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  14 kids dead and one teacher at Texas school shooting.

  by jojorabbit in

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  another shooting, this time 14 kids dead more wounded and a teacher dead.

  i am all for the second amendment and this does not change my mind.

  but i do hate this kind of thing, makes my stomach turn.

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  So you did want armed security guards in all the schools but now you want armed parents in the schools? Maybe armed children?

  No, it's very simple, let me explain it so that even a democrat should be able to understand it:

  Picture anywhere that keeps valuable things. What do they have?

  • Controlled entry to where the things are kept
  • Someone on guard at the entry

  Have those things for kids, because they are valuable.

  In this case, the doors were open, no one was on guard and the gunman walked right in.

  The police then actively prevented anyone else taking action, handcuffing and tasering them, while the gunman executed the kids.
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  14 kids dead and one teacher at Texas school shooting.

  by jojorabbit in

  1. social
  2. current

  another shooting, this time 14 kids dead more wounded and a teacher dead.

  i am all for the second amendment and this does not change my mind.

  but i do hate this kind of thing, makes my stomach turn.

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  As more information comes out it's sounding more and more like the cops fucked this one badly.

  They were more interested in keeping parents away from the school, even to the point of pulling tasers on them, than doing the recognized right thing which is to go in hard and go in fast.

  They sat back while he slaughtered the kids.
  

  I think the idea that you shouldn't be able to defend yourself but instead wait for the police to come and save you can be torn up and burned. It's done.

  Some of it is likely them wanting to protect themselves, but another aspect is that the last few years must have surely make the police afraid to act and pull a trigger. It could end their life if they make a mistake.

  We need to go back to people having a personal responsibility for their own well being which involved not being a dick by doing something that could get you shot.

  Everyone of the witch-hunts for police contributes to change. It affects how many police are experiences and how quickly they are likely to act. Not all change is good.
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  14 kids dead and one teacher at Texas school shooting.

  by jojorabbit in

  1. social
  2. current

  another shooting, this time 14 kids dead more wounded and a teacher dead.

  i am all for the second amendment and this does not change my mind.

  but i do hate this kind of thing, makes my stomach turn.

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  Simon

  Not sure what medical business helped cover up for Jimmy Savile. That disgusting act was carried out by BBC bosses , who were making a fortune out of him and other showbiz people who were scared of being ostracized.

  The hospitals that he raised money for. They have him a flat to stay in on-site and allowed him to take troubled girls out for the day (who were then raped by him).

  They knew, and allowed it. The police were also in on it. Watch the documentary.
  
  
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  Ex JWs who use the catch phrase "Friends"

  by jojorabbit in

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  its a personal pet peeve to me but i hate it when ex jws use the catch phrase friends.

  this was used at every convention and many meetings i went to.

  the friends, mother and others.

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  Simon

  I always grates on me too. I see it as subtle manipulation, as though "we're all one, you have to agree with what I'm about to say". Especially when people use in on Twitter, it usually proceeds a call-to-pile-on.

  Nah.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  The longer he's working for him, the more screwed his career will be.

  At some point you can't claim it was a bad choice / mistake ... you were there throughout the scandals and become tainted by it.

  And you didn't progress and move on to something bigger. You were just skivvy on some minor YouTube channel embroiled in scandal.
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  14 kids dead and one teacher at Texas school shooting.

  by jojorabbit in

  1. social
  2. current

  another shooting, this time 14 kids dead more wounded and a teacher dead.

  i am all for the second amendment and this does not change my mind.

  but i do hate this kind of thing, makes my stomach turn.

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  News just in. Obama is a piece of shit.

  Like serious, WTF? Your first thought is to breeze right past the tragedy of these kids deaths to fawn over some criminal thug? He continues with Trayvon Martin. What a clown.

  Unreal!

  
  
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  How is the 'Cost of Living Crisis' affecting you?

  by nicolaou in

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  here in the uk we've recently had the price cap on household energy bills raised by around £800 and there'll be another similar raise this autumn.. food prices are up, petrol is around £1.82 per litre - that's $10.37 per gallon for our american friends - and inflation is currently running at 9%.

  business are being hit as ordinary folk prioritise their spending.

  young folks are effectively priced out of the housing market and wage rises are not keeping pace.. mrs nic' and i are fortunate in that we're both in secure employment and with the kids moved out and mortgage paid off our outgoings are thankfully low.

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  Just bought a new car and boat

  Yep, life's going pretty well for some ...

  
  
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  14 kids dead and one teacher at Texas school shooting.

  by jojorabbit in

  1. social
  2. current

  another shooting, this time 14 kids dead more wounded and a teacher dead.

  i am all for the second amendment and this does not change my mind.

  but i do hate this kind of thing, makes my stomach turn.

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  You have no idea. If you can stomach this it will terrify you.

  Not surprising. The medical profession industry hides numerous serial killers and psychopaths. They allowed Jimmy Saville to operate in the UK.
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  14 kids dead and one teacher at Texas school shooting.

  by jojorabbit in

  1. social
  2. current

  another shooting, this time 14 kids dead more wounded and a teacher dead.

  i am all for the second amendment and this does not change my mind.

  but i do hate this kind of thing, makes my stomach turn.

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  Simon

  the proliferation of "shooter" computer games ( which desensitises the action)

  Links to video games have been debunked so many times now.

  These kind of incidents are simply going to repeat constantly as there are always madmen / criminals around and the easily availability of guns means they can kill a lot of people in a short time and with the police being armed , they often guarantee their own death in a macabre murder / suicide death wish. Sadly it is something Americans just have to accept , and , in fact , incidents like this just increase the chance of copycat events.

  I agree that the TV media and also social media have made things worse and I believe are now some of the biggest additional drivers for the epidemic of shootings.

  As for the police, I saw an article that had analyzed shootings and apparently the number of people killed before a shooter is shot by police is around 14 but the number killed before they are shot by an armed citizen is around 2.

  It appears in this case the police were already engaging but them sat back for reinforcements to arrive.

  If the plan is for everyone to be unarmed and have to wait for the police ... well, it's a bad plan. An example of how stopping law-abiding citizens from having guns could make things worse.
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  14 kids dead and one teacher at Texas school shooting.

  by jojorabbit in

  1. social
  2. current

  another shooting, this time 14 kids dead more wounded and a teacher dead.

  i am all for the second amendment and this does not change my mind.

  but i do hate this kind of thing, makes my stomach turn.

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  Simon

  Actually, it has. The event is generally referred to as "The Eureka Rebellion" or the "Eureka Stockade".

  Not sure a one day event with 27 dead really qualifies as a "war", more like a violent protest and evidence of why civilians need to be armed to protect themselves from their government.