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RE: High school shooting in Parkland FL
February 14, 2018 at 8:10 pm
(February 14, 2018 at 7:08 pm)c172 Wrote: Just reported on Local 10 WPLG that there are 15 confirmed deaths.
15????
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RE: High school shooting in Parkland FL
February 14, 2018 at 8:10 pm
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(February 14, 2018 at 8:10 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: (February 14, 2018 at 7:08 pm)c172 Wrote: Just reported on Local 10 WPLG that there are 15 confirmed deaths.
15????
17 now from what I just heard.
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RE: High school shooting in Parkland FL
February 14, 2018 at 8:12 pm
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Oh my gosh....
I'm going to say whoever did this is some idiot who's really mad because he doesn't have a girlfriend. Probably why he picked Valentine's day. Just awful... 
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RE: High school shooting in Parkland FL
February 14, 2018 at 8:13 pm
(February 14, 2018 at 7:27 pm)c172 Wrote: 17...
Still at 17. Multiple injuries, so qwho knows if that figure will rise. Somebody's tweet or other social media post said 20, but I think still 17.
Worse than Columbine.
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RE: High school shooting in Parkland FL
February 14, 2018 at 8:17 pm
More dead kids, but guns aren't the fucking problem.
Seriously, let the fuckers have all the guns they want.
Just tax the ammo and accessories so heavily that they can't afford to much.
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RE: High school shooting in Parkland FL
February 14, 2018 at 8:20 pm
(February 14, 2018 at 8:12 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Oh my gosh....
I'm going to say whoever did this is some idiot who's really mad because he doesn't have a girlfriend. Probably why he picked Valentine's day. Just awful...
Whatever his reason... the underlying problem stands: easy access to tools that can kill quickly and at a distance, aka, guns.
It's the same thing every month, now... sometimes more than once a month. Usually schools.
On the one hand, not showing it in the news would not give them ideas... on the other hand, news need to sell and the shock value sells. Sad, but true.
17 kids dead, this time.
How many last time?
And the time before?
When is it enough? When it happens to your kids? To kids of your friends?
(I'm using "your" here as a general your, not you particularly CL)
When Trump took office, there was a march for women, with pretty pink hats and all... can the same people come together and organize a march against guns?
Are 30 thousand deaths per year not worth more than president "grab them by the pussy"?
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RE: High school shooting in Parkland FL
February 14, 2018 at 8:21 pm
(February 14, 2018 at 8:17 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: More dead kids, but guns aren't the fucking problem.
Seriously, let the fuckers have all the guns they want.
Just tax the ammo and accessories so heavily that they can't afford to much.
I recall a comedian (might have been Chris Rock, can't swear to it), who had a similar idea: Give - don't sell, give - a gun to anyone who wants one. But charge $5000 a piece for the bullets.
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RE: High school shooting in Parkland FL
February 14, 2018 at 8:25 pm
(February 14, 2018 at 4:10 pm)Lutrinae Wrote: These shootings keep happening, but apparently guns still aren't the problem.
Nor is now ever the time to try to discuss or fix the problem. Hopes and prayers, people, hopes and prayers.
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RE: High school shooting in Parkland FL
February 14, 2018 at 8:31 pm
(February 14, 2018 at 8:17 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: More dead kids, but guns aren't the fucking problem.
Seriously, let the fuckers have all the guns they want.
Just tax the ammo and accessories so heavily that they can't afford to much. Get rid of the computer shooting games and movies that glorify violence and criminals. There's tons of naive kids who are easily influenced by that shit and then fantasize about acting on it.
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RE: High school shooting in Parkland FL
February 14, 2018 at 8:31 pm
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(February 14, 2018 at 8:25 pm)Whateverist Wrote: (February 14, 2018 at 4:10 pm)Lutrinae Wrote: These shootings keep happening, but apparently guns still aren't the problem.
Nor is now ever the time to try to discuss or fix the problem. Hopes and prayers, people, hopes and prayers.
And whatever you do, DON'T politicize the debate. Don't, for example, write to the legislator for your area, asking him/her to maybe sponsor a law to keep guns out of the hands of unsuitable people. If you do that, the families of the victims will never get closure.
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(February 14, 2018 at 8:31 pm)A Theist Wrote: (February 14, 2018 at 8:17 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: More dead kids, but guns aren't the fucking problem.
Seriously, let the fuckers have all the guns they want.
Just tax the ammo and accessories so heavily that they can't afford to much. Get rid of the computer shooting games and movies that glorify violence and criminals. There's tons of naive kids who are easily influenced by that shit and then fantasize about acting on it.
Right. Video games are the problem. Movies are the problem. The insane USian fixation on guns isn't the problem.
Dunno about you, but I watched easily 1000 hours of Looney Tunes when I was a kid, and I have yet to drop an anvil on anyone.
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