Why are you reading his thread? Go and listen to Car Seat Headrest.

Yeah, but this would be Gallaghers without her

It's apparently only the gun's fault when it happens at a school.

But domestic violence? Gangs? Drug cartels? Terrorists? Bank robbers? I never hear anyone blame guns in any of those scenarios. And nor should they. Try blaming the actual criminal, and then try to understand why. Once the why is understood, you can then start making change on the societal level (i.e., drug cartels = decriminalize drugs, ffs).

Also, the mass media's coverage of every school shooting leads to those sick fucks glorifying it, resulting in more "copy cats" doing the same.

It's hard to look inward, so it's easy to blame the weapon. Society has a lot to answer for.

www.cnn.com/2018/05/16/us/illinois-dixon-high-school-shooting/index.html

Just saying.

Since 9/11 we have spent $2.8 trillion on counter terrorism measures. Terrorists still have access to all sorts of weaponry, and with soft targets abound all across the United States it's quite phenomenal that bar an isolated incident here or there, we have been pretty much 100% safe from Al Qaeda, ISIS and their fanatics.

My suggestion is that we implement the same understanding and countermeasures when it comes to understanding what actually goes into making a school shooter. Until you understand the reasons, you will never stop it.

And it amazes me that you say "Well, Great Britain doesn't have this problem because Great Britain has virtually no guns." Well, perhaps it's much deeper than that - perhaps there's something wrong at the core of the American society. Again, only looking inward can provide safer measures.

And while this year is now a statistical outlier when it comes to looking at the rate of school shootings on a yearly basis, it really isn't a growing phenomenon. Schools are incredibly safe - the coverage of the mass media creates tons of irrational fears. We need to do better to continue the trend of stopping these incidents, but for christ's sake it is not a weaponry problem.

Remember, the two individuals at Columbine also set off bombs around the school as well - you can find ways to make bombs readily on the internet. Likewise, this kid in Texas today also had an assortment of bombs he constructed. And from what I understand, bombs are indeed illegal. Well, criminals don't give one single damn about legality. And weaponry will always be found.

I took a counter-terrorism course in college (by the by, I met George W. Bush's chief of staff, Andrew Card, during that course which was fascinating). In that class, the professor had us do group projects where we actually designed a terrorist attack - my group was incidentally the PIRA.

Some may say that that's a twisted assignment. His intention, of course, was to get us understanding each separate terrorist group by taking on the role and thinking from within. That is the way to understand.

But if only the PIRA didn't have guns, bombs, or any sort of weaponry. God damn the weapons.

I’m not really sure what argument you’re trying to make. Terrorist cells and networks are independent and a completely different world to the sociopaths who can willingly buy a firearm across the shop counter.

Straws being clutched here.

And for a desperate wannabe Brit, you’d fail a citizenship test spectacularly with this crackpot shite that you’re spewing.

There will always be bad people doing bad things. But you can cut down on the number of people getting murdered by taking action. The gun laws are a joke, how many children need to be murdered before American finally wakes up and stops this stupid right to bear arms bollocks. Hope students keep protesting and force the idiots in charge to do something.

How many people and children have to die before we all have common sense? It's too bad the people in charge care more about the money from the gun lobby and NRA than the children and population they are supposed to protect.

I know this is a day late, but just a reminder that monarchy has no place in the 21st century.