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0 Days Since Last Shooting: But the Second Amendment!

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Well, yes, sure, in an ideal world.

Noticing changes and behaviors by authority figures and whatever other co-students and reporting that or looking into it would help, too.

And then there is Scooby is who is willing to ignore Constitutional rights (and not talking 2nd Amendment), which makes him a complete hypocrite.
Uh, what?
 
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:Rolleyes:

You and I think he's guilty. That's a common though. But we don't have all the facts yet. He must go through due process. You say he should be in jail now, no questions asked. I think he should be put through a trial, and judged based on evidence. If he didn't have the guns secured? Then yes, guilty. If the kid somehow got through all the safe and responsible measures? Then not guilty.

You are quick to judge, which is exactly the behaviors you rant against. Therefore, hypocrite. Own it, keep quiet, or adjust the attitude.

Edit: you can pending a hearing, but with current laws, the dad is in the clear. Something that I JUST MENTIONED, about the gun owner law, needs to be changed.
 
You and I think he's guilty. That's a common though. But we don't have all the facts yet. He must go through due process. You say he should be in jail now, no questions asked. I think he should be put through a trial, and judged based on evidence. If he didn't have the guns secured? Then yes, guilty. If the kid somehow got through all the safe and responsible measures? Then not guilty.

You are quick to judge, which is exactly the behaviors you rant against. Therefore, hypocrite. Own it, keep quiet, or adjust the attitude.
**** you.
 
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Kid got Dad's guns. That's all we know right now.

IF Kid got Dad's guns out of the dresser/nightstand/etc, ok there's a charge.
IF Kid got Dad's guns out of the safe because Kid broke into said safe, no charge.

We don't have the full details right now, yet you say "Dad should be in jail." That is not due process.
 
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1 out of 5 people in prison have never been convicted of a crime.

Now, does that include holding time?

Mind you, I think that many in prison don't deserve to be; over-sentencing, prefer probation for minor crimes, etc. It's a known problem in this country. Would like clarification on that statistic. :)
 
Now, does that include holding time?

Mind you, I think that many in prison don't deserve to be; over-sentencing, prefer probation for minor crimes, etc. It's a known problem in this country. Would like clarification on that statistic. :)

You'll find the US doesn't keep figures for this because it has a habit of not keeping data on areas where it is breathtakingly incompentent.

Estimates are that 500k of the US 2.2million prisoners are "pre-trial", i.e not convicted.

Of these around 20% will be acquitted, so at any time the US imprisons 100k innocent people.

Of the others all are legally presumed innocent.

This figure of around 20% of detainees being pre trial is double to most comparable countries (UK is second at 13%)

So yeah, lock him up pending trial.
 
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So yeah, lock him up pending trial.

Ok, thank you. So, "pending trial" means they have not been judged. The stat is somewhat misleading. Still a disturbing fact, given the raw numbers.
 
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Kid got Dad's guns. That's all we know right now.

IF Kid got Dad's guns out of the dresser/nightstand/etc, ok there's a charge.
IF Kid got Dad's guns out of the safe because Kid broke into said safe, no charge.

We don't have the full details right now, yet you say "Dad should be in jail." That is not due process.

OK...can we get behind a law that requires all guns are locked up and otherwise secured in the home? Good. Can we stop carry laws also? Then we're starting to get to the point where we're adding meaningful laws to the books.
 
OK...can we get behind a law that requires all guns are locked up and otherwise secured in the home? Good. Can we stop carry laws also? Then we're starting to get to the point where we're adding meaningful laws to the books.

What, are you high? We can't even agree that blind people can't carry. We can't even agree that insane people can't carry.
 
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An impressive and comprehensive examination of How to reduce shootings from the Times’ Nicholas Kristoff with statistics about guns in America, areas of consensus among the public and elements of a public health approach to gun ownership.

After tightening gun laws, firearm homicide rates dropped 40 percent in Connecticut. And after Missouri eased gun laws, gun homicide rates rose 25 percent.
 
An impressive and comprehensive examination of How to reduce shootings from the Times’ Nicholas Kristoff with statistics about guns in America, areas of consensus among the public and elements of a public health approach to gun ownership.

Didn’t see any backup for that claim. To be fair to him, it was reasonably well written and fair though. The most important point he mentioned, and something I strongly agree with, is that success should be measured in reducing gun deaths overall. Trying to stop one off type events is nearly impossible and can easily distort the issue.

I’d also point out he admitted the article was premeditated and was waiting for the right day. Never saw that one coming.
 
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Yep, THAT is the sad news of the day...

It is a sad story. This isn't a competition here on what the saddest story is. It's sad that children were killed. It's sad that it's because someone was suicidal due to feeling like an outcast. It's sad that no one saw the signs and tried to help the kid out.
 
It is a sad story. This isn't a competition here on what the saddest story is. It's sad that children were killed. It's sad that it's because someone was suicidal due to feeling like an outcast. It's sad that no one saw the signs and tried to help the kid out.


It’s sad that we as a nation can’t do anything about our gun obsession. Thanks to a bunch of small dicked gun nuts that hold the second amendment above all others and point their fingers st EVERYTHING except guns.
 
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Texas lieutenant governor Dan Patrick (not to be confused with the sports guy) says the problem is these schools have too many entrances.

Guns don't kill people. Doors kill people.
 
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It’s sad that we as a nation can’t do anything about our gun obsession. Thanks to a bunch of small dicked gun nuts that hold the second amendment above all others and point their fingers st EVERYTHING except guns.

It is still a user problem.

Drunk drivers kill people. We don't blame the car nor the alcohol.
Heck, vehicles driven into crowds in recent times. We don't blame the car.
Knife-wielding people kill people. We don't blame the knife.
Pressure-cooker bombs.....we don't blame the pressure cooker.

Notice a trend? We have to make sure that responsible and sane people are the ones who are able to purchase and own a gun. We've all pretty much outlined what we would like in that regard. It's just a matter of getting the politicians to act on it.

(and "we" is the royal "we")
 
It is still a user problem.

Drunk drivers kill people. We don't blame the car nor the alcohol.
Heck, vehicles driven into crowds in recent times. We don't blame the car.
Knife-wielding people kill people. We don't blame the knife.
Pressure-cooker bombs.....we don't blame the pressure cooker.

Notice a trend? We have to make sure that responsible and sane people are the ones who are able to purchase and own a gun. We've all pretty much outlined what we would like in that regard. It's just a matter of getting the politicians to act on it.

(and "we" is the royal "we")

The car analogy is intellectually weak. The car’s main purpose is not for driving into crowds. A gun is designed to kill. That’s the reason guns exist. Technology (automatic collision avoidance and eventually hands free self driving) will reduce drunk driving accidents.


Let’s give up. Nothing can be done. Obviously we need to make guns, which are designed to kill things, easily accessible to nut jobs.
 
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