Running Shooting Thread 2021

Former sheriff's detective suspected in Texas shooting captured

 

Good thing he wasn't driving with air freshener hanging from the mirror.... just a gun in his waistband.

 

I keep saying it... Screen out people with mental health issues and any form of domestic violence history. Mental health, yeah, I know that's invasive into the Dr./Patient relationship, and would require mental health counselors to commit to reporting people they consider a danger to others or themselves. That's still less invasive than a bullet to the head, whether murder or suicide. On domestic violence, so many instances are undercharged or pleaded down to a lesser charge that it would necessitate working off of the original charges. Statistically that's around 30% of the cases.

There are already 300 million guns loose in the country. If the government tries to take them there would be a sudden rash of break-ins with entire gun collections stolen and terrible boating accidents where they all fell overboard. We can take steps to tighten the secondary person to person market, etc. but the reality is that we will never ever be able to get enough of them off the street to stop this madness.

That leads to people feeling unsafe on the street and in their homes, which leads many of them to buy a gun and sometimes to carry it around, which ups the risk everywhere of bad outcomes.

There are no good answers. The U.S. love affair with guns and stubborn independent streak with regard to anything we disagree with assures that.

 

Chicago shooting: 7-year-old shot and killed at West Side restaurant drive-thru ID'd by family

When is the demonstration planned for?

why isn’t Jaclyn Adams life as important as George Floyd?

 

Now batting: Long Island.

 

Are you going?

 

Fallout from the Rogers-Packers tiff?

 

Report said was in adjacent hotel, a Radisson that I have stayed in.

Edit to update. 3 dead, including shooter. Targeted incident. Ex employee of some kind.

 

Three dead in Green Bay-area casino shooting. Oneida Casino shooting: What we know about Green Bay victims, suspect

 

Why not? It could be done. It just hasn't been.

And, why the love affair with guns at all? I'd really like to understand why some people just can't be without guns. Why do they need them? What is the attraction, such that they just can't be taken away/gotten rid of?

 

There are 300 million guns in this country, and there are a lot of gun owners who simply won't give them up without a shootout. You can offer buybacks and get some, especially if you offer good money. Folks will sell their shitty old guns if you pay enough. There simply isn't the will and the votes to completely eliminate guns, taking them off the street. The best that is politically doable is to nibble around the edges. Gun culture and gun lobby is too powerful.

You can argue that this is a really shitty place to be, and I'd agree. It's the real world though. It ain't happening.