The Desensitived to Active Shooters in America Thread

The NRA was first built in the autumn of '871 to keep rifle owners of the time informed about gun legislation and update the people when laws were changed. In '934, they built a legislative affairs division, led by Karl Telford Frederick. Back then, Telford-Frederick and the NRA under him were dead center of the spectrum between loose and tight gun regulations. Then, in the mid '970s, they built a legislative affairs institute and a political victory fund, and that's where they started to drift towards looser gun laws. In '991, a complete sellout named Wayne LaPierre took over as chief executive officer, and turned the association into a glorified bribery front for gun manufacturing corporations. In '017, they brought Tea Party extremist Dana Loesch aboard as the spokesperson, after which the NRA really started acting like a charismatic cult. In February of '018, after the Stoneman-Douglas Massacre, NRATV's creepy ways boiled over into a tension-riddled feud between the extreme right and K-12 students all over TV and social media, which crashed the public's opinion of the NRA. By the spring of '019, the NRA had been hemorrhaging money for almost a year, so some of the NRA (likely the ones who were just principled enough not to serve as LaPierre's and Loesch's lapdogs) sued their public relations firm, Ackerman-McQueen for covering up their financial documents, and the NRATV network shut down shortly later. I hope these are signs that LaPierre's briberous and corrupt ways are finally catching up with the association.

Yep, and right on cue, 20 dead in shooting at an El Paso Wal-Mart. But once again we just go "thoughts and prayers" and "unfortunately nothing can stop these from happening!" and move on with life for the time being (aside from the Parkland students getting some progress done, but it's not enough)

www.cnn.com/2019/08/03/us/el-paso-shooting/index.html


P.S. I said it in other threads I don't like when people mock the saying "thoughts and prayers", there's nothing wrong with offering words of support and comfort during tragedies. The problem is thoughts and prayers are not enough. There needs to be more legislative action as well.

Wanted to add that according to the BBC, there was an apparent manifesto posted by the gunman defending the attack as against "the Hispanic invasion of Texas." It should be noted that the gunman lived in Dallas, yet travelled several hours to El Paso which is a highly majority Hispanic border city.

I'm also betting that as usual, Trump will condemn "the violence" but not the apparent "far-right wing extremist ideology."

www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49226573

To reply to 912th: That's also the dumbest thing about the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. I think out of all the 500 plus mass shootings or whatever I've only heard of the shooter being taken down by a private citizen like twice. Some people somehow think these mass shootings are proof we need MORE GUNS and for everyone to be armed. The problem is when this situation happens unless you are a trained marksman from the military or otherwise or police officer, it's not that easy to stop the bad guy. You'll either freeze in fear and/or because you're not a trained expert wind up potentially accidentally shooting innocent bystanders running past you instead. Shooting at a shooter is a lot different than shooting at your beer cans.

To reply to HeadMarshal, mass shootings and of course hate crimes have went up since cheetohead became President. I think I said in the politics I'm more concerned by Trump's actions than his words but I take that back a little bit now. It is his rhetoric that in my opinion is partially if not even more than partially responsible for what has happened lately. Why anyone can continue to support this "President" is beyond me. It is clear he needs to go, not voted out of office, he needs to go now. If his in my opinion criminal behavior that he can't be indicted for only because of a memo that you can't charge a sitting President wasn't enough reason (and there's a lifetime of this behavior imo, not just what Mueller investigated), perhaps the sake of saving society can finally get it through the thick skulls of people.

We can pass common sense gun laws if we vote out the politicians in the NRA's pocket. Believe it or not, whenever they do a poll, like usually over 80 percent or perhaps an even higher number of Americans actually want some common sense gun legislation passed, those who belong to both parties. The problem is fringe nutjobs are exploiting a false narrative.

I'm an avid gamer, and I often relate to the world through JRPG tropes and words that mean something else in other contexts by their JRPG terminological meanings. Anyone near me who eats up the anti-videogame rhetoric is probably going to fly into a rage if they and their kids spot me in the community. Yet another reason to loathe Wayne LaPierre, Larry Pratt, and Dana Loesch.

The fact that there have been 3 huge mass shootings within a matter of 10 days, it makes me wonder if other people get inspired when one happens. Like sometimes we have a break of not having one for a few weeks and then it’s like they all happen at once.