re: Shooting In Broward County High School

Yeah age doesn't matter. There are fricked up people at all types of ages. The dude in thr Las Vegas shooting had a ton of money and he was an older dude.

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The schoolmaster had a tame sparrow and had warned the students not to harm it, threatening death. One of the boys stepped on the bird and killed it; he was afraid to return to school but did so. After lessons, the master took the boy into a private room and strangled him to death.

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Well.. He did warn them.

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To be fair, the whole “break down of the traditional family unit” argument is just as flawed as the “ban guns” argument.

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I disagree.

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I could sit outside that school with a bolt action rifle and do more damage than this kid did.

Type of weapon/capacity is irrelevant. Its just something to fuel the media or someones agenda to put the blame on guns

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Balogna. You're not killing 17 people with a bolt action rifle before you're apprehended. Charles Whitman was an excellent marksman shooting from a damn tower and killed 11, and this was at a time when no one would even consider a mass shooter.

I'm prior military. I can easily ensure 30 well placed rounds under 500 meters effectively with a AR platform with iron sights in a matter of a few minutes.

A bolt action with a scope would make me more deadly.

I'm not trying to be a hardass, but there are many civilians and military out there that could do that easily.

However, 1 round with a pistol is bad enough in my eyes.

thoughts n prayers etc too soon to discuss banning assault & semi assault rifles etc do I have that right?

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I just don’t understand how people didn’t notice the warning signs with this kid. I mean his Instagram was nothing but pics of him covering his face posing with guns

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I hope this isn’t true...but if it is, it means society and decision makers haven’t learned a damn thing since Columbine. That’s been 20 years ago. The difference now, is social media makes it easier to spot these ill people.

Is there nobody filtering this shite?

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Balogna. You're not killing 17 people with a bolt action rifle before you're apprehended. Charles Whitman was an excellent marksman shooting from a damn tower and killed 11

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throw a suppressor on it and the amount would be even higher

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I'm prior military. I can easily ensure 30 well placed rounds under 500 meters effectively with a AR platform with iron sights in a matter of a few minutes.

A bolt action with a scope would make me more deadly.

I'm not trying to be a hardass, but there are many civilians and military out there that could do that easily.

However, 1 round with a pistol is bad enough in my eyes.

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Let's just assume all of this is true - in the hands of an 18 year old novice, an AR-15 is far more deadly.

I'm not so much arguing guns are the primary problem with any of this, but it's disingenuous to argue they're irrelevant. There are certain weapons that are ideal for taking down a deer at 300 yards. There are others that are very well suited for slaughtering 40+ people in a night club or 20+ elementary students. Of course there are valid reasons to own these weapons, but ignoring how efficiently they kill is dumb IMO.

Yep.