Except we didn't, you just define any reaction other than "ban all guns" as being fine with it.Sorry that my side point overshadowed the conversation. My main point was that this is the anniversary of when the US saw someone shoot up an elementary school and kill 20 children and 6 others, and as a country we pretty much decided we were fine with it.
So... what exactly was done about it again?Except we didn't, you just define any reaction other than "ban all guns" as being fine with it.
Thoughts and prayers.So... what exactly was done about it again?
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?So... what exactly was done about it again?
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.Thoughts and prayers.
I think both are less tedious than the stream of mass shootings.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.
...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.
Sarcastic.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 don't think you know what tedious means.[DOUBLEPOST=1513287056,1513286986][/DOUBLEPOST]I think both are less tedious than the stream of mass shootings.
The statement being ironic is different from using it ironically (the definition of sarcasm).Sarcastic.
I was mocking the ironic use.
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.The statement being ironic is different from using it ironically (the definition of sarcasm).
.... I'm not sure how to respond to that.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.
Mistake #1 is trying to get in a.weird of words with Gruebeard..... I'm not sure how to respond to that.
Ok.
I'm postmodern!Mistake #1 is trying to get in a.weird of words with Gruebeard.
I emphatically support the caging of minors, for a variety of reasons.Some of these "solutions" read like putting kids in a cage
You also support not losing "minor" status until successfully passing a proficiency exam, no matter the person's age.I emphatically support the caging of minors, for a variety of reasons.
... I don't think that was something I said.You also support not losing "minor" status until successfully passing a proficiency exam, no matter the person's age.
--Patrick
I'm assuming it was meant to be hyperbole.... I don't think that was something I said.
...out loud.... I don't think that was something I said.
More like sussing.I'm assuming it was meant to be hyperbole.
You also support not losing "minor" status until successfully passing a proficiency exam, no matter the person's age.
--Patrick
Well you sussed wrong. I'd be worried about who administered the test, and what they'd decide was on it....out loud.
...on the Internet.
...where it could be used against you later.
More like sussing.
--Patrick
The mistake was more on point, I'd say. [DOUBLEPOST=1513362071,1513361975][/DOUBLEPOST]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.
I'd keep flunking that test so I could sleep with 14 year old girls without breaking the law.You also support not losing "minor" status until successfully passing a proficiency exam, no matter the person's age.
--Patrick
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!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.
BENTON, Ky. -- Authorities say at least five people were shot Tuesday morning at a southwestern Kentucky high school. A suspect in the incident at Marshall County High School in Benton, Kentucky, has been apprehended, according to officials with Marshall County Emergency Management.
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin tweeted soon after the incident that at least one of the victims died as a result of the shooting, but said there is "much yet unknown" as first responders continue to operate at the school. Kentucky State Police have confirmed one dead.
Kentucky Rep. James Comer told CBSN the shooter in custody is a student.
https://www.massshootingtracker.org/data/2018It has been [39] days since our last incident.
--Patrick
A 15-year-old boy shot 14 people Tuesday morning at southwestern Kentucky high school, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin said. A 15-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl died.
Five others suffered non-gunshot injuries, the governor said. The suspect in the incident at Marshall County High School in Benton, Kentucky, has been apprehended, according to officials with Marshall County Emergency Management. It was the nation's first fatal school shooting of 2018.
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Kentucky State Police Commissioner Richard Sanders said during a press conference Tuesday afternoon that the suspect, a student, entered the school at 7:57 a.m. and soon opened fire with a handgun. Sanders said the first 911 call came in two minutes later, and police were on scene by 8:06 a.m.