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How many more school shootings before the NRA allows common sense?

We need to stop referring to events like this a simple school shootings. That language lessens the impact. What they are are massacres. The media should refer to the Columbine Massacre, the New Town Massacre, the Parkland Massacre.
 
Yeah. I called it a "literal Valentine's Day Massacre" but I haven't heard that term in the press. They'll call anything "-gate" but won't tell this what it is.

It encouraged me to look up the actual Valentine's Day Massacre. Seven gangsters died in a gang war battle in Chicago. Surely this is more worthy of a such a name.

Here's an article about how the Valentine's Day Massacre led to the National Firearms Act of 1934 which outlawed the Tommy gun.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/opinion/how-the-st-valentines-day-massacre-changed-gun-laws.html
 
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PhDeac said:
Didn't you just go on a whole rant against government deciding how people protect their home?
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No, I just said I can understand how someone could feel that way without being an evil person complicit in the mass murdering of children. Only in 2018 is that a hottake.
 
We should be talking more about the school having an armed guard and the emotion of fear
 
lbE08 said:
yeah, it's almost like maybe they shouldn't have guns.
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if i'm a mental health professional i do NOT want to be the one that tells people that probably already have guns that they are too crazy to get more guns.
 
timdunkandthefunk said:
if i'm a mental health professional i do NOT want to be the one that tells people that probably already have guns that they are too crazy to get more guns.
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We have had more than one person on these boards alone in the last week basically suggest they would kill anyone who tried to legally take their guns.
 
JuiceCrewAllStar said:
and did nothing to enact gun control measures
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Weird how that worked, wasn't it? To the dismay of liberals, Obama did very little to restrict guns, yet rural America thought he did everything. It's almost as though conservative media created a boogeyman. Kind of like how democrats were mad that Obama was constantly drone striking, while the right was complaining that he wasn't doing anything to combat terrorism overseas. One side seems like they're getting false information. As much as I love Obama, like all presidents/people, the man had faults; which is what made it so strange that conservative media felt the need to make stuff up.
 
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Obama was trying to appease people who cannot be appeased and who will make up whatever lies are necessary to justify their anger.

I think more and more people are realizing just how far gone much of the right is and that there's no point trying to seek middle ground.
 
PhDeac said:
Obama was trying to appease people who cannot be appeased and who will make up whatever lies are necessary to justify their anger.

I think more and more people are realizing just how far gone much of the right is and that there's no point trying to seek middle ground.
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It's true. Trump has brought his "make a radical offer then negotiate back to the middle" style of bargaining to the White House. The problem is, his supporters are entrenching themselves on the radical side and then see any sort of negotiation as a loss.
 
republicans have controlled both or one house of congress 18 out of the last 22 years.
 
scooter84 said:
I really don't know the answer to this question - how many gun control bills did congress vote down during that time?
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i don't know either. but I do know that the tiny slice of time the Democrats had a tiny majority and will they used it on health care, a bill that is still popular with Americans but endures constant abuse and erosion from the GOP.

A gun bill would've been weak at best at that time and then immediately blocked/locked in court and destroyed at the next election.
 
Demonwolverine said:
It's true. Trump has brought his "make a radical offer then negotiate back to the middle" style of bargaining to the White House. The problem is, his supporters are entrenching themselves on the radical side and then see any sort of negotiation as a loss.
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That's because the "radical" position has been their position for years.
 
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