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Another Mass Shooting: It's Those Darn Video Games!

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Drew S. said:
You can’t force insurers to cover or not cover something.
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If the rates were high enough (hint hint) coverage would be available (hint hint).

unless you own your home outright the bank will require (hint hint) home owners.
states require (hint hint) auto insurance for tags (not stupid fuck states).
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Beto confronts Abbott during presser and gets escorted out.

cops more effective on removing him than they were stopping kid with an AR yesterday
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Ted Cruz standing right behind Abbott during the exchange. The picture is amazing. You have a who's who of complete fuckwits up on the stage trying to benefit from the tragedy as much as possible. And then one lone man standing in front of the stage calling them out for being feckless morons.
 
SJHovey said:
What I meant by political solution (and as I wrote in my post) is that it's a worthless, toothless solution that politicians come up with so they can say "we did something" in response to everyone demanding "do something," even though the solution won't address the problem.

Case in point, I think NY had previously adopted laws pertaining to limiting the size of magazines or clips for guns, as well as "red flag" laws. I believe both have been advocated by posters on this Board as possible solutions. How'd they work out in Buffalo?
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My goodness, how disingenuous. Other than Drew and Sic, everyone else on here is aware the amount of guns are the problem. Not white man angst, like you suggested once before getting your ass handed to you the last time we all had this conversation on here. We all agree, outside of Sic and Drew, a near-complete ban is by FAR the best solution. We all agree that there is not enough political will in this country to make that happen, but not because of Democrats. That’s why we (Democrats, not you) suggest the half-measures as a “compromise” with Republicans, who don’t take them anyways. Your neurotic obsession with the “back-patting” takes away from the fact New York is safer than Texas when it comes to gun violence.
 
Swansong said:
We're going to hear conflicting details for several days, if not longer. Better to focus on what we know for certain:
  • A young adult murdered his grandmother and then murdered almost two dozen others, mostly children, at an elementary school
  • The police - or a "good guy with a gun" - didn't stop it
  • We have too many guns in our country
  • We suck at mental health
  • We suck
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Those of us in mental health don’t suck. Our (lack of) attention to it and subsequent funding as a country do. Mental health has little to do with the gun violence problem though.
 
psych said:
Those of us in mental health don’t suck. Our (lack of) attention to it and subsequent funding as a country do. Mental health has little to do with the gun violence problem though.
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I should have clarified, because I absolutely don't think you (or MissT, or all the other mental health folks I work with) suck.

We, as a nation and as a culture, suck at mental health. Despite otherworldly good work by you and countless others, we simply don't invest nearly enough in it. And it sucks.

My only problem with people like you is that we don't have enough of you.
 
Private gun ownership doesn't have to be banned, just heavily regulated and restricted like it is in most other civilized countries. Will that happen in 'Murica? Nope, because we're a country of spoiled brats with oppositional defiance disorder. I've heard from more than one Republican voter in recent years, "Don't tell me what to do!" But as soon as the abortion debate starts, they're right there to inform us that that's different because it involves taking a human life (in their unscientific opinion). So at what point do supposedly "pro-life" Republicans quit being hypocrites and support measures to protect human life on all fronts? I'm not holding my breath.
 
Mental health is foundationally important for anything we aspire to do as a nation, which is why it’s all the more disgusting that Conservatives wrap themselves in that mantle as a distraction to keep the focus on the individual shooters and not on the system of laws, regulations, and industrial base that directly enables these events to occur.
 
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