Just the unfortunate cost of securing people’s right to commit mass murder
Humans are temperamental and angry by nature. So, combine that with guns (or almost any other inanimate object) and you have a recipe for total disaster. People use cars while high and kill people, they use bats and knives and other things as weapons. So - let’s give them a weapon designed specifically to kill (like guns) and surprise surprise, they go around killing people. Welcome to human nature 101.
Human nature isn’t natural, per se. Our nature is shaped by our society and culture and other humans’ natures. People in America are temperamental and angry because they have been made to be that way.
Unless they’re apologizing for their failures or resigning in shame, why even include comments from politicians like Grassley and Nunn? They’ve already told us they’re not interested or involved in such matters.
Seems about right, I’m just surprised it took so long into the new year for this to happen. No one has any right to feel bad about this - it’s what people want, and Americans like guns more than kids, so nobody should be surprised or upset about this at all.
It really isn’t a gun problem; that’s a symptom of a much larger societal sickness. Banning guns won’t stop this because mass shooters aren’t going to abide by the law. We have a country south of us that smuggles in illegal products on a daily basis.
What we need is a better mental health care system.
I disagree in part because I see it as both a gun problem and a mental health crisis. Guns have one purpose, to create a lethal hole in somebody. So it makes no sense to me that a human would want anything to do with them. Part of the mental health problem is getting people to see how dangerous guns are and making sure people with histories of violence don’t get hold of them.
Killing people is not the only use for a gun.
I’d believe that if people actually only used them for hunting, but they don’t, and there’s nothing more awful than people with guns.
They use our guns in that “country to the south.” Often procured through the direct incompetence of our own officials.
And how much would you like to bet that the US gun manufacturers will open up shop in Mexico if a gun ban is implemented?
Again, guns are a symptom, and banning them is nothing more than a bandaid.
I’m not some 2A nut either. I don’t actually own any guns.
Dude. Mexico has some of the strictest gun laws on earth. You can only legally buy a gun inside a single military base in the whole country.
I’m sure they also have laws against cocaine, but that doesn’t stop it from being trafficked. Cartels tend to be largely above the law.
Nunn, a Republican who represents Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District, added that he will continue to monitor the situation and that the “school is now secure.”
“We will not rest until there is full accountability for this heinous act of violence,” he said.
Ohh, he’s monitoring the situation. He won’t do anything to diminish the number of murder weapons that teenagers can get their hands on so they can vent their frustrations via bullets, but he’s keeping an eye on things. Great job. You want accountability? Take a look at yourself.
Clearly the answer is more teenagers with guns
Nothing to see here but another NRA Freedom Celebration™, folks. Move along!
Merry Christmas and a happy new year, here’s your bullet … CATCH!
You guys need some new traditions over there.
For the curious, I looked it up. The reason he had access to a 6th grader to shoot in a High School is that it and the Middle School are really one big building in this case - so while it was a High School, it was also a Middle School.
This article lists a possible motive - years of bullying with the school admin refusing to do anything about it. I never did understand why none of my public schools ever did anything about my bullies. As an adult, if any of them tried it I’d call the police and use pepper spray - both banned actions in my schools.
Calling the police is a banned action??
Of course, they would just shoot people.
Or post up outside the school until the shooter finishes shooting people.
Schools typically wait until there’s already a School Shooter before letting more in!
pointing out the problem with gun violence in america is anti semitic - conservatives, probably
Found the Antisemite! ;)
Took four days, huh?
Cut the year some slack. Today was the first day of school. It’s hard to have a school shooting when school’s out.
So what you’re saying is it only took less than a day.
Correct. In fact, it seems that the casually numbers are low because shooter was early.
Yes! I LOVE our Well Regulated Militia murdering kids!
-Republicans trying to Save The Children.
“There is simply nothing we can do! Far too busy stopping women getting a dead fetus removed from their body before it kills them! Oh hang on I have to take a call, someone is trying to make sure that kids get food. Not on my watch!”
- Republicans, shortly before explaining how they’re “pro-life.”
