21 dead in an elementry school shooting

[Eternal Unity]

Just heard the news in my smartphone news app. It happened in Texas.

May they rest in peace.

Edited May 25, 2022 by Leo Gura
Updating title for better accuracy

[kray]

When is this going to stop…..

[Eternal Unity]

@kray One word: Education.

[nightrider1435]

@kray Honestly no one knows. We're fucked, this shit is not going to stop. We are absouletly fucked...

[hoodrow trillson]

Don't worry, the thoughts and prayers of Republicans will surely help...

[something_else]

As bad as this sounds, I thought school shootings barely even made national news in the US now?

Last time I checked the average was a school shooting every week in the US

It’s truly a fucked up country

[Husseinisdoingfine]

The Conservatives in America are very concerned with protecting kids from LGBT infiltration, yet do nothing about and actively actively worsen the firearm situation. 
There was just a shooting a week ago in Buffalo, New York.

[AtheisticNonduality]

@something_else It's because this one was with young children and a high amount of deaths.

[Husseinisdoingfine]

This infographic was made in 2018

[Husseinisdoingfine]

READ:https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2015/8/27/9217163/america-guns-europe

[Frylock]

US is a third world hellhole masquerading as a developed country as far as I'm concerned.

I know it's not really, but dammit if it hasn't been trending that way since the 90s.

[Husseinisdoingfine]

@Eternal Unity OP, the numbers have increased, it’s 18 children dead and 2 adults, making a total of 20 victims.

Pls change your thread title…

[Ulax]

4 hours ago, kray said:

When is this going to stop…..

When sensible gun laws get put in place

[abundance]

This is truly horrific. 

[Ulax]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/25/li

Devastating

[Hardkill]

I am grief-stricken and angered by this.

Fucking conservatives in our country can’t get it through their thick numb skulls about gun control.

I also really can’t stand people like Manchin and Sinema with their bullshit idea of protecting the “precious”  filibuster for the sake of bipartisanship. Even today, Manchin made another predictable statement pertaining to this shooting incident. 

https://thehill.com/news/senate/3500416-manchin-calls-for-common-sense-gun-limits-resists-filibuster-reform/

He knows very well that we will never have enough GOP senators sign onto to ANY gun reform laws with the filibuster as is.

Edited May 25, 2022 by Hardkill

[puporing]

Once they're in people's hands.. how do you get them out is the question. 

[Raptorsin7]

How can you prevent this without drastic gun legislation?

Even with background checks etc if someone really wants a gun i'm sure they can find a way

[puporing]

@Raptorsin7 They need to be taken out, and only maybe for recreational use (if that). 

[Hardkill]

Sadly, I think that many conservatives are going to need to suffer from a profound level of gun violence themselves in order to genuinely accept the need for major gun reforms.

Many members of their families and many of their relatives, close friends, long-term partners, etc. would have to die from such an unfathomably nightmarish mass shooting that has never happened since the American Civil War, if not worst.