[bing.com] Woman who gave her son a gun charged with manslaughter . Hopefully this will make other parents think.

So you mean it was thug related, like most shootings. Big surprise criminals doing criminal things.

@Tejas Oh look, our pro school shooting troll is here. Now you're in favor of gang shootings. At least you're consistent. Is there a mass shooting that didn't turn you on? No need to answer, we know ammosexuals get their rocks off on mass shootings.

@Druvius I don't understand why you lie and make things up. Are you trying to convince yourself you're right? Because I just think you're stupid and dishonest.

Not anybody can get one.

@Tejas Is this your first day in America, a land awash with guns? Oh, wait, you're the guy who thinks parents should give their disturbed children glocks, and they can freely do so. That's not enough for you? You angry they can't be bought in vending machines?

@Druvius you're an idiot

Certainly does not help to curtail shootings i'll give you that. As usual after such a shooting the president, Biden in this case, makes the usual inane comment about controlling gun ownership.

@Moravian speak for yourself, please. Gun ownership is totally out of control here. The NRA owns legislators and that must stop.

@pamagain I agree with you. I am speaking as an observer from accross the pond who has friends and relatives in the USA. I have travelled widely in the USA and have always found the people friendly and welcoming but there is always the very slight chance that I could find myself in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Not really surprising as watching American football or baseball would lull anyone into a soporific state. I agree with you about football. Many teams have "casuals" who just want to make trouble.
Now Rugby union, which has a passing resemblance to American football, the ball looks similar , is a different thing altogether.
We are currently half way through the six nations competition. There is no segregation of supporters and they are considered mature enough to have a drink without causing trouble.
In last Saturday's game between Scotland and France Scotland were denied a game winning try by inept refereeing and all that happened was that the referee was booed by the Scotland supporters . If a similar thing had happened at a football match there would probably ahve been a riot.

@Moravian One of my favorite DS9 episodes is where three different times to different aliens the captain mentions baseball, and every time the alien responds with something like ... "Baseball? Oh, yes. That weird human game where a bunch of guys stand around for three hours and nothing happens."

@Druvius
A bit like cricket. Here is the Monty Pyrthon guide to the game =
Never mind Python, it's quite simple . .

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.

Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out.

When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out.

Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in.

There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.

When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!

@Moravian Everyone knows there's no actual game of Cricket, it's just a long running British joke like crop circles.