2017 Las Vegas Strip shooting: 59 dead, 527 injured

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Reply 40

Siberiaan

Sadly events like these will continue to be commonplace in America.

Reply 41

(づ￣ ³￣)づ

Over 400 people have been taken to local hospitals.

Reply 42

Fullofsurprises

Original post by TSR Mustafa

Sadly events like these will continue to be commonplace in America.

America is a place where you can drive into a gun fair and any muppet with a bad attitude and money can buy sufficient weaponry to take on a small country. All the time whilst professing to be good Christian folk and heartwarmingly proud of leading the world.

Really, we need to save them from themselves.

Reply 43

QE2

Original post by ThatOldGuy

Okay. Look - This is a tragedy and using this to push your own agenda says more about you than the issue. I wouldn't support the anti-car people after the car attacks,

WTF?
A car is not designed with the sole purpose of killing people/animals!

I wouldn't support the anti-bleach people after the acid attacks and I can't support you using this to further an agenda.

Who TF are the "anti-bleach people"?
And bleach is a strong alkali - the opposite of acid.

Your apparent lack of reason and basic knowledge says more about you than the issue. (I don't know what point you were even trying to make there).

An avoidable disaster is the perfect time to dicuss the things that, if they had been different, would have prevented the disaster.
I completely fail to see why you object to raising the issue of the avoidable cause of so many deaths.

Reply 44

Drewski

Original post by (づ￣ ³￣)づ

Over 400 people have been taken to local hospitals.

While that's bad, it's worth noting that most of those will be injuries from the crush / stampede towards the exits, rather than the actual shooting.

Reply 45

QE2

Original post by Ninja Squirrel

This is now officially the deadliest mass shooting in American history...

I think some Native Americans may beg to differ!

Reply 46

Fullofsurprises

The shooter was from Mesquite, Nevada, population (according to Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesquite,_Nevada) 17,496. They have (according to reports today) typically one murder a year, roughly 50 times the UK average murder rate.

Mesquite is close to the location of the Bundy Standoff, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundy_standoff, where far right survivalists battled with federal agents in recent years.

Reply 47

Fullofsurprises

Surely the Foreign Office should now be directing visitors that it is unsafe to visit the United States? It can't possibly be considered a safe place to be, can it?

Reply 48

Lucy39

It's so awful that these things happen! These people have been targeted for no reason and most of the time the murderers do not discriminate. They just want to kill. What's even worse is that it seems to be becoming the norm.

We had someone making bombs in house a couple of roads down from where we live. Luckily they ****ed up and started an accidental fire in their house so their house. Their house was searched due to the unusual smell and they got found out.

Thing is if guns were readily available to them they probably would've just gone out and done the same as what happened today in Las Vegas. Guns definitely are a problem, but it's very difficult to stop bombers and people making them.

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Reply 49

QE2

Original post by Aceadria

There is no evidence to suggest that gun control actually causes a reduction in gun violence.

Yes there is.
The statistics show that death by firearm reduced by 50% after the controls brought in after the Port Arthur massacre, and have remained low since.

And even if there wasn't any, why would anyone argue against gun control? Who, in their right mind, thinks it's better to allow the general public to posses guns than it is to prohibit them?

Reply 50

Drewski

Original post by QE2

And even if there wasn't any, why would anyone argue against gun control? Who, in their right mind, thinks it's better to allow the general public to posses guns than it is to prohibit them?

Basically anybody / everybody on the Right of US politics... Their opinion would be that bad guys with guns can be stopped by good guys with guns. So we should let everybody have guns.

Reply 51

physicseastldn

406 injured !!!!!!!!!!!

Reply 52

QE2

Original post by Drewski

Basically anybody / everybody on the Right of US politics... Their opinion would be that bad guys with guns can be stopped by good guys with guns. So we should let everybody have guns.

I asked "who in their right mind..."

Reply 53

Drewski

Original post by QE2

I asked "who in their right mind..."

It is their right mind. And a great deal of them are sensible, intelligent people. Worryingly.

It's just not the right mind of others. It's all about perspective.

Reply 54

It's****ingWOODY

Getting a gun. Massacring a bunch of innocent people. It's the new American dream.

Reply 55

Fullofsurprises

Original post by Drewski

Basically anybody / everybody on the Right of US politics... Their opinion would be that bad guys with guns can be stopped by good guys with guns. So we should let everybody have guns.

It's truly shocking for example that there are only 3 guns for every grown up in America. The figure clearly needs to be more like ~25. Spare assault rifles could be placed on street corners on a just in case basis.

Reply 56

Quixote.

The words 'mass shooting' and 'USA' in the same sentence fail to elicit any feelings of shock or emotion in me anymore.

It f**cking sucks. But they do literally nothing to prevent them happening. I feel for all the innocent people losing their lives whilst the government and the NRA jerk each other off.