Mass shooting in Uvalde Texas...

[aristocrat]

21 minutes ago, Limeaid said:

Right now what is happening which what happened after 9-11. 

 

After 9-11 big business went big into protection sales and the government beefed up workforce who were not qualified to do their job. 

Costs on airlines and other related businesses skyrocketed.

 

Now these businesses are targeting schools, schools often without money for other government mandates, with directed marketing to teacher groups and parents.

School my wife works at got several including phone calls and mailings.

School safety is already big business and apparently has done nothing. 

[PetermansRedemption]

2 hours ago, SoTier said:

 

 

I live in a city with about 30,000 people -- almost twice the size of Uvalde -- and there are times when there are only 3 police officers on patrol in the entire city.   Crime in this town -- in this entire county with a population of around 120-130k --  mostly involves drug use, drug sales, DUI, and low level property crimes like burglary, vandalism, car theft etc.  I can't remember the last time any police officer in my city actually fired his/her revolver while on duty.   Training in active shooter response for LEOs in places like this is very abstract because police officers have virtually no experience in dealing with active gun violence.  Their experience with gun violence is almost always after the fact.  

Uvalde spends 40% of its budget on policing. If a city of 16,000 sends 40% of their budget to their police force and only has 3 officers, that’s a gross misuse of funding. 

[K-9]

Heard a couple of big wig politician speakers (won’t use their names lest this post gets deleted) at the NRA both trot out LaPierre’s tired line about how only a good man with a gun can stop a bad man with a gun. Someone should remind them that NINETEEN good men with guns stood outside of a room for over an hour and couldn’t stop ONE bad man with a gun. 

[nedboy7]

3 hours ago, SoTier said:

 

Sounds like a  plan to me ... but why limit arming school kids to just school hours?    IMO, requiring every American to have combat training and to carry a semi-automatic gun whenever they leave their homes would undoubtedly make the country infinitely safer.

 

// sarcasm off

just wondering where the bear arms thing ends. Are grenade-launchers ok? 

[SoTier]

52 minutes ago, PetermansRedemption said:

Uvalde spends 40% of its budget on policing. If a city of 16,000 sends 40% of their budget to their police force and only has 3 officers, that’s a gross misuse of funding. 

 

That's not what I wrote.   I wrote that the city I live in, which is about twice the size of Uvalde, sometimes only has 3 police officers on patrol -- you know, riding in their cars and available to quickly respond to crime calls.   Police forces are one of those agencies that operate 24/7, so not all officers are available at any one time.   It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that there are more officers on patrol on Friday or Saturday nights than on a week day mid-morning or afternoon.    Use your common sense.

[WhoTom]

7 minutes ago, K-9 said:

Heard a couple of big wig politician speakers (won’t use their names lest this post gets deleted) at the NRA both trot out LaPierre’s tired line about how only a good man with a gun can stop a bad man with a gun. Someone should remind them that NINETEEN good men with guns stood outside of a room for over an hour and couldn’t stop ONE bad man with a gun. 

 

Do you know what's banned from the NRA event?

 

Yep - guns.

 

 

[nedboy7]

7 minutes ago, K-9 said:

Heard a couple of big wig politician speakers (won’t use their names lest this post gets deleted) at the NRA both trot out LaPierre’s tired line about how only a good man with a gun can stop a bad man with a gun. Someone should remind them that NINETEEN good men with guns stood outside of a room for over an hour and couldn’t stop ONE bad man with a gun. 

these people you speak of have gotten used to defying their own logic every other sentence.  We hate socialism. Give me Medicare! 

[boyst]

22 minutes ago, K-9 said:

Heard a couple of big wig politician speakers (won’t use their names lest this post gets deleted) at the NRA both trot out LaPierre’s tired line about how only a good man with a gun can stop a bad man with a gun. Someone should remind them that NINETEEN good men with guns stood outside of a room for over an hour and couldn’t stop ONE bad man with a gun. 

No, they could. They were just cowards. 

[aristocrat]

One kid broke the entire social contract between cops and citizens. One kid put a chief of police's brain in such a pretzel that he forgot all of his training.  Oh, the kids are probably all dead. Like everyone who gets shot dies.  Billions spent on school safety and one propped open door breaks the entire system.  

[WhoTom]

32 minutes ago, K-9 said:

Heard a couple of big wig politician speakers (won’t use their names lest this post gets deleted) at the NRA both trot out LaPierre’s tired line about how only a good man with a gun can stop a bad man with a gun. Someone should remind them that NINETEEN good men with guns stood outside of a room for over an hour and couldn’t stop ONE bad man with a gun. 

 

Here's some fact-checking on those big wigs: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/us/politics/fact-check-trump-cruz-nra.html

 

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

3 hours ago, SoTier said:

 

 

I live in a city with about 30,000 people -- almost twice the size of Uvalde -- and there are times when there are only 3 police officers on patrol in the entire city.   Crime in this town -- in this entire county with a population of around 120-130k --  mostly involves drug use, drug sales, DUI, and low level property crimes like burglary, vandalism, car theft etc.  I can't remember the last time any police officer in my city actually fired his/her revolver while on duty.   Training in active shooter response for LEOs in places like this is very abstract because police officers have virtually no experience in dealing with active gun violence.  Their experience with gun violence is almost always after the fact.  

good points. Can’t really realistically simulate or practice a crisis situation like this. 

[TH3]

15 minutes ago, aristocrat said:

One kid broke the entire social contract between cops and citizens. One kid put a chief of police's brain in such a pretzel that he forgot all of his training.  Oh, the kids are probably all dead. Like everyone who gets shot dies.  Billions spent on school safety and one propped open door breaks the entire system.  

It’s almost like the strategy of letting everyone and anyone have high powered semiautomatic weapons and then playing good guy with a gun and

attempting to “harden” literally thousands and thousands of targets doesn’t work…..who knew?

Edited May 28, 2022 by TH3

[boyst]

All this talk and not one actual good idea on how to fix this yet.  The posturing and bloviating is understandable to vent frustration but there really is not a solution for "gun control." It's just the tired paroted lines by those who only seek gratification and endulgence.

 

It's quite frustrating because the honest problem is difficult to face. The gun is the symptom of the problem, not the cause. 

 

Instead of facing that truth we instead choose to make those who disagree with us, those who do not share our values the face of the problem. We attack each other which perpetuates the value of the gun and those who wish to use it for evil. We let newspapers tell us "facts," comedians who are paid to make us laugh end up making us angry. We have entire advocacy groups pushing money in their pocket as they create a gesture of purpose focused on singular entity without offering real answers, honest solutions, or viable results. Those same groups all encompass what the generally weak minded consider conversation about a topic. Conversation that doesn't have "facts," good nature, honest solutions and viable results. 

 

We then take this as there are only two sides to every argument. A dichotomy of man where I am right and you are wrong. I have my principles and values while you represent error and evil. We fall in to the trap set for us by those who are truly evil to have us not united, but stand divided.

 

This board, this country, this world have shown in the last dozen years a multitude of examples. And this is our nature. We are doomed as a society.

 

How many people here can simply say they don't have a logical, practical solution to the "gun problem?"  I doubt anyone. Not upon the high ivory towers constructed.

[HappyDays]

14 minutes ago, Boyst62 said:

All this talk and not one actual good idea on how to fix this yet. 

 

You can disagree with some of the proposed gun control solutions, but it's disingenuous to suggest no one is offering solutions. Age limits, waiting periods, stronger background checks and red flag laws, ammunition limits, etc. Don't pretend solutions aren't being discussed. Just take one minor solution, raising the age limit from 18 to 21, and the last two mass shootings wouldn't have happened. Polls show a majority of Americans agree with some level of increased gun control. The issue is that there's a multibillion dollar industry paying to make sure these solutions never even make it to a vote.

[frostbitmic]

2 hours ago, nedboy7 said:

just wondering where the bear arms thing ends. Are grenade-launchers ok? 

How about SAM's... Because you know, for protection ... After all it's just another weapon of war

[Gugny]

On 5/26/2022 at 7:07 PM, GoBills808 said:

Fine. I’d be willing to allow ex military and ex law enforcement access to semi automatics. That’s my concession. 
 

Now find me one single person from the other side willing to budge even one inch.

 

As a veteran, I have always believed this notion of ex-military being better-equipped to handle firearms is absolutely ridiculous.

 

First of all, some of the most ignorant and most stupid people I've ever known were those I served with.

 

Secondly, for those vets with firearms training/experience, there's a decent chance that they could be suffering from PTSD to some extent.

 

Why on earth do people think they're the best ones to provide semi-automatic weapons?  And then have those people, with those weapons, IN OUR SCHOOLS?

 

More guns is the answer to NOTHING.

 

Semi-automatic weapons in ANYONE's hands is a continuous step backwards.

 

 

[frostbitmic]

2 hours ago, K-9 said:

Heard a couple of big wig politician speakers (won’t use their names lest this post gets deleted) at the NRA both trot out LaPierre’s tired line about how only a good man with a gun can stop a bad man with a gun. Someone should remind them that NINETEEN good men with guns stood outside of a room for over an hour and couldn’t stop ONE bad man with a gun. 

A good guy with a gun lost his life in Buffalo, and he was a retired police officer.

[K-9]

2 hours ago, WhoTom said:

 

Do you know what's banned from the NRA event?

 

Yep - guns.

 

 

Yeah, I posted a couple days ago how beyond ironic that is. And that you’d think Abbot and Cruz, so proud of their new gun laws, would be touting them by urging all attendees to strap up with their finest semi assault rifles and regalia to show their pride. 

[K-9]

13 minutes ago, frostbitmic said:

A good guy with a gun lost his life in Buffalo, and he was a retired police officer.

Yeah, LaPierre left out the part about the bad guys wearing body armor. Only good guys with a gun AND wearing body armor can stop a bad guy with a gun wearing body armor. Assuming, of course, the good guy with a gun actually has the courage to act.

 

Someone told me today that in all the cases where an armed “good guy” intervened in a “bad guy with a gun” situation that only 3% of the time was it successful. I’m gonna research that, but I would not be surprised in the least to find it to be true. 

[boyst]

38 minutes ago, HappyDays said:

 

You can disagree with some of the proposed gun control solutions, but it's disingenuous to suggest no one is offering solutions. Age limits, waiting periods, stronger background checks and red flag laws, ammunition limits, etc. Don't pretend solutions aren't being discussed. Just take one minor solution, raising the age limit from 18 to 21, and the last two mass shootings wouldn't have happened. Polls show a majority of Americans agree with some level of increased gun control. The issue is that there's a multibillion dollar industry paying to make sure these solutions never even make it to a vote.

Unfortunately I had to edit my response. I was penalized before for protecting the constitution. It's unacceptable to do so apparently.

 

Regardless, my point. Those are not viable options. They're incredibly poor arguments and would result in more violence and potentially a civil war.

Edited May 28, 2022 by Boyst62