America - Guns & Mass Shootings

[WCpete]

re: MB's and Sammy's posts above:

That country is tearing itself apart.

If you add up,in no particular order, all the nutters who belong to one or more of these groups -
White Supremacists
Moonies
Scientologists
Survivalists
MAGA
people who actually believe that Trump cares about them as people rather than as cash cows

- what percentage of the population is that,i wonder?

The Moonies are back?

Probably the scariest group of them all are the Evangelical Christians. Killing in the name of love.

Speaking of white supremacists, a few hundred of them marched on the Capitol Building last night with very little opposition. The anniversary of Jan 6 might end up being another dark day.

[Shabu]

re: MB's and Sammy's posts above:

That country is tearing itself apart.

If you add up,in no particular order, all the nutters who belong to one or more of these groups -
White Supremacists
Moonies
Scientologists
Survivalists
MAGA
people who actually believe that Trump cares about them as people rather than as cash cows

- what percentage of the population is that,i wonder?

Purely a guess but I'd say around 35% of white Americans.

A few of Hispanic (mainly Cuban) & a few Asian (mainly Pinoy) but it's white American driven. They want America to be like an episode of Happy Days which it wasn't it reality for most people.

[WCpete]

[PF.]

That's incredibly powerful.

I wasn't aware it was that many. Shocking.

[-DL-]

I was going to 'like' that Twitter post, but somehow 'like' doesn't seem appropriate.

[Heysel76]

I can't understand how it keeps happening, the US police are so reliable
https://news.sky.com/story/los-angeles- ... t-12503362

[Shabu]

Bloody hell. Down in Texas a 33 year old man drives his 14 year old son to a petrol station/convenience store so the kid could shoot & kill two other teens who he had some issues with.

Son strolls in, shirtless but wearing a covid mask, & fires off a volley of shots killing the two kids as well as another teen who was just in the shop buying some tacos for his family.

Dad then drives the getaway car.

Father has been arrested but son still on the run.

https://www.fox4news.com/news/police-id ... ence-store

[Cuenca 'ammer]

Bloody hell. Down in Texas a 33 year old man drives his 14 year old son to a petrol station/convenience store so the kid could shoot & kill two other teens who he had some issues with...

remember now this is the state where a teenge girls mum put out a contract on another cheerleader's mum so her daughter could make the team.

https://abc13.com/pom-mom-texas-cheerle ... l/1722508/

check the date

1991.

“plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose”

[WCpete]

Apparently Dad turned himself in. He looks such a proud father.

[Shabu]

6 dead, 15 injured, after someone opens fire from a car at a group of people in downtown Sacramento after the bars closed at 2am.

No motive or suspects yet.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.sacbee ... 65985.html

[Samba]

No chance of America ever fixing this, Shabs.
Let's face it, if we had the same gun controls in the UK, we'd be seeing the same sort of massacres here, most likely.

[Shabu]

No chance of America ever fixing this, Shabs.
Let's face it, if we had the same gun controls in the UK, we'd be seeing the same sort of massacres here, most likely.

I saw plenty of drive by stabbings in the Old Kent Road back in the late 80s :lol:

[Johnny Byrne's Boots]

One person arrested

[Shabu]

One person arrested

And they've arrested his older brother, who's in hospital with a gun shot wound.

And his name is Smiley

[Puff Daddy]

Why do people contnue to us to do this, when they'll only, eventually end upon Death Row ? Are they thick, or something?

[Turns to Stone]

Why do people contnue to us to do this, when they'll only, eventually end upon Death Row ? Are they thick, or something?

They grew up in a country which managed to convince them that the Cowboys were the good guys! If you 'believe' in what you are doing, you can justify anything. Too much ego, not enough humility.

As Billy Connolly once said - 'There are too many guns in America, and not enough punches in the nose'.

[Puff Daddy]

They grew up in a country which managed to convince them that the Cowboys were the good guys! If you 'believe' in what you are doing, you can justify anything. Too much ego, not enough humility.

As Billy Connolly once said - 'There are too many guns in America, and not enough punches in the nose'.

I don't about that. It seemed to me in my many visits to the States, there were lots of American bloke's with a boxers nose. Maybe you have something and this might explain it, they resort to firing guns instead

[Shabu]

Apparently Smiley was released from prison just a few weeks ago, after serving 4 years of a ten year sentence.

The local District Attorney asked for him to stay in jail as he has no regard for law or people's lives, but he was set free.

He also posted a Facebook video of him with one of the guns used a couple of hours before the mass shooting took place.

The weird thing is that people are saying "but California has strict gun laws so how did this happen".

[delbert]

Any chance those that made the decision to free him will be made to answer for their actions, or is it like over here where there's no accountability for these people?

[Shabu]

Any chance those that made the decision to free him will be made to answer for their actions, or is it like over here where there's no accountability for these people?

I don't know. Some of these positions are voted in and some are picked from within.