Here we go again, another school shooting. This time in Texas

[Okie4570]

This isn't a gun problem -- it's a society problem...we've lost our way as a society and have become too glued to our electronics and detached from one another..we've lost our moral compass as a country. It all started going down hill after WW2 and the final nail in the coffin was the vietnam war hippie movement. We got soft.

An older gentleman that I knew for a long long time who passed away a few years ago at age 91, claimed that the beginning of the US going down hill started with the arrival of the Beetles.......maybe he was right??

 

[Shadowrider]

This is a pretty good read on various presidents and mass shootings . . .

https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/presidents-and-mass-shootings

That spectacularly confirmed my recollection. I just had a conversation (before seeing this article) that these always seem much worse under democratic administrations. I was thinking back and Clinton had some, Bush had some, Obama had a crap ton of them, Trump very few. Now Biden is telling Obama "hold my beer". Note that per the article Obama had as many as the three prior presidents did combined.

When I saw the number of mass murders the other day's shooting I just didn't believe it was that high. So I looked it up and sure enough it was legit. My hypothesis is that Biden has set the country so far back on so many fronts and the overall depression of the country is so bad that's it's causing these numbers to fly through the roof. Those don't include the nightly gun battles in Chicago either, if you add that in there's no way to compare and that crap didn't start under Biden anyway.

The politicos either need to get used to these happening or chart another political course. Other things that are different now is the instantaneous news cycle the web provides. Social media and instantaneous news coverage are now a true menace. Instant notification just amplifies the outrage, causing copycats and inspiring other societal outcasts to act.

Reagan didn't acknowledge these mass shootings. Bush was slow to do so and took heat for it. Even Clinton kept his comments tempered to the "non-political side" at least for a time anyway. Prior presidents to Johnson in the '60s didn't act on national disasters at all because it was in the purview of the States to do so instead of the federal government. I think there's a lesson in that and Biden is going to use it like there's no tomorrow to do the opposite and fan the political flames. And all the media throughout the world is going to gleefully help him do it...

 

[Okie4570]

As a 2A proponent we must find some sensible common ground on gun control to prevent those who have no business owning a gun from buying one. However that will accomplish nothing absent significant action dealing with persons who have a history of mental instability and/or who have made prior violence and death threats in any manner. Lastly until we, as a society, can learn to respect human life again no change will have any significant impact. I cannot believe we are incapable of not doing this to innocents over and over.

Hard for me to listen to the "ban guns" crowd in DC shouting about saving school children........but will fight to allow zero restriction abortion policies.......

 

[Hodrod]

I'm praying for those killed and their families.....I can't imagine what the families are going through tonight.....

 

[Bocephus123]

This isn't a gun problem -- it's a society problem...we've lost our way as a society and have become too glued to our electronics and detached from one another..we've lost our moral compass as a country. It all started going down hill after WW2 and the final nail in the coffin was the vietnam war hippie movement. We got soft.

Amen along with i don't have to work i'll just take what you have. and non attentive parents who expect society to raise there kids. and on and on! world is starting to self destruct.

 

[oksportsman]

Hard for me to listen to the "ban guns" crowd in DC shouting about saving school children........but will fight to allow zero restriction abortion policies.......

A perfect example of the hypocrisy that the left has supporting whatever fits their agenda. All life has value or none does.

 

[CC379]

Oh, I thought for a second you might have been referring to the republican pedophiles, who outnumber pedophile democrat politicians about four to one or better. (I can provide the evidence, but it will be a long, long reply, so get prepared). In the mean time, feel free to gather the evidence to back up your claim.

https://www.politifact.com/factchec...hecking-pedophilia-attacks-against-joe-biden/
Let's be real, folks. This isn't a QAnon idiocy board.

real? hunter bidens laptop
ashley bidens diary

both reference joe & pedophilia

 

[silvius]

Idiocy (you) is continually spewing your puppeteers propaganda when you cant see the truth before your eyes.

Tell us how Epstein hung himself and Gislaine was just a pawn. Barely a sword of news coverage. Yet, Johnny Dipshit gets his bed shot in and he gets beat up by his wife and coverage is half a day for 2 weeks.

Cool story bro.

 

[silvius]

real? hunter bidens laptop
ashley bidens diary

both reference joe & pedophilia

Cool story bro. Love that don't you quote your sources. I wonder why?

 

[Bocephus123]

another sad day for america hurts because something you love (guns,hunting.knife collecting etc.) is being jeopardized because people can't control themselves i think upbringing has a lot to do with it.