Another 29 Dead, Doubt That'll Make Any Difference.....

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49221936
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49224816
lets do the doing the usual dance.

[ummmm]

There are two threads just below this. You might have missed them!

[ToraToraTora]

there us one thread on this subject below this and that is about a different incident. Ummmm please stop trolling my threads.

[retrocop]

//The Texas attack is the second deadly shooting to take place in a Walmart store this week, after an ex-employee of the company killed two former co-workers at a Mississipi branch on Tuesday.

Walmart's CEO Doug McMillon posted on Instagram: "I can't believe I'm sending a note like this twice in one week. My heart aches for the community in El Paso."//

Some Irony in Mr McMillon's statement. Walmarts is one of the many outlets where a US citizen can purchase firearms and all the associated paraphenalia.

[youngmafbog]

I've yet to see an idea that will work. Stopping American having arms is not going to work, not in the immediate future anyway. Americans would see it as an affront to their liberty and who could blame them given how much the liberties of the common man that have been eroded by the Metropolitan elite.

And even if they did ban them there are an estimated 400million firearms in the USA. Not by any stretch of the imagination can on think they will be handed in.

And then there are the remote parts, how would that be policed, people need firearms to survive.

True semi automatics could be banned but that would not stop this sort of thing.

[ichkeria]

There have now been 250 mass shootings in the USA this year

[archibaldy]

Correct. It's just a little regular collateral damage, all to the worthy cause of maintaining that constitution and giving lots of people the chance to do what they want with guns.

[Peter Pedant]

// Some Irony in Mr McMillon's statement. Walmarts is one of the many outlets where a US citizen can purchase firearms and all the associated paraphenalia.
more irony - walmart is not a great employer innit
[ uses the two great american freedoms - fires whomever it like and when and the contract is not much to write home about anyway]

[Peter Pedant]

// There have now been 250 mass shootings in the USA this year//

and on lundy tv - chucking one baby off a building gets more coverage

we had one fall 22 floors in Brum ( 1986) - he bounced. In case you wonder - it is a size thing, Balders are you listening? a tennis ball thrown off a tower block ( small ) will bounce and a water melon ( big) will splat.
Sixe really matters. Can I say that or will the usual suspects gristle and sqawk?

[bainbrig]

Yeah, Peter, but we gotta be free, ain't we? Free,man, innit? Free to bear arms, free to use 'em too if we feel like it.

Isn't that what our fellow-libertarian Brits want? Freedom! Innit.

Innit.

BB

[douglas9401]

"it is a size thing, Balders are you listening? a tennis ball thrown off a tower block ( small ) will bounce and a water melon ( big) will splat."

Tennis balls are designed to bounce, water melons not so much.
Size has little to do with anything, a football or basketball would bounce just the same.

Not that important but I thought it needed putting out there, bounced off you if you will.

[Gromit]

Interesting chart

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/149E1/production/_108194448_gun_comaprisons_v2_640-nc.png