American mass shooting thread

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

there have been shootings in canadia before, fella

 

[Ebeneezer Goode]

they have weird bacon also

 

[silkyman]

http://i100.independent.co.uk/artic...-gun-to-a-benghazi-film-screening--byIiqC4ypl

If only a 'good guy with a gun' had been around to shoot him first....

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

i really, really hate that they've made a movie about benghazi and michael bay might have been the worst choice possible

 

[blade1889]

Man fears mass shooting in cinema. Man takes gun to cinema to protect himself. Man shoots innocent person.

Guess the country?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-...social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=facebook

 

[Stevencc]

Liechtenstein.

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

vaduz, the crime ridden biopunk wasteland

 

[silkyman]

Seven more killed in Kalamazoo.

If only the eight year old girl had been packing heat.

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

ignorant yankie scum all of em

 

[johnnytodd]

Seven more killed in Kalamazoo.

If only the eight year old girl had been packing heat.

Adam Johnson likes this.

 

[Stevencc]

ignorant yankie scum all of em

You want to be careful saying stuff like that and getting likes from Saltire.

I heard they put you on...the list.

 

[Ebeneezer Goode]

sort of on topic but not really

 

[Ebeneezer Goode]

BBC Breaking News ‏@BBCBreaking 15m15 minutes ago
Two dead and campus on lockdown at University of California Los Angeles where shooter remains at large, police say

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

so 50 dead in a gaybar in miami

 

[JJ1532]

Worst mass shooting in US History it seems. And you know the sad thing is that we're not even shocked anymore. It happens too often in that country. How many people have to die before that country does something significant to combat the problem and I don't mean give MORE people guns. Such a broken country.

 

[Veggie Legs]

so 50 dead in a gaybar in miami

Orlando, isn't it?

I thought the death toll of 20 announced this morning was bad but 50 is simply awful.

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

well, florida at least

 

[blade1889]

Worst mass shooting in US History it seems. And you know the sad thing is that we're not even shocked anymore. It happens too often in that country. How many people have to die before that country does something significant to combat the problem and I don't mean give MORE people guns. Such a broken country.

Its sickening that I'm actually surprised its the worst at 'only' 50 people. Seems like these things are becoming more and more common, or maybe I'm just more in tune with the news now?

Dont know how long America can go on protecting whatever part of their constitution it is that says you can carry a weapon at the expense of people going out clubbing, wanting nothing but harmless fun and leaving in a body bag.

 

[.V.]

No significant gun laws were passed at the federal level after the Sandyhook massacre. If dozens of children under the age of 10 didn't prompt a change, nothing will.

 

[TheArtfulDodger]

Sounds more like an outright hate attack than anything politically motivated.

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

yeah like with the attack on the baptist church

 

[silkyman]

No significant gun laws were passed at the federal level after the Sandyhook massacre. If dozens of children under the age of 10 didn't prompt a change, nothing will.

Read a quote on Twitter earlier about the same. The gun control debate died in America after the nation decided that killing kids was bearable as long as they kept their guns.

 

[blade1889]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36512308

"...the incident had nothing to do with religion, but may have been triggered by the sight of a gay couple kissing in Miami." (quote from BBC paraphrasing the killers father)

Find it hard to believe his homophobia had nothing to do with religion.

 

[SUTSS]

Yeah where does his homophobia come from if it isn't religion?

The fact that he was able to legally buy a gun despite apparently being on an FBI watch list shows how mental the gun debate in America has become. Law to stop that was blocked by the GOP.

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

a lot of non-religious people find gays a bit icky, i think it's foolish to assume u can't hate without religion

 

[blade1889]

"find gays a bit icky" (wonderful turn of phrase there) is a bit different to killing 50 and injuring another 50.

One is someone who really needs to grow up and the other I find incredibly hard to believe had no religious foundations.

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

the father of the perpetrator seems to disagree with you, however

the shooting at the baptist church was that religious? no

 

[TheArtfulDodger]

"find gays a bit icky" (wonderful turn of phrase there) is a bit different to killing 50 and injuring another 50.

One is someone who really needs to grow up and the other I find incredibly hard to believe had no religious foundations.

Homophobia may have its roots in religion (let's face it all three Abrahamic religions are inherently homophobic) but it's a much wider societal issue which though improving does still invoke virulent hatreds. There's been many attacks in this country on the gay community by the far right, for example, not usually inspired by religion.

 

[SUTSS]

The guy was on the FBI watch list, had Islamic extremist connections but he just found gays a bit icky and this had nothing to do with religion.

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

The guy was on the FBI watch list, had Islamic extremist connections but he just found gays a bit icky and this had nothing to do with religion.

no-one said that though?

nice response though, classy, and ofc we needed that tone