where one can purchase a firearm than there are Starbucks establishments in the entire world.

DISCUSSION (68)

pip bip - choose Corrour > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
02/14/2018 at 21:09

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again

Gun reforms are needed

Otherwise it will keep on happening

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
02/14/2018 at 21:11

This is not in jest, but how I feel right now.

PanchoVilleneuve ST > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
02/14/2018 at 21:16

I take it it’s still “too soon” to say the words “gun control”, right?

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
02/14/2018 at 21:18

It was 10 minutes away from my house.

Our family friends have yet to hear back about their daughter. I’m praying she’s ok.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > PanchoVilleneuve ST
02/14/2018 at 21:18

I said it hours ago. so fucked up.

https://oppositelock.kinja.com/1823012527

CB > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
02/14/2018 at 21:18

It’s a tragedy. And America really needs to figure its shit out.

As always, The Onion hits the nail on the head.

Svend > pip bip - choose Corrour
02/14/2018 at 21:21

Mate

Kinja'd!!!

CB > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo
02/14/2018 at 21:21

Yikes, I hope she’s okay.

djmt1 > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
02/14/2018 at 21:21

I’m really curious what America’s line in the sand is (if it even exists). For everyone else is was a school getting shot up but here we are again.

Spanfeller is a twat > CB
02/14/2018 at 21:24

One must be worried when the onion goes serious....

whoarder is tellurium > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
02/14/2018 at 21:24

That is a great idea. I should start a gunshop franchise that sells coffee.

CB > Spanfeller is a twat
02/14/2018 at 21:25

The awful thing about it is the related articles at the bottom are all the other times this type of article has been posted.

Spanfeller is a twat > CB
02/14/2018 at 21:30

Yes.
To me the Second Amendment is the right for a well organized millitia to bear arms, as in state and local police, the national guard, etc.

Not citizens, no matter their sanity (or lack thereof).

While I feel horrible for victims in the US, you have no idea what illegal firearms have made my country look like. I actually really, really want very strict border controls so that arms runners have a harder time.

a quarter of a million people have died here, and their families look at us for answers and we come empty handed.

fintail > CB
02/14/2018 at 21:31

Brilliant idea for an article, all they need to do is repost it with each incident, only changing the date. It’ll keep holding true for some time given the rate of progress in boomstickland.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > fintail
02/14/2018 at 21:32

That’s actually what they have been doing for the last year or so.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Svend
02/14/2018 at 21:34

I know but someone has to say it

CB > fintail
02/14/2018 at 21:35

That’s what they’ve been doing, just changing the location and details of the case.

fintail > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
02/14/2018 at 21:35

Makes sense, I thought it seemed familiar.

fintail > CB
02/14/2018 at 21:35

Makes sense, I thought it seemed familiar.

BIGBLOCK472 - wide and bizarre > djmt1
02/14/2018 at 21:37

I read somewhere that when the slaughter of 20 kindergarteners and six teachers didn’t spur us into action, the gun control debate was over.

Svend > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo
02/14/2018 at 21:38

My god. I hope she’s okay and with friends and gets in contact soon.

BIGBLOCK472 - wide and bizarre > BIGBLOCK472 - wide and bizarre
02/14/2018 at 21:38

Also that comma may not be necessary.

CB > Spanfeller is a twat
02/14/2018 at 21:39

I remember watching a video from The Fifth Estate on gun control in the United States because, wouldn’t you know, a lot of weapons get smuggled into Canada as well as Mexico, and the absurdity of the politics is just depressing. From what I remember, the ATF actually has a list of which stores sell the most guns involved in crimes, yet the NRA lobbied so that these stores couldn’t be shut down. So, not only does the US suffer, but both our countries suffer as well.

Honestly, the US doesn’t really seem like it needs to worry about an outside threat, its the state of affairs within that are the most dangerous to the well-being of its people.

CB > Spanfeller is a twat
02/14/2018 at 21:39

Honestly, the US doesn’t really seem like it needs to worry about an outside threat, its the state of affairs within that are the most dangerous to the well-being of its people.

CB > fintail
02/14/2018 at 21:39

Yeah, which is incredibly depressing.

Svend > pip bip - choose Corrour
02/14/2018 at 21:46

That’s the thing, were all saying it, saying it each and every time.

Spanfeller is a twat > CB
02/14/2018 at 21:47

I am againts the death penalty, but I would honestly agree with the death penalty for gun runners in Mexico

Not drug dealers, gun runners

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
02/14/2018 at 21:54

I’m not even surprised or shocked when it happens now. It sucks that it is such a common occurrence it no longer phases me. I still get peeved when people say “thoughts and prayers”. As if that ever did anything.

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
02/14/2018 at 22:05

For those that haven’t seen it already, Jim Jefferies’ gun control rant from a few years ago is one of the funniest, saddest, and most accurate summaries of the gun control situation around

Ash78, voting early and often > whoarder is tellurium
02/14/2018 at 22:15

Our local range has a huge full service cafe, 2000’+ sf of retail space, and hosts Cars and Coffee for the entire metro area of 1.2 million people or so.

We have a lot of guns in AL, but they tend to stay confined to isolate drug and gang violence...for now.

CB > Svend
02/14/2018 at 22:21

But then the Americans get mad when us non-Americans start saying it.

CB > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
02/14/2018 at 22:23

I don’t like him, but I love this skit.

Wacko > CB
02/14/2018 at 22:25

Why would it change now, time after time they talk and talk after each mass shooting, talk dies down some time passes then repeat.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > CB
02/14/2018 at 22:30

Oh, they get mad at us Americans, too.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > CB
02/14/2018 at 22:31

No time for the Onion.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > djmt1
02/14/2018 at 22:32

It could be worse: We could all live in Aleppo.

CB > Wacko
02/14/2018 at 22:34

You know what’s depressing? I can’t see a point where that will ever change, short of some big politician’s family member being a victim.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Ash78, voting early and often
02/14/2018 at 22:37

Unfortunately I feel as if it’s only a matter of time.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
02/14/2018 at 22:40

Thank you for giving me a laugh.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > PanchoVilleneuve ST
02/14/2018 at 22:41

Too late, more like.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
02/14/2018 at 22:49

What gets me is when President Trump mentions prayers. As if.

Wacko > CB
02/14/2018 at 22:59

i already suggested somewhere in Kinja (hahaha my autocorrect corrected kinja to kinja’d)

That it would take one of Trumps kids being a victim and that quickly escalated to only being Ivanka

I personally lost all hope.

I just find it sad everytime.

Happy that here in Canada shit like that ain’t legal.

But mostly sad

CB > Wacko
02/14/2018 at 23:02

I mean, we have our own issues (oh man, do we ever), but I’m usually pretty happy to be Canadian. I really hope America can sort itself out eventually.

dtg11 - is probably on an adventure with Clifford > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
02/14/2018 at 23:09

Kinja'd!!!

We always say something needs to change, but nothing ever does. Honestly, I’ve completely lost hope, because I don’t see anything changing for a long time, since nothing changed after Columbine, Sandy Hook, and now Parkland. We’d rather “have the peace of mind” of having a gun in the house than to actually be safe.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
02/14/2018 at 23:14

Seriously, screw thoughts and prayers. As if it’s actually helped or prevented any shooting. Has religion done anything positive in the last 20 years other than be a catalyst for never-ending conflict? Or even over the entire existence of mankind?

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo
02/14/2018 at 23:43

11:40 update: She made it out alive.

Unfortunately, another girl in my area didn’t make it.

May she rest in peace along with the 16 others.

God bless them all.

190octane > CB
02/14/2018 at 23:59

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/after-being-shot-rep-steve-scalise-still-opposes-more-gun-n808741

How about a politician himself?

Dogsatemypants > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
02/15/2018 at 01:11

The second amendment is meaningless as far as my interpretation of the founding fathers’ intent. Unless your local militia has arms equivalent to the military. Either champion the sale of nukes to private citizens, or shut up and start passing gun laws.

I own guns, but i feel it might not be a bad idea to have a license system with mandatory renewal testing. There would need to be a psychological exam of some sort. Figuring out a peacable disarmament initiative.... there i dunno.

Dogsatemypants > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
02/15/2018 at 01:16

A grandmother turned in her son before he could shoot up the alternative school in the district i went to. What the fuck.

http://www.kiro7.com/news/local/everett-student-arrested-on-attempted-murder-charges-in-school-shooting-plot/699779641

DipodomysDeserti > Spanfeller is a twat
02/15/2018 at 01:44

We’ve always got Oppo’s own, Ash, to write a satitical artical about innocent people being shot to death.

DipodomysDeserti > Ash78, voting early and often
02/15/2018 at 01:53

Yeah, just gang and drug violence.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_County_massacre

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citronelle_homicides

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Alabama_in_Huntsville_shooting

Your state has had three mass shootings in less than a decade, none of which had to do with gangs or drugs. How often you read the paper, Ash? Are you totally full of shit or just completely uneducated? Your state has the second highest firearm related death rate in the country, and Alabama ain’t exactly a hotbed crime.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm

DipodomysDeserti > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
02/15/2018 at 01:54

Alabama has had three mass shootings in less than ten years and has the second highest firearm related death rate in the country. Ash is completely full of shit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mass_shootings_in_Alabama

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm

DipodomysDeserti > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
02/15/2018 at 02:01

The argument that the mouth breathers make in support of the second amendment is that they have the constitutional right to turn their town into Aleppo if they deem it necessary.

We have guys on this thread claiming their state doesn’t have a problem with gun violence who live in states with the second highest rate of gun violence in the US. We are a nation of morons.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
02/15/2018 at 04:16

never heard of this bloke, but he’s on the money.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Dogsatemypants
02/15/2018 at 08:02

I own them also and I’m not going around shooting schoolchildren with them. As well, they are revolvers and not gas-operated repeaters. I like them. I don’t know what to do about this either. Where would the threshold be? Get a prescription for antidepressants and surrender your guns?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Dogsatemypants
02/15/2018 at 08:03

WTF, indeed.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > DipodomysDeserti
02/15/2018 at 08:09

Would you mind explaining to me what “mouth breather” is? I keep hearing it but I haven’t a clue.

I put effort into reading and rehearsing a variety of narratives on some of the important issues of the day, especially domestic issues, and I hope that shows in my commentary here. With regard to guns and rampages, I am of the opinion that the problem is a mental health issue, a fracturing of family and society, greatly exacerbated by easy access to firearms. Rather than trying to take away guns, which could never happen in this country, I think we ought to study the public health issues that lead to these massacres.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > DipodomysDeserti
02/15/2018 at 08:31

It really says something that there’s been so many that you start to forget some.

Milky > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
02/15/2018 at 09:43

I only watched a minute 30 of this video, but there you go.

You know a mouth breather when you see one.

More on topic IIRC the CDC CANT study gun violence. Thanks government.

Dogsatemypants > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
02/15/2018 at 11:01

Idk. Occasionally it becomes a self resolving issue with antidepressants and guns. I went on chantix. one week in, i asked my dad to keep my guns for a bit for my safety.

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
02/15/2018 at 11:48

What drives me absolutely crazy is the narrative that some people/groups always lean on that it’s a mental health issue. Sure, there is a bit of that but much more than that it’s a goddamn gun control issue. However, nothing will ever get done.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Milky
02/15/2018 at 14:19

So what does that make me if I snore?

I’m all for finding solutions, but I won’t be at the head of the line to give my two revolvers to the Fed.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Dogsatemypants
02/15/2018 at 14:22

There might be some red lines like domestic abuse where your guns are confiscated. Child in the home is expelled for violence at school might be another. There too many ways that American citizens have zero skin in any game.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz)
02/15/2018 at 14:23

It’s public health issue exacerbated by a prevalence of firearms in the society.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > fintail
02/15/2018 at 14:24

Broomstickland?

fintail > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
02/15/2018 at 14:31

Remove the “r” :) It’s a term used by those who liked to mask their hoarding paranoia.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > fintail
02/15/2018 at 14:57

I am lost.

fintail > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
02/15/2018 at 16:17

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/boomstick