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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Exactly, Gud. It could have been and still can be handled properly, but they really don't care. It is just heartbreaking.
That sounds wonderful, Consuela! Also, yay for dramamine.
I need to turn off the live coverage from Vegas. It is making me hate humans.
I'm so sorry for your niece, Consuela. Relatedly, my mother thinks my father is declining, and one of my first thoughts was, "He better not die over Christmas." So, um, if anyone has control over that kind of thing?
Gads, the news from Vegas is just horrible. Sounds like it was just the one guy that did all that.
What the hell, world? Fifty people dead? I'm sitting here speechless.
I just sit here and think of the countless loved ones whose lives are changed forever because of a lunatic with automatic weapons. So horrifying.
Exactly. Plus the fact that *this* is terrorism. And we're apparently not only breeding them but happily arming them.
I've seen people already (of course) saying "this isn't terrorism", and I assume that it's because the shooter is white.
What is a mass shooting, if not an act of terrorism? Why can't we call it what it is?
Racism is why.
I'm horrified that one person can do that much damage. Could that possibly be the thing that gets people to start limiting the amount of ammo etc. people can own for no reason?
And weapons that can be fired from such a distance -- he was on the 32nd floor, for fuck's sake.
Maybe what we need is constant protests and marches outside NRA headquarters. At least to start?
Could that possibly be the thing that gets people to start limiting the amount of ammo etc. people can own for no reason?
Nope. If schoolchildren being killed in the Sandy Hook shooting didn't lead to any measure of gun control, there is literally nothing that will. Because politicians are bought by the NRA, and they value guns more than they value human life.