Texas School shooting 19 children and 2 adults murdered

News is entertainment now. Its a case of selling clicks. This story has it all. Tragedy, Mystery, A divided people and a moral dilemma. America is a soap opera for the world to enjoy, however perversely.

I don't like any if this, BTW. Its just an observation

Every time I see something like this I just think someone is just annoyed people are still talking about this.

A lot of dead children is terrifying to a lot of people. Ireland in general has a lot of links to the US and we are both first world countries which means though we are missing the gun culture which enables a lot of these shootings people will still worry it could happen here. Many people here have relatives or friends in the US. The US is the most powerful country in the world and big decisions there effect the entire world.

We are a small country, the next biggest story I can see is a lot of people expected to go to an airport. There is the ongoing war in the Ukraine but again that isn't an Irish thing, geographically closer than the US but politically and culturally less so. It is also being reported on as well with some dissent in Eastern Russia apparently. I guess we could have the UK changing its rules to try and allow ministirial rule breaking retroactively but that seems like a smaller story than a school shooting. Did I mention that a school shooting with a lot of dead kids is terrifying to a lot of people?

It definitely seems that way. Why do some Irish people take it so seriously? We can't change anything.

Rubbish.

Without the US there would be a total bloodbath in Ukraine. Additionally, the world would be a far more dangerous place for all without their policing it.

As for securing schools, that's just putting a sticking plaster over just one of many wounds. The complete thicko that is Donald Trump once again puts his foot in it by advocating:

Why?

Schools shouldn't need to be turned into fortresses.

Does he think that will stop these sickos from shooting people up in other ways?

Children can still be shot when in groups on the way to schools and colleges, or on the way home. Bars, sports crowds, restaurants, supermarkets, festivals, theatres, cinemas, town centres, etc, etc. The list is absolutely endless. If someone has a gun and is determined to use it then the ONLY way you'll stop them is by preventing them having a gun in the first place.

Trump says "Americans must be allowed to defend themselves". You don't see the majority of the population in Ireland, Britain, France, Germany, Australia, etc, etc, strolling around with arms strapped to their waists and concealed in handbags. And hence such countries don't have mass shootings every other week.

Guns are the problem. The only problem.

Take guns away and you'll still have knife attacks I hear you say. Sure you will. That's part and parcel of the evil world we now live in.

But a lunatic with a knife can be overpowered. A lunatic with an automatic weapon is going to kill dozens.

A law should be passed for all the multi millions of guns in the US to be handed in under an amnesty. And anyone caught in possession of a weapon thereafter should be sentenced to life imprisonment. Hunting weapons should only be licensed under the very strictest of conditions. Gun crime figures would then plunge.

Of course this will never happen. People will scream about their right to "bear arms", the NRA have a vice like grip on politics and Republicans will veto anything the Democrats try to do.

A very, very sad world we now live in. Thousands murdered in Ukraine. Millions displaced. Wars all over the planet. Innocent children being shot to death by nutters every other week. Hundreds of millions starving globally. And the constant threat of nuclear annihilation hangs over the whole world. Politics has an awful lot to answer for.

I'm kind of glad I've lived out most of my life. It's my children and their children I worry about because planet Earth is no longer a nice place to be.

Texas is an epic hole along with most of the pro-gun states. Their governor exists to deny women health care and make it easier for state residents to kill each other with firearms. Everything else about the State is a disaster - electrical grid is a joke, education system in the bottom 1/4 of all States, though it's economy is somewhat afloat due to oil revenues and farming.

Occasionally it makes noise about doing something wrt to gun control, but it doesn't last. Perhaps now it will, I have my doubts.

It's just like a reality tv version of coronation St. Child shooting victims and high ranking politicians as the main protagonists. Walk on parts for victims parents, gun rights advocates, celebrities. Stage managed press conferences and so on. It wvwn comes with a simple moral dilemma about gun control ans everyone is encouraged to take part by arguing a simplistic one-side-or-the-other dichotomy. How would it not be good entertainment?

Interwlesting to see if the GOP givernor and senators in Texas actually implement any changes after this shooting leaves the news cycle. As bad as the iptics are i would at least respect them if they put state money into adding security for schools but i doubt they want ti spend the money. Sure the governor diverted money from mental heslth services to the boder fence project not too long ago.

And naturally didn't expand Medicaid under the PPACA which would've increased mental health aid, too. These **** won't do anything, they'll probably sacrifice the Uvalde sheriff's department is all, cluck a bit and then send a bunch of immigrants to DC or whatever stunt it was Abbott pulled.

But police protocol in the US since Columbine said officers must enter the school straight away, regardless of the risk to their own lives. Ramos shot at civilians outside before he entered the school. Those shots must have been heard at the school - so why didn't the staff ensure that all doors were locked? If Ramos had shot a door open, that would have given some teachers an opportunity to wait inside their classrooms beside locked doors and get ready to use objects (chairs, paperweights, glass containers etc) to ambush him when he gained entry to the rooms.