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Another mass shooting.....
#31
RE: Another mass shooting.....
I can't quantify these things. 27 dead people is horrific. 4 dead people is awful enough. 1 person shot dead brutally is awful enough. None of this should ever happen, but it does, because this is the kind of world we live in, depressingly.
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#32
RE: Another mass shooting.....
(November 5, 2017 at 6:53 pm)Hammy Wrote: I can't quantify these things. 27 dead people is horrific. 4 dead people is awful enough. 1 person shot dead brutally is awful enough. None of this should ever happen, but it does, because this is the kind of world we live in, depressingly.

Most of the world does not have this scale of problem, thankfully.
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#33
RE: Another mass shooting.....
(November 5, 2017 at 5:59 pm)Cyberman Wrote: When does this end?

Realistically, never. Not sure the motive yet, but the Las Vegas shooting probably inspired the shooter somehow. Police couldn't stop that one. They might not have been able to stop him.

I dunno. I'm rambling.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
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#34
RE: Another mass shooting.....
Certainly most of the world doesn't have as much mass shooting.

(November 5, 2017 at 7:16 pm)c172 Wrote:
(November 5, 2017 at 5:59 pm)Cyberman Wrote: When does this end?

Realistically, never. Not sure the motive yet, but the Las Vegas shooting probably inspired the shooter somehow. Police couldn't stop that one. They might not have been able to stop him.

I dunno. I'm rambling.

I think it will either end after a nuclear war that ends everything . . . or after a distant transhuman utopian future that solves everything worth solving. Basically I think eventually technology will make or break us and we certainly can't rely on the good of humanity, sadly. I can't imagine a political utopia, I think politics is always going to be bad. I think science is our only hope but depressingly it also gives us more powerful tools to kill each other.
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#35
RE: Another mass shooting.....
(November 5, 2017 at 5:04 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:
(November 5, 2017 at 5:01 pm)Court Jester Wrote: They should have prayed harder.

This is what you say when children are murdered? When people lose their spouse, parent, sibling, child?
Disgusting.

It's also official rcc policy.
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#36
RE: Another mass shooting.....
Devin Kelley, New Braunfels. Kind of nearby. 45 mins or so?
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#37
RE: Another mass shooting.....
(November 5, 2017 at 5:59 pm)Cyberman Wrote: When does this end?

When 'Murrica gets serious about fucking gun control.

IOW, never.

But since the shooter was a white guy with a gun it is obviously too soon to talk about it. 


https://heavy.com/news/2017/11/devin-kel...ick-kelly/
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#38
RE: Another mass shooting.....
(November 5, 2017 at 7:16 pm)c172 Wrote:
(November 5, 2017 at 5:59 pm)Cyberman Wrote: When does this end?

Realistically, never. Not sure the motive yet, but the Las Vegas shooting probably inspired the shooter somehow. Police couldn't stop that one. They might not have been able to stop him.

I dunno. I'm rambling.

Also by coincidence, this shooting happened on the 8th anniversary of the Fort Hood shooting. Just on the news: The shooter is a 26 year old white man by the name of Devin Patrick Kelly. Thought it was also said that he may be a veteran.
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#39
RE: Another mass shooting.....
Not confirming he's a veteran yet, but it's assumed at this point.

14-year old daughter of pastor first to be named dead.
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#40
RE: Another mass shooting.....
In 'Murrica, every day is the anniversary of some shooting.  That's one of the disadvantages of living here.
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