Off Topic Journalist and cameraman shot dead

This is one of the worst posts I've ever read. FACT.

 

There have been gun rampages in a number of countries recently. Including Russia and China. Yet the only time it attracts any mention is when it happens in the USA.

 

I don't know why you have aimed this at me. I knew of these already.

 

I suppose the newsworthy/sensational bit is that it was live on TV. Two people getting shot by a third in the US wouldn't normally make the news.

 

Let's be honest here.

If the US weren't willing to do a god damn ****ing thing after the Sandy Hook massacre (in which CHILDREN were murdered), why should we expect them to come to their senses now?

 

You obviously don't read your own posts then!

 

It makes the local news thats about it. They might give it a few extra seconds of air time if its someone young or old. There were 2 people shot and killed down the street from me today in Stockton they only talked for more than 20 seconds about the guy who was randomly killed who was 81 years old and walking down the street from the store. 100 people are shot and killed per day in the US and 280 are wounded and 421 people are shot at. 2 people being killed isnt going to be anything anyone really cares about.

And no shootings dont make people want LESS guns it makes people want MORE guns. Things like this are why its legal to carry guns into most college campuses. My old university allows kids to store guns in their dorm rooms and take them to class with them now.

 

Rather you than me living there mate.

 

Its not really something you think much about unless you know someone who gets shot or kills someone. Its like anything you grow up around it you dont think much about it. Its only strange to someone who hasnt had 1,225,000 people killed in their country by guns in their life when they are only 35. Which I believe is more than we have lost in all wars combined. We lose more people to guns every year than we lost in action in Vietnam during the entire war.

 

Have you ever thought about shooting someone ellewoods?

I think if I lived over there I probably would hve done by now.

 

You mean like seriously thought about it? No. I mean everyone gets pissed and thinks man id like to kill that dude.

I did have a guy in my scope once while hunting. It was dawn with the sun just coming into the trees where there is still pretty low light and I was in a tree stand and behind me I heard a noise. About 100 yards away i saw brown flashing as it something was running. I moved my gun up to my shoulder with the safety on and started to follow it. I never took the safety off as you only do that when you have your shot. As it started to get into an area of less brush i saw in the scope it was some idiot running in brown pants a brown jacket and brown hat on with the tail of a white shirt coming out the back. Idiot was just randomly running through someone elses property at dawn trying to look like a deer. I considered shooting a round off to scare the **** out of him and teach him a lesson but i didnt. Thats the only time I have pointed a gun at anyone.

On a serious note I have known people who have been killed, wounded, been shot at and people who have shot and killed other people. Its hard to not know people who have had those things happen to them here.

 

I would blatantly have shot that deer man in the arse.

 

Do you believe in the Sasquatch, this is something I always wanted to ask an American hunter type? If you had a Sasquatch in your sights would you try and bag it for the evidence or would you let it go?

 

Another shooting? Ellewoods says 100 get shot and killed everyday in the US. I think you mean another newsworthy shooting.

 

If you think the US is bad, have a look at what goes on in Mexico (funded and supplied by the US)

http://www.latimes.com/world/drug-war/

This crap that goes on in the US is like children playing with water pistols in comparison.

 

Those figures are frightening.

 

I don't but lots of people do. In the event that I knew it was a Sasquatch and not someone dressed like a Sasquatch I think I would have to shoot it. Some people would hate you but you can't get rich unless you have the body bc no one is going to believe you if you just say you saw a Sasquatch.

 

It's really bad there, it's our fault. Guns aren't even legal in Mexico, they all come from the U.S. among other reasons it's our fault of course. My girl's grandfathers brother (is that like your great uncle or something?) was kidnapped and killed by a cartel a few years back.

 

Yep they are. The more frightening thing is the lack of ability to address the situation.