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Jimizo
Having a dig at partisanship while engaging in partisanship.
How very intelligent and useful.
The 3..2…1 thing is getting a bit boring now.
wallace
In the USA, mass shootings come along quicker than buses.
runner3
Another mass shooting in the USA! WHAT A SHOCK!
wallace
Guns need to be more difficult to obtain not easier.
wallace
The GOP is financed by the NRA.
In the nearly 10 years since the Sandy Hook shooting, the NRA has spent more than $100 million to help elect Republicans who will support their extreme agenda, including Donald Trump.
“For instance, in 2020, the NRA alone spent over $12 million campaigning against Biden and another $4.5 million in favor of Donald Trump.”
Which Senators Have Benefitted the Most from NRA Money?
https://elections.bradyunited.org/take-action/nra-donations-116th-congress-senators
wallace
Seriously, the GOP wants to reduce gun laws.
Another day, another mass shooting. So many in the first month of the new year.
Morons and guns.
wallace
They use to say the sidewalks of America are paved with gold but are actually paved with more than 400 million guns, many of them illegal. You can buy a gun on the streets for $50.
Legrande
C'mon USA get your house in order.
WA4TKG
Hate to disappoint ‘yall, but Lakeland Florida is bumpkin central.
This was some punk with a bone to pick, nothing more.
Yes, the only way to accomplish their goal was a gun, no doubt
japancat
Everytime I hear about a mass shooting in america, two thoughts/questions come to...1. When will be the next mass shooting? , and 2. How many are going to get killed or injured?, america seems incapable of change when it comes to guns. Sad really.
Aly Rustom
Personally I don't care as I don't live in the US anymore and most of my family lives in Canada, BUT I personally believe that the US could be a truly wonderful place to live if they just got good public healthcare and proper gun control. My dad was a hunter and it was his passion. I grew up hunting with him. I have no problem with civilians owning hunting rifles and if in a rural area 6 shooters. But all that other crap should be banned and the bullets no longer manufactured.
I'm sure there are those here who will disagree with me and that's ok. I don't have a dog in the fight so to speak. Just giving my 2 cents. (actually make them 10 cents now due to inflation)
dagon
Marijuana in this case ,illegal in many red states like Florida and legal and safely available in blue .
Your point is?
wallace
Jose Bolsonaro has applied for an extended tourist visa and living in a Florida holiday let won't be able to buy a gun.
wallace
Harvard Medical School researchers found that gun violence costs the U.S. some $557 billion annually or 2.6% of the gross domestic product.
EvilBuddha
The GOP is financed by the NRA
True gun lovers will understand that NRA has now become corrupt and is too busy with infighting. This has given the gun control lobby an opening to set the narrative and trample upon the freedoms of the Americans.
However, going forward there are other organizations like the National Association for Gun Rights or the Gun Owners Association who will take up the responsibility to keep America free and strong.
Nemo
Where were all the good guys with the guns?
I’m sure if there were only a few gun-loving patriots in the crowd…..
There are a feces-ton of mass killings in America. Some of them are gang-bangers. Some are Islamic terrorists. Some are conspiracy goobers, and others dead-Enders bitter at life. Some are disgruntled workers. Some are left-wing nut jobs, others right-wing nut-jobs. Others are just mentally ill or delusional.
The one thing the almost all have in common is easy access to firearms in a society that is so deluded with fear of the “other” that it seriously considers permitless carry and almost limitless availability of assault weapons.
It is, in a word, insane.
Sven Asai
I guess ‘challenged’ doesn’t even nearly fit. lol
iraira
"I have never worked an event where this many people were shot at one time, ever,”
Does this mean that at all of the prior events, people get shot, but it has always been limited to less than 10 people?
Cards fan
Lol this hilariously bad logic. You might as well get rid of DUI lies, because people ignore those too.
No, here's the thing: loosening gun laws will allow more guns out on the streets, and we will see yet more shootings.
dagon
But wait, were the victims subject to the woke lib socialist mind virus?
Were they being taught critical race theory in African American studies courses?
Because according the Gov DeSantis and 5he Republicans those are the key issues affecting the livelihood of Floridians.
If not, thoughts and prayers as always.
Cards fan
I'm sure getting rid of any and all gun regulations in Florida would prevent shootings like this. /s
Bob Fosse
Of course. Your turn.
EvilBuddha
Taylor described the neighborhood as “challenged” and said the police had focused a lot of attention on the area in recent years.
Guess this is what Tupac Shakur's song Pain meant when he sang -
My city's full of gang bangers and drive by's.
Bob Fosse
Facts dictate it’s not the majority of Americans.
wallace
I have no wish to own a firearm in any country. None of my family does. Learned about guns when I served in the RN, and that was enough for me.
RKL
Did the shooter have a permit?
wallace
All manufactured guns are legal at the source. If all Americans have the right to own a gun then none are illegal.
wallace
Mass shootings and mass murders of even school children are major problems that not enough Americans want to resolve.
funkymofo
And the solution is… less permits, more guns!
RKL
Taylor described the neighborhood as “challenged” and said the police had focused a lot of attention on the area in recent years.
Maybe criminal behavior is to blame for the shooting?
Bob Fosse
Florida GoP are trying to remove the need for permits. You commented on that very story this morning.
Do you think permits are necessary?
No. Blame the guns. Most Americans don’t have or want one.
lincolnman
Florida...
Where they welcome Jose Bolsonaro but shun Mickey Mouse...
Where they give everyone a gun but deny children an education and women control over their own bodies...
Where Florida taxpayer money is used to send legal asylum seekers from Texas to Massachusetts...in the winter....in T-Shirts...
And home of the largest classified document storage facility (unauthorized) outside Washington DC...
bass4funk
Problems that are easy solvable, and I agree many should be addressed, but not the way the Dems want and if they start to ramble about the second amendment it would definitely be a non-starter.
TokyoLiving
And so these pathetic gun-loving fascist clowns of the GOP want to further relax the gun laws in Florida so that more people have guns, without a license, background checkings or training???..
Seriously, is this the USA that boasts so much of being modern, civilized and first world??, because it looks more like a Central African banana republic full of crazy people with AK47s..
bass4funk
Wish it were a virus, easily curable.
They already teach it, almost every school.
Yup, that’s why the guy is a rock star. He’s basically Trump without the political baggage.
RKL
dagonToday 03:48 pm JST
Marijuana in this case ,illegal in many red states like Florida and legal and safely available in blue .
Your point is?
Going out on a limb, but the point is essentially:
a great many shootings in America involve drugs and drug-dealing.
NOMINATION
California last week after 2 mass shootings- Blame the guns
Florida after this shooting- Blame the right
Usual suspects about to drop "knowledge" in 3....2...1....
RKL
Bob FosseToday 12:19 pm JST
Of course. Your turn.
Yep.
wallaceToday 12:25 pm JST
Guns need to be more difficult to obtain not easier.
People in the US on nonimmigrant visas, such as if you were to ever visit, are prohibited from owning firearms, rainman.
NOMINATION
Case in point
bass4funk
Yes!
Libs think it's not the majority of Americans.
Yes.
I'm sure a few, particularly the ones whose constituents support the NRA, me included.
RKL
dagonToday 03:39 pm JST
But wait, were the victims subject to the woke lib socialist mind virus?
Do you think the shooters were white supremacists, or even Republicans?
NOMINATION
Gun laws sure working out for California, New York and Illinois. Luckily I studied Geography in Elementary School because if you were my teacher, I'd think the U.S. only had 2 States: Florida and Texas.
RKL
Bob FosseToday 11:52 am JST
Florida GoP are trying to remove the need for permits. You commented on that very story this morning.
Do you think permits are necessary?
It's your question--what do you think, are permits necessary?