Do guns protect you, or simply cause violence? (Page 249) Fractured fairy tale: Replaced a Picture with So called 'white Jesus' Why are you people Fixated with Skin Colour , Trying too start a race war or whatever Suppose people would love that another Crisises  Account Closed: Oh Fractured, you are anti everything. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I assure you, the world will not end while you still draw breath. Get your head out of the dooms day prepper videos, come up for some oxygen. They did a welfare check because she missed an appointment. Fractured fairy tale: Anti Every thing Really , Why Are they Criminalizing Legal Gun Owners and Going After Them Why Would People Trust The FBI and The Govenment , When They Them Selves Don"t Act Trust Worthy , Why Hasn"t Hunter Biden Ever Been Arrested For Lieing On a Application Too Get a Gun And Braggng About it ,Thats Not Anti Any Thing Thats Just Expecting The System Too Work How It Should With Out Corruption , Is That Too Much Too Ask There Criminalizing Law Abiding People While Crime And All The Rest of It Gets Out Of Control Every Time theyTallk about Gun Control Gun Sales Go Through the Roof , Seems People Don't Trust The Govenment , Can You Blame Them When They Don"t Follow the Law Them Selves  ghostgeek: Why are Americans killing each other? At least seven people were killed in two related shootings in California on Monday, authorities said, only days after a separate mass shooting in the state killed 11 people. Hours later, another unrelated shootout in Oakland, Calif., left one person dead and seven people injured. The first two shootings on Monday occurred at two agricultural nurseries near Half Moon Bay, a coastal city south of San Francisco, Christina Corpus, sheriff of San Mateo County, said Monday. Officials said a suspect was in custody and there was no ongoing threat to the community. The shootings were a targeted attack in which the gunman intended to kill specific people, according to a law-enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation. Four victims were found dead Monday afternoon along the Cabrillo Highway, Sheriff Corpus said. Another victim was sent to the Stanford Medical Center with life-threatening injuries. Soon after, three more victims were found dead at a separate nursery about a mile away, she said. A suspect, Zhao Chunli, 67 years old and a resident of Half Moon Bay, was arrested Monday evening after he was found in his car in the parking lot of a Half Moon Bay police station, authorities said. He was arrested without incident and a semiautomatic weapon, which authorities believed was used in the shootings, was found in his car. ... An additional shooting took place on Monday evening at a gas station in Oakland, located about 45 miles northeast of Half Moon Bay. Police said seven people were shot and are in stable condition while one person died during the incident. No arrests have been made in connection with the shooting. [ https://www.wsj.com/articles/at-least-seven-dead-in-californias-second-mass-shooting-in-three-days-11674531688 ]  kittybobo34: Ghost,, that sounds almost plausible. Starting to think there should be more concealed firearm permits, since the police can't be everywhere at once. ghostgeek: Los Angeles police shot dead a black wheelchair-bound double amputee as he tried to hobble away from them on his stumps. Two officers from Huntington Park Police Department were temporarily stood down from duty on Monday after they fired at least eight shots at Anthony Lowe Jr., a 36-year-old father-of-two. Police said they received a report that a person had been stabbed by a man in a wheelchair. Officers said when they arrived on the scene they found Mr Lowe with a butcher knife. Video footage taken by a passerby and later shared on social media shows Mr Lowe out of his wheelchair, trying to get away from two officers and using his arms to propel himself along the ground. Huntington Park police said that Mr Lowe, whose family says he suffered from mental health issues, ignored officers’ verbal commands and “threatened to advance or throw the knife at the officers”. In a statement the department said officers, who were not wearing body cameras, tried to Taser Mr Lowe twice, but it had failed to incapacitate him. [ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/01/31/us-police-shoot-dead-double-amputee-tries-hobble-away/ ]  jandcl: People will kill each other regardless if we have guns or not. Humans have killed each other from the beginning of time, Now the gun makes it easy to do, but so did the sling, the bow and arrow, and so on as man invented better killing equipment. But what’s important is that some people do not kill others even when they have this killing equipment. So the answer to the question what makes people feel they need to kill. If we can ever answer that question I think it will go a long way in getting to root of that dark side of the human race.  Sir Loin: Ghost and Jandcl, Yes I think people will continue to kill each other if they're American. There seems to be something in the American psyche that makes killing essential and inevitible. ghostgeek: More of the same: A man armed with three guns fatally shot his ex-wife and five others during a rampage in a small rural town in the US state of Mississippi, police say. The victims were killed at several locations, including a store and two homes, in Arkabutla, a community of fewer than 300 people. Police have charged a 52-year-old local man with first-degree murder and held him at the county jail. No motive for his attack has yet been identified. The suspect is believed to have acted alone, said Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves. The rampage began when the gunman entered a petrol station convenience store at around 11:00 local time (17:00 GMT) and shot a man to whom he had no apparent connection, Sheriff Brad Lance said. He then went to a nearby home where he fatally shot his ex-wife and, according to CNN, struck but did not shoot her fiance. Investigators say the gunman then drove to a home next to his own residence and fatally shot a man who may have been his stepfather, as well as an unnamed woman, the New York Times reports. He then shot two people, one inside a car and one on the road, not far from his own home. The final two victims appear to have been construction workers on a job at the site, according to Sheriff Lance. [ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64684350 ] Fractured fairy tale: Well Show The Bloody well Evedence of these So Called Hate Crimes Witch In itself is a Oxymoron only a moron would use a word like that All crimes stem from some type of hate There are already laws in place Where are the Bloody well people screaming the Election was stolen and killing some one , No evidence cos your a Evil Lier that Covers up Crimes Plenty of people slagging off white people and calling them 'right wing' What ever in the F that means It's against the law Moron Fractured fairy tale: That what the World come too Hey Just Say Right Wing and that absolves of all Responsibility Hey Presto Really Is that how men become women and visa versa Just utter the magic words ghostgeek: Every day, on average, 316 people in America are shot in murders, assaults, suicides and suicide attempts, unintentional shootings, and police intervention. Every day, 106 people die from gun violence. Every day, 210 people are shot and survive. [ https://www.teamenough.org/gun-violence-statistics ] roxxxaaayyy: how many people are killed evry day by car accidents? how many people are killed evry day by drug overdoses? stabbings? murders without guns?? how many people are literally beaten t death by drug dealers? how many people are attacked by people with pipes an hammers?? Account Closed: A 3-year-old girl in Houston gained access to a firearm and "unintentionally" shot and killed her 4-year-old sister late Sunday, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said. Gonzalez said the preliminary investigation showed that the two children had been inside an apartment with five family members and friends and each of the two children's parents believed the other was watching the kids. Instead, they were left unsupervised and picked up an "unsecured" and loaded semi-automatic pistol. The family members heard one gunshot and ran into the room to find one child had apparently accidentally shot the other toddler, Gonzalez said at a press conference. The injured child was unresponsive, he said, and the parents immediately called 911. "The toddler was pronounced deceased at the scene," he said on Twitter. Officials said it will be up to the district attorney to decide whether charges will be pressed against any of the adults. "You've got to make sure you're a responsible gun owner," Gonzalez said. "Secure your weapons in a safe place. It's got to be more than just to tell the kids not to touch the weapons." ABC News' Mark Osborne contributed to this report. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/4-year-old-girl-shot-and-killed-by-3-year-old-sister-sheriff-says/ar-AA18yOPO?cvid=96c5a9e4c88c4eccbb866c5f663b4c49&ei=17 Account Closed: A 3-year-old boy fatally shot himself when he found a 9 mm handgun in a nightstand in his Florida home, according to authorities. The tragedy unfolded Wednesday evening at a home in DeLand, about 40 miles north of Orlando. The Volusia County Sheriff's Office called it "one of the worst calls imaginable" to respond to. The shooting occurred as the 3-year-old and a 7-year-old were being watched by their 16-year-old sister while the parents were grocery shopping, Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood said at a news conference Thursday. https://abcnews.go.com/US/3-year-boy-fatally-shoots-handgun-left-nightstand/story?id=97252769 kittybobo34: In my own experience, my next door neighbors boys found the shotgun and it went off, blowing a hole in the wall. Could have been much worse. ghostgeek: So can Americans leave loaded guns lying around if they wish? Just one of the hazards of life, like catching the common cold? kittybobo34: Depends on the state, each has its own laws. Most require that weapons are locked in some way. This wasn't true when I was a kid. | Politics Chat Room 37 People Chatting Similar Conversations |