[Misc] Only in America - 26/10/23 another mass shooting

[METALMICKY]

Thoughts and prayers will work this time, I'm sure of it.

Just checked my supply of ' thoughts and prayers ' for US gun massacres and it's tragically empty.

 

[Albion my Albion]

What would happen if a local found him and shot him dead ?
And don’t be flippant ….

If I use a flip phone (mobile) is that flippant?

Truly, if this guy, Card, was threatening to use his gun again and was shot dead the person who shot Card would become a national hero for about a week.

 

[Albion my Albion]

Just checked my supply of ' thoughts and prayers ' for US gun massacres and it's tragically empty.

Really, mine is also, and these are my fellow countrymen getting killed. I really hope (and PRAY!) that the politicians will eventually get past the minority making their own rules and stop electing crazies.

 

[Titanic]

Maine mass shooting suspect found dead

Police in the city of Lewiston said the man had an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.

www.bbc.co.uk

A man suspected of killing 18 people in a shooting in Maine has been found dead after a three-day manhunt, police say.
Robert Card, 40, was found dead from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, Maine Commissioner of Public Safety Michael Sauschuck said.

 

[keaton]

They were killed in the London Bridge terror attack, seconds apart. So why did their families get wildly different payouts?

Following the killings in 2017, relatives of victims were entitled to compensation. But just how much, it turned out, would vary by as much as hundreds of thousands of pounds. Why is one life worth more than another?

www.theguardian.com

Interesting article about compensation levels in terrorist attacks but contained this which I was unaware of, and shows how chuffed the situation is

"Gun-makers are legally protected from being sued in the US if their guns are used in a mass shooting, but nightclub and hotel owners are not."

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

They were killed in the London Bridge terror attack, seconds apart. So why did their families get wildly different payouts?

Following the killings in 2017, relatives of victims were entitled to compensation. But just how much, it turned out, would vary by as much as hundreds of thousands of pounds. Why is one life worth more than another?

www.theguardian.com

Interesting article about compensation levels in terrorist attacks but contained this which I was unaware of, and shows how chuffed the situation is

"Gun-makers are legally protected from being sued in the US if their guns are used in a mass shooting, but nightclub and hotel owners are not."

Absurd.

 

[The Clamp]

A rather strange cartoon in today’s guardian.

In response to today’s school shooting in the U.S.

I don’t find it offensive. Just a rather odd thing to make into quite a frivolous cartoon.

Or am I missing something?

 

[bhafc99]

Development in the most recent case is that the 14 year old shooter was given an assault rifle for Christmas by his parents.

Odd, because as the father of a 14 year old myself, I really don’t remember that being on his list last year. It was mostly clothes. I must be doing something wrong.

 

[Insel affe]

Odd, because as the father of a 14 year old myself, I really don’t remember that being on his list last year. It was mostly clothes. I must be doing something wrong.

I am not so sure, he did ask for a black Kevlar hoodie, gloves, matching combat pants, boots and a hunting knife.

 

[Fignon's Ponytail]

Development in the most recent case is that the 14 year old shooter was given an assault rifle for Christmas by his parents.

Odd, because as the father of a 14 year old myself, I really don’t remember that being on his list last year. It was mostly clothes. I must be doing something wrong.

....and the father has now been charged on multiple counts. Good.

 

[Triggaaar]

A rather strange cartoon in today’s guardian.

In response to today’s school shooting in the U.S.

I don’t find it offensive. Just a rather odd thing to make into quite a frivolous cartoon.

Or am I missing something?

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I don't find it odd really, it's just saying the same as we say on here, that gun crime in the US isn't treated seriously.

 

[METALMICKY]

I don't find it odd really, it's just saying the same as we say on here, that gun crime in the US isn't treated seriously.

I think your right which is tragic. What you can't quite see in that cartoon is the sign just outside that says ' No Running in the Corridors '

 

[herecomesaregular]

One positive is at least they are starting to charge the idiot parents who provide access to/buy guys for minors. Maybe this might start to have a small impact on the country's mindset.....

 

[vegster]

Great Post on Twitter just now, pictures of JD Vance on a stage surrounded by plates of bulletproof Glass and security men telling an audience that the Right to Bear Arms will cause the occasional tragedy. !

 

[Albion my Albion]

Apalachee High School · 940 Haymon Morris Rd, Winder, GA 30680, United States

★★★★☆ · Secondary school

www.google.com

Apalachee High School, Winder, Georgia

 

[BBassic]

A rather strange cartoon in today’s guardian.

In response to today’s school shooting in the U.S.

I don’t find it offensive. Just a rather odd thing to make into quite a frivolous cartoon.

Or am I missing something?

If I was going to apply some pretentious reasoning to it I'd suggest it's making a statement about how gun crime is as culturally significant to American society as The Simpsons.

 

[Scappa]

 

[surrey jim]

Sadly another shooting

Wisconsin: Five dead, including juvenile suspect, in school shooting

Police believe the suspected shooter was a student at the private Christian school.

news.sky.com

Five dead including the juvenile suspect.

 

[Badger]

A Christian school? I guess thoughts and prayers didn't work against the guns.

 

[WATFORD zero]

I'm sorry, but people get what they vote for. (In the bits of the world they actually get a vote)