Quote Originally Posted by Sloppy Joe View Post
'Whuddabout cars' is your typical bad faith argument that comes from non-serious people.

Some basic reform would be nice but won't happen. We're governed by cowards who are in the pockets of lobbyists.

I'm guessing that some basic screening/common sense requirements/background checks would prevent cognitively impaired 18 year old incels from obtaining weapons of war and massacring people in a closed space but muh freedoms.

The occasional mass slaughter of schoolchildren comes with the territory, plus whuddabout Chicago? Maybe we just need God back in schools and present fathers. The trusty 'armed guard' canard isn't really holding up anymore.

It's a uniquely American problem with the differing variable being easy access to high powered assault weapons. We've all just accepted it at this point because it's been normalized.

It won't stop. Hits harder now that I'm a parent and send a kid to day care five days a week.
I am also a parent with kids in school, who has a mild concern about this. (I say "mild" because the chance of your kid dying this way is very very small, with accidental death being a tremendously greater risk.)

The differing variable is not just "high powered assault weapons". There were just about zero attacks like this prior to the late 1990s Columbine murders. You may not remember those days well because you're like 15 years younger than me. When I was in school (even high school), I didn't hear of a single spree killing in any school in the US.

The US is a violent place. Always has been, always will be. It had violent beginnings, and it never really shook that from its culture. It will always be the most violent of the first world countries -- at least for as long as any of us are alive.

Getting something done is a cooperative effort. Is the left ready to openly commit to stop further gun control actions if they get some reform here? I doubt it.

One side effect of allowing gun purchases in a (somewhat violent) country of 330+ million is that some of those guns will be used to commit murders and spree killings. However, once those guns are in society, it's nice for law abiding citizens to have their own. We learned that 2 years ago.