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Did you hear about the latest mass shooting in America?

It happened at a Memorial day festival in Oklahoma - 7 people were injured and one person was killed. The school shooting was only a few days ago and now another mass shooting and there will likely be a few more before the next election. So I think people are going to start voting for people who want sensible gun laws which will mean that Republicans will be out and Democrats will be in. Cheers! 

Posted - May 30, 2022
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  • 2975
    Then let's make it as hard as possible for them to get their hands on a weapon.
      May 30, 2022 9:11 PM MDT
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  • 13263
    Fair point, but I am not sure how effective any law would be given the reality of black market availability.
      May 30, 2022 10:13 PM MDT
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  • 16352
    When an item is scarce, the black market price goes up. Down here, it went WAY up. It takes a lot of very cautious spending to even find it.
      May 31, 2022 4:50 AM MDT
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  • 33024
      May 31, 2022 4:41 AM MDT
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  • 16352
    It would, just as it did in Australia. A really demented or psychotic individual won't find the black market, the sellers are anxious not to attract attention. Get rid of magazines and self-loading breeches - the atrocities aren't being committed with hunting rifles or handguns.
    I had a license (haven't bothered to renew it since it expired more than 20 years ago) and the rifle was registered. Our laws today are similar to Canada's as far as obtaining a firearm is concerned, and certain types of weapon are illegal - semi-automatics and rimfires, for example, as are magazines that can hold more than eight bullets.
      May 31, 2022 4:58 AM MDT
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  • 13263
    As I have said before, nobody intent on shooting a bunch of people is ethical or rational enough to be concerned with rules and laws. It's all good to theorize about it here in the ivory tower of the Internet, but reality is different.
      May 31, 2022 8:09 AM MDT
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  • 16352
    It wouldn't work in America, at least not soon. Too many guns already in the community. A crazed individual wouldn't need the black market, they'd just steal the weapons from someone who has a stockpile and an anarchic view of "freedom".
    There weren't a lot of guns in Australia to start with.
      May 31, 2022 10:29 PM MDT
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  • 313
    any suspects who commits shootings and terror attacks deserves a punishment by having their loved ones slap them in the face.

      May 30, 2022 9:10 PM MDT
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  • 16352
    Better idea - stripped naked, hamstrung at the wrists and ankles and handed over to the families of the vics. Anything goes.
      May 31, 2022 5:23 AM MDT
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  • 13263
    They either shoot themselves or the police do, after the damage has been done.
      May 31, 2022 8:11 AM MDT
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  • 33024
    That does not count as a mass shooting in AU, that is how they claim to have only 1 since their gun ban. 
      May 31, 2022 4:45 AM MDT
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  • 33024
    Did you hear about the shooters who were killed by a person they wanted to shoot?


    If we want gun violence to stop, then our court system needs to take it seriously. 

    If you are arrested for a crime with a firearm...then you do not get bail, and upon conviction you automatically get 10ys added on to you sentence....no early parole either. 

    There was a school shooter who was arrested and out of jail within hours. That should never happen. Bail was set at 75,000....so for $7,500 he was free.   Ridiculous.  
      May 31, 2022 5:10 AM MDT
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  • 16352
    That's something I agree with. And if you kill someone with a firearm (except in defence of self or someone else), life without parole. Even if death is unintentional (using the weapon to menace, or shooting with intent to wound but hitting something vital by accident), reckless homicide is murder three at the very least, two more likely.
      May 31, 2022 5:19 AM MDT
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