Another shooting.

[Alan]

Hold fire!! In Texas they will soon be wearing six guns ala john Wayne , street gunfights to replace the TV?

That particular story has been pretty overblown, tbh.

 

[Dennisons Wrong Foot]

In 15 years living in Texas, I have never seen anyone open carrying. Anyone who does see it, usually calls the police. People do visit my store wearing a concealed weapon, I prefer not to know about it.
The new law will not change anything, until it does.

 

[AndyWolves]

Toddler shoots and kills woman during her Zoom work call

The toddler found a loaded handgun left unsecured by an adult, say police

www.independent.co.uk

FFS... incredibly, incredibly avoidable

 

[Freddeno]

Toddler shoots and kills woman during her Zoom work call

The toddler found a loaded handgun left unsecured by an adult, say police

www.independent.co.uk

FFS... incredibly, incredibly avoidable

is that true? if so, that is just crazy

 

[Alan]

Toddler shoots and kills woman during her Zoom work call

The toddler found a loaded handgun left unsecured by an adult, say police

www.independent.co.uk

FFS... incredibly, incredibly avoidable

When I was… 11 maybe? I was hanging out with a group of friends at one of their houses and they pulled out an honest to god hunting rifle and started play acting like they were going to start shooting. Which was nerve wracking enough, until they actually DID discharge the damn thing.

Probably the most impactful singular experience I’ve had in terms of my relationship with guns.

 

[Lupo]

When I was… 11 maybe? I was hanging out with a group of friends at one of their houses and they pulled out an honest to god hunting rifle and started play acting like they were going to start shooting. Which was nerve wracking enough, until they actually DID discharge the damn thing.

Probably the most impactful singular experience I’ve had in terms of my relationship with guns.

I had similar when I was about 8, I was playing with my mates in their dad's Land Rover when the youngest (he was about 4 at the time) got his dad's shotgun and loaded it. I saw him and was telling him to put it down, I grabbed the rifle and was literally staring down the barrel and just moved my head out of the way as he pulled the trigger. Blew the glass clean out of the windscreen and all over the mom's Daimler, our parents came running in terror. Their dad always kept his rifle locked away from that day onwards

 

[The Bear]

And the next one...

Michigan school shooting: Student kills four and wounds seven

Police allege the suspect, a 15-year-old student, used a gun his father had bought days earlier.

www.bbc.co.uk

Will they ever start doing anything to stop this? It'll probably take a president's child to die before they do. And even then it probably won't help.

 

[t3ch]

When I was… 11 maybe? I was hanging out with a group of friends at one of their houses and they pulled out an honest to god hunting rifle and started play acting like they were going to start shooting. Which was nerve wracking enough, until they actually DID discharge the damn thing.

Probably the most impactful singular experience I’ve had in terms of my relationship with guns.

I found a pistol in a closet when I was like 3 and was all "ha ha mama pew pew" and the long and short is I almost shot her. Whoops!

Guns are cool though!

 

[t3ch]

And the next one...

Michigan school shooting: Student kills four and wounds seven

Police allege the suspect, a 15-year-old student, used a gun his father had bought days earlier.

www.bbc.co.uk

Will they ever start doing anything to stop this? It'll probably take a president's child to die before they do. And even then it probably won't help.

The parents in that one need to be in fucking jail:

According to prosecutors, James Crumbley purchased the Sig Sauer 9-mm. semi-automatic handgun, the weapon allegedly used by his son, four days before the shooting. A store employee told investigators that Ethan Crumbley was with his father at the time of the purchase. The same day, Ethan Crumbley posted photos of the gun to social media with the caption, "Just got my new beauty today," McDonald said.

The next day, Jennifer Crumbley posted to social media suggesting that she and Ethan were testing out the gun, which she referred to as "his new Christmas present," McDonald said.

On Nov. 21, McDonald said that a teacher at Oxford High School observed Ethan Crumbley searching online for ammunition with his cellphone during class, and reported it to school officials, who informed Jennifer Crumbley but received no response from either parent.

The same day, McDonald said that Jennifer Crumbley exchanged text messages with her son about the reported incident, including one that read: "LOL I'm not mad at you, you have to learn not to get caught."

On the morning of the shooting, a teacher saw a note on Ethan Crumbley's desk that including a drawing of a semi-automatic handgun next to the words, "The thoughts won't stop, help me," and a bullet below the words "blood everywhere." The note also included drawings of figures with gunshot wounds, as well as the phrases "my life is useless" and "the world is dead."

The teacher was so alarmed she took a photo of the note with her cellphone. Jennifer and James Crumbley were immediately summoned to the school, McDonald said, and a school counselor removed Ethan Crumbley from class to meet with his parents. Ethan removed the note from his backpack, but it had already been altered, with the images of the gun and disturbing phrases "scratched out," McDonald said.

School officials told Jennifer and James Crumbley that they were required to find counseling for their son within 48 hours. McDonald said that both parents "failed to ask their son if he had his gun with him" and did not inspect his backpack. Prosecutors believe that the gun Crumbley allegedly used in the shooting was in his backpack at the meeting.

James and Jennifer Crumbley "resisted the idea of their son leaving the school at that time." They left the school, and he returned to the classroom.

Hours later, amid news of an active shooter at the school, Jennifer Crumbley texted her son: "Ethan, don't do it."

unbelievable stuff

Thankfully they've already been charged with manslaughter but are now running and have a fugitive arrest warrant out.

 

[Butters]

The parents in that one need to be in fucking jail:



unbelievable stuff

Thankfully they've already been charged with manslaughter but are now running and have a fugitive arrest warrant out.

I agree. I know that some time kids are just naturally bad and thats the way it is, but in this case I do think the things I have read about the parents deffo puts way more of the blame onto them. No kid that age should even be allowed to know where the guns in their house are at,more or less test and/or hold the damn thing. Parents in this case are total idiots and should get the max sentence possible.

As someone who works in education myself, I will admit that I am way more anxious going to work than I used to be which is a shame.

 

[Johnny75]

I agree. I know that some time kids are just naturally bad and thats the way it is, but in this case I do think the things I have read about the parents deffo puts way more of the blame onto them. No kid that age should even be allowed to know where the guns in their house are at,more or less test and/or hold the damn thing. Parents in this case are total idiots and should get the max sentence possible.

As someone who works in education myself, I will admit that I am way more anxious going to work than I used to be which is a shame.

You must see the problems are being able to purchase guns and keep them at your house?

 

[Butters]

You must see the problems are being able to purchase guns and keep them at your house?

Well yes of course pal that is obviously the main problem in a nutshell. If wasn't so easy to get them, this whole sad situation would probably have never happened. The county nearest me recently had a gun buyback program or some such thing where people could sell their guns. That's a start I suppose, but some much needed and smart legislation needs to be brought forth also.

I wish I had the magic solution to the whole gun situation here in the States but I don't. While we can make it extremely extremely hard for the public to buy guns, the USA is such a big country,if you want a gun I just think their will always be a way for you to get one.

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

If all the hypocritical evangelical Christian wankers were actually as pro-life as they pretend to be then there would be less of a problem.

It still blows my mind that so many households in the USA have guns in them.

 

[Tony Towner]

While you have this nothing will change

https://twitter.com/x/status/1467197523127422979

 

[Butters]

While you have this nothing will change

https://twitter.com/x/status/1467197523127422979

Yes that is fucking detestable I agree pal smh.

 

[Alan]

Not a mass shooting, but someone just got lit up right in front of my office building. Seven rounds discharged into their car in the middle of the day in literally the most central part of Charlotte.

Just fucking crazy.

EDIT: Currently being reported as a non-casualty incident, thank goodness.

 

[Alan]

Not a mass shooting, but as someone who used to work a drive thru window quite regularly, I had to stop and take a minute this morning after reading a story about a Taco Bell worker who was shot dead yesterday after refusing to accept a counterfeit bill from a customer.

 

[Paul]

Exactly how unlucky is this, the poor bloke

British man killed by stray bullet as he lay in bed in Atlanta

Matthew Willson from Surrey was shot in ‘reckless’ shooting as he was visiting his girlfriend

www.theguardian.com

 

[Tredman]

A colleague, from Kansas City, was telling me, matter-of-factly, last week about how a boy in her children’s school brought a gun in and shot one of the admin staff as they stopped him getting into the wider school. Was a bit amazed about how normal this seemed.

 

[Dennisons Wrong Foot]

Shootings are so commonplace nowadays that nobody bats an eyelid anymore. They happen every day in every city. Talk of limiting access to guns just drives up sales. I don't see any solution.

In 2005 my wife lost a brother when he was shot dead on his front doorstep by his daughters boyfriend. Even then shootings were a regular occurrence but one of the local tv stations did interview the family who were pleading for help in finding the killer. Nowadays it would be just another statistic.