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

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That seems like time he could be spending studying harder and actually getting into Texas A&M instead of pretending he did.
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Good for Matthew mcconaughey for speaking out
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I'm glad he's outraged by what happened in his home town but he, like too many people, doesn't seem to get it. He seems to think there is some impediment out there preventing reasonable and responsible legislation other than the American people. Enough people in enough states do not think like he thinks, or like most of us on this forum think.

The gun control issue probably needs to be looked at like our presidential election. It did not matter that 3% more people voted for Clinton than turmp in 2016, because enough people in the wrong states wanted trump to be their overlord. Do the majority of people in California or other blue states support stricter gun laws? Sure. But what about Texas? Or Florida? Or Idaho? Or North Dakota? The senators that they elect will prevent meaningful reform at the national level, and their state representatives and senators will prevent it within their states. Did it matter that New York City, Chicago or Washington D.C. had some of the most restrictive gun laws around? Not really, when someone in Chicago can cross the street into Indiana and buy a gun easier than they could buy cold medicine.

Maybe it is helpful a little bit if a well-known Texan speaks out about this, but he still falls back on tired tropes about mental health, and American values. Fuck that for the rest of time. Mental health issues are a world-wide problem. And in case anyone doesn't realize it, mass shootings are now such a regular part of American life, one could argue they are an American value.

What I expect to come of Uvalde is a few states where gun laws already approach being responsible will seek to make it a little tougher to buy an AR-15. Maybe they'll beef up their red flag laws. And there will be something passed in the house before the mid-terms. And that legislation will stall in the Senate. And sometime, maybe next week, maybe next month, but almost certainly before the next school year is over, someone somewhere will walk into a school building carrying a weapon of war and that someone will mow down another 19 students. Or maybe 29. Or maybe they will find a way to go into a school and kill every last kid and teacher and lunch aid and custodian in the place and we will have a school shooting where 100 or more end up dead. Lather, rinse, repeat.
 
While mental health is a concern, some of these shooters are just radicalized, cold-blooded killers looking to make headlines. Or they have sh*t parents (Crumbley) who ignore all the warning signs and buy them a gun like it's just another toy for boys to play with. Mental health plays little-to-no factor in preventing those cases.
 
Swansong said:
What's shocking is that allegedly intelligent people still buy into this reefer madness garbage.
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For example, every year I see shit about "check your kid's Halloween candy for edibles," like someone is going to give a child their edibles in full view of their parents.
 
Yes - the defund movement that never materialized in 99% of municipalities is the reason the cops in Uvalde sat on their ass.

Fine. You know what - Democrats across the board should concede that point in debate, while being interviewed and during campaign rallies. Acknowledge that cops let elementary age school children die out of spite and because they had their feewings hurt over people finally getting fed up with them murdering citizens.

My goodness how did the mouthe-breather contingent move so far off the fucking rail?
 
Swansong said:
What's shocking is that allegedly intelligent people still buy into this reefer madness garbage.
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There’s definitely nothing wrong with recreationally smoking wild grown weed but no way constantly consuming weed from a dispensary can be good for you mentally or physically. The stuff you can buy nowadays is nothing like what we used to smoke back in the day.
 
Police in San Marcos, Texas are stationed at daycare centers in the town after a credible threat of violence was received. I assume the police are there to detain parents until the gunman finishes executing the children.
 
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