Community Chat

[on the bay]

I did go to the grocery store today, and don't do it often.

Not only was I thinking of covd and the dreaded variants, but wow I am going into a grocery store! Just like those yesterday who lost their lives.

I like others are so saddened and horrified by this continuing slaughter of precious lives!

Sandy Hook and others should have been some of the first to stop it all!

 And I was in that city where they taught us to zig zag to the gas station or store, or getting out of the mall!

I'm so sick of this but mostly I grieve too for the families that wake up today shocked wtihout their loved one. I can't imagine living after this. I really can't.

There is no justification -none.

And any legislation that needs to take place-get it done!!

And don't even bother to justify anything else.

Sandy hook-every year. I mark that "anniversary". And too many more.

All those families.

[Lali1]

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@seaBreeze wrote:

No citizen needs an AK rifle.  Until these are made illegal for others besides police and military, these mass shootings will make headlines.  

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Not your decision to make. Most people don't need a car that goes 180 miles and hour but they still sell them. And btw most people do not own an Automatic Kalashnikov. Many people do own an Armalite rifle better known as an AR. The Ar does not stand for automatic rifle. 

[skatting44]

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@songbird wrote:

School shootings in the U.S. started in 1840.  That was the first one.  A student shot & killed a professor.  There just about one incident in schools ever since.  Sometimes yearly or whenever school was in session.  During those days, guns did not have the power they have now.  So most fatalities were in the 1-3 range. Also the children were very young.  Every family had guns there and they weren't secure in putting away.  So children would come to school with guns and show them around.

1966 was defining moment with the 31 injured and 14 killed during the University of Texas incident. That damage happened because the shooter was in a tower. The gun used was military style It wasn't till the 1990's with more powerful guns  that  mass killings happened.  And the children were a bit older, in their teens.

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 Hard to say what the future will be when our children  eventually return to school full time . Is there going to be enough school psychologists and counselors  to  identify children with  issues ? Is any of this covid 19 relief money going to provide free  mental health care . Children have seen everyone afraid and isolating to avoid  contracting this virus.  The statistics are coming in abt how many children have been to ED who tried to harm themselves or have depression or anxiety  now due to lockdowns  and school closures . What is being done so that  a child doesn't resort to a school shooting to get help ?

[skatting44]

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@Sooner wrote:

You can kill with a handgun, a brick, a box knife, a bayonet, a bomb from a pressure cooker, a car, a whiskey bottle, or a flower vase.

It is an attitude that kills, not a weapon.  It is revenge, jealousy, hatred, fear, mental illness, arrogance, rejection, envy or lots of other things.  It is that someone has decided they have a right to take a life, or they have no empathy or morality or an "I'll show them." 

It is some desire that is unfulfilled very often.  It is often "that should have been mine."

Whether it is a rock, or a uzi or a shovel, it's the same end result. 

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 Even motor vehicles such as occured in NYC  and the  2016 Bastille Day Nice attack  that killed 86 people .

[tansy]

No one has a right to a military-style gun.   

The founding fathers had no clue as to how weapons would evolve.  

[goldensrbest]

Some do not value a human life, excuses as to why we can not change laws, is just sad ,and shows  what some people lack in their heart,and soul.

[MorningLover]

prettychis wrote:

sea breeze wrote:

No citizen needs an AK rifle.  Until these are made illegal for others besides police and military, these mass shootings will make headlines.  

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Not your decision to make. Most people don't need a car that goes 180 miles and hour but they still sell them. And btw most people do not own an Automatic Kalashnikov. Many people do own an Armalite rifle better known as an AR. The Ar does not stand for automatic rifle. 

ArmaLite Rifle

Here's a quick history lesson on why AR-15 has become the umbrella term for a range of semi-automatic rifles made by a host of gun makers.

"AR" comes from the name of the gun's original manufacturer, ArmaLite, Inc. The letters stand for ArmaLite Rifle — and not for "assault rifle" or "automatic rifle."

[CrazyKittyLvr2]

In 2017 there was a shooting at a Weis store in a town near us. 

There were people working over night to stock shelves I guess, the store was closed. A young man parked his car in front of the loading doors so no one could escape. He killed 3 co-workers and then  himself.

A year later DH and I were out and we needed a handful of things. We went in that store. Every where I went in there I wondered if someone died in that spot. I could imagine being there trying to find someplace to hide.

I told DH to finish, I went to the car and have never been in that store since.

[AspenGrove]

I live in Boulder. The market is our neighborhood market. As our community is grieving the horrific, senseless murder of 10 human beings, I am so deeply sickened by many of the pro-gun comments I see on this thread. 

[occasionalrain]

If an armed gang of four or five break into your home, a hand gun will not protect you, that's the reason citizens need an assault weapon. It's the same reason local police need them sometimes one can find themselves out numbered.

I'm not fearful of going into grocery stores because I live in a community where concealed carry is legal and my law abiding neighbors wouldn't run, wouldn't hide. 

These shooters choose locations where there are defenseless victims. They don't choose police stations for a reason.