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Congresswoman Says School Shootings Are Caused By Porn, Mental Illness, Single Parents... But Mostly Porn

from the pron dept

Thu, May 31st 2018 6:21am — Timothy Geigner

In the wake of any mass or school shooting that occurs in America, which pretty much means most of the time that exists, everyone immediately runs to their preferred corners to blame their preferred target for the latest tragedy. I've pointed this out as often as I can, but the truth is that both gun violence and the incidence of mass shootings in America is a terribly complicated subject that deserves all the nuance and sober-thinking it could possibly be afforded. But, since this is America we're talking about, we tend to do the exact opposite and instead pick a single target and heap as much blame as we can on it. It's guns that's the problems. Or it's violent movies. Or video games. Those are the typical targets, and they have been for some time. Meanwhile, the shootings continue, nothing is done, and on it goes.

House Rep. Diane Black of Tennessee knows why this is. We've had the wrong target all along. The real cause of school shootings is porn.

During a meeting last week with local pastors, Black raised the issue of gun violence in schools and why it keeps happening.

“Pornography,” she said.

“It’s available on the shelf when you walk in the grocery store. Yeah, you have to reach up to get it, but there’s pornography there,” she continued. “All of this is available without parental guidance. I think that is a big part of the root cause.”

Where, oh where, is this magical world where porn is acquired at the local grocery store without any parental supervision? I'm asking because teenager-me would have really liked this world and, if a time machine is ever invented, I would like to travel back in time and tell him/me how to get there. The link above also asks a relevant question: what the hell kind of porn is Rep. Black watching? Because I've, ahem, heard third-party accounts of what pornography generally consists of and looks like, and violence generally is left at the fringes, while violence to do with mass shootings is something I've never even heard of. Especially in the kind of porn you can reasonably get in the local grocery store.

Sadly, Rep. Black failed to clarify what the hell she was talking about, so we're left to imagine where she is getting her school-shooting smut from. On top of evil, evil pornography, she also suggested that mental illness and broken families were the problem.

Beyond naughty movies, Black said school shootings are on the rise because of the “deterioration of the family,” mental illness and violent movies.

These feel like they're on more solid ground than blaming porn, but only in relative comparison to the former. It's still the same old problem of picking out a few scapegoats and pretending they explain America's mass shooting problem, rather than having an honest and nuanced view of all the contributing factors. Were we Americans to actually employ this logical mindset, we could then proceed with a real discussion of what we want to do about all the factors that play into school shootings.

But, naaaah. Blaming porn is way easier.

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hij (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 4:48am

There may be an easier way to get your pr0n
This would finally explain the cabal of teenage boys who hang out in the local supermarket. They clog up the checkout aisle while the rest of us just want to purchase our chips and ice cream bars. Now that I know why they are all there I can finally deal with this horrible menace and introduce them to this thing called the "internet." Once they realize all they have to do is whip out their phones and type in "google.com" then we can finally get some peace and quiet while trying to pay for our beer and toilet paper.

Also, it would allow me to look through the dirty magazines without them looking over my shoulder anymore. Maybe I could even spend a little more time there without interruption? Of course, I will have to be careful to resist the urge to brutally murder large numbers of children while they try to better themselves in school. Patience, one things at a time....
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 6:25am

where the fuck do you find these fucking half-wits, let alone vote them into the congressional positions they occupy?
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 6:30am

I have no desire to be a knee jerk anti-Republican but the Republicans really should give up on the 1850s psychology of a bible in one hand and a sword in the other hand.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 6:37am

This year there 100.s of school shootings in the us ,in other european countrys there has been close to
zero school shootings in 2018
Theres plenty of porn in europe ,but in europe theres strict gun control law.
Violent movies are on tv and online streaming services in europe .
In america even teenagers can buy guns and automatic
weapons easily ,in europe its not easy for ordinary people to buy rifles and guns
,they are not avaidable in ordinary local hardware stores or malls .
Someone should ask diane black ,where are school shootings so rare in europe or the uk,
where porn is widely avaidable and free online.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 6:38am

I think he means gun porn magazines. You see those all the time at store like walgreens & Walmart. Anyone can buy them and gaze at all that cold hard steel.

So yeah, we should ban all gun magazines, or at the least, make them inaccessible to minors under 18.

Think of the kids.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 6:40am

Ah yes, evil porn brainwashing. That explains why millions of kids aren’t constantly shooting up schools at every second of every day - we’ve got a wholesome country. Except our family values are gone.. except they must be pretty good or we’d have the same problem. Uh... well maybe it’s a specific type of porn! And maybe it’s a specific type of family value. Maybe someone out there is forcing their families at gun point to watch ultra violent grocery store porn. Those bastards!
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 6:51am

Blah, blah, blah. We've all heard this tired rant before. We need some fresh excuses from the right about how school shootings are caused by other things they don't like.

I want some House rep to lay the blame down on abortion, taxes, universal health care, and Roseanne being cancelled.
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David, 31 May 2018 @ 6:53am

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Well, at least that way their hands are busy rather than twitching towards their guns.
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David, 31 May 2018 @ 6:55am

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You cannot compare the Internet in Europe with the Internet in the U.S.

Can you even imagine how many shootings there would be in Europe if they had Comcast?
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crade (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 7:00am

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The part you are missing is that there aren't any other countries than the U.S. If only there were other countries that didn't have the same problem you could see how they do things differently and rule out things that obviously couldn't be the problem.. but alas outside the border it's all just lawless murderers and rapists and mad max races or something all the way to where you fall off the edge of the earth...
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David, 31 May 2018 @ 7:02am

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Net neutrality? Except that it's mostly Republican politicians that are annoyed at how Net Neutrality cripples the Internet Industry's capacity for investing into pocket grease expansions. The Republican ground troups would actually widely prefer not having providers decide what they offer the Internet for, particularly when there usually isn't even a choice of providers.
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ArkieGuy (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 7:12am

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I really expected you to offer a different use of their hands based on the subject of this article. ;)
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ArkieGuy (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 7:15am

Hundreds? Really?
Where did you get the "100's of school shootings" this year statistic? As of May 25'th, CNN is listing 23, not 100's...
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PaulT (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 7:17am

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Yeah those high prices and slow speeds look like they'd make me a little stabby if we had them here. Still probably wouldn't feel the urge to actually shoot anyone though,
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 7:18am

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Availability of weapons for school shootings is low in europe, but since europe ain't got many of them alpha predators like bears, it ain't all fair to compare.

The only "fair" comparison is Canadas laws. Getting the subtle differences in weapon regulations between US states and Canada would be much more useful than comparing apples and oranges by dragging in europe. Btw. If only you knew how many problems europe has with the reintroduction of the wolf... That tells you something about the differences: Link
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PaulT (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 7:21am

Re: Hundreds? Really?
A quick Google shows that there's been over 100 "mass shootings" in the US this year, so that's probably what he was referring to and/or exaggerating.

I personally wouldn't be proud that you've "only" had 23 of them on school property, especially if you compare yourself with the rest of the first world.
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PaulT (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 7:23am

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I wonder what proportion of gun owners in the US actually live in an area where bears are a problem, let alone primarily own them for that purpose. Nice deflection, though.
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PaulT (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 7:25am

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Obligatory:

https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-r-1823016659
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 7:29am

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Not so fast Paul, no stabby for you!! At least not in the U.K., maybe Spain?

https://reason.com/archives/2018/04/24/londoners-embrace-knife-control

https://www.gov.uk/buyin g-carrying-knives
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 7:30am

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by this I assume you mean their genitals. The sad truth is they appear more interested in what others do with their genitals than their own genitals, it's some weird perversion they have.
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Stephen T. Stone (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 7:32am

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They could always blame it on the “hippity-hop”.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 7:34am

Re: Re: Hundreds? Really?
"I personally wouldn't be proud that you've "only" had 23 of them on school property, especially if you compare yourself with the rest of the first world."

Compared, and found wanting. Yes it's easier to do with a gun, but it doesn't seem to deter the people from using other methods. Perhaps there is another way.... aside from taking away peoples rights?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-murder-rate-new-york-overtakes-stabbin g-a8283866.html
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 7:34am

I would like to know where she shops as that sounds like an interesting way to obtain your groceries.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 7:37am

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About 3 people a year are killed by Bears, compared to around 15 a year by dogs. Have to agree with you on this one.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 7:39am

Wait.. are you sure you didn't misunderstand her?
Doesn't she mean that we need more porn in order to keep these potential shooters busy with something other than planning to shoot up a school? They would probably also be happier, I imagine.
That would make more sense.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 7:41am

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6 things kill more people than guns. Should we not work from the top of the list down? Just because mass shootings make for better news, it doesn't mean taking away peoples rights will actually be worth the trade off in the long run.

http://www.simplefactsplainarguments.com/2013/01/6-things-that-kill-more-people-than-guns.html
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David, 31 May 2018 @ 7:48am

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You are assuming that their guns aren't their genitals.
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David, 31 May 2018 @ 7:49am

Re: Re: Re: Hundreds? Really?
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David, 31 May 2018 @ 7:51am

Re: Re: Re: Hundreds? Really?

Yes it's easier to do with a gun, but it doesn't seem to deter the people from using other methods.

Frankly I'd rather be in a spit ball school shooting incident than a gun school shooting incidence but then I am not living in the U.S.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 7:53am

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Dealing with issues isn't a mutually exclusive thing. You can attack each of the most common causes of death at the same time.

Rights can be regulated, especially if they pose a threat to the populace. You can't incite violence or suppress someone else's religion with your free speech rights, so there shouldn't be a problem with regulating access to guns more if gun ownership correlates to more shootings (which it does).
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HegemonicDistortion (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 7:54am

Congrats to Diane
She's really giving Marsha Blackburn a run for her money in the coveted Moron Division, which is quite the crowded field here in Tennessee politics, let me tell you.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 7:55am

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While people do need to get off the soapbox about weapons like the AR-15 (which is far less dangerous than any number of regular hunting rifles) and the fake news about anyone being able to buy automatic weapons (total bullshit, they're semi-auto at best), there are things we could do in the US to reduce the availability of weapons to people who should not have them:

* Age restrictions
* Require guns be locked up at home
* Proper parenting, i.e. punishing parents of kids who commit crimes with their weapons
* Gun safety classes for owners
and probably more.

I am a gun owner and fully support all of the above. The right to bear arms doesn't mean there can't also be reasonable controls on those arms.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 7:57am

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I think school shootings are caused by disgruntled students unhappy with our legislators. The answer is clearly to deport all of our legislators and start over.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 7:59am

Re: Re: Re: Re: Hundreds? Really?
Don't worry David, your far more likely to die from alcohol or obesity than from spitballs or bullets. Should be ban sugar and booze? Or at least have significantly more regulation?
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 8:01am

Settle down, kids! Is just Timmy goosing you up to rabid again.
He's taken a few words out of context, that were perhaps badly stated but do state a real decline in society.

Then headlines the word "porn", and you addicts are triggered to literally go out of your minds.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 8:02am

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hundreds? Really?
Things that harm only yourself are not at all comparable to those that harm others, particularly in large numbers.
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OA (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 8:06am

Words of wisdom
You know what I blame this on the breakdown of? ... society!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw39tcyg7So
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 8:15am

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
"Dealing with issues isn't a mutually exclusive thing. You can attack each of the most common causes of death at the same time."

My point isn't that we should address them all, my point is that there seems to be a disproportionate amount of uproar over the guns opposed to other things that are much much worse.

Think about it; Banning alcohol and sugar would immediately save thousands and thousands of lives. Why don't we hear a call for that? Or at least significant more regulation?

I'll tell you why. Because alcohol and sugar are not a partisan issue. Both sides love it, and as a result, it's all but ignored. Where guns and mass shootings are the perfect pitchfork and torch situation. There's your problem sheeple!! Over there!! See that gun!! Gun is bad!! Try that with booze and see where it gets you... o wait.. we did...

My point is not to have zero regulation, my point is this; When I drive down the road here near Tampa Florida, I have to watch for drunk drivers. They are everywhere and it's really dangerous driving here at night. It feels that no where is really safe; Good neighborhoods, bad ones, doesn't seem to matter. I am constantly on the lookout. Where in comparison, and even though it does happen; I'm not on the lookout for a mass casualty shooting, or even a random shooting. Sure I realize it could happen, but it's not directly in my face every time I get behind the wheel.

With all that said, I seen plenty of collage kids and other groups wanting people to sign gun control petitions. I ask them; Who's got the alcohol petition? Haven't seemed to find one yet, and I find that fascinating because alcohol kills 88K people a year where guns kill around 34K. If you want to look at injured, it's much much more skewed.

Where's the outcry for the booze? Think of the children?
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 8:16am

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hundreds? Really?
So your saying drunk drivers only hurt themselves? Your saying that obese people are not a drain on our social services? Your being short sited, look at the big picture.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 8:21am

the "affirmative action" murderer
Pornography could very well have been a factor in turning Elliott Rodger from a "nice Catholic boy" into a crazed mass-shooter, even if he didn't specifically mention pornography in his (pre-rampage) Youtube Manifesto that focused on sexual frustration.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 8:24am

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
I agree with everything you said. Most of what you stated is already a federal law. Our problem isn't the laws, it's enforcement. Our current focus should be enforcing the laws we have, not making new ones.

* Age restrictions (FEDERAL LAW)
* Require guns be locked up at home (STATE LAW (Florida), Child access prevention law)
* Proper parenting, i.e. punishing parents of kids who commit crimes with their weapons (good luck with this one)
* Gun safety classes for owners (required in my state for CC permits)
and probably more.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 8:24am

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
* edit (most of what you said is a STATE law) some is federal.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 8:25am

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hundreds? Really?
> Things that harm only yourself are not at all comparable to those that harm others, particularly in large numbers.

Okay then, just ban providing sugar or booze to others, particularly in large numbers.
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Gwiz (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 8:27am

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Personally, I think the difference of opinion on gun control between Europe and the US stems from our different heritages more than anything else. The wildernesses of Europe were conquered with swords. The wildernesses of America were conquered with guns.

I'm guessing that government restrictions on private ownership of swords would be met with greater resistance in Europe than it would in America.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 8:28am

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hundreds? Really?
"Okay then, just ban providing sugar or booze to others, particularly in large numbers."

Tried both; neither worked for long. It seems booze and sugar are not a partisan issue, and as a result, the banning in both cases didn't last long.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/tag/s ugary-drink-ban/
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ShadowNinja (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 8:41am

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I'd say from mental health wards and nursing homes for the elderly.

Because seriously, some of the most outrageous politicians I've seen stories about just scream that the person has dementia if they believe even half of the crap that they say.
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PaulT (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 8:45am

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Well, stabby in the metaphorical sense, like most civilised people I don't resort to actual violence over something as trivial as poor internet service. But, I do actually see people selling packs of kitchen knives to tourists after dark in the commercial areas round here and not a lot of them get used for that purpose. There's definite cultural reasons, just as there are cultural reason in part behind people getting shot so much in the US.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 8:46am

Time machine

Where, oh where, is this magical world where porn is acquired at the local grocery store without any parental supervision? I'm asking because teenager-me would have really liked this world and, if a time machine is ever invented, I would like to travel back in time and tell him/me how to get there.

This makes sense for a D-Mail-type system where only information can be sent backward. If you can physically travel there, just bring a laptop and 12 TB external drive of porn (remember to wrap in organic material if using a Terminator-style machine). But beware: even the tiniest change can alter the future in ways you can't imagine.
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mhajicek (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 8:52am

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Please tell me where this magical world is where I can easily buy automatic weapons. Or are you so uneducated about firearms that you don't know the difference between automatic and semiautomatic?
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mhajicek (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 8:53am

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And we're back to magazine restrictions...
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PaulT (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 8:57am

Re: Re: Re: Hundreds? Really?
So, your excuse is because you won't reduce murder to zero, you won't bother addressing the mass shooting of school children several times a month? That because you can point to a single rise in a single city compared to a single US city in a single month, guns don't kill people at a greater rate overall? Look up death rates in the knife school attack in China (i.e. 0) on the same day as one your your bloodiest massacres. Try and think of the logistics of the Las Vegas shooter had be been armed with knives instead of rifles.

OK, I suppose, if that's the society you want go ahead and love your guns. I think you're insane for putting your toys over human lives, but have at it. Don't cherry pick your outliers, just admit you want guns more than not having children murdered in their classrooms. Be honest.

"Perhaps there is another way.... aside from taking away peoples rights?"

Nobody's suggesting anything of the sort here, by the way. This is a thread about a moron trying to blame gun violence on gas station porn. Gun availability is a huge problem for your country, but it's not the only factor in you deciding to kill each other en masse. There's a logical, sane conversation to be had here, but you jump straight to fear of having your fetish toys taken away... Pathetic, cowardly people, you gun nuts.
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Michael, 31 May 2018 @ 8:57am

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I'm not going to get on the "protect the guns" bandwagon, but I will say I am a gun owner and these arguments that end up with "Y kills more things than X so protecting from X is not a problem" don't really hold much water.

It would be really difficult to predict the impact of not having any firearms on the bear deaths in the US. I am probably much higher at risk of a bear attack because I spend somewhere around 1000 hours in the forest where bears live. I have had to shoot a bear in self-defense and I am pretty sure if I had not been armed that day, I would not be here. On the other hand, if I had not been deer hunting that day, I would not have been in the forest and not been in danger of a bear attack.

If you are still reading this, it is worth taking into consideration that these things have a lot of subtlety to them and the details matter.

So, let's stick to arguments on both sides that consider the details at least a little.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 8:57am

Wait, I don't understand. You can get porn in places other than the internet? But why?
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Michael, 31 May 2018 @ 9:00am

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It is also probably impacted at least a little by the fact that there is a huge amount of tax revenue in the US related to firearms (and hunting) as well as some very large firearms manufacturers and lots of jobs related to making civilian firearms.
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PaulT (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 9:01am

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hundreds? Really?
Apart from your atrocious spelling, your arguments are poor. I'd certainly rather have a decent healthcare system be slightly more expensive if it means everyone gets care by including those making poor decisions. That's far better than having people be made bankrupt by accidents and unavoidable health problems, or unable to receive care at all. Drink driving's a different issue, but we most likely already have far more restrictions on that than you do on your guns.

Actually, the wider access to mental care might very well be one of the reasons why we have so many less shootings. But, yeah, you might lose a toy and a fat person might get help, so those dead kids are OK to have.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 9:02am

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You realize that porn is what drives the bulk of your precious copyright enforcement, right blue?

Thanks for agreeing that copyright is aiding a real decline in society.
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Michael, 31 May 2018 @ 9:02am

If porn were that prevalent, wouldn't our biggest problem be blindness?
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PaulT (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 9:04am

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hundreds? Really?
Also, you have to love the desperation. Trying to talk about people causing problems with their own bodies in order to distract from weekly massacres of strangers. He can't even address what the other real issues might be, and solutions that have nothing to do with bans or confiscation, he's just afraid someone will take away his toy chest.
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PaulT (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 9:05am

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Are you incapable of looking at more than one issue at a time, for some reason? The rest of us manage it, and we don't have to worry about our children being slaughtered at school while we do it.
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PaulT (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 9:10am

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"They are everywhere and it's really dangerous driving here at night"

Then, you need better laws and enforcement of those laws, surely? Why not the same for your guns?

"With all that said, I seen plenty of collage kids and other groups wanting people to sign gun control petitions:"

Yeah, seeing your peers being massacred at regular intervals might have that effect on you, for some reason. Maybe they'd be doing the same for sugar if they saw entire classes being killed by it in a single day.

"Where's the outcry for the booze? "

You tried it, didn't work. In fact, it got a lot of people murdered with guns now I think about it.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 9:12am

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I did not need that image....
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PaulT (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 9:17am

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Sorry, but had to go for the From Dusk Till Dawn reference to literally give you that image (NSFW obviously)

http://horrorfuel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/sexmachine.jpg
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 9:25am

The only time lewd magazines make me feel like shooting is during rabbit season.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 9:26am

Re: Re: Re: Re: Hundreds? Really?
You said;

"especially if you compare yourself with the rest of the first world."

So I did. (Depending on your definition of first world) The results show we neither have the most, nor the most per capita.. So again; Your comparison is found wanting.

https://www.quora.com/Which-country-has-the-most-annual-school-shootings-per-capita

https://e n.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate

"That because you can point to a single rise in a single city compared to a single US city in a single month, guns don't kill people at a greater rate overall?"

Again your wrong. We don't kill more. And the U.S. is around 31st per capita, not even close to the top.

"Try and think of the logistics of the Las Vegas shooter had be been armed with knives instead of rifles. "

Assuming that because guns are not available, people will turn to knives is a fallacy. There are much more efficient ways of killing large amounts of people than guns OR knives.

https://www.cnn.com/2013/09/18/us/oklahoma-city-bombing-fast-facts/index.html

"OK, I suppose, if that's the society you want go ahead and love your guns. "

Wrong yet again. I don't love guns. I do love my freedoms, but that doesn't necessarily equate to specific things. Your drawing a false equivalence.

"There's a logical, sane conversation to be had here, but you jump straight to fear of having your fetish toys taken away... Pathetic, cowardly people, you gun nuts."

And here is where you really show your ass. I'm not even going to retort to this, it's childish and doesn't forward any kind of argument aside from you throwing a little forum tantrum.

For some reason, you are assuming I am a gun nut (whatever that is). I am not a gun nut. Nor do I care particularly for those who are. I do believe in our Constitution, and the Freedoms that we as Americans, are obligated to defend. Even the ones we don't like.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 9:32am

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Driving while intoxicated is illegal already. It doesn't seem to stop people from doing it. What makes you think we would have a different outcome with guns?

" You tried it, didn't work. In fact, it got a lot of people murdered with guns now I think about it."

Perfect. I think your getting it now.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 9:42am

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hundreds? Really?
"Also, you have to love the desperation. Trying to talk about people causing problems with their own bodies in order to distract from weekly massacres of strangers."

Are you mental? I'm not a gun nut. I don't own guns, nor do I particularly care about those that are (still not sure what a "gun nut" is). I do support our rights however, even those I don't particularly care for.

"Trying to talk about people causing problems with their own bodies in order to distract from weekly massacres of strangers."

I'm talking about the thousands of innocent people killed by drunk drivers. I was also talking about the obesity and subsequent heart disease that sugar causes where-in eventually causing a serious strain on our social services.

"He can't even address what the other real issues might be, and solutions that have nothing to do with bans or confiscation, he's just afraid someone will take away his toy chest."

Dude, who are you? I'm simply saying that enforcement and more laws do not equate to less crime. Take our lost drug war as a perfect example.

You need to take a stress walk or something. Your acting crazy.
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Seegras (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 9:43am

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Yes, in Europe, guns are only available in weapon stores. But there are still lots of them, most European countries have a rate of 30 guns per 100 people; which means about every third household has one.

BUT, most of these are rifles, not handguns.

This wouldn't theoretically make a difference with school-shootings, but since most of the shootings in the USA (I think it was more than 90%) were actually done with handguns, it might be a good idea to look into that.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 9:44am

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hundreds? Really?
What a coincidence that driving while intoxicated is illegal, but just drinking isn't!

Also, obesity causing strain on social services? That the best you got? I imagine gunshot victims are pretty strenuous too.
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Nathan F (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 9:46am

So if the primary motivation of someone is based on the media they (over) consume, ie: violent video games and movies leads to more violence, then shouldn't we be having an outbreak of mass non consensual sex related crimes because of all that easily available porn?
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PaulT (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 9:48am

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hundreds? Really?
"The results show we neither have the most, nor the most per capita"

Erm, you *are* on the top of the list of first world countries on the Wikipedia link, even though you tried diverting to argument from mass school shootings to all violence. Which first world country above you am I missing? I also can't help but notice that your first link is not a primary source but an opinion that seems to be desperately diverting from the fact that ZERO school shooting is the median for most countries, so obvious one is going to raise that a bit.

"And the U.S. is around 31st per capita, not even close to the top."

You say that, but your sources don't state it. If you're going to provide citations, at least provide them for the numbers you're claiming!

"There are much more efficient ways of killing large amounts of people than guns OR knives."

Yep. Now take a look at what action was taken following that action. It certainly wasn't "we can't stop it so no point doing anything" like you lot say after every gun massacre.

"Bombs exist so you have to accept the occasional gun massacre" really isn't a winning position.

" I do love my freedoms"

So do I, but some freedoms are more important than others. For example, my freedom to have me and my neighbours be free from being shot while going to work or school trumps the freedom of a gun nut to have an arsenal of military weaponry available. The freedom to stay alive is more important. Statistics state that this has worked in other countries, even if some gun lovers don't like it.

"For some reason, you are assuming I am a gun nut"

Because, you went straight from the rest of us going "look at this idiot blaming pornography" to "you can't take ma gunz" without even discussing the actual causes of gun violence. A non-nutcase would at least have been stressing mental illness and poor policing (among others) as other factors, but you went straight for protecting guns before anyone in the thread had even suggested taking them.
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PaulT (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 9:51am

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"I do support our rights however, even those I don't particularly care for."

Yes, the ones you don't care for such as the right not to get shot at school. Far less important than the right for gun owners to have their toys, right?

"I'm talking about the thousands of innocent people killed by drunk drivers. I was also talking about the obesity and subsequent heart disease that sugar causes where-in eventually causing a serious strain on our social services."

Yes, we did note your pathetic attempts at deflecting the subject. They're irrelevant in this case, unless you are actually too stupid to address multiple issues at once.

"Your acting crazy"

Your grammar is atrocious too, but at least I'm addressing the subject at hand rather than try and wave away important subjects because they make you uncomfortable.
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Seegras (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 10:00am

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As it turned out, any prohibition of substances, and of behaviour that consenting adults like, will end in tears. The be precise, will end in incarcerated people, trampled rights, poverty, crime-syndicates, and dead people. The US demonstrated it with the alcohol-prohibition, and is showing the whole world how to fuck up your country with drug-prohibition right now.
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Seegras (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 10:02am

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I think it's this "Rock'n'Roll". Or was it the "Charleston"?
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 10:03am

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hundreds? Really?
Don't have an argument so you attack my spelling? Real mature. You going to rip out the yo-moma insults next?

All you did was state a bunch of your opinions, which your entitled too, some of which I even agree with. Lets see some real data?
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 10:07am

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You are obviously a very emotional person. I did not once insult you, nor did I try to attack your opinions. Your name calling and personal attacks are completely unnecessary. Just because I think differently than you shouldn't mean I should be the subject of name calling.

This is really going no where. Have a great day :)
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David, 31 May 2018 @ 10:19am

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hundreds? Really?
Actually obese people and smokers tend to die at a much more convenient time for social insurers than healthy people who receive payouts for dozen of years after stopping to pay in.

Gun shot victims, in contrast, are often ripped out right in the first third of a productive life, with no sizable payback for all the education society put in. With the quality of public education, the U.S. tries minimizing the damage to its coffers (and/or privatizing it) but it's still there.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 10:20am

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I thought they all came from the 1%
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 10:23am

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hundreds? Really?
"All you did was state a bunch of your opinions,"

and you posted what then ...
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David, 31 May 2018 @ 10:24am

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15 a year by dogs? I think that the number of people shot by children younger than two years is already larger. Because, you know, safe storage is not a thing with everybody.
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David, 31 May 2018 @ 10:32am

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If by "the wildernesses of $x were conquered with $y" you mean "the natives of $x were slaughtered with $y", that is. Guns were used for genociding Native Americans, swords for mowing down for genociding Native Saxons. Admittedly the swords did a less thorough job even though they earned Charlemagne his byname of "Saxon Slaughterer".

So yes, guns were the weapon of murder laying the foundation for Europeans thriving in the U.S. and so are part of the cherished history. But there are so few Native Americans running around these days that you are more likely to die in friendly fire by now than in defense against the redskins. So it would make sense to adapt traditions a bit to reality.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 10:37am

For an institution that specializes in disingenuity, I'm not sure if Diane Black is trying to help propel Congress to new heights, or if she is really just that stupid.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 10:44am

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Well the first item on the list (cars) is heavily regulated with many laws restricting the manufacturing, and use of.

A guns purpose is violence (to animals invaders etc) , a cars purpose is not for violence.

I agree there should be stricter laws on tobacco, use of sugar (and other fillers) in food products.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 11:30am

Yeah, now do you see how silly it sounds when something that has absolutely nothing to with with an event, instead of the person actually responsible, gets blamed? Trump? NRA?
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 12:18pm

wow apparently in the states there is a free gun included in each porn magazine.... I mean how else would porn contribute to gun violence? Now how do thy get them in to the magazines?
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 12:28pm

So the problem is "moral decay"? That I can agree with just not her example, the moral decay I think is the problem is the politicians accepting bribes to push points and make laws. Call it 'lobbying' or 'donations' all you want, it is bribery clear and simple. I think if you cleaned up that moral decay problem a lot of other problems would go away.
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That One Guy (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 12:34pm

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I'm not sure how effective that would be, but in fine government tradition it's a sacrifice I'm willing to have them make.

The question is, deport them where? Pretty sure none of the other countries would want them either, and the south and north poles are bad enough already without also having a bunch of politicians there too.
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ECA (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 1:10pm

I dont wunder
One of the few reasons I left churches behind was abit of Illogical comments..

I also remember what religion SAYS about many things..
And its NOT TO BLAME...its to SOLVE problems.. as a group.

This is as bad as 1 Christian group pointing at another Christian group..saying THEY DID IT..did what??
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Lawrence D’Oliveiro, 31 May 2018 @ 2:01pm

Re: it doesn't seem to deter the people from using other methods
Actually, it does.

For example, per capita, to match the US rate, New Zealand should be having about one school shooting per year. In fact, the last one happened nearly a century ago.
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David, 31 May 2018 @ 2:02pm

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The bullet I get in my head from a semiautomatic will be cooler than that from the hot shaft of an automatic?
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Lawrence D’Oliveiro, 31 May 2018 @ 2:04pm

Re: Should [w]e ban sugar and booze?
There have long been taxes on the latter, and there are increasingly taxes on the former as well. The fact that they are not banned outright might have something to do with the fact that they have constructive uses, rather than being purely destructive weapons.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 2:07pm

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Actually the DUI determent factor is very high. While the safety of others might dissuade some people from driving drunk, many more avoid it because of the large financial and legal penalties a DUI arrest has.

Stop equating cars and alcohol to guns. They are both already regulated to address public safety concerns. If anything they are good examples on how we could model gun regulation to benefit society at large without resorting to a prohibition.

Also, please stop playing the victim after being called out for playing the fool. It is embarrassing to read.
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David, 31 May 2018 @ 2:08pm

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Well, probably because you are reading "Playboy". But there are magazines like "Penthouse" that may encourage rooftop sniping. Not everything is focused on bunnies, you know.
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Lawrence D’Oliveiro, 31 May 2018 @ 2:10pm

Re: 6 things kill more people than guns.
Ah, the good old conflate-constructive-tools-with-destructive-weapons fallacy. That’s the third time you’ve fallen for it this week.
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David, 31 May 2018 @ 2:11pm

Re:

I mean how else would porn contribute to gun violence?

Because sex causes pregnancy and in the U.S. the only acceptable way of ending pregnancy is with a gun?
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 2:13pm

Re: Settle down, kids! Is just Timmy goosing you up to rabid again.
Yeah, don't bother to specify any errors so that they can be corrected; just keep on making vague claims of superiority to please your ego.
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David (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 2:34pm

Drivel from the Devil herself.
Give me a fucking break.
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Lawrence D’Oliveiro, 31 May 2018 @ 3:01pm

Lawrence’s Law Of Gun-Control Debates
No discussion about the harms of guns can go on very long without somebody trying to conflate guns with cars.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 3:09pm

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Don't be disingenuous. The anti-gun movement is intentionally using the word "automatic" and using pictures of a small caliber rifle, the AR-15, because the word "automatic" and use of that weapon conjure images of fully automatic machine guns in the minds of the naive. All this to drum up support for their movement.

The truth is that the AR-15 is far less dangerous than plenty of other weapons used for hunting and almost nobody can get their hands on a machine gun. Most of the anti-gun camp spouts nothing but false rhetoric.

Just like politics: 99% bullshit.
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Ed, 31 May 2018 @ 3:28pm

Single cause
Naah you got it all wrong,

The one single cause of school shootings in the US is religious fundamentalism.

It is the mindset that this engenders that leads to the violent disregard for the lives of others.

Look at other countries where fundamental religion prevails, all violent.

It is time to call for banning of several religious groups in the US, not sensible gun control.

/shitstirring
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John85851 (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 3:42pm

Bad porn and good porn
Because someone has to say it:
The only thing stopping a bad guy with porn is a good guy with porn. If evil porn is causing mass shootings, then we need to get more good porn out there.
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That Anonymous Coward (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 3:47pm

because of the “deterioration of the family,”

How much of that deterioration did you have a direct hand in crippling the DEA & allowing PHARMA to addict the country?

How is it that everytime something bad happens a certain demographic of soundbite chasing corporate employees trot out the exact same dead horses to beat, claiming they are the 'real' problem while ignoring reality?

It might get you votes from scared old people who still believe you, but eventually they will die off & we'll run you out of office for having done nothing beyond blaming outside forces while ignoring reality.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 4:08pm

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The word "like" before bear and the mention of wolf should give you a clue about the levels of "threat". Deflection would seem to be with 3 fingers pointing at yourself here.

The existance of a threat is enough for it to be a problem. You don't need mountain lions to kill to be a threat and something you would be safer with a gun against! Remember that all states will yield to the same rules if it is federal legislation you are asking for.

If you know canadian gun legislation, it still has a decently broad-scoped PAL-system and 18 years+ for ownership, even if C-19 removes registry-initiatives: I am not talking for status quo!
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 6:00pm

In other words, since the "Internet is for porn"... You guessed it: just blame the Internet.

As a side note, Diane Black is against BBC!? Wow.
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DOlz (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 7:10pm

I think she has it backwards
I would teenage boys aren’t getting enough porn. After all its hard to handle a semiautomatic assault weapon with one hand while the other one is down your pants.
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DOlz (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 7:11pm

Re: I think she has it backwards
I would think
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 8:45pm

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"Our problem isn't the laws, it's enforcement"

According to authorities, many of the mass murderers obtained the weapons used legally. How would enforcement do anything in those cases?

Perhaps, rather than laws we might use common sense - I know, it is not all that common but certainly there are ways to evaluate the specific situation, not all are the same, and come up with possible improvements. Do we really need laws in order to improve our situation?
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 8:50pm

Re: Single cause
I think you are close, but you forgot about NASCAR and beer ... oh, and crystal meth.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 8:51pm

Re: Bad porn and good porn
I like the cut of your jib.
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 8:54pm

Re:
because of the “deterioration of the family,”

Yes, they should know about their involvement but are in denial. Targeting people of color in order to fill the ranks of the private prison slave workforce leaves many families without parent(s).
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 8:55pm

Re:
Rule 34
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techflaws (profile), 31 May 2018 @ 9:51pm

So how come Germany has less shootings with (definitely more) porn available and as many violent games being played?
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Anonymous Coward, 31 May 2018 @ 10:52pm

Re: Re:
Watch where you dump your waste though. We don't want them in the EU either.
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Lawrence D’Oliveiro, 31 May 2018 @ 11:48pm

Re: So how come Germany has less shootings
When it comes to gun control, you musn’t compare the US to other countries. Fighting ideology with reasoned argument is just not fair, and endangers the status of the US as a special snowflake.
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cattress (profile), 1 Jun 2018 @ 12:19am

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I mostly agree, except I don't think other nations have done anything to deserve getting stuck with our legislators!
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PaulT (profile), 1 Jun 2018 @ 2:26am

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"What makes you think we would have a different outcome with guns?"

What makes you think that is the solution that people are asking for.

Put it this way - banning alcohol didn't work because it either got controlled by organised criminal gangs or people made it themselves with often disastrous results (people going blind, explosions, etc). There was also no control over quality, when and where people used it, who could buy it, which substances ended up in the drinks and so forth.

So, controls were returned and while some people do still abuse it, nobody's going blind from drinking the wrong crap, nobody's neighbour's house is exploding because they messed up the bathtub gin recipe, there are controls on how it's made, who its sold to and sold by, where it's consumed and so forth.

All people seem to be asking for is that similar things are applied to weaponry. You are saying is that because alcohol regulation isn't 100% perfect, it's OK to continue to allow the mentally ill to stockpile weaponry that's not seen outside of the military in most civilised countries. It's OK for people to be massacred en masse because your police haven't managed to stop every drink driver.

Do you understand how idiotic you sound yet?
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PaulT (profile), 1 Jun 2018 @ 2:27am

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
The phrase "letting the perfect be the enemy of the good" applies to his argument, but it takes a special kind of moron to say "people die in preventable car crashes so we shouldn't address mass murder".
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PaulT (profile), 1 Jun 2018 @ 2:33am

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hundreds? Really?
Yep, when you make stupid arguments and can't defend them, go straight for the "waah someone was mean to me" as an excuse to leave the conversation. God forbid you use logic, data and real arguments to defend your position that people need to continue to be slaughtered. Is it because you realise that it's indefensible, or are do you just not care about the suffering of thousands of people every year?

But, run away, little man. Why are gun nuts always such cowardly children in situations where they can't use their toys?
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PaulT (profile), 1 Jun 2018 @ 2:34am

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hundreds? Really?
Moronic drivel
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PaulT (profile), 1 Jun 2018 @ 2:40am

Re: Re: it doesn't seem to deter the people from using other methods
When people divert to "per capita", they tend to forget that most other countries don't have any massacres at all in a typical year, so any at all will skew things. When these things are happening almost weekly in the US, no intelligent person is going to be swayed by "well, Norway had their one and only massacre in the last decade and a lot of people got killed, so the average victim rate is really higher if you look at the figures outside of context".

But, intelligent people are what you're tending to deal with on the "it's OK for kids to die weekly so I can feel like a big man" side of the argument.,
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Seegras (profile), 1 Jun 2018 @ 3:41am

Re: Re: it doesn't seem to deter the people from using other methods
And NZ has as many guns per capita as most European countries. About 30 per 100 people.
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David, 1 Jun 2018 @ 3:48am

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The threat of mountain lions is not really addressed a whole lot by putting handguns in drawers.

Sure, you want to be able to defend yourself against burglars. Unfortunately, burglars tend to be prepared better than you are.

In the U.S., reaching for the drawer during a burglary is much more likely to get you killed than reaching for the drawer during a burglary is likely to get you killed in Europe.

Americans insist on their right to lethal combat with professionals. Europeans are more interested in survival.
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Mind Weapons and the PORN DELUGE, 1 Jun 2018 @ 5:26am

Porn doesnt cause mass shootings~ but weaponized pornography IS linked to mass shooter,and the link is a real thing, and the NSA/CIA/FBI/et alphabet are heavily involved in the distribution, and dissemination of pornography of all kinds.

James Bamford, who has covered the NSA for decades has documented this, as has Edward Snowden and many others.

And,the tons of free porn online has been connected to:

terrorist recruitment and compromise operations (bi Ladens porn stash!)), intel asset development, and even Gamergate, where British JTRIG first made contact with Willam Atchison, a New Mexico school shooter.

After British IC covertly targeted Atchison,they kicked it over to the FBI and community policing,aka organized gang stalking.

But other mass shooters are also connected to porn/frame jobs/child pornography/ dogporn/gay porn, etc.

Google porn deluge and compromise operations,or child pornography and Stephen Paddock, or child pornography and the Newtown school massacre.

Google Omar Mateen and gay slander, John Langand Fresno activist and child porn frame job, etc.

The NSAsbackdoor is leakier than drag queen J.Edgar Hoovers anus, and mass surveillance and your porn browsing habits have now all been turned over to all 17 US spy agencies-unless, like happened tosome activists, dissidents and others,it leaked earlier.

Google Luke Rudkowsky and child porn, or activists and planted porn.

But weaponized porn that targets speech and speakers, is,like, a real thing.

Google NSA,porn, and virgins and militants for a clue.

But academics are making these links to how some agendas-the Andrea Dworkin porn wars of the eighties, and SESTA today are all designed by neocon religious nutters to crush speech, and speakers.

Especially speakers who use pirn,instead of filling the pews every sunday with a new baby, cuz,porn is bad, miracle birth is good....

Or, just read through this blog, to connect more dots:

www.researchorganizedgangstalking.wordpress.com
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Wendy Cockcroft, 1 Jun 2018 @ 5:50am

Re: Re: Re: it doesn't seem to deter the people from using other methods
This proves that regulating guns and confiscating guns are different things.

We only let sensible people own them legally and punish illegal possession.
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Wendy Cockcroft, 1 Jun 2018 @ 5:55am

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Shouldn't there be some kind of psychiatric evaluation of people who want to own guns? Making sure they're not a danger to the public would be the thing to do.
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Wendy Cockcroft, 1 Jun 2018 @ 5:58am

Re: the "affirmative action" murderer
An overweening, unwarranted sense of entitlement drove his rampage, not mere failure to get his end away.
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Wendy Cockcroft, 1 Jun 2018 @ 6:00am

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How many POC shot up a school?

Asking for a friend.
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Anonymous Coward, 1 Jun 2018 @ 8:24am

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Not only that, but in 'merica it is way more likely that the "burglar" is actually law enforcement.
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Anonymous Coward, 1 Jun 2018 @ 8:27am

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idk - but if so, lets start with law enforcement
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Anonymous Coward, 1 Jun 2018 @ 8:35am

Re:
"weaponized pornography"

and now for your daily serving of bullshit, I present weaponized porn as Phrase Of The Day.

Stay tuned tomorrow because we will be given Weaponized Bullshit for your perusal.
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Dave P., 1 Jun 2018 @ 10:49am

What is she on?
Or could it be dementia? When there is some incident, such as a mass shooting, it never fails to amaze me the way that politicians (especially of the American kind) immediately get on their soapbox and come out with some of the worst waffle and twaddle ever heard. She has obviously been to the Trump academy for the use of nonsense speech. Non-existent associations seem to be rife these days. How porn can cause such tragic affairs is totally beyond me. Have we got a good psychologist reading this that can put me straight?
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GEMont, 1 Jun 2018 @ 11:27am

Black-market commercial logic.
Rant Warning!!!!
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tl;dr version:
Morality = how "I" think "You" should behave.
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Reality: Morality laws do not; and are not really meant to, prevent, or deter people from participating in immoral behavior directly.

They are specifically designed to create a false market shortage which in turn makes the behavior more costly for the "immoral" to participate in, as black market providers/enablers raise prices to reflect the increased costs of doing business under such laws.

So, the more/stronger morality-based laws against a behavior such as participation in the pornography industry, the greater the difficulty in purchasing pornography for the end-user.

The more difficulty in purchasing pornography, the greater the cost to the distributors, producers and sellers of pornography through lost sales, law enforcement evasion, etc..

The greater the costs to distributors, producers and sellers of pornography, the higher the end-cost of pornography to the purchasers.

The higher the cost of pornography to purchasers, the greater the profits to distributors, producers and sellers, because no sane businessman on either side of the law, raises costs to balance out expenses, without adding a little cream to the action.

More morality based contraband laws = higher illegal profits no matter what the contraband happens to be.

The loudest moral voices demanding laws against a thing, always belong to those who have invested time and money in the illegal sales, production, or distribution of that thing for profit, because morality laws do nothing more than offer rationale for providers of that thing to raise the end-user's cost of that thing, continuously.

As a bonus, the mere act of speaking out against pornography, adds a facade of morality to the speaker, making it less likely for the general public to suspect the speaker of being involved in the use, sales, distribution or production of pornography.

Law enforcement never complains about morality laws because they provide whole new funding and skimming/graft sources for those who profit from law enforcement morality operations and their additional and often unique expenses.

Smart Law enforcement operations officials take "donations" from both ends of this spectrum - federal/local (tax-payer) funding assistance and monthly (black market) graft and/or lobbying checks.

As far as preventing or deterring "perverts" from participating in their chosen perversion goes, the public is never moved in that direction by law-induced higher costs, as long as the availability remains.

On the other hand, there is likely no greater single factor that allows the constant raising of black market prices by the "criminals" involved, without any need for justification to the purchaser, than morality laws.

Thus the only people who benefit from such laws are those who provide illegal access - the sellers, producers, distributors and their financiers and supporters, such as the many politicians crowding the morality podium, like House Rep. Diane Black of Tennessee.

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That One Guy (profile), 1 Jun 2018 @ 12:33pm

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I regret that I have but one insightful vote to give you.
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Anonymous Coward, 1 Jun 2018 @ 4:34pm

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Good point, was off on a tangent
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Anonymous Coward, 3 Jun 2018 @ 4:29pm

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Technically the one can be done by existing definitions of negligence. Often not done or requiring egregious action to do so - having guns not so much as trying to hide let alone lock or storing ammo separately. Texas specifically of all places has a negligent storage law.
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Wendy Cockcroft, 4 Jun 2018 @ 2:23am

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Ditto.
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