US Mass Shootings Megathread - read OP

Beasty

Do not start any threads on US mass shootings. Please keep all such discussion in this thread

randd1

Imagine having to start to amalgamate all other US mass killing threads into the one thread because there's so many of them their threads could clog up a discussion forum.

America. F*ck yeah.

EmmetSpiceland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120573298#Comment_120573298

Just remember, it’s not the guns that are the problem. Just need to put religion back in the classroom.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120573586#Comment_120573586

The guns aren’t dangerous it’s the maniacs we keep selling them to that are dangerous, Marge.

Gatling

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120573594#Comment_120573594

The over saturation of firearms and the idea that firearms can solve anything is the Biggest issue along with lack of any real mental health programs

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120573613#Comment_120573613

but muh freedum

Gatling

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120574197#Comment_120574197

The black helicopters man ,the Black helicopters

Podge_irl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120573613#Comment_120573613

Abbott came out and gave the usual spiel about mental health after the latest shooting and seemed to gloss over that he had just cut the funding for mental heathcare.

Not that mental healthcare actually is the problem of course, it is abundantly clear that its the guns.

Run Forest Run

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120573586#Comment_120573586

I think it's the people trying to make it ALL about the guns.

Other countries have relatively large amounts of guns, but don't have commensurate numbers of shootings.

Guns are a problem in the US, because it's an unsuitable place to have so many of them. But it's a lost cause trying to rid a nation like the US of guns... it's simply never going to happen. In fact gun availability is increasing, and looks set to continue along this trend regardless of gun control measures.

So the solution needs to shift elsewhere, away from the tools and towards the core motivations and causal effects of the violence. But then certain groups would be denied of their favourite political football to kick around... so round and round we go! People just looking to score points rather than actually solve the problem.

Gatling

Blame GTA

Gatling

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120574230#Comment_120574230

And it's only going to get worse ,we already seeing 3D printed semi auto pistols and assault rifles ,no way of tracking or enforcing them ,

Sooner or later some numpty will be able to print a belt fed light machine gun and see what happens then

Podge_irl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120574277#Comment_120574277

Those countries with large amounts of firearms tend to still have pretty stringent controls of the use and transport of them.

Solving "violence" is an even more unachieveable goal than solving the gun issue. There are violent people and events everywhere - the problem in America is the ease with which they can access the tools to cause so much damage.

ArthurDayne

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120574277#Comment_120574277

I've had this debate out with a lot of Americans over the years and I've never found this "nothing can be done about the guns anyway so what's the point" argument to be convincing. I say that because I think it's a cop-out to avoid being challenged on the actual rationale that underpins the belief that guns are needed in the first place.

The gun economy in America, like all economies, works on narrative. There is a narrative as to why you need or should want a certain product — and in the case of America's love-in with guns, while the 2nd Amendment gets trotted out as the inviolable right, the narrative as to why it's so inviolable appears to rest more in the concepts of self-defence, home defence and this pretty murky hypothesis of balancing the odds against the government should it decide to become tyrannical.

The great crime of the conservative Right in America is that its brighter proponents are either happy to massage these narratives as a means of creating vote-generating fear of the Democrats or are unwilling to actually apply the same "facts and logic" thinking they appear to pride themselves on when it comes to trans issues. Because ultimately, each of the narratives that underpins the tight cling of American fingers to their arsenal of weaponry are capable of being challenged and de-escalated.

Run Forest Run

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120574317#Comment_120574317

Their nations also tend to have far less crazy/angry/mentally unstable people as a percentage of the population too.

Well, we better hope we can solve violence issues, because good luck getting rid of guns. It's never going to happen. There isn't the political or societal hunger to achieve it. And besides, it's only going to become easier and easier to get a firearm over time...

What will you do when every citizen with access to a 3d printer can make a gun in their own home? What good will strict gun laws be then? You can't ban 3d printers, and the materials used to fabricate a gun are not prohibited or difficult to acquire.

Both sides have been obsessing about the weapons for generations. What has it achieved? Nothing... it's time to shift the focus onto other aspects if they ever want to stand any chance of changing these worrying trends.

Overheal

A shooter in Jacksonville killed several black Americans in a racially and politically motivated attack. His gun was covered in swastikas, he apparently left one or more copies of his manifesto. He first tried to commit the shooting at an HBCU, before then deciding to target a Dollar General. FBI treating this as a hate crime. He drove out from Clay County where he lived with his parents to carry it out.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/27/us/jacksonville-florida-shooting-sunday/index.html

astrofool

The number of guns in the US is clearly insufficient to prevent mass shootings, they should keep on increasing the gun numbers until the numbers start coming down.

They should also experiment with the lethality of the weapons by increasing the pure gun numbers in one state and increasing the lethality of the weapons in another (e.g. hollow point, incendiary rounds, maybe grenades and start off with low level unguided rocket launchers). They should then use that data to determine if they should continue producing more guns, or more powerful guns and weapons.

If the numbers still won't come down, then they should look at giving each citizen their own personal nuke, the concept of MAD would surely dissuade further mass killings.

The other option would be to take down the UK monarchy, they wouldn't need their guns at all in that case and could concentrate on increasing knife numbers until the number of stabbings started to decrease.

TheIrishGrover

Thoughts and prayers. Rinse and repeat.

Shove their thoughts and prayers up their holes. Every politician who takes money from the NRA or their lobbyists is just as responsible for these murders as he shooters themselves

Beasty

400 mass shootings in the US so far this year. Only once before have they reached that number since they started keeping details - think they said on CNN this morning that was 2010, and the 400 was reached in December

Beasty

There is a certain irony that the US Embassy was warning US citizens to be more vigilant when visiting Dublin due to concerns over the crime levels

Overheal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121039038#Comment_121039038

What was going on in 2010, ah yes, peak stochastic terrorism

It's no wonder we see it peak again as we see yet another peak, as we did then, in Americans calling for insurrection, civil war, and race riots.

That was also the year his show finally got canceled. What a wonder that killings fell off again after that.

Overheal

Potential aftershock incident of the Dollar General incident, the shooter there first tried to get access to the local HBCU

Now UNC-Chapel Hill is under lockdown in North Carolina.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/08/28/unc-chapel-hill-shooting/

Overheal

Perp in custody, shots were fired.

https://apnews.com/article/university-north-carolina-chapel-hill-shooting-9a264145d183eeb7c28bb7d6a467ab39

Faculty member killed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g96Tjup5AbY

growleaves

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120574483#Comment_120574483

One of the worst states for mass shootings, Chicago, has stricter gun laws than other states.

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/data-show-chicago-has-seen-the-greatest-number-of-mass-shootings-in-the-u-s-this-year-to-date/

Overheal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121040618#Comment_121040618

Illinois trails behind Louisiana for mass murders.

https://time.com/6298190/these-are-the-states-with-the-highest-rates-of-mass-shootings/

growleaves

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121040638#Comment_121040638

I award you +5 growleaves points for not replying "Chicago isn't a state, moron!!"😅😅

IL holding down the number 2 according to your chart, so CBS have not fibbed.

Overheal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121040691#Comment_121040691

It does however obviate your nonsense trying to link their ranking to their gun laws, whereas LA has some of the loosest gun laws in the country, and a long history of racial killings to boot.

growleaves

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121040704#Comment_121040704

How does it do that?

Of the top 2 states for mass shootings, one has loose gun laws and the other doesn't. If loose gun laws are the cause of shooting massacres, then logically how is it that they don't both have loose gun laws?

Overheal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121040757#Comment_121040757

Of the top 2 states for mass shootings, one has loose gun laws and the other doesn't.

Then you agree, it's been obviated.

growleaves

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121040771#Comment_121040771

No

Overheal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121040815#Comment_121040815

But you've made it clear there is no correlation between murder rates and gun control measures between individual states.

Atlantic Dawn

At least 16 dead, 50 or more shot, white male shooter still at large...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67224544

o1s1n

Sky news saying at least 22 dead now.

Rows Grower

The suspect is still on the loose after murdering at least 22 people in a bar and bowling alley in Lewistown, Maine.

He's been identified as Robert Card a trained firearms instructer at a US Army Reserve training facility.

https://www.independent.ie/world-news/north-america/at-least-22-dead-in-us-shooting-at-bowling-alley-as-hundreds-of-police-search-city-in-manhunt-for-suspect/a1031269016.html

El Gato De Negocios

America is full of so many whackos at this point I just shrug my shoulders when news like this breaks. Very sad but not even remotely surprising. Its just a matter of counting down to the next one while listening to nonsense from the powers that be.

Akrasia

Gun sales will increase after this again, if anybody even pays attention anymore

Theboinkmaster

Just grateful we don’t live in that wretched country.

Akrasia

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121285008#Comment_121285008

Imagine feeling anxious when your kids go to a birthday party in a local bowling alley, that some demented fruitcake with a bag of machine guns could just march in and start slaughtering everyone

StrawbsM

If true, he did the right thing by saying he had mental health issues but after 2 weeks the mental health services released him on his merry way?

I don’t know which is crazier - the man or the system 😠

McFly85

504th mass shooting of the year. Horrific acts that have become so commonplace that this will barely register let alone act as a catalyst for change.

rogber

Another toxic and embittered man ruining countless other lives.

Ban guns and you at least drastically reduce the potential for male violence.

In the USA? No chance

El Gato De Negocios

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121285023#Comment_121285023

BUT MUH FREEDOMS!!!!!

Timberrrrrrrr

The "thoughts and prayers" crowd are all over twitter

crusd

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121285023#Comment_121285023

Dont forget, you cant ever suggest that you can even restrict gun ownership of access for the mentally ill. The right to bare arms is for everyone.

TooTired123

The blame in this case lies with whichever medical professional discharged, after only 2 weeks, an army sniper who volunteered himself to psychiatric care on the grounds that he was hearing voices.

McFly85

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121285059#Comment_121285059

Which is really depressing as there is generally broad public support for additional background checks and restrictions. Most gun owners acknowledge that not everyone should be able to obtain a gun.

The gun lobby is powerful enough that no politician will go near it though, and sone states get the opposite with relaxation of laws and lowering of the legal age.

Boggles

Where was the good guy with the gun?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121285059#Comment_121285059

All you need is a t-shirt for bare arms.

Lewis_Benson

Murica

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121285072#Comment_121285072

No, it's not.

He has to take full responsibility for his actions, no matter what.

Princess Calla

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121285012#Comment_121285012

Feck that!

Imagine feeling anxious about sending your child to school every morning.

For your child to be taking part in active firearm drills or whatever they are called.

I remember growing up in the 80's watching shows like "The Cosby show", "Family Ties" , "Beverly Hills 90210" etc wishing I lived in America

How far the almighty have fallen, one major f*cked up country.

TheIrishGrover

Thought. Prayers. Repeat.

See you next month