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Awful scenes. Just awful. Do Americans carry guns going about their daily day ? As I never hear anyone bad the police shooting the terrorist or / shooter for e.g.
If they don't carry guns then don't sell them to Joe public
When I'm not wasting time on Planet Swans, I'm the General Manager of a retail/office development somewhat similar in size to Cielo Vista Mall where this happened (ironically, my property Watters Creek is in Allen, a suburb of Dallas where the El Paso shooter lived). I'm always worried something like this might happen at Watters Creek. We're in a nice area where crime is almost nonexistent, but something like this can happen anywhere. At least anywhere in the USA.
Better gun control in this country simply needs to happen. I don't know much about guns, personally, nor do I care to, but that seems pretty obvious.
That said, I'm pessimistic that the USA will ever change, at least not in my lifetime. The guns are already out there, and it seems pretty impossible to do anything about the existing supply.
If sweeping gun legislation were to happen, any positive result could take years (maybe generations) to really be evident, and the massive pro gun crowd will just say "see it didn't work, and the criminals still have guns."
The 2017 national ban of bump stocks was significant, but we still have a long way to go. I suppose better background checks are the next step.
That line was, of course, first said by the NRA after Sandy Hook.
If the US didn’t want to change gun laws after children were murdered, it sure as hell won’t change them after a bunch of ‘immigrants’ have been murdered. Trump laughed in his rally when someone shouted ‘shoot them’ in response to his ‘what can we do to stop them coming’ question.
Many of his supporters won’t give a sh*t. They’ve been dehumanised (the victims that is - the people laughing and cheering about it were barely human in the first place).
One of my favourite books as a kid was the Sneetches, by Dr Seuss. Not that I claim I understood it at the time, but it was a brilliant commentary on racism, and even more so on the commercial exploitation of human frailty.
I can't help thinking though that if Dr Seuss were to write that book today, in these more pessimistic times, that he'd leave off the happy ending. A new edition should be released that ends with the immortal lines: "They never will learn. No you can't teach a Sneetch".
Yes ,I can still share my childhood laughter but the predictable rueful grin at the ending looms large these days. Anyway , Dr Seuss is still welcome in my latter days.
The weapons that were used in El Paso and Ohio yesterday allowed the monsters to kill incredibly quickly. The Ohio one was over in a minute. And 9 were murdered.
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