Only in America

Today’s shooting comes from Texas.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-two-shot-texas-southern-20151009-story.html

Happy trails, y’all!

And Arizona-

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34487997

This tows them!

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My lasting memory of Bath is that of steep hills. How do they get their mobility scooters up them?

The parts the dross go to are **** holes unlike Bath and the West Country

So why send the obnoxious ones on Holiday here. Visit Bath in Somerset and I make my point!

In return for the dross we send to Florida!!;)

What this? kids stuff why did he top a few more to make the national press?

Still love your guns Yanks?

Today’s shooting comes from Texas.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-two-shot-texas-southern-20151009-story.html

Happy trails, y’all!

So why send the obnoxious ones on Holiday here. Visit Bath in Somerset and I make my point!

My relatively long experience of a fairly well travelled life suggests to me that the US has no more or less obnoxious, stupid, bigoted citizens than the UK, France, Germany, Australia and most other nations on earth!

Americans aren’t all stupid Bigoted,(scared unless they are packing a gun) and don’t ever compare then with us because they speak a similar language(loudly)
I don’t class all of them the same its just those that come to notice.

Old chant from the Vietnam war(which I opposed “Hey hey LBJ how many kids did you kill today?) or sent American Forces to their Deaths?
You are scared of terrorists from what you call “raghead countries” and don’t seem to remember the nutters of Oklahoma or Waco.

Before you reply have a nice drink of 245T and if I have p1ssed off a few Americans good, Take a look at yourselves and think of you home grown murderers.

‘Only in America’

Certainly hope so…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOexD3XyE6o

That’s a little unfair; I’m sure if you pointed a camera at enough people on the streets of the United Kingdom (or Australia) you could find enough stupid responses to make your target fit the stereotype you are trying to perpetuate!

After all, we’d not be so stupid as to believe this represents the average American…..are we?

An Australian viewpoint-

https://www.facebook.com/OccupyDemocrats/videos/964786396947748/

‘Only in America’

Certainly hope so…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOexD3XyE6o

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I am many things but leg end, never.

I’m proud to say I don’t seek glory in the murder of children (and others) in defending the indefensible as you do though.

Weaponry does not have a day to day place in a modern civilised society (Other than for sport, but that should be in a controlled environment well away from day to day society.)

Of course if the society is not modern and civilised then there may be an argument…

Its going to happen – maybe not soon, maybe not even in my lifetime, but the time will come when it happens.

At some point, the right of a child to life without the threat of being shot in the school room will overwhelm any other argument. The thought process has started.

Ah yes, there goes a happy man…

If Paul178 is happy making ignorant statements, well, to each his own.

I did not say that, I said “Well that confirms that members of the NRA are governed by the size of their weapon not the size of their brain.” I do not think the NRA are happy, scared probably that they may be emasculated by taking away their toys.

Sorry to go back so far…

What does his political opinion or sexuality (not that I heard anything about that this side of the pond, although there would probably be a few papers who would push that boat out) have to do with this? I should like to see some proof of these claims from a mainstream news site, rather than one with an agenda that would make Islamic State blush with envy.
Are you saying that ALL mass murdering shooters are liberal, homosexual democrats – and not decidedly at one extreme or another on the political spectrum, rigidly hetrosexual, happy men?

Did also notice you didn’t mention his skin colour – missed an opportunity to blow off a few stereotypes there, didn’t you…

His skin color means nothing, why did you bring that up.
You are the only one conveying a stereotype.

If you lived here you would be aware that the big network news some time back when a shooting took place said it happened because he was a member of the t-e-a party , which he was not and the network did nothing to correct that false statement until FOX plastered the news with the biased accusation made by one of the liberal networks.
Had the shooter been a Caucasian conservative, it would have been covered 24/7 for days on end.
The shooter was of the political social class that liberals rely on to stay in power.
Unless you live here and hear the biased reporting you will never truly understand.
As liberal as NPR is, they do at times have shows that expose that there is a bias, though not many.

Here is a bit of an example:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/03/sharyl-attkisson-resigns-from-cbs-news-184836
http://http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/06/01/bernie-goldberg-dan-rather-delusional-claiming-liberal-media-bias-sha

Hmm. So you don’t think the school board suffered on this occasion? Not like those injured or the families of those who died, but I am damned sure that there is misery involved whenever a gun is fired and a death occurs – or do you believe that they all sit back, toast the American way of life and chalk it up to experience?

No they suffered nothing except maybe guilt.

Maybe I am not quite up with the gist of your argument but…do you recall the shootings by postal workers, McDonalds employees or even when there had been a few shootings by Vietnam vets which made Americans wary of them? Arm American teachers and how long would it be before a few shootings cause demands for armed guards in each classroom?

So what, dead children with no defense is better in your world?

Ooooohkay…
The sky falling scenario – this would be the one involving guns, yes? Guns in school killing kids, yes? And you want to solve that problem by…throwing more guns at it?
The ones who want kids to die are gun owners, obviously. They cannot understand that their toy is a weapon that can kill when in the wrong hands; the above satire about the NRA wanting schools to be banned rings so damned true here it is unbelieveable – “we mustn’t get rid of our guns because it is our right to own them, it is just too bad that kids are being killed by them so lets employ gun owners in schools instead!” Wow. Jobs for the boys, yes?

Doesn’t it worry you that when someone talks about a school shooting you have to ask which one?

I will ignore that bit of ignorant babble as I am a ignorant of life in the U.K. as you are about life in any part of the U.S. of A.
My claim of what would happen there would be as silly as yours are of life here.

Must be an American thing. I believe the info is freely available over here.
And why keep the shooters name secret – to avoid embarrassing his shooting buddies?

That you even said that is amazing and bizarre.

So if the voting population says yes what happens then?
And if they vote no does that mean they don’t care about gun shootings and massacres, etc?

A majority of states, which is determined by voters in each state, has to ratify the amendment, then it is added.
Ir they vote no, they vote no.

Ah yes, there goes a happy man…

If Paul178 is happy making ignorant statements, well, to each his own.

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As you continue to ably demonstrate!

I think you wanted to put this with the other post containing ignorant babble directly above it.

You know nothing of the U.S. or any organization that functions here other than your bombastic arrogant ignorant opinion.
May make you feel better but still just your opinion with zero substance.

You are a legend in your own mind.

Sorry to go back so far…

The shooting of the TV reporter pretty much disapppeared from U.S. TV quickly as the shooter was a disgruntled liberal homosexual Democrat plus television does not care about ruining others lives but if it is one of their own they get special treatment rather than 24/7 hype.

What does his political opinion or sexuality (not that I heard anything about that this side of the pond, although there would probably be a few papers who would push that boat out) have to do with this? I should like to see some proof of these claims from a mainstream news site, rather than one with an agenda that would make Islamic State blush with envy.
Are you saying that ALL mass murdering shooters are liberal, homosexual democrats – and not decidedly at one extreme or another on the political spectrum, rigidly hetrosexual, happy men?

Did also notice you didn’t mention his skin colour – missed an opportunity to blow off a few stereotypes there, didn’t you…

Sadly the school board who deserves any misery that comes its way is not what suffered.

Hmm. So you don’t think the school board suffered on this occasion? Not like those injured or the families of those who died, but I am damned sure that there is misery involved whenever a gun is fired and a death occurs – or do you believe that they all sit back, toast the American way of life and chalk it up to experience?

I saw that Obama was trying to cover his 6 last night. Also stated that this was the 45th mass shooting in the States this year.Not to mention all the other singular deaths by Firearms.

Are you saying it would be any different under any other president because no, it wouldn’t.
No president has the power to do what is needed to be done, no president has the balls to take that bull by the horns and toss a stone into that pond, and no president is going to be able to convince his political allies that they could do it and remain in office against the might of the NRA and the nutters who – like these murdering gun freaks, strangely enough – claim that the only way their gun will be taken is from their cold, dead hands.

Something occurs to me about these shooting-spree killings; why do none of the perpetrators seem to want to ‘pick them off from a distance’ (given that they have decided to kill in the first place)?

To me that seems to say something about the motivation of some of the perpetrators.

They want to see the fear on the faces of their victims; they have become the terrorists in America.

Well that confirms that members of the NRA are governed by the size of their weapon not the size of their brain.

Classic.

But the whole argument with these shootings seems to boil down to this: stricter regulation vs arming teachers.

Maybe I am not quite up with the gist of your argument but…do you recall the shootings by postal workers, McDonalds employees or even when there had been a few shootings by Vietnam vets which made Americans wary of them? Arm American teachers and how long would it be before a few shootings cause demands for armed guards in each classroom?

Obviously they need to arm all 8 year old girls, then this sort of tragedy could be prevented.

And what is remarkable in all this is that the boy decided, from his experience of life up to that point, that it was a perfectly valid response to the girls refusal – when someone doesn’t do what you want it is absolutely fine to end their life.

Doesn’t something strike you as very, very wrong with a society (and in this I am not knocking America because I know full well that this would happen here if kids could get hold of guns) that allows that kind of thought process to be acceptable all the way until the actual pulling of the trigger?

Apparently they want to just let the kids die rather than get blamed for the sky-is-falling scenario they see, all the wrong people getting killed and not the criminal, by arming anyone to protect others.

Ooooohkay…
The sky falling scenario – this would be the one involving guns, yes? Guns in school killing kids, yes? And you want to solve that problem by…throwing more guns at it?
The ones who want kids to die are gun owners, obviously. They cannot understand that their toy is a weapon that can kill when in the wrong hands; the above satire about the NRA wanting schools to be banned rings so damned true here it is unbelieveable – “we mustn’t get rid of our guns because it is our right to own them, it is just too bad that kids are being killed by them so lets employ gun owners in schools instead!” Wow. Jobs for the boys, yes?

Doesn’t it worry you that when someone talks about a school shooting you have to ask which one?

One good thing to come of this is most network news sites, give the name of the shooter only rarely and do not list. at all, what type of guns were used.

Must be an American thing. I believe the info is freely available over here.
And why keep the shooters name secret – to avoid embarrassing his shooting buddies?

Congress cant atempt to modify but the general populace has the final say-so.

So if the voting population says yes what happens then?
And if they vote no does that mean they don’t care about gun shootings and massacres, etc?

Ignorance is bliss.

Ah yes, there goes a happy man…

(For those who are interested I had my money on eight)

An interesting article from the BBC website that highlights how few of these incidents are even judged newsworthy for the media in the United Kingdom to pick-up:

In the United States there have…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34424385

Is that the entire U.S. or just Chicago?

Odd how the Black Lives Matter people do not think that applies to Chicago.:confused: