2 killed, 8 wounded in mass shooting outside Arkansas grocery store
2 killed, 8 wounded in mass shooting outside Arkansas grocery store
One law enforcement officer was among those wounded, Arkansas State Police said.
We banning guns yet? Alright see yall next mass shooting
82Where were all the good people with guns ensuring that peace would erupt instead?
40Well you see the proliferation of firearms always benefits the violent criminal over the heroic defender. Always. It's a losing race.
Even back to the Wild West, places like Tombstone and Dodge City would come to implement gun control laws because, surprise, being mutually armed doesn't help when the other guy has both the element of surprise and willingness to fire first.
21Not risking their lives to help you. They're in it for themselves because they're scared. They're afraid of brown people because they're told to be. They're puppets to the propaganda and get their info from fox "news"
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Alright see ya Tuesday man.
21You may have to wait 'til Tuesday* for the next TV-publicized mass shooting, but it wasn't twelve hours before the next actual mass-shooting event occured:
- 1 death and 7 surviving victims of a shooter on 2523 W Broadway, Louisville KY USA 40211, with no arrest shown
Note that the mass shooting in Arkansas is almost a Mass Killing, as a 3rd victim has now died.
In general, there are on average more than one mass shooting every day in America, and often a high number in a day. On the 15th of June, barely a week ago, there were SIX mass shootings - Cincinatti, Southfield MI, Rochester MI, Detroit, RoundRock, Tuskegee - and 4 of the 51 total victims died. SIX MASS SHOOTINGS reported by newsmedia IN A DAY, but the record I think is 8.
Anyway, I just came to say you may not need to wait four days for the next one, that 4 hours is usually plenty. 'Murica.
*Voices carry.
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We have social issues... remove guns tomorrow, the people are still the same.
Many other countries have proper gun cultures. Why can't US do the same?
5remove guns tomorrow, the people are still the same.
Oh theres one big difference, they are far less lethal.
Many other countries have proper gun cultures.
Compared to the US, no other country on earth has a gun culture. Most people in most countries do not have guns, and most countries have much stricter gun control than the US.
13If you remove guns, the incidences of "stern glares" and "finger wagging" skyrocket, resulting in increases in hurt feelings and carpal tunnel.
4proper gun cultures
This is absurd. CAN there be a culture around "I dream of all the things I can kill with this" ?
As former infantry, 'gun culture' sounds as fleeting as 'dynamite culture.'
1One of the reasons is because Americans buy cheap guns for peasants while in places like the UK people buy expensive works of art like Holland & Holland rifles.
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Not giving up my rights because criminals break the law.
-14The right to kill people is pretty nonsense
6Many of these criminals used to be a "good guy with a gun" until, one day, it snapped.
There's a reason why the US stands out of gun violence, and it's the easy access to weapons.
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No, we're not banning guns because that requires a Constitutional amendment, not going to happen. We couldn't pass an amendment making 06/21 Chocolate Chip Cookie Day.
But to those of you with this facile "BAN" argument, I have a couple of questions. Why wasn't this shit happening when I was a kid? EDIT: By "this shit", I meant mass shootings.
You could order whatever the hell you liked from the Sears catalog. LOL, I have a pump shotgun that was sold in Western Auto stores. You could ride around with long guns mounted in your truck window. And yes, you could get an AR-15 in the 70s.
Only way I've seen laws become more permissive is regarding conceal carry. (I can argue both for and against this.) On every other front, more restrictions.
So what's up? Not an easy question, I know. It would take a shelf full of books. We don't know what happened here, but does it really matter to attack this issue case-by-case? It's happening. It didn't used to happen.
I'll say it 100 times more, America doesn't have a gun problem, America has a culture problem.
-18a culture problem.
aka our gun "culture" is pathetic. it seems people don't realize there are other countries that have a culture of guns and they don't have as much issues.
Why wasn't this shit happening when I was a kid?
I think mass media made terrorist acts more appealing. However this appears to be just normal american degeneracy enabled by idiots with guns.
5I guess you're being downvoted by young people that can't relate. Back in the day it was big news if there was a shooting, and it generally only involved 2 people. People did indeed drive around with rifles on full display. Yet few people were ever shot. Maybe in Detroit or Chicago etc but for the vast majority of the country it was unheard of. Times have changed. Mental health has declined. Everybody is depressed, frustrated, overworked and underpaid. I think such things can lead to violence. People are straight up losing their shit in this country.
1America doesn’t have a gun problem, America has a culture problem.
Oh, I'd say both.
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I used to be anti-gun, until I found out that Canadians own guns at the same rate as TEXANS. We Americans are losing our fucking minds. We're kept at each other's throats to distract us from the fact that the 1% are fucking us all over.
27Look at the regs surrounding gun ownership in Canada.
Not the same animal at all.
Plenty of countries allow guns, but the rules for their use and ownership are far more restrictive than the relative free for all we have in the US.
46We didn't use to ... until the NRA and America's 2nd Amendment defenders started pushing across our border. Source
21I don’t understand. Are you assuming every person in California is a Democrat and every person in Texas is a Republican? Those are the most populous states in the country. You are looking at a huge chunk of the country, of course they both have tons of guns. Every state has tons of guns.
1The stat that I had read was that on average Texans own guns at a rate of 4 per person, so for every person that doesn't own any, there has to be someone taking up the slack. The joke is that Texans are a distillation of what America is to the rest of the world: loud, obnoxious, and absolutely sure they're right.
The point I was trying to make is that even though Canadians own a shitload more guns per capita, they have far less gun violence than us.
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The ONLY way to this could have been Prevented was if the Officer SHOT the gunman First before he could KILL anyone! And the only way the Officer could have known there was a Crazy Murderous Gunman afoot was if he simply SHOT everyone in the store! Therefore Police should be able to Murder people without cause.
14Minority Report: Special EDition.
7What's really fucked up is I couldn't tell this was sarcastic until the end.
6Or maybe reduce gun ownership in the US, so that it's less likely that people falling into despair attempt suicide by cop?
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One law enforcement officer was among those wounded, Arkansas State Police said.
Maybe if enough of their heroic boys in blue that they salute with their special flag are wounded, we'll start being able to talk about guns like adults.
11Or politicians. And let me be clear to the mods and admins I am not advocating for this I am simply stating a fact.
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“What gun problem are you talking about? I only see a freedom problem, and that’s the best type of problem to have!”
4Tots and Pears.
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