Have mass shootings become so commonplace that we no longer pay attention to them? ~
Interesting that there's been nary a post on the hospital shooting in Tulsa.
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There was one post, but it's pretty obvious that Americans have gotten used to the fact that dead kids and innocent victims are par for the course these days.
Why we've come to this point is more complicated, and maybe Biden is actually in a good position to do something about gun control, but I doubt it. I had the same hopes for Trump, tbh, albeit for different reasons, but at this point, I still doubt that there's enough consensus to do anything about gun violence.
Why we've come to this point is more complicated, and maybe Biden is actually in a good position to do something about gun control, but I doubt it. I had the same hopes for Trump, tbh, albeit for different reasons, but at this point, I still doubt that there's enough consensus to do anything about gun violence.
Johnson212 · 61-69, M
Tulsa shooting was a patient not getting pain medicine strong enough to control back pain after back surgery. Said he was shooting the doctor who would not help him get relief and anyone who got in the way. You are not stopping that since he intended to kill himself after the doctor. Take the gun and he will just find another way.
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Johnson212 · 61-69, M
@MistyCee maybe so but what if he did not have one and took a 5 gal gas can and some matches instead. Point is not so much about guns as if you treat someone so bad denying them pain medicine that they think death is better that is a very bad idea.
@Johnson212 Are you saying the Doc had it coming?
I get the desire to look at underlying motives, because, let's face it, guns don't kill, people do, but easy access to guns makes it easier for people to kill.
Honestly, maybe this orthopedic surgeon is a butcher, who caused pain instead of trying to alleviate it, and maybe he's been pressured by deep state liberal pressure not to prescribe pain killers sufficient to stop mass murders, but are you seriously saying that the gun wasn't a contributing factor to the loss of life?
I get the desire to look at underlying motives, because, let's face it, guns don't kill, people do, but easy access to guns makes it easier for people to kill.
Honestly, maybe this orthopedic surgeon is a butcher, who caused pain instead of trying to alleviate it, and maybe he's been pressured by deep state liberal pressure not to prescribe pain killers sufficient to stop mass murders, but are you seriously saying that the gun wasn't a contributing factor to the loss of life?
Johnson212 · 61-69, M
@MistyCee I did not say the doc had it coming and if he did the ones who were in the way certainly did not. What I will say is that I am familiar with unrelenting back pain where you can't find a position where it does not hurt and the pain is such you can't sleep, it is intolerable, it is enough to drive you mad if you can't do something about it. So I understand the rage. I have not had it in a while, when I did I would take muscle relaxers and strong opioid pain killers along with some physical therapy to rid myself of it. I don't know how long I could take it if there was no way to escape that pain or what I would do if I could not. I don't think I would go kill a bunch of innocent people, maybe myself after running out of options. Of course we don't really know if the patient was in that kind of pain or not but if he was there is for him no difference in being physically tortured by a sadist and being denied proper pain medication, the resulting pain is the same. If he way then yes the doc had it coming. If it is not too much to expect a bunch of underpaid police to run into a room facing rifle fire to save some kids then it is not too much to expect an overpaid doctor to stand up for their patients in pain.
GanglandCriminal97 · 26-30, M
duckduckbooze · 51-55, F
MartinII · 70-79, M
Obviously the killing of children is especially awful. I think people pay a great deal of attention to mass shootings, and rightly so. But perhaps not enough to thevfrequency of routine, individual killings and related crimes.
Graylight · 51-55, F
Until someone in power or the collective voting voice of America says, "Not one more," no, I will not pay attention to them.
walabby · 70-79, M
America has to be the only country where it's safer in be in a hot war overseas than it is to be at home...
LunarOrbit · 56-60, M
Yeah. Its like people starving. Only 7million a year. Nothing to see here…move along
DoubleRings · 51-55, F
Part of American culture now! Good luck! Stay safe!
Ozuye502 · 36-40, M
Black shooter doesn’t fit the narrative
Jake966 · 56-60, M
It wasn’t done with an assault rifle
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