Post I have copied across from the MP Jo Cox has been killed thread, in an effort to prevent that thread going too far off topic.
Shot?
According to the long running and very smug thread about American gun violence here, I thought such things didn’t happen in the UK. But regardless of the way a country would like to see itself, sometimes you have to admit that there are just nutters everywhere.
If the media reports are correct, it’s a further sign that politics are getting increasingly toxic. Not a good sign for the future.
RIP.
Strangely enough, J, if there is a shooting in Britain it usually makes the national news – not gets hidden away amongst all the others or goes unreported.
Smug? Maybe, but then we are in a place where shootings are relatively rare and not the norm; can the same be said of America? Yes, maybe the ban on owning firearms was taking a bomber wing to carpet bomb the entire area just to crack a nut (the American way?) but we don’t have school shootings or family massacres taking place every month or so as a result. Still, at least US gun owners can claim they feel safer against the threat of intruders or muggers without wondering if their kids might decide to deal a little revenge on society or their old school friends for perceived slights. We can be smug because in Britain only criminals have guns, and even then they appear to be more than a little content just wave them about in a threatening fashion, whereas in America it is almost as though the mindset is trying to find ways to make their gun go bang.
And this thread carries on because the stupidity carries on; maybe it will carry on as long as there is a reason to highlight the fact that there is a problem with guns and no one wants to do anything about it. Maybe they are too scared of the NRA to stick their heads up and make their voices heard; maybe the NRA needs to have its impact reduced so that some dialog can take place without a self interest group drawing a line on the ground and daring others to cross it. Maybe there ought to be an inquiry into the place of guns in society, carried out by a totally independant group whose findings would not be influenced by threats or bribery from those with a vested interest in selling guns or protecting the rights of gun owners to go around shooting others, and those findings accepted.
Yes, there are nutters everywhere but our nutters usually cannot get hold of a gun (and this one apparently had to make his own) so have to resort to using knives, axes, swords, bits of wood or their bare hands, rather than handguns or assault weapons, etc, which can be purchased in the next aisle from the fruit and veg, along side the scented candles in Walmart (other super markets will also sell them to you).
Bring on the outraged nutters and their flame replies.
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