re: Another school shooting - Maryland

Don't know that yet.

You can start with the media not doing it's best to make this the "it" thing to do

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Because that's where the majority of our national spending goes.

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Ever heard of entitlements?


Nah, that keeps certain people voting a certain way. Can't get rid of those...

Yeah it’s sort of become the way to get attention as fricked Jonas that sounds and obviously it’s pretty easy to pull off. If someone wants to cause mayhem it’s fairly easy to do no matter how you chose to go about it.

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Ban guns

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That tired argument is so fricking retarded

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But, more screening applied consistently to buy a gun.

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And how does that stop the Dylan Roof situation, where he used his parents gun? Or how does that stop any of the shootings in Chicago, who have pretty much outlawed guns, and made it very hard to acquire them? Answer = it doesn't.

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And a federal tax on firearm and ammunition purchases.

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What in the blue frick will this accomplish other than give worthless politicians more money and power to further erode the constitution?

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Funding goes to research and prevention of mental health.

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I like how these threads skip right to the politics at this point. Nothing about the shooting.

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And how does that stop the Dylan Roof situation, where he used his parents gun? Or how does that stop any of the shootings in Chicago, who have pretty much outlawed guns, and made it very hard to acquire them? Answer = it doesn't.

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This topic will never be solved. People critique every idea and refuse to entertain it unless it answers every problem by itself.

Newsflash - this is a multifaceted problem and no single solution will work.

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then the shooter just starts doing his thing while the kids are lined up at the metal detector.

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Then that would be a new phenomenon though, right? As of right now, has any shooter shot their way INTO a school to cause mayhem? Or have they just walked in and picked targets?

Again...first things first. Make it harder to actually do what these guys have done in the past...which is walk in unhindered by any security. If the M.O. then changes, we address the next thing.

Banning the sale of guns...even if you managed to do it RIGHT NOW with 100% efficiency still leaves as many guns on the street in America as people. It does absolutely nothing to address the pressing issue...which is why I question the motivations of those who portray angst about dead kids while advocating solutions which will do nothing to stop them from dying.