Shooting in USA-thread. (11 Viewers)

[Fake Melo]

It's happening too much, too often.

Virginia Tech, Tucson, Sandy Hook, Charleston, Aurora.. and now Oregon.

Today's tragic event brings the total of mass shootings in the US this year to 294. There have been only 274 days this year.
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Ten people have been killed and seven injured in a shooting at a college in the US state of Oregon.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-...ng&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central

What can be done? Are the gun laws never going to be changed?

 

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[icemaη]

Uh Oh.

 

[swag]

Shoot shoot shooting in the USA! Yeah!!!!

Because 'Merica

 

[Trequartista]

It's not about guns. We got a shitload of guns here too in Canada yet that kind of event almost never happens. It's about how a society deals with mental health problems, anxiety, a sense of closedness, extreme individualism, etc.

Nowadays if you're depressed they give you antidepressants and that's supposed to make you feel better. It doesn't work like that.

 

[Itztli]

Not again.

 

[swag]

No, mang. Guns solve all yo problems. Don't come at me with that commit pinko Canuck talk.

 

[Trequartista]

No, mang. Guns solve all yo problems. Don't come at me with that commit pinko Canuck talk.

Banning guns won't solve the source of the problem, which is people feeling shitty in a crap society. I didn't check the news so far but I bet that the media is pushing anti-gun rhetoric.

 

[Fake Melo]

It's not about guns. We got a shitload of guns here too in Canada yet that kind of event almost never happens. It's about how a society deals with mental health problems, anxiety, a sense of closedness, extreme individualism, etc.

Nowadays if you're depressed they give you antidepressants and that's supposed to make you feel better. It doesn't work like that.

Sure you have shitloads of guns, but population in USA is over 300 million, and on the top of my head I think Canada is around 35 mill?

It's easier to control it in Canada. Why not make tougher regulations on buying guns? Imagine if Republicans applied the same logic to gun control as they do to abortion control..

 

[Trequartista]

Sure you have shitloads of guns, but population in USA is over 300 million, and on the top of my head I think Canada is around 35 mill?

It's easier to control it in Canada. Why not make tougher regulations on buying guns? Imagine if Republicans applied the same logic to gun control as they do to abortion control..

I'm not against procedures like background checks, which certainly help. My issue with how the media react to events like these is that they only focus on guns and no one gives a shit about why these kids commit these atrocities.

 

[swag]

Banning guns won't solve the source of the problem, which is people feeling shitty in a crap society. I didn't check the news so far but I bet that the media is pushing anti-gun rhetoric.

Then forget guns. They should be issued IEDs.

 

[Trequartista]

Then forget guns. They should be issued IEDs.

Nah, just give them RPGs.

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Why haven't they identified him as yet?

 

[Fake Melo]

I'm not against procedures like background checks, which certainly help. My issue with how the media react to events like these is that they only focus on guns and no one gives a shit about why these kids commit these atrocities.

As long as guns are available so easily, people will commit these atrocities because psychos will remain psychos. You can't change them all.

What you can do is to make sure they don't get their hands on a firearm.

 

[Itztli]

It's not about guns. We got a shitload of guns here too in Canada yet that kind of event almost never happens. It's about how a society deals with mental health problems, anxiety, a sense of closedness, extreme individualism, etc.

Nowadays if you're depressed they give you antidepressants and that's supposed to make you feel better. It doesn't work like that.

The taboo of mental illness is still strong. You'd be surprise at how people here in the states can be ignorant or outright hostile to the idea of helping someone who's mentally not right.

 

[Trequartista]

As long as guns are available so easily, people will commit these atrocities because psychos will remain psychos. You can't change them all.

What you can do is to make sure they don't get their hands on a firearm.

Oh if they wanna get guns they'll just get one on the black market. Banning guns won't prevent people who want to kill people from getting guns.

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The taboo of mental illness is still strong. You'd be surprise at how people here in the states can be ignorant or outright to the idea of helping someone who's mentally not right.

It's a big issue, but no one gives a shit it seems.

 

[swag]

Nah, just give them RPGs.

Now you're talking. Guns is just pussy shit. Let's see some real macho firepower if you're gonna take people out.

 

[Fake Melo]

Oh if they wanna get guns they'll just get one on the black market. Banning guns won't prevent people who want to kill people from getting guns.

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It's a big issue, but no one gives a shit it seems.

Not saying ban guns, but ban certain people from getting guns.

 

[swag]

The taboo of mental illness is still strong. You'd be surprise at how people here in the states can be ignorant or outright hostile to the idea of helping someone who's mentally not right.

Thank you, Ronald Reagan

http://www.salon.com/2013/09/29/ronald_reagans_shameful_legacy_violence_the_homeless_mental_illness/
http://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-mental-patients-began.html?pagewanted=all

 

[Trequartista]

Not saying ban guns, but ban certain people from getting guns.

Background checks combined with a will to deal with mental illness and social rejection would be the way forward.

 

[Itztli]

Oh if they wanna get guns they'll just get one on the black market. Banning guns won't prevent people who want to kill people from getting guns.

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It's a big issue, but no one gives a shit it seems.

Sadly true, there are people out there doing as much as they can to informe the public of centers and organization that deal with mental illness but either they are underfunded or undermanned