School shooting in Olathe Kansas,

hawkdon

hawkdon

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just awhile ago, student shot an administrator and a school resource officer who shot back and wounded the shooter...no one else wounded...
 

As usual, thoughts and prayers will be offered, and nothing further will be done…and within a week or two, a similar incident will recur…
 
Fyrefox said:
As usual, thoughts and prayers will be offered, and nothing further will be done…and within a week or two, a similar incident will recur…
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sadly, I guess. Maybe someday things will change.

No one can tell me that all the weaponry you would ever need in a home is more than...a couple of hunting rifles, a couple of handguns for self defense. And maybe a couple of shotguns for self defense.

More than that? and military weaponry?

I don't buy that. I think that is just the gun manufacturers trying to make a lot of money by selling high priced items.

I have a friend. She is 75. Lives in the South. There are cougars around sometimes. When she goes outside to do the wash, she takes her trusty shotgun with her. 75 years old! Tough as nails.
 
Gun violence in the USA is routine. Most have become numbed to it. The response is usually: prayers, hugs, candles and/or flowers. Next up!
 
Nosy Bee-54 said:
Gun violence in the USA is routine. Most have become numbed to it. The response is usually: prayers, hugs, candles and/or flowers. Next up!
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Forgive me if I sound condescending, but that "routine" does seem like the norm to a foreigner. On one of our trips to the US, we were visiting Nashville, I needed some cash and had just withdrawn some from the ATM when a rather nervous fellow approached me to relate an incident that had not long occurred.

It seems that a hijacker had forced a driver out of his car and then drove off in it. The victim did no more than to pull out the biggest hand gun ever and fired a shot at the hijacker, hitting him but not killing him. It caused him to veer into the oncoming eighteen wheeler, that killed him.

What do you say to a tale like that? All I could think of was: "Really?" You're British," declared my story teller, "Indeed I am," I replied. Those in the incident were completely forgotten. I was regaled with his love of England, he was stationed here whilst in the armed forces. He has traced his past to England, oh how he loved my accent.

Shooting? What shooting? Talk about blasé!
 
horseless carriage said:
Forgive me if I sound condescending, but that "routine" does seem like the norm to a foreigner. On one of our trips to the US, we were visiting Nashville, I needed some cash and had just withdrawn some from the ATM when a rather nervous fellow approached me to relate an incident that had not long occurred.

It seems that a hijacker had forced a driver out of his car and then drove off in it. The victim did no more than to pull out the biggest hand gun ever and fired a shot at the hijacker, hitting him but not killing him. It caused him to veer into the oncoming eighteen wheeler, that killed him.

What do you say to a tale like that? All I could think of was: "Really?" You're British," declared my story teller, "Indeed I am," I replied. Those in the incident were completely forgotten. I was regaled with his love of England, he was stationed here whilst in the armed forces. He has traced his past to England, oh how he loved my accent.

Shooting? What shooting? Talk about blasé!
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You don't sound condescending at all. I'm sure what is considered the "norm" here in the US is considered an abomination to someone from the UK. None of us in this forum agree with these shootings, but we seem to be helpless in making a change. Many of our politicians are funded by lobbyists from organizations like the NRA so nothing ever seems to change. It is "thoughts and prayers" and on to the next incident. Very sad.
 

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