The most recent one 100 miles north in Louisville. Another recent one 100 miles south in Nashville. The statistics for mass shootings over the past decade/decades is staggering. They seem to be increasing at an alarming rate. And the youngsters wonders why so many old timers like myself remember the 1950s with such affection. Zero mass shootings. The first I can recall was the guy in the tower in the 1960s - Speck. I am sure we all have our opinions on the root cause in the escalation of mass shootings. I am also sure that would only lead to a heated and contentious debate.
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There have so far been 146 mass shootings nationwide this year, surpassing the 130 shootings by this point in 2022 that killed 145 people, as well as the 136 mass shootings resulting in 165 deaths at this time in 2021, according to the GVA."
I suspect that a complex interaction of many elements is causing our current social environment to be radically different from the 1950s. I am not sanguine that the United States as we have known it is going to be salvageable in the remainder of my lifetime.
From a different perspective: Those in favor of allowing anyone and everyone to possess AR-15 or equivalent type assault weapons argue that it's a good idea because it allows people to "defend themselves against anyone threatening them".
Virtually all mass shooting deaths involve these types of assault weapons. I am not aware of one single incident where such a killer was deterred from a mass assault by a private citizen armed with an assault weapon. Not one.
I'm in the camp of banning assault weapons, high capacity magazines and silencers. It will never happen via the legislative route so that leaves referendum. Start a petition.
Oh, and I'm hardly a snowflake. I believe in the 2nd Amendment but I don't believe in stupid.
S/Sgt Rono, USMC
And there you have it folks. About as simple as it gets.
It was in response to the concerns coming out of the Virginia ratification convention for the Constitution, led by Patrick Henry and George Mason, that a militia that was controlled solely by the federal government would not be there to protect the slave owners from an enslaved uprising. And ... James Madison crafted that language in order to mollify the concerns coming out of Virginia and the anti-Federalists, that they would still have full control over their state militias — and those militias were used in order to quell slave revolts. ... The Second Amendment really provided the cover, the assurances that Patrick Henry and George Mason needed, that the militias would not be controlled by the federal government, but that they would be controlled by the states and at the beck and call of the states to be able to put down these uprisings.
else we turn into haiti !!
https://politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/23/surprising-geography-of-gun-violence-00092413
It's gotten to the point where when someone asks me "Did you hear about the shooting?," I answer "Which one?"
Dick was full of rage.
Harry wanted fame.
Sally, Linda, Maryanne, Michael, John, David, Pat and many more, well, they died.
Gun lovers and politicians are praying for them.
Everyone else is disgusted and afraid.
Heather Cox Richardson, May 6, 2023
This morning Governor Abbott blames mental health as the root cause for the shooting in Allen, TX on Saturday; even though mental health may not have any connection to it in this case and Abbott knows it.
"The United States has faced at least 190 mass shootings so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. There have been more mass shootings than days in 2023.
Mass shootings are defined as an incident in which four or more victims are shot or killed, according to the archive."
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