Thanks for commenting. I don't consider you grumpy, just a little fed up with all the idiots in politics these days, like most of us are.

What he said

A coworker of mine is strongly against any gun control. He said the assault weapon used in the Florida Parkland shooting is what he uses for deer hunting. He must be a terrible shot if he needs such a gun for hunting.

Bingo. You got that right.

I don’t think violence in video games is responsible for gun violence in the US. Regarding your comment, some countries like Australia and Germany ban games or content due to violence so the level of violence experienced by gamers isn’t the same for a game depending on where you are playing it

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@Ray13 l think anyone shooting defenseless animals is a BIG PUSSY anyway.

@Ray13 either he is disengenuos or he’s lying but a fully auto is not a hunting rifle. I’ve lived in Cali, Maine, Az, Ny and generally rifles that have no 100 round clips which the military might use in combat......my in-laws where responsible hunters who always had tags and the traditional gun. By the way I couldn’t wouldn’t hunt as I love animals

@Ringo6 What the fuck are you talking about? I have deer eating 5 feet from my front door! I stand by my statement, cowardly pussies.

@Condor5 Additionally, the deer would be blown to smithereens; nothing left to use, not the meat, hide, nada. Guess he just likes to kill things.

Liked your comment very much. He probably is lying. He likes to brag a lot. I too love animals & put bread,nuts,etc. out for birds & squirrels in my back yard every morning.

@Ray13 tell him Winchester and Remington make perfectly good limited capacity hunting rifles that only require that the shooter be a decent marksman, as high-powered scopes make kill shots nearly unmissable. Some versions of those rifles have even been used by military snipers. Nobody needs a goddamn AR for hunting.

@Ray13 The Second Amendment has nothing to do with hunting. There is no "right" to own a gun suitable for sporting purposes.

Couldn’t have put better

Thanks for your comment. A fellow where I work is against gun control & said the assault weapon used in the Florida Parkland shooting is what he uses for deer hunting. would anyone need such a weapon to hunt, unless he's a terrible shot.

@Ray13 no l don’t hunt but I do have several guns after my family was threatened by a violent women beating felon but I digress... most hunters play by all the rules and you don’t need an AK or AR15 to hunt a rifle is more then sufficient

I agree 100%. Everyone wants to blame anything they can lay their hands on, while ignoring the elephant in the room.

Well we can start by altering the ITS codes and the status of churches to no longer be exempt from paying their fair share specially when so many religious groups are directly involved in politics which cause the stripping away the exemptions

They were busy causing earthquakes in Iran I seem to remember.

My older sister is a darks skined(Semitic), Jew, obviously a woman and a lesbian, married for years... might you imagine how excluded from much of society should is

Fox News?

Thank you for commenting, William. I agree drugs do contribute to such acts. My son, who is 38, and his wife decided years ago they did not want children. For a while I was disappointed, but these days , as sad as it may sound, I' m rather glad.

I think you're connecting the wrong things. I highly doubt the medications caused the problem. It's more likely the underlying condition did so.

@memorylikeasieve You might be right, however, I am not the only one making that connection. Many qualified professionals are saying it:

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You’d think the subject would at least warrant a thorough scientific study. They could compare the behavior of those on psychiatric drugs with the behavior of those with the same condition who were given only talk therapy. I am far from being an expert here, but I’ve seen the problem up close, and it disturbs me.

Wow! I thought I was logging in to agnostic.com, a place of reason and secular camaraderie. Apparently I was sidetracked and stumbled into a parade of assholes.

@Prescott so are you saying that the gov. Of Texas Did not say such an ignorant and obtuse thing? Or is this a knee-jerk defense of morally bankrupt theocratic conservatism?

@Butcherman technically the first option since this post is about comments made by the Lieutenant Governor (this is spelled out in the original post), not the Governor.

It’s ironic that someone who flippantly uses nuclear holocaust as a solution to call someone else “morally bankrupt.” You’re like Trump calling someone else an asshole.

I heard that!!!

I’m sorry that in spite of my far left leanings I’m not sure what you were trying to say. If you were saying men murder more it’s way more , approximately 93 percent of all murders or killing are by men. Who if white angry and own guns many of us are in fricken trouble

@Millerski25 Just trying to point out that abortion is highly unlikely to have any influence on whether or not there are school shootings.

@pixiedust Nono, no effect but the shooting historically are by angry white men .... some of the same who want to control women’s reproductive rights

@Millerski25 Yes, that's true, too.

Yeah that's a great article. We desperately want simplistic answers that involve controlling Other People rather than changing our own thinking or attitudes.

Maybe a study financially supported by the NRA

@Millerski25 You never know. They're very good at hiding where their money goes.

What are you rambling on about? Were you unable to get past the first sentence before you decided the world just had to know about your opinion that has no relevance to the original post?

Me too!!!

Easy victims that are corralled like sheep in small classrooms that typically only have one exit. Far easier to shoot up a school and church than it would be a police station.

Because of the gratuitous and ad nausium emotional media coverage has identified schools and children as the likely target to cause the most outrage. In short, would be shooters now know what victims (schools), they should target to get the most bang for their buck (biggest emotional impact).

Defenseless targets. The same reason bullies always pick on the weakest kids in the school... Its easy and makes them feel powerfull

@Faithless1 and there are many who DO kill...who cares about the millions who don't...it doesn't change the fact that the constant flow of violence these kids are fed HAS to have an effect on their perception of the value of human life

Texas elects the stupidest schmucks of almost any/ every state. I got a kick out of Richards but every gov. Is a moron and a large number of ultra ring wing dingbats.. they are bereft in any intellect nor a moral compass. I would go so far as to refer to the Congress persons as goosesteppers for Adolph Trump

The first school shooting took place in 1760 years before we became a country and while these have increased in recent years it's nothing new - what's new is the firepower that kids have access to - back in the day it was hard to kill or wound dozens of kids with a musket. As I recall not only were school shootings note rare but there were several cases of teachers shooting the kid that was trying to cause harm to other students. I once read where a recently dismissed janitor killed his wife, all his livestock and blew up the school he was dismissed from killing dozens. Blaming video games is too easy - why not blame comic books - I read several in the 60's and 70's that were quite violent. That being said, I do believe you were spot on when you wrote: "Keep in mind that I don't think the parents are supportive of the kids and most likely did not try to help them with a purpose in life."

There is zero (0) empirical evidence that links violent behavior with violent video game play. There are, however, around a hundred million kids under 18 world wide playing FPS- that's first person shooter - games on a daily basis for multiple years without ever acting violently in their everyday lives.
Your argument is invalid.

@Butcherman The purpose of all this stuff was supposedly to make young people want to enlist in the military so we would have no problems by eliminating the draft. I don't see comics or violence in general as helping things along.