Time for yet another "Mass Shooting" thread

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  1. ElNaranja

    ElNaranja Member+

    Houston Dynamo
    United States
    Jul 16, 2017
    The DA would still call it a justified shooting. Those things are dangerous, you know....
     
  2. soccernutter

    soccernutter Moderator
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    Tottenham Hotspur
    Aug 22, 2001
    Near the mountains.
    Club:
    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    With reading just the quoted section, that was my exact thought. If his timing had been different, the outcome would have been different. Maybe better, maybe worse, we don't know. But absolutely different.
     
  3. usscouse

    usscouse BigSoccer Supporter

    May 3, 2002
    Orygun coast
    Yeah, we had a saying for that. If your aunt had balls, she'd be your uncle.
     
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  4. Auriaprottu

    Auriaprottu Member+

    Atlanta Damn United
    Apr 1, 2002
    The back of the bus
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    Atlanta
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
     
  5. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    2 things that Texans love come together like Reese's peanut butter cups - guns & footbaw:

    Two people were wounded, including a young girl, when a gunman opened fire at a pee-wee football game in Texas, according to a report.

    The gunman fired as many as 30 shots into the crowd, sending parents scrambling in the bleachers and players running for cover on the field about 4 p.m. on Saturday, NBC affiliate WKXAS reported.


    https://nypost.com/2019/09/15/gunman-opens-fire-at-pee-wee-football-game-in-texas/
     
  6. usscouse

    usscouse BigSoccer Supporter

    May 3, 2002
    Orygun coast
    image.jpg TEXAS and Guns..!!!!

    I wouldn't mind at all if we got their guns this way. Rather than have them shoot kids.
     
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  7. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
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    Colombia
     
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  8. JohnR

    JohnR Member+

    Jun 23, 2000
    Chicago, IL
    I watched King Hedley II yesterday. An August Wilson play. Four of the six characters have handguns, for "protection." Of course that they and others are so armed increases the common danger. The play does not end well.

    Set during the Eighties, but sadly relevant.
     
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  9. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
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    Chicago Red Stars
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    Would the same lady argue that if baby Jesus wanted you to have a penis, then you would have been born with one?

    I guess, both crazy laddies are trying to out do each other on what their imaginary friend really means in his/her thousands of years old guide to life book.
     
  10. JohnR

    JohnR Member+

    Jun 23, 2000
    Chicago, IL
    Wait. What? God wrote the Constitution? Effing hell, the things they don't teach you when you attend school outside of Arkansas.
     
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  11. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
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    Millonarios Bogota
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    Colombia
    Are you implying that you should be able buy either appendage without proper background checks?

    Man, seems like they didn't let you say a word at home this past weekend, your contrarianism is annoying today...
     
  12. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Yup. And the Bible.
     
  13. ElNaranja

    ElNaranja Member+

    Houston Dynamo
    United States
    Jul 16, 2017
    It's crazy how many times I've heard that god wrote the bible. Or how many times I've had to explain how the book was put together.
     
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  14. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire

    I alarmed a professor in colege when I put something like this in the bibliography of an English lit paper.

    God. The Bible (trans. King James). Jerusalem. 33 a.d.​

    He thought I was that [student
     
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  15. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
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    Millonarios Bogota
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    She seems to be talking the same language of some people around:

     
  16. JohnR

    JohnR Member+

    Jun 23, 2000
    Chicago, IL
    Well of course He didn't write the Bible. The Quran is another matter.
     
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  17. JohnR

    JohnR Member+

    Jun 23, 2000
    Chicago, IL
    And correctly so.
     
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  18. usscouse

    usscouse BigSoccer Supporter

    May 3, 2002
    Orygun coast
    When god wrote the constitution and bill of rights he had Texas in mind when he added the 2nd amendment.
     
  19. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
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    Colombia
    Which funnily didn't exist back then and was not part of the Union until 60 years later...
     
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  20. usscouse

    usscouse BigSoccer Supporter

    May 3, 2002
    Orygun coast
    The all seeing god.
     
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  21. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
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    DC United
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    United States
    Is it just me, or has "God given" started popping up in the context of guns a lot recently?
     
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  22. Bootsy Collins

    Bootsy Collins Player of the Year

    Oct 18, 2004
    Capitol Hill
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  23. soccernutter

    soccernutter Moderator
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    Tottenham Hotspur
    Aug 22, 2001
    Near the mountains.
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    Tottenham Hotspur FC
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    United States
    I wish I had done that in college.
     
  24. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
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    Millonarios Bogota
    Nat'l Team:
    Colombia
     
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  25. The Jitty Slitter

    The Jitty Slitter Moderator
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    Bayern München
    Germany
    Jul 23, 2004
    Fascist Hellscape
    Club:
    FC Sankt Pauli
    Nat'l Team:
    Belgium
    It's interesting back in the day in NZ we didn't do a buyback of MSSA like Oz but instead of that we did very strict regulation

    The result was similar - no mass shooting for 20 years

    This is not an entirely logical exercise. I agree you can still jump through all the hoops, buy a dangerous gun and kill people

    But the point that seems to get missed is that tight regulation does lead to a better quality of gun culture - this should not surprise as the point of licensing is usually to improve quality of practitioner/owner and impose standards of behaviour

     

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