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DrunkenSano

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It looks like the Police thought no children were in the classroom that the gunman had locked himself in. It was a fuckup by the scene commander. What is unknown is if the information from 911 team was passed along to the scene commander about kids in the room with the suspect.

Uvalde Police Made ‘Wrong Decision’ in Waiting to Storm Shooter, Says Official

911 dispatchers received numerous calls from within the classroom, including repeated calls from a child whispering that people were dead and begging: “Please send the police now,

Unfortunately anything the police say at this point is very unreliable. It's already shown that they are more than willing to lie to make themselves seem more competent and also lie to try to shed fault and blame away from themselves. The most likely cause is that the police were more afraid of getting hurt than the lives of the children that were at risk.
 

ivwshane

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And outside of person to person sales, we already require a 'background check' before selling a firearm, which is done at the point of sale. Further 'background checks' for gun sales would be like further 'background checks' for voting, beyond voter registration.

We that’s a pretty big fucking hole don’t you think?
 
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Moonbeam

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Nov 24, 1999
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From my usual fare.

Firearms #1 killer of kids.

Obviously still "someone else's" problem. Certainly won't drive any change.

I feel like one of the gun nutters was just recently talking about how cars are more dangerous and we shouldn't be focusing on guns in this thread or another, could be wrong, can't find it.
I'm not a gun nutter, my opinion of course, but the point was made that guns now kill more than cars do but no sane person is demanding that cars be banned even when they were responsible for more deaths. I further added that the reason for that is that everybody uses some form of vehicular transportation to get around but not everybody owns or wants to use a gun. Thus, when it comes to understanding the utility of two different things the choice as to what is useful and what is not comes down to to whom the thing is useful. I also suggest that the subjective nature of this kind of thinking leads to tyranny, the arrogant application of personal and biased opinions affecting the rest of us. It is no different then men who are opposed to abortion. They don't have to be forced to carry the baby if the right to abort is taken from women. You don't have to be a conservative to be a stinking authoritarian. If I had my way all of you anti gun authoritarians would be shot.
 
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Moonbeam

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Unfortunately anything the police say at this point is very unreliable. It's already shown that they are more than willing to lie to make themselves seem more competent and also lie to try to shed fault and blame away from themselves. The most likely cause is that the police were more afraid of getting hurt than the lives of the children that were at risk.
Not to worry. We are all going to collude on the notion that it's guns that kill people not the society that produces so many young men who want to kill people, a system we would never change because of it's importance to our egos.
 

pmv

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May 30, 2008
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With Parkland, it was just one cop. He was getting ready to retire so why should he risk his life when he could be sipping wine on a beach.

That was probably his mindset. And the fact is he was probably scared.

Yeah, in that case it seemed clear it was a matter of one individual being scared. It's a matter of individual judgement whether one condemns him for that or not.

What I'm puzzled about is that I am _sure_ I remember after Columbine that there was a big fuss about the failure of the cops to go in immediately and an explicit decision was taken that in future the policy should be to confront an active shooter immediately. But in this case it seems that events played out as if Columbine never happened and it was back to the pre-Columbine mindset again. An curious what the explanation for that is.
 
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HomerJS

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And outside of person to person sales, we already require a 'background check' before selling a firearm, which is done at the point of sale. Further 'background checks' for gun sales would be like further 'background checks' for voting, beyond voter registration.
in only 20 states can you vote on election day. Still easier to get a gun
 

TheVrolok

Lifer
Dec 11, 2000
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I'm not a gun nutter, my opinion of course, but the point was made that guns now kill more than cars do but no sane person is demanding that cars be banned even when they were responsible for more deaths. I further added that the reason for that is that everybody uses some form of vehicular transportation to get around but not everybody owns or wants to use a gun. Thus, when it comes to understanding the utility of two different things the choice as to what is useful and what is not comes down to to whom the thing is useful. I also suggest that the subjective nature of this kind of thinking leads to tyranny, the arrogant application of personal and biased opinions affecting the rest of us. It is no different then men who are opposed to abortion. They don't have to be forced to carry the baby if the right to abort is taken from women. You don't have to be a conservative to be a stinking authoritarian. If I had my way all of you anti gun authoritarians would be shot.
Very few people are demanding that all guns be banned. Cars are far more highly restricted than firearms.
 
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Brovane

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Unfortunately anything the police say at this point is very unreliable. It's already shown that they are more than willing to lie to make themselves seem more competent and also lie to try to shed fault and blame away from themselves. The most likely cause is that the police were more afraid of getting hurt than the lives of the children that were at risk.

After hearing what was admitted to, this quote from Serenity comes to mind in regards to the scene commander and the Chief of Police.

 
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eelw

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Dec 4, 1999
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, the arrogant application of personal and biased opinions affecting the rest of us.
Well Toronto is far larger than what only 4 or 5 other US cities. We're not living in fear that we need a gun as protection. So it's proven fact we can live without gun for everyone than the ego driven cavemen that live to the south of us.
 
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Atari2600

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We are all going to collude on the notion that it's guns that kill people

It is guns that kill people you dumb fuckknuckle.

Do you think that 18 year old whose balls had barely dropped would have been able to kill 20 kids in a school without a gun?

Go away off, get a lend of a couple of braincells from someone and put them to good use for fuck sake.
 
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Atari2600

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but no sane person is demanding that cars be banned even when they were responsible for more deaths. I further added that the reason for that is that everybody uses some form of vehicular transportation to get around but not everybody owns or wants to use a gun. Thus, when it comes to understanding the utility of two different things the choice as to what is useful and what is not comes down to to whom the thing is useful.

Fuck me.

I thought your last statement was retarded, but this is even worse.

So now not only are you saying a gun is as useful as a vehicle, but that the only people that don't understand guns are as useful as vehicles are people that don't own guns.

Do you even read what you write and ask yourself does it make sense? Or just spew all over your keyboard and hit "post reply"?
 
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Moonbeam

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Well Toronto is far larger than what only 4 or 5 other US cities. We're not living in fear that we need a gun as protection. So it's proven fact we can live without gun for everyone than the ego driven cavemen that live to the south of us.
That’s an awful lot of apparent pride in Toronto and being something other than a US citizen to be holding your nose at ego driven cavemen. Something is certainly making you feel inferior to take pride in something so meaningless as where you live. If my culture made me an ignorant caveman as you say and I agree, yours did no differently for you.
 
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From my usual fare.

Firearms #1 killer of kids.

Obviously still "someone else's" problem. Certainly won't drive any change.

I feel like one of the gun nutters was just recently talking about how cars are more dangerous and we shouldn't be focusing on guns in this thread or another, could be wrong, can't find it.

That is so 2019!!
 
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HomerJS

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Police are waiting in the hallway for 40 mins while a kid is chain calling 911 from inside the classroom. Fuck these police. If we ever needed proof that police are not the answer, here it is.
Remember when Republicans were able to blame the lone officer for not running into the school at Parkland. Kinda hard to do that now.

The only thing we have left is to crackdown on gun safety.
 
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Maxima1

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I was thinking about the data yesterday you shared and the increased risk of 10xtimes in suicide if someone owns a gun.

Check out the CA study. It showed handgun owners had a 0.64 ratio to nonowners for all other suicides. The ratio for all-case suicide for handgun owners was about 3X for males. It also showed about half of the suicides in the 12 year following happened within a year of ownership (for obvious reasons). This study is an outlier. The paper makes the case that suicides in the home should be similar to all suicides in their sample, but something is off if not that.
 

Moonbeam

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It is guns that kill people you dumb fuckknuckle.

Do you think that 18 year old whose balls had barely dropped would have been able to kill 20 kids in a school without a gun?

Go away off, get a lend of a couple of braincells from someone and put them to good use for fuck sake.
You are funny. First it’s guns that kill then it’s 18 year olds that are the threat. Make up your mind. When you can make sense yourself then worry about if I can.
 
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