🇺🇸 Discussion: Guns, The Second Amendment, NRA - Part II

[Mike5575]

Most people are mad the shooter and not the good samaritan. Then, there's Shannon Watts.

 

[Teelie]

I think if we had better gun laws then neither the shooter or the samaritan would have had a gun in that mall in the first place.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Atlantic - The Gun Industry Created a New Consumer. Now It’s Killing Us.
Good marketing is supposed to generate demand. Bad firearms marketing has given us a national nightmare.

 

[Sithborg]

 

[BoredGuy]

#GunsAreForP***ies

 

[Mike5575]

Great idea. Let's raise the age of adulthood back to 21. Everyone on board?

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Atlanta’s Music Midtown Festival Canceled Over Gun Law Changes – Billboard

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[squeekness]

I think if we had better gun laws then neither the shooter or the samaritan would have had a gun in that mall in the first place.

Exactly! I mean, who brings a gun when they're going to buy shoes?

 

[squeekness]

Great idea. Let's raise the age of adulthood back to 21. Everyone on board?

Whatever keeps assault rifles out of the hands of high school seniors or the recently graduated disgruntled is fine by me.

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[squeekness]

The gun makers must be overjoyed.

 

[Teelie]

I see it more likely as those AR-15's being misused that properly used if they are ever used at all.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Business Insider - Gun companies emphasize masculinity and make veiled references to white supremacist groups to sell AR-15-style rifles, congressional committee report says

"Ryan Busse, a former firearms executive who is now a senior policy adviser to gun-safety advocacy group Giffords Law Center, told Insider that it is crucial to examine the ways that gun companies market their weapons."

"The primary target of gunmakers' advertising, according to Busse, is "this angry, young male, politically active, conservative, aggrieved, dreams of using the AR-15 to 'make things right in the world."

Mass shootings are often connected to toxic masculinity and misogyny.

 

[Mike5575]

Just hire Blackwater mercenaries as teachers. They can teach the kids about anti-terrorism force protection, how to be a hard target, and handle triage situations. "Billy has a sucking-chest wound. What do you do?"

 

[samsnee]

Business Insider - Gun companies emphasize masculinity and make veiled references to white supremacist groups to sell AR-15-style rifles, congressional committee report says



Mass shootings are often connected to toxic masculinity and misogyny.

I mean have we ever had a female mass shooter?

 

[Teelie]

Maybe? But none I can think of and if there were I would imagine she would be a major outlier.

 

[BoredGuy]

Since 1982 there have been 3 female "mass" shooters, and that could be someone who shot as few as three people I believe

 

[BoredGuy]

Business Insider - Gun companies emphasize masculinity and make veiled references to white supremacist groups to sell AR-15-style rifles, congressional committee report says



Mass shootings are often connected to toxic masculinity and misogyny.

People are so gullible
Guns are the furthest thing from manly
you gotta be a scared little b***h to walk around with an AR

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Raw Story - Panic erupts after Walmart shopper accidentally shoots himself and three other people with a single bullet

Panic erupts after Walmart shopper accidentally shoots himself and three other people with a single bullet. A man fumbled with his gun while inside a Georgia Walmart, causing it to discharged and strike four people including himself -- with a single bullet. The man is now recovering from his injuries, WSB-TV reports.

Michael Walton, 29, was carrying the gun in his waistband unholstered when it began sliding down his leg, causing him to grab for it.

“The gun was in his waistband not holstered and loaded. The gun slipped down his leg, he attempted to grab it, and was somehow manipulating the weapon and discharged the firearm,” said Sgt. Akeem Turnbull with Lovejoy Police.

“One of the victims also got hit in the leg. The other one got hit in the back of the leg and the other one got some bruising. All of them were towards the lower portions of the bodies," Turnbull added.

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

I mean really, what harm could a gun do in only a few seconds?

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[Teelie]

I mean really, what harm could a gun do in only a few seconds?

Only shoot you and three other people in the leg...? Between the Walmart Warrior and this judge, I think we see what harm a gun can do "in only a few seconds."

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Gizmodo - The U.S. Just Changed the Definition of Firearms to Account for Untraceable Ghost Guns