Is this simply unremarkable people committing “suicide with infamy”?

[OddBeMe]

What should be done about them?

When looking for patterns in these mass shooters, shit jobs appear quite a bit. There are obviously outliers like the Vegas shooter, who was apparently a millionaire, tho also addicted gambler.

Nothing. We can’t do anything about this.

Guns. Stem the flow of guns, make them harder to get.

Mental healthcare for free

Better economy. Better jobs means less crime.

Other

[Anonymous]

They seem to be inspired by previous shooters. I know in Britain there was a major mass shooting a few years back despite strict gun laws. I remember there was major changes in the law in Britain after the Dunblane school massacre which 16 kids and one teacher were murdered and 15 others shot (I know famous tennis players Andy and Jamie Murray were kids in the school that day). Most of the kids were only 5& 6. Anyway a few months after in Northern Ireland somebody walked into a school with a flamethrower, when I was a little girl in primary school some guy walked into a classroom with a machete but was restrained before he could do anything by the janitor and head master. I know they had this problem in China only with knives, so they secured the school then these guys with knives started waiting outside the schools.

Now in schools in Britain and Ireland there are specific security measures in place which prevent random strangers from wandering into the school, security gates. Security doors, security cameras etc and they work well. It's something that worries me about us schools as a mother, seems to be the case that anybody can just walk in off the street during school days.

[OddBeMe]

Sure, so guns still exist in Europe, despite what the NRA says. And when you compare how many mass murders, who’s worse: US or Europe?

[Opinion Owner]

Well in Britain handguns are banned and the only guns you can buy are small calibre rifles and double barrell shotguns but you need a special license and agreement from a farmer to shoot on his land, you aren't allowed to use a gun for self defence. Mass shootings as they were never a problem in Britain or Ireland have neither increased or decreased. I dont think of any mass shootings in Ireland ever happened apart from various incidents related to the troubles conducted by the British army or republican or Unionist terrorists.

[OddBeMe]

Right so that allows you to say “the mass shooting a few years ago” whilst Americans have to say “the mass shooting a few days ago.”

[goaded]

No, they say "the five mass shootings yesterday". The UK has had 18 since 2000.

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded that seems to be the unchanged number of about 5 to 10 per decade. Hand guns do seem to be easily bought in the UK despite the ban.

[Anonymous]

As always, it's fun sparring with you.

Blaming guns for killing, is like blaming your fork for making you fat! We need to get rid of the fucking forks!

[OddBeMe]

How about blaming cars for car wreck killings? Should do away with car regs?

[goaded]

Time for The Onion's standard headline: "‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens".

https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-r-1850961776

People are blaming anti-depressants, but people all over the world take those. What's missing is the ability to kill multiple strangers, which those same people don't want to give up their right to do some day. Not even if they've been found to be violent individuals or wife beaters.

[Sevenpointfive]

you do realize your president joe gives away billions of dollars away every year for guns and other massively destructive weapons to countries that should not have them right?

if we didn't we wouldn't have this conflict we have today like we do.

[OddBeMe]

Sure but strangely, entire continents where citizens have no easy access to guns see few mass shootings. Strange huh?

[Sevenpointfive]

that's not strange. and they do have mass shootings but it's not the same as a civilian shooting up a mall. it's terrorists getting the guns. but some countries seem okay with not having their right to bear arms. of course, i do not know if that's a right that's been stripped or they never had it?

[OddBeMe]

Stay with me…what do the stats say about mass shootings in Europe Vs America?

[Sevenpointfive]

hold on. let me get a map up

[Sevenpointfive]

do we have more than half, closer to 75%. of the mass shootings in the entire world? YES. but what are you liberals reporting on? i doubt those stats are accurate. really, no mass shootings in africa? it's like daily there

[IceCreamSandwich]

All those solutions sound better than doing nothing—or worse, doing the opposite.

[OddBeMe]

I really thought Sandy Hook would be the US’s “Port Arthur”. But guns laws have only loosened since.

[Agagagagaga]

And thank God for that!

[Drewtate]

Probably more to do with his antidepressant medication, maybe being give double or triple the dosage he needs from his doctor or psychologist based on drug companies like Pfizer's recommendation

[OddBeMe]

From personal experience I can say not necessarily.

[Drewtate]

You've shot up a building but weren't on antidepressants when you did it?

[msc545]

Sorry, but antidepressants don't do anything close to this. Even in large doses. Methamphetamine does but we don't use it in medicine.

[goaded]

@drewtate Q: Which element is necessary to "shoot up a building"?

A. Antidepressants
B. A firearm

Take your time.

[Drewtate]

@goaded seemingly if you don't have A you would never think of B

[OddBeMe]

@goaded not anti’ds. And I’ve had dosage issues with my doc and still going good.

[Drewtate]

... and no thoughts yet of shooting up your local mall?

[OddBeMe]

No. Perhaps some gagsters, but I have more pills and bourbon for that. So stand down.

Seriously anti d’s aren’t as bad as you think. My doc says I can take extra if I feel like it in a day. Obvi not OD, which can happen. That would be downing the entire bottle.

[Drewtate]

Of course your doc says that, he gets his cut pushing them from Pfizer

[OddBeMe]

And how much does your doctor get from Viagra? Has been working for you? Doesn’t appear so.

[Drewtate]

Viagra sells itself

[msc545]

You still need a prescription to get it so tell us how much do you think your doc gets from the company that makes it every time he prescribes it?

[Drewtate]

@msc545 yeah but people go to their doc asking for viagra not the other wag around

[Drewtate]

@msc545 like when you & @OddBeMe is having erection problems due to your use of antidepressants you both ask for viagra.

[goaded]

Don't you think people go to doctors when they're depressed?

[Drewtate]

@goaded.. also when they want boner pills

[OddBeMe]

@drewtate We don’t have your issues.

[Drewtate]

You mentioned viagra not me, and with your age and heavy use of antidepressants...

[msc545]

I love how people who have never read a PDR and probably couldn't read one feel qualified to pontificate about the side effects of antidepressants with one person even deciding that it must be dose related.

[Robertjo16]

No matter what happens people are gonna do what they are gonna do. Its sad yeah but true

[OddBeMe]

But we could limit how easy of access they have to things. Like guns?

[Robertjo16]

I believe people do need guns. But you can't help what another person does with one

[OddBeMe]

Should we regulate the use of cars?

[Robertjo16]

Sure

[OddBeMe]

Why cars and not guns? We don’t have a fraction of the regs for guns as we do for cars.

[Robertjo16]

Dude I'm 16 and go to a crappy high school. I dunno what regulate means

[OddBeMe]

Excuses excuses. Lol

Just means laws,

[Robertjo16]

Ah ok. Then no.

[OddBeMe]

No laws against gun whatsoever?

[Robertjo16]

Don't kill people

[OddBeMe]

Great. Too bad criminals won’t listen.

[exitseven]

Now that you mention it we never did find out why that guy in Vegas

[exitseven]

shot those people. Did the FBI find something that made Biden look bad?

[OddBeMe]

Why does your mind automatically go to stupid?

[exitseven]

It;s just that most of the time when I say shit like this, no matter how stupid it sounds , it ends up bring true.

[OddBeMe]

Actually no, all the conspiracy theories end up being wrong.

[Agagagagaga]

Really? ALL of them?

Well, you DO believe what the news tells you. SMH.

[OddBeMe]

@Agagagagaga I beleive what’s corroborated. Like a logical fella. And apparently that conspiracy theory of voter fraud was right. But about Trump, not Dems.

[exitseven]

I thought Trump was nuts when he said Obama spied on his campaign. I thought he was nuts when he said the Russian collusion case was manufactured by the democrats. I am pretty sure that once it gets a real investigation from an impartial DOJ it will show the 2020 election was stolen.