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Another Shooting in the U.S..

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  • #2
    Biggins
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    *sigh*

    ...And on the day the president signs up again.


  • #3
    mark renton
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    Heres an idea, maybe guns should be banned.


  • #4
    COYVB
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    Wouldn't have happened if the victims all had bazookas. More bazookas for American citizens.


  • #5
    Andy-Pandy
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    mark renton wrote: »
    Heres an idea, maybe guns should be banned.

    But it's their god given right, 2nd amendment and all that.


  • #6
    willmunny1990
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    Andy-Pandy wrote: »
    But it's their god given right, 2nd amendment and all that.



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  • #7
    brummytom
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    willmunny1990 wrote: »
    http://news.sky.com/story/1040544/teenage-gunman-shoots-five-people-dead-in-us

    More to follow...
    And now the weather.


  • #8
    MadsL
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    Shit! That's my hometown.

    Until now there have never been any mass shootings in my State. This looks like a family killing, pity that there seem to be a rifle involved.


  • #9
    bnt
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    Albuquerque, New Mexico? Someone's been watching too much Breaking Bad.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #10
    Bad Santa
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    Alex Jones was approached for comment on the news and replied:

    "**** you commie brit lover. I hope you choke on your Prozac shake. Die in hell!"


  • #11
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    bnt wrote: »
    Albuquerque, New Mexico? Someone's been watching too much Breaking Bad.

    Y'know you might want to try and separate TV from reality.


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  • #12
    Spunge
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    isnt there like hundreds of shootings in the US every day ?


  • #13
    Biggins
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    Spunge wrote: »
    isnt there like hundreds of shootings in the US every day ?

    https://twitter.com/GunDeaths


  • #14
    MadsL
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    Biggins wrote: »
    *sigh*

    ...And on the day the president signs up again.

    Isn't that tomorrow?


  • #15
    Lawrence1895
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    mark renton wrote: »
    Heres an idea, maybe guns should be banned.

    Say that to the NRA...


  • #16
    ancapailldorcha
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    Quick, someone blame videogames!!!

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #17
    Biggins
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    MadsL wrote: »
    Isn't that tomorrow?

    Its over two days.

    The vice-president has already been sworn in.


  • #18
    mikom
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    Biggins wrote: »
    *sigh*

    ...And on the day the president signs up again.
    MadsL wrote: »
    Isn't that tomorrow?

    Someone jumped the gun.........


  • #19
    UCDVet
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    mark renton wrote: »
    Heres an idea, maybe guns should be banned.

    Murder is already banned. Criminals don't follow the law.

    Ban guns and you'll have a black market where people can still get them. Tor + bitcoins are a popular way for anyone to get their hands on illegal items and even short of that, there are plenty of examples of people killing lots of other people without guns....like starting a fire or building a bomb out of commonly available materials.

    In fact, the worst school killing in the United States didn't involve guns at all.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster


  • #20
    Biggins
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    ...then there is this reported today also:
    At the popular Dixie Gun and Knife Show in Raleigh, North Carolina, three people were wounded when an owner was taking a 12-gauge shotgun out of its case and the firearm accidentally discharged at the entrance.
    Two bystanders were hit by shotgun pellets and taken to a hospital, while a retired deputy sheriff suffered a slight hand injury.

    http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/americas/article3662734.ece

    It was a genuine accident though.


  • #21
    Biggins
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    mikom wrote: »
    Someone jumped the gun.........

    :D

    Not quite:
    BARACK OBAMA took the presidential oath today, officially beginning his second term of office.

    The president was sworn in by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts during a brief ceremony with his family in the White House Blue Room, meeting the legal requirement that presidents officially take office on January 20.

    Due to the date falling on a Sunday this year, the traditional ceremonies surrounding the start of a president’s term will take place on Monday.

    Obama made no special remarks at the ceremony, though he responded to a remark from one of his daughters, saying, “I did it”.

    On Monday, he will repeat the oath and give his inaugural speech on the steps of the US Capitol before hundreds of thousands of people.
    http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/world_news/Americas/article1198688.ece


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  • #22
    Witcher
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    Biggins wrote: »
    ...then there is this reported today also:



    http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/americas/article3662734.ece

    It was a genuine accident though.

    What a fcuking idiot...ND into a crowd of people:rolleyes:

    No way he could talk his way out of that..it was a series of fcuk ups..carrying a shotgun with a cartridge in the chamber, with no safety on, while clearly messing aboutwith the trigger and a complete lack of muzzle discipline.


  • #23
    MadsL
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    Do you think we need a new thread - one here is still going..

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056832040


  • #24
    mark renton
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    UCDVet wrote: »

    Murder is already banned. Criminals don't follow the law.

    Ban guns and you'll have a black market where people can still get them. Tor + bitcoins are a popular way for anyone to get their hands on illegal items and even short of that, there are plenty of examples of people killing lots of other people without guns....like starting a fire or building a bomb out of commonly available materials.

    In fact, the worst school killing in the United States didn't involve guns at all.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster
    I didnt say ban murder, I suggested to ban guns. We have a ban on guns here. In this country there is also a black market for guns. Criminals usually kill each other with these guns, we do not have mass murders of innocent people. By my calculation it seems the open availability of guns contributes to mass murders of these innocent people.


  • #25
    Witcher
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    mark renton wrote: »
    I didnt say ban murder, I suggested to ban guns. We have a ban on guns here. In this country there is also a black market for guns.

    Pardon?


  • #26
    Pherekydes
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    MadsL wrote: »
    Until now there have never been any mass shootings in my State. This looks like a family killing, pity that there seem to be a rifle involved.

    Sorry to seem crass about such a serious issue, but would it be better if they were killed using a pistol?


  • #27
    tommyboy26
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    mark renton wrote: »
    I didnt say ban murder, I suggested to ban guns. We have a ban on guns here. In this country there is also a black market for guns. Criminals usually kill each other with these guns, we do not have mass murders of innocent people. By my calculation it seems the open availability of guns contributes to mass murders of these innocent people.


    just to throw a spanner in the works but guns dont kill....... people do..... i never remember a gun jumping up and murdering a few people....


    oh and firearms aren't illegal in ireland:rolleyes:


  • #28
    mark renton
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    You know what I mean.


  • #29
    mark renton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,696 ✭✭✭mark renton


    tommyboy26 wrote: »


    just to throw a spanner in the works but guns dont kill....... people do..... i never remember a gun jumping up and murdering a few people....


    oh and firearms aren't illegal in ireland:rolleyes:
    Were talkin about mass murder, strange how this rarely happens without the use of guns?


  • #30
    Guy:Incognito
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    mark renton wrote: »
    Heres an idea, maybe guns should be banned.

    Surely banning murder would be better? Then you stop people being stabbed and beaten to death too.


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  • #31
    drunkmonkey
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    Spunge wrote: »
    isnt there like hundreds of shootings in the US every day ?

    There's been more people violently killed in the states since 2010 than there is people in Leitrim. That's only the people they killed inside their border. Approx 40,000 every 3 years.


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