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DanDeFool

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GoddyofAus said:
This is breaking news, just happened less then 20 minutes ago. A shooting has taken place in a Texas College. No reports of deaths yet but numerous injuries are confirmed.

This is just staggering. How a nation can tolerate this bullshit with such an obvious reason is mindboggling.
Here's a clue: we don't tolerate it. These things come out of nowhere, and short of turning the US into a police state, there's no way to preempt crazy people before they go on a rampage.

And before you say "LAWLZ, JUST BAN ALL GUNS, DURR HURR!!", I suppose we could do that, going through the monumental process of amending our constitution, incurring the massive costs of rounding up millions of firearms across the country (spoiler alert, we still don't get them all), likely imprisoning hundreds of thousands when they refuse to relinquish their private property, making our cities arguably less safe (now, no criminal has to worry about getting shot at when they break into peoples homes and businesses)-- even if you did all that YOU STILL WOULDN'T STOP MASS VIOLENCE BECAUSE YOU COULD JUST AS EASILY ACCOMPLISH THIS KIND OF SHIT WITH EXPLOSIVES, OR GASOLINE, OR LARGE VEHICLES, OR CHEMICAL POISONS, ETC, ETC.

I realize I'm being presumptuous about your position on this issue, but I've gotten so sick of these moronic gun control arguments it makes me want to shit diarrhea. Gun control, if it can solve anything, will not solve the problem of these random acts of mass violence. If you think it will, you are being dumb, and need to get your head on straight.
 

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doggie015 said:
DanDeFool said:
-rambling-
Considering that there have now been FOUR shootings at schools in TWO weeks I think that we can AT LEAST make the case for laws to prevent CHILDREN getting their hands on guns and using them in fights!
Still won't work. If their parents can own guns, and don't secure them properly, the kids could get the guns that way.

At some point, you just have to rely on people to be smart and do the responsible thing. The government can't do it all for us.
 

ardias014

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doggie015 said:
It's time to face facts: The USA's 2nd amendment was built for the world of the 1800's where guns were not made on assembly lines and the military was not as well equipped to defend the USA. Today times have changed dramatically and it's time to get rid of this amendment. All it is doing is encouraging crap like THIS!
Excuse me sir, the assembly line was created in the 1800s:
The Industrial Revolution in Western Europe and North America, but perhaps most especially in Great Britain and in New England, led to a proliferation of manufacturing and invention. Many industries, notably textiles, firearms, clocks and watches,[2] buttons, horse-drawn vehicles, railroad cars and locomotives, sewing machines, and bicycles, saw expeditious improvement in materials handling, machining, and assembly during the 19th century, although modern concepts such as industrial engineering and logistics had not yet been named.
And I'd also like to point out this amendment was made in the late 1700s.
Please fact check before going on rants.
 

BloatedGuppy

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Katatori-kun said:
Ah, the FOX News approach. "If you just stop talking about the uncomfortable truths that we don't want to address because they contradict our ideology, they'll all just go away."

Incidentally, I love how at the moment you posted this not a single thing was known about the shooter's motives. Yet you're comfortably ready to just assume they wanted to be a celebrity. Well done.
Uh...keyboard warrior...

1. I live in Canada.
2. I'm ridiculously liberal, to the point where I get attacked for it with clockwork regularity on these forums.
3. I'm pretty ardently anti-gun.

I know it's fashionable around these parts to just start flaming away the moment you see or hear something that you even MIGHT disagree with, but pick your targets a little more selectively next time, Don Quixote.
 

CriticalMiss

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I bet it was all because of the cafeteria food. Obama should implement some kind of ban on cafeteria food before it gets out of hand!

I guess it is a good thing that it's just the media trying to whip people in to a frenzy, but also a bad thing because they are trying to do that. Silly media.
 

ardias014

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doggie015 said:
DanDeFool said:
doggie015 said:
DanDeFool said:
-rambling-
Considering that there have now been FOUR shootings at schools in TWO weeks I think that we can AT LEAST make the case for laws to prevent CHILDREN getting their hands on guns and using them in fights!
Still won't work. If their parents can own guns, and don't secure them properly, the kids could get the guns that way.

At some point, you just have to rely on people to be smart and do the responsible thing. The government can't do it all for us.
Well it's evident that they can't do it for themselves either... SOMEBODY has to step up to the plate...
Funny, people said the same thing for alcohol in the twenties. And not only did we get more murders and organized crime,more taxes had to be levied due to the loss of the county's biggest source of tax revenue.
 

EHKOS

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It's hardly a mass shooting if only three people were injured. This is barely even news anymore, it's not exciting unless it's a big number. Now I feel bad :(
 

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Greets!

An argument in America that didn't result in fatalities? Disgraceful, I would recommend issuing an assault rifle to every student in America, regardless of age, so that their arguments so not miss their target.

That is, of course, a joke. Any recommendation of mine is not needed in the land of the free, they are good enough at... shooting themselves in the foot? *wink wink nudge nudge*

Hah, I made a funny and I didn't have to unload a semi-automatic to do so. Arn't I barbaric and uncivilised?
 

Th37thTrump3t

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Does anyone else get the feeling that maybe the true reason these shootings are going on is because we are hyping the fuck out of them and the fucked up people who commit them, and then the equally as fucked up people decide that "Hey this is a good idea," and decide to go shoot up a school/theater/etc?

Tragedy said:
Why do I dread the idea that these shootings happen because the shooters were "inspired" by the previous incidents? It's interesting how it only happens in 'murica as well.
Terminate421 said:
And people will blame the rifles when it's clearly the media that turn these people into fucking icons.
I guess so.
 

Hunter.Wolf

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Katatori-kun said:
Speak for yourself. I'm an American who is sick of being surrounded by gun-nuts, and I know plenty of other Americans who agree. I'm sick of having my freedoms compromised by the fact that I have to watch out for people with deadly and efficient weapons, and I know plenty of other Americans who agree. One of them is the sitting President. Mind cutting out the persecution complex, maybe?
Good to see there are still some sane people in this world.
 

DanDeFool

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doggie015 said:
DanDeFool said:
doggie015 said:
DanDeFool said:
-rambling-
Considering that there have now been FOUR shootings at schools in TWO weeks I think that we can AT LEAST make the case for laws to prevent CHILDREN getting their hands on guns and using them in fights!
Still won't work. If their parents can own guns, and don't secure them properly, the kids could get the guns that way.

At some point, you just have to rely on people to be smart and do the responsible thing. The government can't do it all for us.
Well it's evident that they can't do it for themselves either... SOMEBODY has to step up to the plate...
I disagree. I'm perfectly okay (at this point) with leaving people to their own devices in this regard, because the risk of me or someone I know coming to harm in this way is vanishingly small compared to risks I accept already (e.g., driving), and I'd much rather lose the few to protect the rights of the many than lose the rights of the many to save a few.

Besides, like I said in my ramblings that you probably didn't read or care about, it's too much work and it really won't help anyway, so why bother? At the end of the day, there are still going to be crazy, dangerous people out there, and you're going to have to live with it.
 

Tiger Sora

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'Merica, da fahhh brah???

When will the media stop reporting on this stuff. They sensationalize it and other people who have issues and guns are gona imitate this stuff. Report the news, news. You're not meant to somewhat inadvertently create it. Especially this.

I and the many before can repeat this over and over as we have. Yet nothing will change less I go sit infront the big media companies building with ten thousand others right?

American's, your country has 10 times the people of mine. Someone start a rally or something.
 

JemothSkarii

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*looks up location of the college*

Damn, nowhere near my ex...

Anyways, horribly black and bad taste joke aside, the title is certainly sensational. But good fortune to the three people who got shot, and a swift incapacitation to the shooter.

Link for proof of shooting? Here:

http://www.smh.com.au/world/students-flee-as-three-people-shot-at-us-college-20130123-2d5sy.html
 

Duskwaith

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Tragedy said:
Why do I dread the idea that these shootings happen because the shooters were "inspired" by the previous incidents? It's interesting how it only happens in 'murica as well.
I saw a documentary about spree shootings where they interviewed some professor of psychiatry and he explicitly stated that the wide spread coverage of mass shootings will on seek to increase the numbers of them due to copy cats etc. Ill try to get a clip of the documentary to back the statement up.

such as this as an example, check the motivation title
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_massacre_%28Australia%29#cite_note-22