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15 confirmed dead so far in Oregon college shooting

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    #32
    The Backwards Man
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    Reading some of the comments on Fox News, make the Journal look like a haven of rational thought.


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    #33
    Birneybau
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    MadYaker wrote: »
    Yeah it's tragic but I don't think any gun laws will change at a federal level. The NRA have too much power in congress. If Sandy Hook wasn't enough to bring about change then nothing will, strange they were able to take the guy alive, normally the people who do this want to die in process. I wonder would he be of Arabic descent and what his motives were?

    Have any of them ever been? What an ignorant comment.

    Anyway, what a fcuked up society. There will be calls for more guns as a solution.


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    #34
    My name is URL
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    This is the 19th school shooting this year alone in the US

    I knew things were bad but holy shit like

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States#2010s


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    #35
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Overheal wrote: »
    plot twist: when was the last time anywhere there was a female perp in a mass shooting?

    Brenda Spencer. She didn't like mondays.


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    #36
    Roger Hassenforder
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    WTF is wrong with people?
    Anyone encouraging this nutter should be done.


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    #37
    The Black Oil
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    The Umpqua Community College website is down at the moment, understandably.

    I'm a bit disgusted at the journalists on social media trying to contact those at the scene or families who have heard their kids are OK. Unavoidable these days.

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    #38
    Xenji
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    This is the 19th school shooting this year alone in the US

    I knew things were bad but holy shit like

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States#2010s

    Piers Morgan ( yeah I know ) mentioned on Sky News that there have been over 120 shootings in schools since Sandy Hook and 45 so far this year, not sure where he is getting his facts from though.


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    #39
    Kerrydude1981
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    Piers Morgan was on Sky earlier on and for once I have to say he is right in what he was saying about the attitude to guns in America

    https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/649657157454012416

    He is getting a mixed reaction on twitter

    https://twitter.com/WavyBrah/status/649666522357592064


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    #40
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    The Black Oil wrote: »
    The Umpqua Community College website is down at the moment, understandably.

    I'm a bit disgusted at the journalists on social media trying to contact those at the scene or families who have heard their kids are OK. Unavoidable these days.

    Isn't that also how some of the hostages got caught in France, because the media reported where they were? Their disgusting animals, who care about nothing more than ratings.


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    #41
    My name is URL
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    https://twitter.com/PhilWindowME/status/649668359211098112

    Flawless logic there from your man


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    #42
    Streetwalker
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    Stupid Americans be stupid.


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    #43
    The Black Oil
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    Social media is the wrong place to get measured coverage for stories like this. Empathy and concern first, not politics.

    As Chris Matthews of MSNBC said about the kid with the clock story, too many go to their battle stations without knowing the full details.

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    #44
    Gatling
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/PhilWindowME/status/649668359211098112

    Flawless logic there from your man

    And what won't the NRA allow in America
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    #45
    tomwaterford
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    Roger Hassenforder wrote: »
    WTF is wrong with people?
    Anyone encouraging this nutter should be done.

    Why would someone encourage this??
    I read the link...it's the same as the horrible thing where I seen people goad a person into a live suicide before :(


    Them lads had a chance to stop it..why would they not report it?


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    #46
    Overheal
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    Emmet Tight Quest wrote: »
    Brenda Spencer. She didn't like mondays.

    Ah, that song.


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    #47
    ceadaoin.
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    And Chicago has seen an insane amount of gun crime as well in the past 2 or 3 weekends, I believe.

    When in the hell will America understand that their current gun laws are the problem?


    Chicago actually has some of the strictest gun laws in the U.S. The problem there is guns illegally obtained by gang members. Banning guns won't stop people getting them illegally. I don't know what the cause of the problem is, it seems there is something fundamentally wrong with American society, but it's a little late for changing the law considering there are hundreds of millions of privately owned guns in the country.


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    #48
    dreamers75
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    The Black Oil wrote: »

    I'm a bit disgusted at the journalists on social media trying to contact those at the scene or families who have heard their kids are OK. Unavoidable these days.

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CQQEg3CWIAEOMJY.png


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    #49
    Cortina_MK_IV
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    It is the mindset of owning/using a gun. I met a guy kept one in his car in case he was "jacked." Another couple of guys I knew (lived beside) treated their guns like they were pets and reminisced about their first gun. The older bloke (70's) had the attitude that if anyone broke into his house he'd blow them away. "I'd rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6" was his motto. Pretty representative of a large number of the population I would think.


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    #50
    Pink Lemons
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    Cortina_MK_IV wrote: »
    It is the mindset of owning/using a gun. I met a guy kept one in his car in case he was "jacked." Another couple of guys I knew (lived beside) treated their guns like they were pets and reminisced about their first gun. The older bloke (70's) had the attitude that if anyone broke into his house he'd blow them away. "I'd rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6" was his motto. Pretty representative of a large number of the population I would think.

    It just goes to show the level of fear and paranoia that is ripe in American society, massively piled on by news stations like Fox.


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    #51
    MarkAnthony
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    Said it before, say it again if you want to own a gun in the States you should have to do a mandatory number of hours a month community service guarding Schools/Colleges.

    "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

    Toby, as always puts it best.



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    #52
    Gatling
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    Psyche testing should be mandatory for all gun holders but that's never going to be allowed happen
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    #53
    c_man
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    MarkAnthony wrote: »
    "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

    Toby, as always puts it best.

    Didn't the Supreme Court rule that that interpretation wasn't correct at all though?


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    #54
    JP Liz V1
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    Guns were allowed on campus, madness


    RIP
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    #55
    strelok
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    a bowl of kellogs coco pops, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.


    you see how the important part is still important, whatever inane bull**** is deemed 'necessary' to the security of a free state?

    the right to bear arms is the important part of that sentence, not the militia. that's just explanatory


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    #56
    dreamers75
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    This is the 19th school shooting this year alone in the US

    I knew things were bad but holy shit like

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States#2010s

    this site says its the 45th

    http://everytown.org/article/schoolshootings/


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    #57
    Clandestine
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    i knew someone from r9k would eventually break


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    #58
    The Black Oil
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    dreamers75 wrote: »
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CQQEg3CWIAEOMJY.png

    Yep, that's pretty much what I saw. Hope you're safe, but we'd like your account of things all the same...

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    #59
    MarkAnthony
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    c_man wrote: »
    Didn't the Supreme Court rule that that interpretation wasn't correct at all though?

    Time to be revisited.


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    #60
    My name is URL
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    Police just confirmed that the killer is dead


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    #61
    The Black Oil
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    Guardian live updates. Shooter dead, confirmed by the police.

    http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2015/oct/01/shooting-reported-at-oregon-community-college-live-updates

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