I agree with you on a few points. This is shocking, my heart goes out to the victims' families, and the USA is an incredible place. The country has produced some of the world's most brilliant innovations, personalities, and minds. |
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I just turned on the news to find that a school had just been a victim of a mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut in which at least 20 were killed. First of all my heart goes out to anybody that was effected and it's a extremely sad lost and I wish them the best from now. But really I hate to say this US but what are you doing? I actually love the US I have been to Florida twice and New York once and it was the best. But seriously your gun laws really need to be looked at, like seriously. What are your guys views on this? |
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I agree with you on a few points. This is shocking, my heart goes out to the victims' families, and the USA is an incredible place. The country has produced some of the world's most brilliant innovations, personalities, and minds. |
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There are as many guns legally in circulation in the US as there are people....literally one for ever man, woman and child in this country. Yes, there are other problems with the society in general, but having basically no restrictions whatsoever on guns is definitely the biggest part of the problem, imo. |
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What's the world coming to where you can shoot your mother, shoot kids and then kill yourself? Certainly this kid gave off warning signs or were people just completely oblivious to the fact that he was a gun wielding psychopath? |
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Things are not as they seem
It's incredibly sad when stuff like this happens. |
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April Ryan is my friend,
Every sorrow she can mend.
When i visit her dark realm,
Does it simply overwhelm.
I'm really not sure it's about guns so much. Almost nobody has guns here in the UK and we don't have these incidents, but I don't think that's why. If you could buy guns I don't see it happening. I think the Swiss all have guns, but they don't do this either. |
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Obviously the recent spike in shootings is a government conspiracy to shift public opinion against guns. They're probably giving these people scopalamine and ordering them to attack. How did James Holmes, a broke grad student, afford... what was it like over 20,000 dollars worth of guns and 12,000 dollars worth of ammo? |
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Canadians have got guns out their asses, and their instances of gun violence are practically negligible compared to ours. |
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We even had gun laws 'protecting' the school. It was a gun-free zone. |
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The movie Natural Born Killers pretty much describes America, in my eyes for the most part, and why this is happening repeatedly in America. My friends and I speculate it will only get worse the closer we get to "THE END OF THE WORLD" and is only being boosted by the non-stop broadcast of the shooting, and of course any others that happen. |
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" I couldn't stand her at first, But then I loved her so bad It Hurt "
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uhh yeah, my heart goes out to the families, or whatever... |
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I'd say the root of all the USA's problems comes down to extreme economic inequality. The american culture is constantly fueled by the huge contrast between rich and poor. The poor wish to be like the rich, the rich don't want this and stop the poor. America has developed in a way so that if you are rich you can have the best life you want, if you are poor you will have shit. The poor will always want what the rich have but are too uneducated to do anything because only the rich can afford good schools and so the cycle continues. |
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I'm one of the poor. I can tell you its very hard to break the mold into "something better" when you've lived your entire life barely getting by. There is no American dream. I gotta also say this - and no offense if there's anyone who is well off that reads this - but 99% of the rich people I've come across in this life, American or not, are bullies. I'm talking about CEO's, doctors, lawyers, business owners, and their wives and children. They are greedy, selfish, and judgmental control freaks. The 1% I've met who are nonjudgmental, open minded, and have integrity are shunned by their peers, but they are mature enough not to care. I'm one of those Americans who believe America isn't a great place to live, but I also think no where else is. Where ever you go, money (or the lackof it) controls every life choice. |
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Blackbirdrising I agree 200% with you. I refuse to hear all the speeches and hear all pleas for the lives of these poor children. All these things only serve to make the living feel better. The dead are dead and nothing will change so that things like that do not happen with the regularity that are happening. |
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Xei is something interesting about that, all of those horrendous crimes are commited mostly by whites. No precisely by poor whites, but by middle upper or well to do people. |
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Why was the shooter a lonely social outcast? why did he choose to shoot all those children? all over the world there are social outcasts who deal with it in other ways. |
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