View Poll Results: What should we do?
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Nothing, Cat is out of the bag and this is the cost of our "freedom"
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Prison Time for gun owners who lose or have their gun stolen
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Background checks and a waiting period for 100% of transactions
119 74.84% -
No semiautomatic anythings...
60 37.74% -
Tax gun sales with additional fee to go to mental health
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Register ALL firearms and require insurance (car analogy)
103 64.78%
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05-24-2022, 03:49 PM #1
If only there was something we could do...
Coming to a school near you, sooner or later...
As a dad with 2 elementary school age kids, this hits hard.
KSAT San Antonio: 15 killed in shooting at Uvalde elementary school; gunman dead, Gov. Abbott says.
https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2022...district-says/sigless.
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05-24-2022, 03:53 PM #2Registered User
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I've been watching this for a while now and yeah, I can imagine what you're feeling because Newtown happened just a few minutes from my house. I'm not an emotional person and I've had that same lump in my throat for a half hour now
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05-24-2022, 03:55 PM #3man of ice
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And nothing will change. Poor kids.
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05-24-2022, 03:56 PM #4
In a few days, it will be forgotten and nothing will happen. A significant portion of Americans are willing to accept this.
sigless.
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05-24-2022, 03:56 PM #5
If only there was something we could do...
Fuuuuck. Fuuuuuuck. Fuuuuuck. When will this horror ever end? How can the US people be ok with this?
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05-24-2022, 04:00 PM #6Registered User
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Small town, too. Only about 16,000 pop. This is going to impact every person in that town.
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05-24-2022, 04:03 PM #7
The kids must have forgotten their rocks.
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05-24-2022, 04:03 PM #8
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05-24-2022, 04:06 PM #9"We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." - Randy Pausch
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05-24-2022, 04:09 PM #10
They are just little kids. 7 to 10 years old. Sick society that can't even take basic steps to keep their children safe.
sigless.
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05-24-2022, 04:10 PM #11
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05-24-2022, 04:12 PM #12Rope->Dope
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I'm reminded by President Obama's feelings after Sandy Hook:
Obama says no event in his presidency enraged him more than Sandy Hook. "That was not only the saddest day of my presidency. But when Congress failed to do anything in the aftermath of Sandy Hook, that was the angriest I ever was in my presidency. I was disgusted and appalled by the inaction," Obama said.
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05-24-2022, 04:16 PM #13
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05-24-2022, 04:16 PM #15
Just gutted by this. I'll be angry later.
I remember being relieved when my oldest was no longer in the classroom closest to the main door in her elementary school.
Not even sure what to tell the kids once they hear about this.
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05-24-2022, 04:17 PM #16Registered User
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It’s actually the other way and attributed to Stalin. “If only one man dies of hunger, that is a tragedy. If millions die, that’s only statistics.”.” So in that way we’re far past it being a tragedy where we could capitalize on the opportunity and change things. The national zeitgeist is far too accustomed to the deaths and so we as a society have decided nothing will happen, it’s merely another brick in the wall.
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05-24-2022, 04:18 PM #17Never in U.S. history has the public chosen leadership this malevolent. The moral clarity of their decision is crystalline, particularly knowing how Trump will regard his slim margin as a “mandate” to do his worst. We’ve learned something about America that we didn’t know, or perhaps didn’t believe, and it’ll forever color our individual judgments of who and what we are.
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05-24-2022, 04:20 PM #18Hucked to flat once
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Congress will think and pray about it.
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05-24-2022, 04:21 PM #19
I have a 7 year old. So innocent and happy.
Such a loss and I’m nauseous knowing nothing will ever change.
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05-24-2022, 04:22 PM #20
It’s CRTs fault right? Or is it LGBT? Furrys in high schools? Masks?
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05-24-2022, 04:23 PM #21
This is absolutely heart breaking. Fuck you Greg Abbott, Fuck you Ken Paxton. As a former Texan, go fuck yourself you stupid fucking morons.
Ken Paxton just stood on ABC and fucking gaslit the whole country while wearing his re-election shirt saying that guns aren't the problem.
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05-24-2022, 04:34 PM #22
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05-24-2022, 04:37 PM #23
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05-24-2022, 04:43 PM #24
Guns aren’t going away.
Turn our schools into high security facilities and take away the soft targets. Same as getting into a federal building or prison, pentagon, etc.
Problem won’t go away but at least protect the kids a little better.
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05-24-2022, 04:51 PM #25
Thoughts and prayers. That'll help, right?
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