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

Priorities are right... Banning books rather than guns

So, so , so sad, the only thing is to get rid of guns. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Imo the American government can stop this but for some weird reason they aren't even trying. In my country Egypt shootings and more used to happen in Churches a lot specially in the late 90s. Now there's barricades and roadblocks in front of Churches and there's been only one attack in the last decade.

Treat schools like airports, metro stations and malls put metal detectors and infrared bag checkers. There's a lot of solutions. The US government already offers a lot of luxuries for you guys like disabled friendly parks I think they are called all abilities parks. A youtuber raised $100k for one in Utah.

If one were to raise money to bring infrared detectors to schools it'll be done within a day. You need to step in and try to fix this because your government whether democrats or republicans are just being useless and just judging other nations. They forgot about their own people. You guys deserve better than this. These kids can be saved.

What do you want to do?

1. Ban Military Assault Weapons. Problem here is that Military Assault Weapons have been illegal to own since the 1930s after Legislation was enacted into Law after the Gangsters used them quite frequently on each other and the Police during the 1920's. Unless you have a [i]Federal Firearms License[/i] or also known as an FFL. There are different types of FFLs.
Type 1 FFL: Dealer of Firearms / Gunsmithing (firearms repair)
Type 2 FFL: Pawnbroker
Type 3 FFL: Collector of Curios and Relics
Type 6 FFL: Manufacturer of Ammunition for Firearms
Type 7 FFL: Manufacturer of Firearms and Ammunition
Type 8 FFL: Importer of Firearms/Ammunition
Type 9 FFL: Dealer of Destructive Devices
Type 10 FFL: Manufacturer of Destructive Devices, Ammunition for Destructive Devices, or Armor Piercing Ammunition
Type 11 FFL: Importer of Destructive Devices, Ammunition for Destructive Devices, or Armor Piercing Ammunition

2. Universal Background Checks. We already have them. They were enacted into Law back in the 1990s during Clinton's Presidency along with an 'Assault' Weapon ban of 15 years. It's an FBI Background Check which anyone who wants to buy any gun from a Dealer who then files it with the FBI and it takes 3 days to clear. Now there is nothing in the wording that says that Individual Courts or Mental Health Institutions are required by Law to report anything to the FBI like Domestic Abuse or Mental Health Treatment. If required, when does it get reported. When it's first filed or after a judgement has been made. They can also be used for nefarious reasons.

3. Ban Military Style Assault Weapons. Do we just ban the ones that look like the ones the Military uses today or do we ban all military look-a-likes? Now if it's ALL Military look-a-likes, then understand this One Important Fact: every gun made from when the Chinese invented them during the 900s AD has been used as a Military Firearm. This is where the Gun Ban Crowd runs afoul of the 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution.

4. Red Flag Laws. What are they and who do they apply to? Every single person alive today within the borders of USA fall under these types of Laws. Can they be used for nefarious reasons? YES THEY CAN. Because anyone who has had an argument or disagreement with anyone else can have their firearms confiscated and permanently kept from ever buying / owning one again. This also applies to people who dislike others in their midst in which all they have to say is I 'feel' threatened and whatever LEO can swoop in without a warrant and seize the firearms of anyone permanently. People can also make up things and anyone will lose their firearms.

5. Total Elimination of the 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution. This must first be authored, debated on, and passed by a 2/3s majority in the US House of Representatives, it then goes to the US Senate where it must be debated on and passed by 2/3s of the majority, then it goes to the President of the USA who decides to sign it or veto it, and then if signed, it goes to each Individual State to be voted on by the Residents of that State, and once it has been voted and passed by a 2/3s Majority of the US Population, the 2nd Amendment can be removed from the US Constitution.

The problem and the solution lies with society and how it deals with mentally ill people. Instead of arguing for gun laws to be amended and/or for schools to start searching anyone who enters, people should address why these events are happening.

Take action! Write your Reps, Senators, The President. Demand gun control laws be enacted now.

Here are some gun control advocacy groups to join and donate to:

Everytown for Gun Safety:
https://www.everytown.org/about-everytown/

The Brady Campaign:
https://www.bradyunited.org/

The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence:
https://www.csgv.org/

Giffords PAC:
https://giffords.org/

Seriously…what do you expect.

We promote it in video games, song lyrics, movies, books etc.

And then expect people to NOT think its ok?

Yeah. Its the guns fault. *eyes roll*

The man was a terrorist. May those children rest in peace in God's Arms. Jesus. An elementary school. He killed babies. Those poor souls. And he's dead so their are no consequences except hell. Burning forever.

Yes get guns off the street and out of public ownership .

This isn't going to end any time soon... (not in America).

Honestly, I'm numb to it now... which is sad but honest.

The level of respect and responsibility for others is gone in America... and I don't think you can gain that back, as it's a culture thing.

I do think they could do something with mental illness and weapons, but weapons people don't want limits and the mental illness professionals don't want to be in a position where they have to be the bad guys making the decision, as they want to be the good guys you can always come to, no matter what.

And to the weapons people point, other countries have started giving a couple of inches and then went more extremes and took away the weapons, so they don't want to give an inch...

But as my parents (whom grew up in the country), students would often bring guns to school during hunting season to go hunting after school. But now, we can't trust others to be respectful other others rights and lives.

Until we make schools a hardened target this will continue. Now am I talking about adding law enforcement officers yes but each school should have a rapid response force on school grounds armed to deal with with any threat. Armed school staff like administrators and custodians that choose to be armed understand tactics and have the discipline to carry. Make an attempt to attack a school a certain death sentence with overwhelming force. Hell I got a job offer for ever veteran who can clear a background and mental health check. Make schools a hardened target.

Now those who say banning firearms is the only option there’s plenty of documented cases of mass stabbings in Europe and Asia. What are we going to ban knives as well? And how about the roughly 100,000 cases of defensive uses of a firearm that happen yearly? Most of which result in a round never being discharged. This country doesn’t have a gun problem it’s a mental health problem. If the firearm(s) used in all these situations could talk I would put money on them saying they would rather be in the hands of a collector rather than some nut case.

It is very sad. 😔 And senseless loss of human lives. I mourn for the parents who lost their kids.
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Two issues here:
1. Easy access to guns
2. And easy access of those not mentally stable to be responsible for its ownership

You know the US is going to shit when the countries own president is over ruled over gun laws . What the hell is the point of having heads of state that are all but useless . Not only Biden but several presidents before him as well . To be honest if I was him its time to either stand up and stand as a leader should and make the laws and bugger what the gun lobby want or walk out and say Fuck the lot of you and leave the country and let the idiots go gun happy and once they have killed each other we can resettle the US with civilised humans without the savage mentality .

Tragic, sad, but nothing will change. Its not just the guns laws, its corporate power, the gun lobby, money to politicians and a pervasive right win mentality in politics and life. Good luck with all that.

the NRA is one of the largest lobbyist in Washington. it's not going to end for another generation or two, when the children of this phenomenon are the majority holding office. it's beyond sad... it's enraging.

i live in a swing state that usually swings red. there is online schooling available through the public school system, and when a large percentage of parents signed their children up for it during the pandemic, the R governor tried to have it banned along with wearing masks in school. it's like they dgaf about children at all.

if i had a kid in school here, i'd have them enrolled in the public home-school system because of the potential for gun violence on campus. it's happened here already.

I have wrote this a few times and it can get lengthy so I will try to nut shell this.
Yes I know how to cut the shootings way down.
Stop advertising them on the news.
That is where copy cats get their ideas from.
Sound to simple?
It worked for copy cat suicides for a very long time.
There appears to be a large number of people that get the craziest ideas from TV including the news. They see it on the news and they want to be on the news as well.
There is actually some very disturbing information about the copy cat culture on line.

A shooting in a gun-free zone. By an illegal alien. The left has all sorts of blood on its hands.

Devastating news …

Numb and speechless …
What did these little kids do ???

My thoughts are with the affected families , losing a loved one is so tragic and especially losing a young life …unbearable loss

So sad 😞 🥲💐

[i]Isn't it likely that if there were fewer guns, there would be fewer thefts of guns?[/i]

Yeah, and if nobody had money alot less of it would be stolen! Flawless!

The deaths now stand at 19 children and 2 adults. I understand the most common cause of death of under 19’s in the USA is being shot ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️

there is no answer American leaders promote violence
@Zonuss

Makes me sick. Even sicker that not a goddamn thing will be done about it. Fuck this country.

Thanks to everyone for correcting Sylvester's disinformation about the shooter. He blocked me as soon I did.

que in those now trying to use this tragedy to push their political agendas and demonize those against it

I may have reached my emotional breaking point . All this shit including the NYC subway lunatic is fucked up.

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.

I would say ban guns because guns will abused by people like this incident.
But of course not everyone agrees. Besides America still has Second Amendment. Sooo... This cycle will go on and on endless.

Numb because nobody has an appetite to stop it. See you at the next one. 😞

@badminton Yeah you do that. Good luck

The Oklahoma City bombing happened during the brief AR ban. Gee, it looks like people still got murdered then. Eh?

Congratulation for your "weapon of war" cliche. Have a cookie

Steve Kerr's [b]powerful[/b] message here.

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Very sad story. Feel awful for the family who lost their love ones.

American culture,they are into killing

Little primary school kids 😢😢

From my cold dead hands
Pew pew pew

I really do hate this world

Points to ponder = https://exnwa.com/public_html/images/tsa2.jpg

We need to start posting the images of dead bodies, maybe people will wake up!

Too many sick in the mind these days. Violence seems to be the answer.

guns are cool! And freedom!

Just get all the people who want to shoot people and put then altogether on an island and let them shoot it out amongst themselves, knifes thowing acid all allowed. Last man standing gets shot to but dont tell them that lol

[b]ONLY IN THE USA[/b]

It's also like a fire truck. Siren police siren car alarm no one even looks or cares

I believe it's way kids are brought up as nothing but violence. Greed and hate on the news every day. And there minds only know hate