*sighs, turns over "DAYS SINCE LAST MASS SHOOTING IN AMERICA" sign to 0*
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GasBandit
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Except we didn't, you just define any reaction other than "ban all guns" as being fine with it.
So... what exactly was done about it again?
Thoughts and prayers.
GasBandit
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Well, for one thing, since then we've discovered more of the sort of thing I've said about government all along. Remember how the church shooter's dishonorable discharge should have prevented him from buying a gun under current law, but the military didn't bother to report it to the FBI?
Well, turns out it's far from unique. The failure rate to report such things ranges from 14 to 41 percent depending on the branch. And the problem's been known about for decades but nobody does anything about it.
It's a good illustration of how well-meaning bureaucratic solutions usually don't improve things.
But meanwhile, private organizations have taken matters into their own hands, such as Sandy Hook Promise, carrying out a campaign of awareness and prevention action to get people more involved in identifying and addressing signs of potentially violent mental illness around them.[DOUBLEPOST=1513286132,1513286076][/DOUBLEPOST]
The only thing more tedious than the thoughts and prayers posts is the parrot squawk of it among those who think they're making a point by saying it ironically. It's been beaten to death, guys.
I think both are less tedious than the stream of mass shootings.
GasBandit
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I don't think you know what tedious means.[DOUBLEPOST=1513287056,1513286986][/DOUBLEPOST]
The statement being ironic is different from using it ironically (the definition of sarcasm).
You were irritated that I was using the phrase to mock the folks who use the phrase sincerely. I'm just telling you I wasn't.
GasBandit
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Mistake #1 is trying to get in a.weird of words with Gruebeard.
Edit: that was supposed to be war of words, but I feel both work.
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GasBandit
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I emphatically support the caging of minors, for a variety of reasons.
You also support not losing "minor" status until successfully passing a proficiency exam, no matter the person's age.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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... I don't think that was something I said.
I'm assuming it was meant to be hyperbole.
...out loud.
...on the Internet.
...where it could be used against you later.
More like sussing.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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Well you sussed wrong. I'd be worried about who administered the test, and what they'd decide was on it.
The mistake was more on point, I'd say.
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I'd keep flunking that test so I could sleep with 14 year old girls without breaking the law.
. . . is what Roy Moore would say.
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks... You better run, better run, faster than my bullet...[DOUBLEPOST=1513363030,1513362901][/DOUBLEPOST]
Or, you could just marry them!
https://www.massshootingtracker.org/data/2018
Except it kind of hasn't. Though to be fair, a lot of these are domestic violence, not random rampage killings.
DateLocationDeadInjuredShooter(s)News articles
01/21/2018 Chicago, IL 0 4
Unknown
01/19/2018 Calhoun Co., AL 4 0
Tony Parker (victims included perpetrator's 2 children)
01/18/2018 Harrisburg, PA 2 2
Kevin Sturgis (victims included 3 police officers)
01/17/2018 Washington, DC 1 3
Unknown
01/16/2018 York, SC 1 4
Unknown (victims included 4 police officers responding to domestic violence call)
15 01/15/2018 Alachua, FL 0 5
Unknown
14 01/14/2018 Madison, AL 0 4
Unknown
13 01/13/2018 Eutaw, AL 1 5
Unknown
12 01/13/2018 Charlotte, NC 0 5
John Ravon Butler
11 01/12/2018 Nashville, TN 3 2
Queshan Brooks (victims included perpetrator's stepmother & her two young boys
10 01/11/2018 St. Robert, MO 2 2
Unknown
9 01/08/2018 Galvaston, TX 4 0
Unknown (victims included woman's husband & 2 young sons)
8 01/07/2018 Union Springs, AL 0 5
Unknown
7 01/07/2018 Plantation, FL 0 4
Unknown
6 01/07/2018 Redding, CA 4 0
Unknown (domestic murder-suicide shooting)
5 01/05/2018 Santa Clarita, CA 4 0
Unknown (victims included gunmans wife & 2 young children)
4 01/05/2018 Hattiesburg, MS 0 6
Unknown
3 01/04/2018 Brinkley, AZ 1 3
James Frost
2 01/01/2018 Columbus, OH 2 2
Unknown (victims included infant that was delivered after mother died)
1 01/01/2018 Huntsville, AL 1 3
Unknown
It's too early to tell if this one is "random" or was due to the relationships of the people involved.
It's the random ones, the inexplicably insane ones, that capture the public eye.
When one person shoots another because they were jealous, or angry, etc with a specific person for specific reasons, the public loses interest, as the "mystery" has been "solved".[DOUBLEPOST=1516735361,1516735211][/DOUBLEPOST]Which makes sense - we feel unsafe when we can't explain (and thus can't protect ourselves from) random danger, but if we feel the danger was due to something within our power to understand and avoid, we file it away and move on with life.
3.8 billion years of natural selection is determining what we spend our time looking at online.
It's the random ones, the inexplicably insane ones, that capture the public eye.
When one person shoots another because they were jealous, or angry, etc with a specific person for specific reasons, the public loses interest, as the "mystery" has been "solved".[DOUBLEPOST=1516735361,1516735211][/DOUBLEPOST]Which makes sense - we feel unsafe when we can't explain (and thus can't protect ourselves from) random danger, but if we feel the danger was due to something within our power to understand and avoid, we file it away and move on with life.
3.8 billion years of natural selection is determining what we spend our time looking at online.
That city is around an hour west of where I live.