Another day, another school shooting.
This one, however, is a little different. It happened at a private Christian school and the shooter was a woman.
6 dead (3 children, 3 adults) thus far, number of injured not released.
Maybe now that it's happened at a private church school, by a woman, some of these rightwingers will be open to some sane conversing about how to stop aiding and abetting the murder of America's children/youth. (Doubtful, but....)
What do you want to bet that the male legislators will come up with even more laws to control women after this shooting?????? They won't do a fucking thing about the guns.........
This was the 3rd female school shooter in history. (since 1840.) There's no narrative about this yet, but I'm sure you're right. The only narrative, is from FoxNews, of course. And it's what???? It's side doors. Yes. The problem is side doors that are on schools. They claim that's the failure. Someone must have left the side door unlocked. It's not guns.
What is telling? The police actually killed this one. That happens in less than 9% of these horrid routine, daily events.
Apparently a teenaged girl with guns isn't as scary as a teenaged male with guns (ie: Uvalde for example.)
In the UK we had a school shooting in 1996. Straight after that, modern handguns were banned. In 1987 there was the Hungerford shooting when a man went wild with a semi automatic rifle. Not long after that, semi automatic rifle were banned.
Looking at the population of the UK - about 80 million including visitors, we have had zero school shooting since 1996
The USA population 330 million has now had around three thousand over the same period.
Our first school shooting was in 1840. Yet another violent and disgusting fact about America, that's literally baked into the country's DNA.
Today's school shooting is mass shooting #129 this year (and it's March!) and it's only the 3rd time the shooter (at a school) was a female.
Most notable??????? The police actually killed this shooter. Usually they're either taken alive or commit suicide. It's an anomaly. In less than 1/3 of all active school/mass shootings, surrender or suicide is the finale in over 80%.
@SeaGreenEyez While studying this terrible phenomena, we (UK/Scottish students 2017-19) came up with two major factors allowing this to commonly occur in the USA.
Firstly that it is acceptable to employ lethal violence where and when an individual wishes to settle 'scores'.
Secondly, the availability of weapons which can cause lethal wounds on an extensive scale.
Simply put. Anger+Violence+Guns= Mass Shootings.
Rights are not god given (hahahaha) they are man made and therefore can be taken away. The Second Amendment is just that, an amendment. So if society wants, hold a referendum on gun control with at choice of three answers - two will give a pure binary outcome and partizan reprisals afterwards.
If the vote demands control, then that is what must happen.
Should it make a difference, Britain no longer has an Empire and we have far more fear of American invasion than the other way around.
@Sofabeast I was just earlier, having the conversation with someone about the Constitution being a "living" document. It was meant to be amended. That was the point!
It's so absurd that some people actually think the 2nd Amendment says, "Yep. Guns. Everyone. As many as possible for each and every person, and be sure to grab the most lethal of guns. Several or dozens, each and every person." They seem to actually believe they've got some sort of protected "right" to own guns. That's not what the 2nd Amendment says. Unless these crazy people are bonafide members of a "well related miltia" this alleged right they've turned into daily death tolls doesn't exist.
@SeaGreenEyez I have a better knowledge and perspective on this than probably the majority of Americans.
From the weapon side of things, I can load and fire about four rounds per minute with a musket and can hit a standing man sized target at 50 yards most of the time. I have studied warfare both as an amateur historian and as a professional and can compare the modernising of weapons over human history.
Then as a Social Scientist where the USA, it's history, politics and sociology formed a major part of my recent studies I can see how the Constitution must continue to evolve under the guidelines that John Locke left.
In part a well related militia, was to prevent the rise of an internal Oligarch from becoming 'King'. Thus, the likes of Trump is what is meant to fight against. However, the War between the States 1861-65 pretty much destroyed the reasoning of this, as had the weaponry evolution from muzzle loading muskets to magazine fed repeating rifles.
Since the birth of the USA, the idea of the Nation State has risen and become the norm, and with it the need for well regulated national military accountable to the state and out with by international laws.
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