People celebrating our nation's birthday, just to be gunned down. At least six are dead many more hurt and hospitalized.
This has become just another common occurrence. This isn't happening in other societies with strict gun laws.
The time has come - take away the firearms!!!
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Another person just passed away from the shootings.
I get the fact that people who have guns, love and want them. They look at it as a right and not a privilege. I GET IT. People are losing their lives!!! Families are altered forever.
Our laws need to change and be rigorously enforced.
Six more deaths and many more shot. Isn't it time to remove firearms from society?
I have maybe a bit better perspective on the gun issue. My dad's a US Navy SEAL officer and we've had discussions on the "assault rifle/AR style" rifles that have been used in most of the mass shootings. He described to me in very vivid detail what a single round from one of those weapons can do to a human body, and trust me, it's not pretty. One of those weapons can fire off rounds as quick as you can pull the trigger, and parts can be obtained to make them fully automatic, in other words they will fire continuously as long as you hold the trigger down. He said these weapons are built to kill, and the only people who should have them are Military and Law Enforcement. I don't really have an issue with someone having a gun or guns, just not a Military style high powered rifle. There needs to be more strict laws on who can buy one of these weapons, more background checks and red flag laws to prevent them from getting into the wrong hands. Any of these Politicians, Democrat or Republican who can not see what needs to be done to prevent these mass shootings is not doing their job of protecting and serving the needs of those who elect them, and we all need to vote such Politicians out of office NOW.
Thank you for taking the time to read my thoughts on this. My only hope is that just maybe this will finally be the time that our elected officials actually put aside their ambitions and affiliations and actually take positive actions to end this senseless murder that happens far too often.
What I would like to know how the shooter got his hands on a high powered rifle. Is that what all you guys sticking up for gun rights have under your bed in case you need protection? Come on! Men will be boys - the difference is the price of their toys! This gun obsession you guys have probably stems from your childhood and you covered your play guns then, and you covet the big boy guns now. Get the lead out of your arses and be reasonable. You sound like you are possessed with guns! I am not going to sugarcoat this but you guys don't sound sensible! Grow up with your obsession with guns! Who is after your arse anyway. Give it up babies.
How many people died from motor vehicles that day? How many people died from accidental falls or accidental poisoning? How many died from doctor prescribed pharmaceuticals or preventable hospital error?
People who let mainstream media tell them what to be upset about every day crack me up.
People who are quick to take rights away from others can go jump in a toxic lake.
People who support gun control haven't done independent research into the pros and cons. They just let themselves to be emotionalized by mainstream media. And they adopt the attitudes of those in their own social circles.
They haven't looked up statistics on our overall population (number of citizens and non citizens), firearm related homicides, homicides with so-called "assault weapons", percentage of gun-related homicides that are gang related, the top causes of death in the U. S., or number of DGUs (defensive gun uses). Those numbers are available from the FBI, DOJ, and other sites.
This happened in Chicago, right? An area that has the toughest gun laws in the nation, right? Tough gun laws don't take guns away from criminals and sympathy for victims of senseless shootings doesn't change that fact.
People get killed at parades by crazy, angry drivers who want to kill people. No guns involved. So should we take away cars, too?
Laws! Laws! More laws! The rallying cry of gun control advocates. Meanwhile Chicago, D. C., NYC, have some of the strictest gun laws in the nation... and very high murder per capita rates.
@Bluemax I think it was a suburb of Chicago. And now we are hearing that there were plenty of warning signs that got ignored but, obviously, THAT couldn't be the problem!
More people would die if guns were removed than by keeping them. Unless you can guarantee 100% that the government won't allow a single gun into the country across the southern border.
If some guy with a illegal gun is trying to break into my house, or if I'm out in public who the hell is going to protect me? Police are up to 90 minutes away from home.
Sure lets outlaw guns but as part of the same amendment REQUIRE POLICE RESPOND TO EVERY CALL in 10 seconds... as fast as it would take me to draw. Or else victims and their families get a billion dollars from the federal government for every failed respond time.
So when are you going to pass a law requiring police respond to my house in 10 seconds from calling 911? that and every other house in the country?
Otherwise those victims are dying to keep us safe.
Shinzo Abe is laughing at you in heaven right now.
Japan is a country that is vehemently anti gun, only shotguns and hunting rifles are available for purchase by civilians over there. And no, that ex serviceman that shot Shinzo didn’t use either of those types, he used a homemade shotgun. Also known as a “zip gun”. So much for those anti gun laws.
Second of all, guns and rebellion are ingrained in US culture. Even if guns were banned, People would still find a way to acquire guns just as they found a way acquire alcohol during the prohibition era.
Only a fool would think that gun confiscation would end gun violence. The problem is how the mentally ill are treated in America, they are either ignored or they are treated like vermin.
In my country, guns are not owned by public. But that's why armed robbers and other criminals have a field day terrorizing neighborhoods. Now citizens want guns for protection. The thing is the guns is not bad. It is only bad in the hands of wrong people.
2. I suspect politics in the killings to make you guys powerless and make u guys demand to end up like us here in my country with no weapon to protect ourself.
Tell you what, why don't you take firearms away from all criminals who have them before you start screaming for law-abiding people to give up the firearms that they need for protection from criminals since the police do not protect law-abiding people from criminals.
54 people were shot in Chicago this weekend alone. That's Chicago, not Highland Park.
@DryGermanGuy You do know that MK-Ultra actually happened? Your government really did TORTURE and MIND CONTROL experiments no more than 40 to 50 years ago? You do know that one of the 140+ sub-projects of MK-Ultra was turning people into MASS SHOOTERS and they SUCCEEDED?
MKUltra is sooo old news, it's dead and buried. The CIA itself admitted it was a gigantic waste of time, effort and resources. In today's America one couldn't even waste 100 dollars and not get pinched by some senate oversight committee. So treat your paranoia and stop assuming just because something bad happens, the government is involved. That is idiotic.
@DryGermanGuy A case of "WE INVESTIGATED OURSELVES AND WE FOUND THAT WE WASTED OUR TIME INVESTIGATING" ... And it ain't old news, it was no more than 40 to 50 years ago! What a dummy. You're the reason why the old adage "THOSE WHO FAIL TO LEARN HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT" keeps coming true over and over again.
You need to go look at the projects that were a success and one of those projects was turning people into mass shooters. That one SUCCEEDED!
A CIA document dated February 10, 1954 [4] describes an experiment on the creation of unsuspecting assassins:
"Miss [deleted] was then instructed (having expressed a fear of firearms) that she would use every method at her disposal to awaken Miss [deleted] (now in a deep hypnotic sleep) and failing this, she would pick up a pistol and fire it at Miss [deleted]. She was instructed that she would not hesitate to "kill." Miss [deleted] carried out these suggestions including firing the (unloaded) gun at [deleted]. After proper suggestions were made, both were awakened. Miss [deleted] expressed absolute denial that the foregoing sequence had happened."
Bluebird by Dr Colin Ross, page 36, 37 [4] CIA MORI ID 190691, p. 1. This is a declassified CIA document dealing with mind control.
@DryGermanGuy And anyone WITH A SANE MIND who's done even just a 1 hour HISTORY Course would not only turn into a CONSPIRACY THEORIST, but they' be a PARANOID one at that.
Thousands upon thousands of years, Government (s), Tyrants, Dictators, Rulers, Emperors, Kings, Queens and even "Mad Scientists" have FUUCKED THE PEOPLE over and over again. Revolution after Revolution by your average citizen, tired of getting Shat on. Ain't nothin changed in this generation. I know you've been brainwashed to think so, and now you're too much of a SNOWFLAKE to admit that BIG DADDY GOVERNMENT ain't your friend, but I'm here as your wake-up call. The global elites HATE YOU, they want you dead, they're constantly obsessed with POPULATION CONTROL. They say by 2030 we will have IRREVERSIBLE (meaning, NO GOIN BACK) Climate Change and we need to reduce the population before then to stop it!
CONNECT... THE... DOTS! We learned that game in Kindergarten, some of you adults should've never graduated to 1st Grade!
I think you just started foaming at the mouth. As a therapy I suggest you delete your Facebook or whereever you get your conspiracy nonsense from. And I would appreciate it if you'd stop mansplaining things to me, I researched years and years ago. This is a different country now, there is no boogeyman waiting for you behind every corner or under your bed.
@DryGermanGuy I need to go to therapy for calling all this shit beforehand? I called the 2008 crash before it happened (heard the same thing even from my parents that I needed therapy). Then it happened. I called Coronavirus a whole year before it happened in June of 2019. I called the Russian Invasion a year and half before it happened. How did I know all this so far in advance? Do I need therapy for being RIGHT all the time? I can already tell ya what's comin next, but you can't handle the truth.
And every generation thinks theirs is UNIQUE. Yours isn't. The American government is, lying about staged events like 9/11 so they can go into the Middle East and Northern Africa, where they're still blowing up "brown" babies. If that doesn't piss you off (in and of itself) then you deserve every muthafunkin thing comin to your punk azz.
@DryGermanGuy are you denying that the Elites are obsessed with Population Control and Climate Change?
Are you denying that they said by 2030, Climate Change will be irreversible? Did you know that in 2019 before the SCAMDEMIC, over 11,000+ Scientists signed a Petition calling for "Population Control" as a means to combat Climate Change? Are you paying attention AT ALL? It appears you're not and so you will now suffer as a result.
Dude, I am done with you. Your babble is only seconds away from bringing up "Jewish world domination". I don't have time for deluded people. LISTEN TO YOUR PARENTS, they were right.
@DryGermanGuy Calling me crazy for being RIGHT over and over again. Think hard on how stupid that sounds. It doesn't look like you have thinking brain cells left though. I'll help ya out then, THE ELITES IN THEIR OWN WORDS, obsessed with Depopulation below
Take away legal firearms? No. We need to stop illegal gun manufacturing and trafficking and properly deal with the mental health crisis we have in this country. Most of these shootings wouldn't occur if these people were in proper medical facilities where they belong from early on, instead of being allowed to integrate into the general population.
@NYCQuestions1976 I don't know how old you are, but I bet you weren't old enough to remember who president Reagan was. We did have plenty of mental institutions and mental facilities but good ole' Ronnie Reagan closed them all down one day and sent these patients to live on the streets!! You can thank him for his bright idea! That's probably the really old homeless people you see wandering around now.
@sage2021 I'm 46, and that's not what happened. Live-in mental health facilities started closing in the early 1970s, because many of them were found to be neglectful, and sometimes abusive. Instead of correcting these issues and problems they had, they started shutting down instead. Most of them were gone by the mid 1990s.
take away the guns and they will use knives instead. Japan is known for its gun laws and low gun violence.
On May 27, a 51-year old man went on a killing spree in the Japanese city of Kawasaki, located south of Tokyo. With a knife in each hand, he killed a 39 year-old man and a 12 year-old schoolgirl, and injured 15 school children aged between six and twelve as they waited for a school bus.
Fix Chicago first. The state with the most rigorous gun laws and highest murder rate in the country and THEN I'll consider your bs communist propaganda.
@WhiteBoyChill He was ANTIFA. He openly had the ANTIFA logo on his social media. He dressed in black block. He had the soy boy multicolored dyed hair. He had communist tatoos. He had satanic tatoos. If you watch his rap music videos he even wears "feminist" t-shirts in the videos. Those images are from a social media scrub of all his content before they covered it up for their narrative.
@WhiteBoyChill The media lies... Here's a bit more of his devotion towards communism with his ANTIFA and Anarchy flags. Throwing the communist fist. His esoteric witchcraft symbolism. Anarchy clothing. The only thing to do with Trump is when he making fun of Trump. He even labeled the post with the trump flag SPAM.
Just to narrow down the grouping of ANTIFA he belongs to, the tattoo on his neck is for the Democratic Socialist of America. The Rednecks via Mother Jones founded the Social Democratic Party which eventually spread through the Rustbelt and Democratic Socialists of America sprung up in NYC. He is likely a member of Redneck Rebellion. the militant revolutionary arm of ANTIFA. They are funded by Soros (via their Swedish connection to Peter "Poker" Wallenberg) and the Clinton foundation.
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