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No. of Recommendations: 5
At least 16 people are dead [latest reporting is 22]
in multiple shootings in Lewiston, Maine, Wednesday night, according to multiple law enforcement sources.
Fifty to 60 people are injured in the incidents, though it's unclear how many are injured due to gunfire, the sources told CNN.
The suspect, a single shooter, remains at large.
These well-regulated militias are getting out of control.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/25/us/lewiston-maine-s...
No. of Recommendations: 6
Please can we repeal the second amendment now?
Amazing that slavery and prohibition don't exist, yet the most outdated part of the constitution (sorry, bill of rights) is somehow as sacred as religion.
A mass shooting (Sandy Hook) turned me into an atheist. If God existed and let it happen then he is a useless or immoral god.
Yet, Americans continue to sacrifice their innocents to Molech that is the second amendment. It's unjust and inexcusable.
No. of Recommendations: 18
Well-Regulated Militia Opens Fire In Lewiston, Maine;
Cheap Thoughts And Useless Prayers Now Being Rushed To The Scene.
More on this soon-to-be-forgotten-and-then-repeated again tomorrow story as it develops.
Are you Pro-Life?
Guns have killed more than 35,000 Americans this year. There have been 565 mass shootings so far in 2023.
If you think a drag show or a book about Rosa Parks is a greater threat to children or society than unregulated gun ownership, congratulations you are an idiot.
Guns are the leading cause of death for American children.
We know the answer.
It's the guns.
If only we could stop it, like every other country in the world already has.
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The problem of evil. That has been argued for a very long time. That is only a small part of the reason I'm atheist, but I think it a valid argument. Either god is indifferent, powerless, doesn't exist, or actively evil. Anyway you slice it, not worth worshipping.
As for the 2A, a sizable part of the population is willing to accept losses in the tens of thousands every year. So long as that is the case, the 2A is not going anywhere.
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So when an illegal alien kills someone....
That great immigration stuff is getting out of control.
No. of Recommendations: 6
Never mind Well-Regulated,
a number of states have no regulations...
"A number of states have also gone as far as to largely eliminate restrictions on who can carry a gun.
In June 2021, for example, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law a "permitless carry bill" that allows the state's residents to carry handguns without a licence or training.
Similarly, in April last year Georgia became the 25th in the nation to eliminate the need for a permit to conceal or openly carry a firearm.
The law means any citizen of that state has the right to carry a firearm without a licence or a permit.
The law was backed by the NRA, and leaders within the organisation called the move a monumental moment for the Second Amendment."
Gun violence is a public health crisis. While it may seem like an intractable problem, gun violence is not inevitable, and Americans should not have to live in fear of being shot.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081
No. of Recommendations: 3
As for the 2A, a sizable part of the population is willing to accept losses in the tens of thousands every year. So long as that is the case, the 2A is not going anywhere. - 1pg
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Let's not forget the DGU offset....
No. of Recommendations: 19
This is what I think about after each mass shooting.
It's not just the killed. I worry that Americans have lapsed into a subliminal coping reaction that magically assumes all of the "wounded" in these shootings are raced to a hospital, have an emergency surgery, recoup in an ICU for a week, maybe a month, then somehow magically metamorphisize back into exactly the person they were before the shooting, like some Second Amendment Indestructable American Transformer.
That's NOT what happens after you are shot (possibly repeatedly) with a high velocity weapon. Many of these victims face massive, permanent damage to internal organs, bones, joints, etc. requiring multiple surgeries over time to correct or mitigate and months of searing pain in physical therapy to regain a FRACTION of their former capabilities. And these victims will spend the rest of their lives replaying what they witnessed in their head with a level of detail IMAX films can only dream of.
As everyone in the world except Americans figured out years / decades ago, there is nothing about this mayhem that is remotely required or inevitable in modern life. America is the ONLY industrialized nation on the planet that still faces this problem. Mass shootings aren't the cost of a free society with gun rights. Mass shootings are the cost of a collective psychosis among a subset of Americans who have perfected ways to terrorize politicians into blocking any actions to limit the availability of automatic weapons. The same bloc of politicians who also block any meaningful re-invention of a failed healthcare system that generates higher health COSTS than any peer country, produces lower health QUALITY across multiple measures and provides virtually no long term care for mental health issues.
If the 2017 shooting in Las Vegas that killed 60 people and wounded 413 wasn't enough to shock America into action, I'd rather not contemplate the scale of the act that WOULD finally jolt America out of this gun loving, delusional hellscape we currently occupy.
WTH
No. of Recommendations: 5
A mass shooting (Sandy Hook) turned me into an atheist. If God existed and let it happen then he is a useless or immoral god.Regarding God:
"
' Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent.
' Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent.
' Is he both able and willing? then where does evil come from?
" ~ David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Or, paraphrased:
"
If God is unable to prevent evil, then he is not all-powerful.
If God is not willing to prevent evil, then he is not all-good.
If God is both willing and able to prevent evil, then why does evil exist?
" ~ David Hume
See
https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_E7dbAAAAQAAJ/pa...
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<"If God is unable to prevent evil, then he is not all-powerful. If God is not willing to prevent evil, then he is not all-good.
If God is both willing and able to prevent evil, then why does evil exist?" ~ David Hume>
I see you've been reading philosophy books.
Enjoy them while you still can.
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'Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?'
― Epicurus
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law a "permitless carry bill" that allows the state's residents to carry handguns without a licence or training.
There was a time we had reasonable gun laws. And a time when assault rifles weren't available to every insane idiot.
Used to be difficult to get a concealed carry permit in most states.
We are moving in the wrong direction.
No. of Recommendations: 5
Gotta admit, I'm puzzled here.
Guy was admitted to psych hospital THIS YEAR. (Two weeks was it?)
"Heard voices, telling him to shoot up the place."
Well documented by name, rank, and serial number with access and assignments to Army resources.
WHY DIDN'T HE END UP ON A PUBLISHED LIST THAT IMMEDIATELY PROSCRIBED HIS FIREARMS ACCESS, POSSESSION???
Gotta admit, I'm MORE than a little puzzled here.
No. of Recommendations: 5
BrerBear:
Gotta admit, I'm MORE than a little puzzled here.Here you go:
https://apnews.com/article/gun-control-lewiston-ma...In short: Maine is a permitless carry state. Maine does not have a red flag law (failed in 2019) but does have something called a yellow flag law. Under it, law enforcement can detain someone they suspect is mentally ill and poses a threat to themselves or others. Federal law and most states have prohibited people from possessing guns if they have been
formally committed to a mental health facility. Formal commitment is a court process that's usually required
to keep someone at a facility longer than about 14 days. So if the suspect was held "for two weeks," that prohibition may not have been in force. A judge typically must approve a formal commitment. which is then sent to the background-check system. But... background checks aren't required at unlicensed or private sellers. And then there's this: statistics show that mentally ill folks are more likely to be the
victims of a crime rather than commit a crime.
Guess that wasn't so short.
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All data indicate the DGU offset, as you call it, is negligible. But we already discussed that a few months ago.
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All data indicate the DGU offset, as you call it, is negligible. But we already discussed that a few months ago. - 1pg-------------------
Discussed? Often.
Agreed? Hardly.
https://reason.com/2022/09/09/the-largest-ever-sur...The Largest-Ever Survey of American Gun Owners Finds That Defensive Use of Firearms Is CommonThe largest and most comprehensive survey of American gun owners ever conducted suggests that they use firearms in self-defense about 1.7 million times a year.
... more at link
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Which would indicate a crime rate vastly higher than what we observe. With actual crime data. As we discussed previously.
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That 'reason' article is typically rightwing biased. It makes some dubious claims, such as "Yet politicians who want to ban these rifles insist they are good for nothing but mass murder." Certainly some say that, but also certainly, not all. That kind of generalizing is toxic.
... "That reality helps explain the wide divergence in estimates of defensive gun uses. The self-reports of gun owners may not be entirely reliable, since they could be exaggerated, mistaken, or dishonest."
"May not be..."? LOL. Extreme right-wingers are increasingly lying and electing shameless, vicious liars who double down on their lies and create absurd euphemisms such as 'alternative facts' in a truly Orwellian haze.
Hey, if we legalize claymore mines hand grenades there will be 'lawful uses" for them as well.
Dog pooping on yer lawn? Hand grenade!
Stranger knocking? "You've triggered a heat sensor that will detonate in 10, 9, 8...." Perfect defensive use!
Bass pros can have grenade fishing competitions to legitimatize private ownership..
Oh, the possibilities .... Reality TV calls!
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Let's not forget the DGU offset....
Yes, I do believe there are a lot of Dufus Gun Uses, having been around some dufuses with guns, but how is that an offset?
