School shooting in Texas

[Pumpkin Pie]

Originally Posted by Floridadreams

I just cannot begin to comprehend this. Those poor babies 😢 and their teachers! The gun lobby have already started up, such is their deep held belief 😡
What will it take before the US stands up and gets rid of this archaic “right”? What about those children’s right to live and be safe? What about their parents right to expect their children to come home from school? And what about the teachers right to have a safe workplace? I will never get this!

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Trouble is many of these parents could own guns themselves.

[Sparksy72]

It is horrifying and heartbreaking. When you look at the laws that were implemented in Australia regarding guns after the Port Arthur Massacre, there is something that can be done should the American Government really want to. I can only imagine how scary it must be sending your kids to school in the U.S. and not knowing if they will make it safely home.

Whilst I can understand that people feel they have they right to bear arms, I certainly don’t believe anyone other than the military need to have access to automatic weapons.

[GoldenAvalanche]

It’s hard to fathom the political ideology of those who believe so ardently in gun ownership often align themselves to being so called “pro-life”. The irony is completely lost on them isn’t it.

If they spent as much time considering the lives of those already on this earth as they do on trying to police women’s bodies, they may actually begin to solve this horrendous issue.

[grant_w]

The amount of people I saw in theme parks wearing AR-15 "It's our right" t-shirts is terrifying. They'll never change

[Princess Alison]

Originally Posted by grant_w

The amount of people I saw in theme parks wearing AR-15 "It's our right" t-shirts is terrifying. They'll never change

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And this in the parks too!

[marypoppins38]

Originally Posted by levtweeney

I don't think the US is actually that progressive. Just look at how they have went on about Roe vs Wade and women's right to chose what to do with their own bodies. Its like the US is going back to the 1940's.

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Actually now I have thought about it I think you are right Lev. It’s quite shocking.

[HORSE]

10 days since the last mass shooting, it’s become so commonplace in America and there’s still absolutely zero chance of the Democrats getting any gun control laws passed.

[Pino_Spetzberg]

Originally Posted by levtweeney

I don't think the US is actually that progressive.
Its like the US is going back to the 1940's.

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1860s.
Never left.

Millions of Americans do not believe Democratic Party are a legitimate administration.
With that perspective they see Biden and Harris seizing every opportunity to attack 2A.
Then there are the conspiratorials who believe these massacres are not only seized upon but constructed.

Trump is speaking at an NRA event this weekend.
Both sides will exploit the suffering of the victims.

2A.
Bodily autonomy.
Climate crisis.

Divided America.

Born that way.
Still the same.

[DisneyStacey]

Just sat here sobbing, struggling to find any words.
Being asked to provide DNA samples as opposed to photographs, knowing what that must mean.
Just heartbreaking.
And heartbreaking that again nothing will change.

[Guest]

A more hypocritical national there has never been.