Another Day In The USA

[ZiprHead]

Multiple people have been killed in a shooting in El Paso, Texas, police say

An independent journalist is reporting eighteen people dead. Numerous injuries.

One person detained, one in custody per the police information officer.

 

[Half-Life]

Multiple people have been killed in a shooting in El Paso, Texas, police say

An independent journalist is reporting eighteen people dead. Numerous injuries.

One person detained, one in custody per the police information officer.

An average of 90 Americans die every day in motor vehicle accidents. Time to ban cars yet, guys?

 

[ZiprHead]

Multiple people have been killed in a shooting in El Paso, Texas, police say

An independent journalist is reporting eighteen people dead. Numerous injuries.

One person detained, one in custody per the police information officer.

An average of 90 Americans die every day in motor vehicle accidents. Time to ban cars yet, guys?

Maybe it would better to ban white guys from owning guns. Makes just as much sense.

 

[Patooka]

Multiple people have been killed in a shooting in El Paso, Texas, police say

An independent journalist is reporting eighteen people dead. Numerous injuries.

One person detained, one in custody per the police information officer.

An average of 90 Americans die every day in motor vehicle accidents. Time to ban cars yet, guys?

1) That's a bullshit statistic
2) Vehicles have uses other than killing people
3) There isn't a lobby group advocating unsafe vehicles be accessible to everybody
4) There is a concerted effort to make vehicles as safe as possible

But apart from those minor details, you hit the nail on the head.

 

[Half-Life]

Multiple people have been killed in a shooting in El Paso, Texas, police say

An independent journalist is reporting eighteen people dead. Numerous injuries.

One person detained, one in custody per the police information officer.

An average of 90 Americans die every day in motor vehicle accidents. Time to ban cars yet, guys?

1) That's a bullshit statistic
2) Vehicles have uses other than killing people
3) There isn't a lobby group advocating unsafe vehicles be accessible to everybody
4) There is a concerted effort to make vehicles as safe as possible

But apart from those minor details, you hit the nail on the head.

Guns have other uses too. People play target practice and see who gets the most points, like playing darts. No use for darts other than throwing them at a dartboard. Someone could go crazy in a bar and start throwing darts at people's heads!

 

[Derec]

Maybe it would better to ban white guys from owning guns. Makes just as much sense.

Your anti-white racism is noted. Why only white guys? Especially when blacks commit more gun crimes on a per capita basis?

 

[Derec]

1) That's a bullshit statistic

It's actually worse. About 40,000 traffic deaths in 2018 is about 109/day.

2) Vehicles have uses other than killing people
3) There isn't a lobby group advocating unsafe vehicles be accessible to everybody
4) There is a concerted effort to make vehicles as safe as possible

All true. Maybe a better comparison would be between regular gun murders, that generally do not generate much coverage, and mass shootings like this one. The former account for a lot more deaths.

 

[Ford]

I used to live there. At this point it's "I hope nobody I know was killed."

Yet there are clearly some people who are hoping "gosh I don't want this to negatively impact the firearms industry."

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

https://newsone.com/3883517/el-paso-shooter-patrick-crusius/

Just another lone wolf murdering white guy.

...
he suspect in a deadly mass shooting at a shopping mall in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday was widely identified on the internet as a young white man whose social media activity showed support and sympathy for the president’s apparent white nationalist agenda. The name and photos of a man purported to be Patrick Crusius quickly circulated across Twitter in the hours after the shooting that first began outside a Walmart store at Cielo Vista Mall was first reported. If those reports were accurate, Crusius, allegedly a Texas native, just turned 21 last week.
...
A manifesto purportedly written by Crusius, perhaps even in the hours before the shooting attack that according to one report left at least 18 people dead, was left behind. Pages of the manifesto included anti-immigrant rhetoric with the author going into depth on why he is “against race mixing,” supports the idea to “send them back” and offering a prediction of “genocide.”
...

Mentally disturbed right wingers who have listened to too much far right racist bullshit.

 

[TV and credit cards]

Multiple people have been killed in a shooting in El Paso, Texas, police say

An independent journalist is reporting eighteen people dead. Numerous injuries.

One person detained, one in custody per the police information officer.

An average of 90 Americans die every day in motor vehicle accidents. Time to ban cars yet, guys?

Well, the primary purpose of a motor vehicle is to transport people. That's a good thing. It has utility.

And the primary purpose of a gun is?

 

[Derec]

Guns have other uses too. People play target practice and see who gets the most points, like playing darts.

But target practice is, as the name implies, practice for use on the real version of the target.

 

[Derec]

Just another lone wolf murdering white guy.

Why are you emphasizing that he was a white guy? Would it have somehow been more understandable if he was black?

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

http://i.4cdn.org/pol/1564869031114.jpg

The manifest of Patrick Crusius.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Multiple people have been killed in a shooting in El Paso, Texas, police say

An independent journalist is reporting eighteen people dead. Numerous injuries.

One person detained, one in custody per the police information officer.

An average of 90 Americans die every day in motor vehicle accidents. Time to ban cars yet, guys?

Ban? No. Severe restrictions on their use? Yes. A minimum age, a shitload of requiredinsurance, for dangers to self and others, quite a it of federal, state and localbrestrictions on where they can be used, a very low threshold of danger posedvvto others before they are taken away from you, registered ownership....
Gun control to a level equal to car control.

Good call, half-life.

 

[Patooka]

1) That's a bullshit statistic
2) Vehicles have uses other than killing people
3) There isn't a lobby group advocating unsafe vehicles be accessible to everybody
4) There is a concerted effort to make vehicles as safe as possible

But apart from those minor details, you hit the nail on the head.

Guns have other uses too. People play target practice and see who gets the most points, like playing darts. No use for darts other than throwing them at a dartboard. Someone could go crazy in a bar and start throwing darts at people's heads!

That is some moronic whataboutism right there. "Guns are no more lethal than cars and darts". What a load of idiotic crap. If that were the case, Seal Team Six would be equipped with Honda Civics and bar room paraphernalia.

 

[Half-Life]

Multiple people have been killed in a shooting in El Paso, Texas, police say

An independent journalist is reporting eighteen people dead. Numerous injuries.

One person detained, one in custody per the police information officer.

An average of 90 Americans die every day in motor vehicle accidents. Time to ban cars yet, guys?

Well, the primary purpose of a motor vehicle is to transport people. That's a good thing. It has utility.

And the primary purpose of a gun is?

For defending yourself against nutbags.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Yeeeehaw! Distracted drivers have been proven to be a major cause of accidents, including fatal accidents. A major source of deadly distracted driver accidents has been texting while driving. So our Texas legislature passed a law banning texting while driving. Our wonderful governor, Rick the Dick Perry vetoed that law.

It kind of makes you quietly proud about the sagacity and wisdom of Rick The Dick Perry. This law has since been passed and sign by Governor Abbot.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/ne...-texting-law-has-a-few-loopholes-13399492.php

 

[Derec]

That is some moronic whataboutism right there. "Guns are no more lethal than cars and darts". What a load of idiotic crap. If that were the case, Seal Team Six would be equipped with Honda Civics and bar room paraphernalia.

Well not regular darts of course, but those lawn darts on the other hand ...

 

[ZiprHead]

Maybe it would better to ban white guys from owning guns. Makes just as much sense.

Your anti-white racism is noted. Why only white guys? Especially when blacks commit more gun crimes on a per capita basis?

Read it again, slower.

 

[bilby]

Multiple people have been killed in a shooting in El Paso, Texas, police say

An independent journalist is reporting eighteen people dead. Numerous injuries.

One person detained, one in custody per the police information officer.

An average of 90 Americans die every day in motor vehicle accidents. Time to ban cars yet, guys?

1) That's a bullshit statistic
2) Vehicles have uses other than killing people
3) There isn't a lobby group advocating unsafe vehicles be accessible to everybody
4) There is a concerted effort to make vehicles as safe as possible

But apart from those minor details, you hit the nail on the head.

5) You must pass a practical test and obtain a licence before you are permitted to drive a vehicle
6) Vehicles that are able to do more harm (heavy vehicles) require additional licences
7) Vehicles must be registered and a record of vehicles and their owners is kept by the state
8) Before operating a vehicle, you must have third party insurance to cover any injuries you cause to others (and in many jurisdictions also to cover any damage done to their property).

If guns in the US were regulated just like motor vehicles are, there would be far fewer gun owners and likely far fewer shootings. But if you even hinted at bringing in such a level of regulation, the NRA would have a fit.