Another Mass Shooting In Usa

[angie55]

At least 20 shot in a church this morning. So sad.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41880511

[ummmm]

What do you know about the criminal world, Eddie?

[Islay]

Another tragic and pointless loss of lives!
One cannot help but think that Trumps and some on here would be jumping up and down on the spot spitting feathers out had it been a person of colour and differing religion that had commit this horrible act!

[naomi24]

Eddie, //Even a rich and determined criminal in the UK would find it extremely difficult to buy such a weapon ...//

Bet he wouldn't.

[ummmm]

No...he/she wouldn't.

[EDDIE51]

naomi, yes the link takes you to the Quora answer via my gmail .Click on it and see, it loads my gmail but then goes direct to the answer. It's because I have subscribed to the question via gmail.

[EDDIE51]

We will have to agree to differ over the ease of obtaining an illegal self loading rifle in the UK. However it is going to be FAR more difficult than in the USA where you can buy one via mail order!

[mikey4444]

So....... if its so easy to buy mass assault weapons here in Britain, why haven't we seen anything like the mass shootings that occur in America, every few weeks ?

[naomi24]

It might for you, Eddie, but it seems to just want me to create an account. Never mind.

[ummmm]

I think we're talking about guns in general!!

[ummmm]

Same here, Naomi, just asks to register a gmail account.

[naomi24]

Mikey, it's not difficult if you know the right (or the wrong) people - and now you've gone from 'it doesn't happen here at all' to 'why doesn't it happen here every few weeks'.

[EDDIE51]

Copy and paste works
''The shooter is Devin Kelley, a white athiest male from New Braunfels, Texas. As it turns out, he was a far left Antifa member ( or sympathiser ) and had discussed shooting up white conservative churches. But I guess biased mainstream media will try with all it’s might to hide this news so that they can forward their crooked agenda for gun control. Seems like liberals have stopped so low in their agenda and hatred that they’ll murder anyone who'll disagree with them. Another noteworthy fact is that this shooting would have resulted in much more deaths if it occurred in liberal states for innocent civilians wouldn't have had any guns to protect themselves. In this case , a good Samaritan and responsible gun owner engaged the shooter in a gunfight due to which the shooter fled from the scene leaving his gun behind. Though unconfirmed, he was probably shot dead by the chasing concealed carry holder. If not for the great gun laws of Texas, many more innocent lives would've been lost. It’s time to get armed and protect yourselves from bloodthirsty liberals. God bless Texas!!!''

[EDDIE51]

Ummmm I have little knowledge of the criminal world, apart from what I was told when I worked in a prison, but in everything scarcity determines cost. An illegal small hand gun would be far cheaper and easy to obtain than an illegal self loading automatic rifle as the latter is far more scarce.

[naomi24]

Eddie, a quick google produced this.

https://www.gunstar.co.uk/voere-self-loading-rifle-semi-auto-22-rifles/rifles/876162

[-Talbot-]

Another tragic and pointless loss of lives!
One cannot help but think that Trumps and some on here would be jumping up and down on the spot spitting feathers out had it been a person of colour and differing religion that had commit this horrible act!


Well we do have someone jumping up and down on the spot spitting feathers out ... is it cos the shooter iz white?

[-Talbot-]

Btw I cannot remember anyone jumping up and down on the spot spitting feathers out after the previous church shooting ... did we even have a thread about it?

[Islay]

who is jumping up and down Talbot?
Had this been a person of colour regardless of a church shooting or not you know fairwell what would be said!

[jim360]

There's no doubt that the most determined criminals would be able to get hold of guns if they wanted to no matter the laws put in place. But that seems to amount to an argument running along the lines of "we can't stop every gun crime, so why even try to stop any?"

What about, for example, anyone who comes to a relatively spontaneous decision? If you can just walk into a Walmart and buy a gun, that's going to make it a lot easier to get hold of one than if you had to explore the criminal underground, or know the right people, or whatever less above-board routes to get hold of illegal weapons British criminals use.

At any rate, it's pretty clear -- based on the UK and Australia in particular -- that gun laws work for drastically reducing the rates of such crimes. It's impossible to stop them altogether, but preferable to allowing them to continue unabated.

But, no -- already Trump has come out and said that this is not a gun issue, and already many other lawmakers have said the same or very soon will, and after yet another massacre the US wring their hands, pray a little, and then let it happen again.

[-Talbot-]

who is jumping up and down Talbot?


Seriously?

[-Talbot-]

As it turns out, he was a far left Antifa member ( or sympathiser )


Isnt Antifa sp1814's side?
Like i have said before this antifa mob are no longer what they were ... they are now domestic terrorists.