American Mass Shootings / Stabbings / Car Crashes/bridge collapses

Decided to watch Bowling for Columbine this evening.

It’s poor.

What’s bred in the marrow comes out in the bones.

I believe Stephen Paddock was an accountant as well. Will probably get a mention on the Chartered Accountants thread.

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Cad a dhĂ©anfadh mac an chait ach luch a mharĂș?

Probably a CPA or an ACCA. Not the right sort of chap.

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He had a right to those assault rifles. Sucks for the people he shot that the same isn’t true of their healthcare.

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On the plus side, shares in gun companies spiked in anticipation of increased demand

Or the beak of an anvil

59 dead and 527 injured.

Unreal number of casualties inflicted by this guy.

Is it apathy or because he is white that this is not that massive a deal vompared to other similar but less lethal incidents

How are you arriving at that conclusion?

According to this senior attorney at CBS News “I’m actually not sympathetic because country music fans often are Republican gun toters”.

It’s surely time to round up and intern all white men in the US, the whole bloody lot of them. Violence and murder is inherent to white men. I think it’s a genetic thing. They don’t know any better.

Certainly I’d be calling for a total and complete shutdown on any white men entering Ireland from the US, at least until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.

Just my own feeling of coverage.

I think its a massive deal, 58 people are dead. Its fucking mental. God only knows how many families affected.

Just media output not match other thibgs from where i’m sitting

Encouraging that you are admitting your homicidal tendencies. First step to recovery and all that.

Maybe, because i’ve been intentionally following it across all media platforms, I don’t feel there has been any dearth of coverage.

In a case like this, it’s hard to identify a focal point for the outrage so that stems the public reaction to an extent.

There’s non stop coverage here in the US. I think to sum up the day, the main response is numbness, as most people realize no matter how many “experts” give their expert opinion, there is fuck all that can be done to stop a psychopath. This was a carefully planned and executed event, from the gunfire pattern he was using either fully automatic machine guns (illegal since 1986) or modified semi-automatics (also illegal).

That’s horrific. Fucking hell. They’re saying now he had at least 19 guns in the room. And “dozens” more at home. Explosives as well.

Might it have been something like the gun from Predator?

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