Active shooter Atlanta, GA, - Captured (Updated)

[Lemon Drop]

vision63 wrote:
[quote=Lemon Drop]
We don't have to live like this.

I don't know how we'll ever stop one person. We can fight an army, we can fight a rogue group. Anything that can generate patterns. But a single human? We're all disgruntled about one thing or another. We have to figure out a way to help people to not want to destroy one another.

I agree completely. If I were queen, mental health care would be as easy to get as a Glock is now.

One meaningful and proven way to help is to make it harder to get a gun. This violence is mostly done by young men. A group prone to impulsive acts and raging emotions. That won't change. Gun access we could do something about.

[Lemon Drop]

Cobb County police just announced they have arrested the suspect.

[vision63]

Lemon Drop wrote:
[quote=vision63]
[quote=Lemon Drop]
We don't have to live like this.

I don't know how we'll ever stop one person. We can fight an army, we can fight a rogue group. Anything that can generate patterns. But a single human? We're all disgruntled about one thing or another. We have to figure out a way to help people to not want to destroy one another.

I agree completely. If I were queen, mental health care would be as easy to get as a Glock is now.

One meaningful and proven way to help is to make it harder to get a gun. This violence is mostly done by young men. A group prone to impulsive acts and raging emotions. That won't change. Gun access we could do something about.
I don't believe we'll ever be able to stop someone from getting a gun. We can make it harder to obtain expensive guns like assault weapons, and other military level weaponry. We have a whole 2nd amendment that allows people to own a gun. The most we can hope for is an assault weapons ban + "common sense" gun control.

Our country is being devastated by a rogue political party thats in the process of what amounts to a constitutional coup. We have to remove them from power. Every single one of them in order to survive. I don't hate them. I will soberly remove them from power like a machine.

[rgG]

Lemon Drop wrote:
Cobb County police just announced they have arrested the suspect.

Good.
I was looking at a condo in that area of Cobb, but I decided it was a little too congested. It can happen anywhere and where the shouting happened was miles away and in a different county anyway.

[Mr645]

gabester wrote:
[quote=Mr645]
When criminals put down their firearms, I won't need to carry mine

Just imagine what that scene could have been like if he'd had an AR-15 instead of a handgun!
Or worse, a 12ga, or a hunting rifle

[Mr645]

Lemon Drop wrote:
We don't have to live like this.

Mental health care is health care.

[Mr645]

vision63 wrote:
[quote=Lemon Drop]
[quote=vision63]
[quote=Lemon Drop]
We don't have to live like this.

I don't know how we'll ever stop one person. We can fight an army, we can fight a rogue group. Anything that can generate patterns. But a single human? We're all disgruntled about one thing or another. We have to figure out a way to help people to not want to destroy one another.

I agree completely. If I were queen, mental health care would be as easy to get as a Glock is now.

One meaningful and proven way to help is to make it harder to get a gun. This violence is mostly done by young men. A group prone to impulsive acts and raging emotions. That won't change. Gun access we could do something about.
I don't believe we'll ever be able to stop someone from getting a gun. We can make it harder to obtain expensive guns like assault weapons, and other military level weaponry. We have a whole 2nd amendment that allows people to own a gun. The most we can hope for is an assault weapons ban + "common sense" gun control.

Our country is being devastated by a rogue political party thats in the process of what amounts to a constitutional coup. We have to remove them from power. Every single one of them in order to survive. I don't hate them. I will soberly remove them from power like a machine. Military grade weapons, Assault weapons, already cost $20k+

https://www.wsav.com/news/automatic-weap...to-buy-one

[SteveG]

Bargain Days are Here!

[vision63]

Mr645 wrote:
[quote=vision63]
[quote=Lemon Drop]
[quote=vision63]
[quote=Lemon Drop]
We don't have to live like this.

I don't know how we'll ever stop one person. We can fight an army, we can fight a rogue group. Anything that can generate patterns. But a single human? We're all disgruntled about one thing or another. We have to figure out a way to help people to not want to destroy one another.

I agree completely. If I were queen, mental health care would be as easy to get as a Glock is now.

One meaningful and proven way to help is to make it harder to get a gun. This violence is mostly done by young men. A group prone to impulsive acts and raging emotions. That won't change. Gun access we could do something about.
I don't believe we'll ever be able to stop someone from getting a gun. We can make it harder to obtain expensive guns like assault weapons, and other military level weaponry. We have a whole 2nd amendment that allows people to own a gun. The most we can hope for is an assault weapons ban + "common sense" gun control.

Our country is being devastated by a rogue political party thats in the process of what amounts to a constitutional coup. We have to remove them from power. Every single one of them in order to survive. I don't hate them. I will soberly remove them from power like a machine. Military grade weapons, Assault weapons, already cost $20k+

https://www.wsav.com/news/automatic-weap...to-buy-one
The previous Assault Weapons ban did make it more difficult to obtain them. It was effective. Janet Reno's Justice Department went extra on enforcement. They can crawl up everybody's anuses if they really want to.

But rank hand guns. No law can pass to stop them from being sold. But that doesn't mean we can't have hurdles. Nobody really "should" object to that.

[pdq]

vision63 wrote:
[quote=Lemon Drop]
We don't have to live like this.

I don't know how we'll ever stop one person. We can fight an army, we can fight a rogue group. Anything that can generate patterns. But a single human? We're all disgruntled about one thing or another. We have to figure out a way to help people to not want to reduce the efficiency of how they destroy one another.
FTFY.

Seriously though, murder has been around a long, loooong time. That’s what’s not going away.

We can make it less easy, though. Less impetuous. Less fatal.

Majorities of the public in this country support gun control and are sick of the killing. And other countries have done it. They can hardly believe we put up with this.

We just need the will, and the understanding it is possible. Instead all I seem to hear is hopelessness and fantasies that people will change and anger will somehow go away.