The truck killings here in NY have been forgotten already, I walked passed yesterday and not even an old flower left.
Strange that on TV here everyone is saying they are offering prayers for the people killed and wounded in a ... Church! Obviously doesn't work!!!
It was a general comment, intended to imply that the likelihood is, this was perpetrated using something like a semi-automatic combat weapon
So, instead of a conversation about changing the gun laws a senator is saying now that to protect people a new law should be passed that allows members of a church should be allowed to have a concealed weapon to protect other members of the church, Really !!!
Regrettably, I'm requesting the moderators put a 'sticky' on the forum with a title ........... 'Shooting in Texas'. Seems like things continue to get worse over there. I read that they had a vote, to take guns into their churches .......... to protect themselves. Yes, it has really gotten that bad. How sad it is.
Apparently Trump has said that it's not a gun problem, but a mental heath problem. Anyone want to tell him that if the mentally ill didn't have access to guns, then they couldn't shoot anyone? I don't believe he actually thinks that, just trying to deflect from the real issue. Unfortunately the NRA is all too powerful and there's no desire to change things.
How about if they started to teach kids in schools how to use semi-automatic weapons, then they will all be prepared in the event that they come under attack in later life. Though this is probably more likely than actually banning guns.
This is a strange one as yes the NRA and its associated cronies are well funded with friends in high places. However, I would hazard a guess that the majority of Americans would be happy at some stringent gun control. Maybe it's the circles I'm around but I have not found one American colleague that would not accept that. They might be appeasing European HQ management when saying this (even in Houston) but I generally believe that someone could run on this ticket and be succesful. I may be being naive but I don't think so.
Would be nice to try. Similarly the Americans I work with all sigh and shake their heads on guns, none of them (including the Republicans - though they tend to be the fiscally conservative ones rather than the fundamentalist version) want more guns around (and none have ever owned up to possessing a gun, and believe me I ask, though they could of course be fibbing). But what they don’t like is being told what they can and cannot do by their government. And in my view that is the root of the issue - gun ownership has come to symbolise the relationship between the people and the government, and it’s a fundamentally different relationship to the one in Europe. Shame they couldn’t have picked another area to symbolise it - their freedom to mow the lawn at any hour they want for example.
And there’s the problem.....if I’m pissed off at my mother in law I’ll shout and swear.....in the states they’ll shoot 20 odd innocent people as they have access to semi automatic firearms.....
Trump says this wasn't anything to with guns, but mental illness. Trump recently signed the cancellation of an Obama law to restrict the sale of guns to people with a mental illness. Oh dear....
