steve66613

And another school shooting happens.....then what?

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Exactly. It's called baby steps. Outlaw the scary looking AR15 and high capacity clips. And then, another mass shooting with a pump shotgun.
Time to ban all long guns. Right? Then another shooting will happen with a semi-auto pistol and on and on it goes. I personally think the outright gun banners are anti-American lemmings, but at least they have the guts to say that's what they want. Most lib's want this also but are to chicken s**t to admit it, so they take baby steps. Which makes sense if you consider what whiners they are.

Peaver Bogart Loc: Montana

If and When they ban guns and come to collect mine, I'll give 'em to 'em, bullets first. I'm old and have lived a good and complete life, so, I don't care what happens to me.

steve66613

What are the common denominators?

IMO, 1) the shooter was insane (or “radical” in some way.)

2) local authorities knew about it and in several cases the FBI knew.

How about a rewind to before Ronnie Ray-gun eliminated care for the mentally disabled?

It’s been said that “the best measure of the civility of a society is how well the infirm are cared for”.

How come the libs could care less about the “poor crazies”, but have no problem attacking upstanding citizens? Where are the civil liberties radicals now?

We’ve passed the point where systemic societal change is possible: I.e., the nuclear family, morals and morays, care for the insane, etc. are not in society’s overall power to change in the short term. Therefore, we need to take drastic and rapid measures.

Gather up the guns? Not going to happen. It’s not even legal.

Gather up the “nut jobs”? Yup.... legal....and humane.

Lonewolf

vernon

I want to know why the so called leaders of the FBI didn't contact the FBI in Florida.Now some body needs to be in the unemployment line.
And don't believe this was an over site.Now somebody needs to pay .

vernon

If your insinuating that RWR put them on the street your wrong.The supreme court tyhrew them out because their
rights were being violated.

vernon

since when is the left worried about something being legal.

steve66613

Well, how they “got out” is multi-faceted no doubt. For sure: without federal funding, the states phased-out mental health “hospitals”. Now the public schools and the penal systems assimilate the “problems”. The rest are “on the streets”.

PLT Sarge Loc: Alabama

If they come to my neck of the woods there will be hell to pay. Lived through two wars. My wife, my precious Angel is in heaven. Got nothing to live for but to protect my family and Country. Alabama hillbillies ain't gonna give up their guns without a fight. Come get em. We're dug in like a tick.

rebob14

This is Fabian Socialism and is not about gun control, primarily. Everything happening is tightening the grip of the central government.............and, now, the disenfranchised and vulnerable among us, students, are being used for their emotion and energy. Doesn’t strike you as odd that no attempt was made to protect these students and that the police showed up after the shooter had left the building? If the goal was only protection, every entrance would be guarded and access strictly controlled. Other countries, and some schools in America, are successfully doing this. We need to stop enabling the fed’s manipulations and help our local governments provide what they should have providing for years.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

We protect everything that matters in this country but students. Banks, Politicians, (not sure they should matter), celebrates (know they don't matter), airports, court houses, and even the church I attend. Yet, somehow the only way to protect students is ban guns and blame the NRA.

Kazudy

You don't understand. Remember Nancy Pelosy said that the bad guys will voluntarily turn in their guns because it's the right thing to do. What you and I don't understand is that the bad guys are not really bad, it was circumstances, but deep inside we are all good,except Conservatives. Comprende?

dune

SCHOOL SHOOTING... WHY ISN'T TEEN DRIVE CAR ACCIDENTS A POLITICAL ISSUE?
CONSIDER:
Between 2013-15 Everytown identified 160 school shootings across 38 states. Nearly 53 percent of the identified shootings took place at K-12 schools, and 47 percent took place on college or university campuses.
In 95 incidents — over half — the perpetrator(s) intentionally injured or k**led at least one other person with a gun. In eight of those incidents, the shooter then shot and k**led him or herself; in 20 separate incidents, the shooter attempted or completed suicide without first attacking someone else. Twelve shootings were purely unintentional in nature, and in 33 other incidents, a gun was discharged but no one was injured.
https://everytownresearch.org/…/analysis-of-school-shootin…/

CELL PHONE CONTROL save a teenager
https://www.edgarsnyder.com/…/…/teen-driving-statistics.html
2013 Teen Driver Car Accident Statistics
There were 2,524 motor vehicle related deaths among teens.
120 of these deaths were motorcycle related.
10% of teenage driver deaths were the result of distracted driving.
There was an 11% decrease from 2012 to 2013 in teen motor vehicle accidents.
Only 55% of highschool students reported that they always wear a seatbelt.
22% of teens admitted that they had ridden with a driver that had been drinking alcohol.
An estimated 8 teens died per day in car accidents.
June had the highest amount of accident deaths in teens, resulting in 260 fatalities.
54% of car crash deaths in teens occured on either Friday (405), Saturday (524), or Sunday (437).
Most teenage motor vehicle crash deaths occured between 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Teen Drivers, Cell Phones, and Texting
32.8% of high school students nationwide have texted or e-mailed while driving.
12% of distracted drivers involved in fatal car accidents were teens ages 15 to 19.
Talking on a cell phone can double the likelihood of an accident and can slow a young driver's reaction time to that of a 70-year-old.
Drivers under the age of 20 make up the largest percentage of distracted drivers.
56% of teens admit to talking on cell phones while driving.
13% of teens admit to texting while driving.
34% of teens age 16 and 17 admit that they send and respond to text messages while driving.
48% of kids ages 12 to 17 report being in a car when the driver was texting.

user20650

NOT GUN CONFISCATION!! A REASONABLE BACKGROUND CHECK TO KEEP GUNS OUT OF THE HANDS OF A PSYCO. OH, I’M SORRY. I GET IT NOW!!! YOU COULDN’T PASS A BACKGROUND CHECK.!! OH, WELL. JUST BE SATISFIED WITH YOUR BB GUN!