45th school shooting of the year

[NICE MOBIUS]

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

ROSEBURG, OR—In the hours following a violent rampage in southwestern Oregon in which a lone attacker killed 10 individuals and seriously injured seven others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Thursday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place. “This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them,” said Ohio resident Lindsay Bennett, echoing sentiments expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the world’s deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations. “It’s a shame, but what can we do? There really wasn’t anything that was going to keep this guy from snapping and killing a lot of people if that’s what he really wanted.” At press time, residents of the only economically advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have occurred every month for the past six years were referring to themselves and their situation as “helpless.”

Oh no, I am an evil troll for pointing out this stupidity. Again and again and again.

Australia fixed it. Stop being idiots!

[giblets]

It's no use.

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[Kidlicious]

Given the prevalence of gun culture in America, along with the Second Amendment and right to bear arms, I'm beginning to think that most Americans accept mass, public shootings as an acceptable cost.

Tho is possibly the most retarded thing I've read in at least 24 hours here on poly. Horrible.

[kentonio]

Tho is possibly the most retarded thing I've read in at least 24 hours here on poly. Horrible.

Why? If they aren't an acceptable cost then why are people willing to allow these things to keep happening?

[DinoDoc]

Umpqua Gunman Chris Harper Mercer Hated Religion Online

Have any Poly posters suddenly gone dark?

[Kidlicious]

Why? If they aren't an acceptable cost then why are people willing to allow these things to keep happening?

Nobody is willing to let these continue. The people who believe in gun rights don't want these killings to continue.

[giblets]

An online dating profile, linked to Mercer’s email address and featuring another photo of him, says the 26-year-old was living with his parents and searching for the “yin to my yang.” It identifies his views as “conservative, republican” and lists “organized religion” as one of his “dislikes.”

No surprise that a conservative Republican did this.

[Kidlicious]

So he basically hated people like the Pope.

[Elok]

Umpqua Gunman Chris Harper Mercer Hated Religion Online

Have any Poly posters suddenly gone dark?

Well, Drinksnacks is posting again, but that could be some sort of bot he created with his SWEET COMPUTER SKILLS to carry on his teachings after he was gone.

[BlackCat]

The people who believe in gun rights don't want these killings to continue.

True, but the same people don't understand that it's their belief in gun rights that make these killings possible.

If the killing of children is restricted to americans I can accept it - it's after all the choice of them that they will live accordingly to the NRA wantings.

[MrFun]

Man, you are terrible and willing to accept bad **** to happen to you. Good thing not all gay people are like that.

Nah. It's just that I'm not so chicken-shit scared that I need to carry a gun whenever I go anywhere in public.

[Apocalypse]

Welcome back, Apoc. It's been a while.

Thanks.

So he basically hated people like the Pope.

No surprise that a conservative Republican did this.

He's also apparently an IRA supporter, or at least admired them.

[Dr Strangelove]

This guy was actually targeting Christians.
Christians respond with overwhelming support - for gun rights.

[My Wife Hates CIV]

The reason these people do things like this is because of threads like this.

He knew he was screwed up and nothing to live for - so why not go out and let the whole world know. Burn his manifesto and erase him completely.

Otherwise he's getting the very thing he was after - and like dogs, we're here to lick it all up.