18 dead in Texas school mass shooting...your thoughts ? 😔 💔

Uvalde TX Elementary School. This is tragic. And what makes this so sad is that we as a society are becoming numb. Comfortably numb. There was yet another one of these [b]mass shootings [/b] in the US here.
An 18 year old with a gun. Same ole story same ole song. When is this crap gonna end ?
What can we do to stop this ? Answers please. Do you know. 🤔

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REMsleep · 41-45, F

I know that area vaguely. I pass thru about an hour or so from Uvalde all of the time when heading to my property.
I've always found border/West Texas to be safe and full of small primarily Latin communities, cowboys, hardworkers, slow living. Never thought that this would happen in a place like that but I'm not totally surprised either. Nothing shocks me anymore.
USA has a serious problem but I can't see any solution.
1. It's our constitutional right to bear arms. We can't chip away at any constutional right or our entire nation will fall because then every right is fair game.
2. In the USA civilians currently own almost 50% of all civilian owned guns in the whole world.
No amount of laws or legislation will ever change this.
3. Millions of Americans will see the streets run red with blood before they relinquish any firearm to the government because limiting civilian firearm use is seen as limiting personal freedom and the right to defend oneself against tyranny.
4. Background checks, gunshow laws and the like will have no affect on these types of shootingsin my opinion.
I don't know what the answer is. We live in a Godless world full of people who lack empathy for others, who are sick with sin, depression, evil hearts, confusion, loneliness and murderous ideation.
I don't see any law fixing the unique problem that we have here in the US.

PrettyFlamingos · F

@REMsleep And yet other civilised countries seem to manage without having to possess guns

REMsleep · 41-45, F

@PrettyFlamingos Comments like yours are missing the point entirely. I am speaking about the place where we are NOW not how it could have started differently.
I listed in my comment why it can't be changed so respond to that if you will.

PrettyFlamingos · F

@REMsleep “Comments like yours” your words are completely illustrative of that exact mindset. Idiots

Ozuye502 · 36-40, M

@PrettyFlamingos yea European and Asian history is just so peaceful of government respecting its citizens and not murdering millions of them. Then again American history isn’t much better when you look at what was done to the Native Americans. And let’s ignore the defensive uses of firearms in this country. By the way that number is somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 every year. Let’s add 200,000 murders rapes armed robberies to the already staggering high crime rates. The world is a horrible and violent place. I’ll keep my right to fight back then bow down to the criminal element of society.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@REMsleep Maybe US society is becoming a tyranny, but not by its government.

softspokenman · M

@PrettyFlamingos I think that it makes it obvious that there is gun violence in the US and that it needs to be addressed in a rational, realistic, and real-life way. (I am an optimist that worries a lot)

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@PrettyFlamingos They do manage - I live in one - but they still have problems with violence; some terrorist but most not. A lot of it, in English cities at least, is between teenage drug-dealers.

What they [i]don't [/i]have, even where many people still go out shooting clay-pigeons or wild animals, are:

- A casual fixation on guns designed for only one purpose - killing - as some sort of "right", extending to allowing almost anyone to own private arsenals including powerful battlefield weapons. (I know gun controls do vary from state-to state across the US, as does the popularity of gun ownership; and very many American households own no guns at all.)

- An idea that if a constitution and statutes have been amended to suit the needs of the time, it must never be amended again; even when those needs change or disappear leaving the amendment to develop more problems than it was intended to prevent.

Switzerland had a sort of echo of that early-US law about every man bearing arms, but bound up with conscription, and now scrapped.

Despite all the wallowing in rancorous party-politics, this is very much a social and cultural matter, and only its own society and culture can change it.