U.S. marks Memorial Day weekend with at least 12 mass shootings
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – Quarius Naqua Dunham, a third grader from Portsmouth, N.H. was killed over the weekend when police say he and his family were victims of a random shooting in South Carolina.
According to the Florence County Sheriff's office, 40-year-old Charles Montgomery Allen allegedly shot at three cars as they drove by his home on Saturday.
Dunham was rushed to the hospital after being shot in the neck. The 8-year-old was removed from life support on Sunday and later died. His father was hit in the leg, but is expected to survive.
Charles Montgomery Allen, the killer who shot the 8-year-old New Hampshire boy.
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The salient question is, what laws or actions would have prevented one of these horrible events?
How about laws ban weapons like the AR-15? that was done during the Clinton administration and the number of deaths from those weapons went down. When GWB let the ban lapse, the number of deaths from those weapons went up and almost every mass murder since then involves those types of weapons.
I'm sick of a**holes like the one above pretending there's no correlation between the number of guns this country has and the number of massacres it suffers on a weekly basis and no way to solve this man made slaughter.
The problem is that a**holes like the above don't want any law of any kind passed to prevent more children from being blown to bits, so the a**holes in this country can continue to pretend guns are a sacrament blessed by Jesus and no one can do anything about the killing fields.
This NEVER happened when I was a kid. NEVER. What's different? We now have more guns than people in America. That's one. And we have millions of a**holes who think that's not the problem!
Mass shootings?
I think we're getting our terminology a bit wrong.
Guy walks into a bar, shoots and kills, three ppl and leaves 4 others injured. Mass shooting? Absolutely.
Two rival gangs are riding motorcycles down a freeway, see each other and get pissed off. Shooting ensues and 7 members of the two gangs go for treatment at local hospitals. Mass shooting? In the mind of some, absolutely not.
And yet, both are characterized as mass shootings. Why?
In popular thinking, mass shootings are like Robb Elementary, the Buffalo market, Columbine, Parkland and more. Specific places where a lone shooter went with the intention of shooting up as many innocent ppl as possible.
In the rival gang scenario, which played out here in the Las Vegas area last weekend, both sides were shooting at "guilty" ppl... antagonistic rival guilty gang members.
Was it violent? Yes. Was the intent deadly? Yes. In classic thinking was it a mass shooting? I don't think so, but that's just my opinion.
Look, the US has way too much gun violence. But I think calling a dispute at a party that gets out of hand and ends in gun violence a mass shooting, is not helpful and allows the "butwhatabout" ppl to bring all sorts of stuff into the conversation.
The salient question is, what laws or actions would have prevented one of these horrible events?
A) Universal background checks WITHOUT exception. No one gets a firearm without one. B) A 30 day waiting period after background check and approval.
B) National firearm registry that ALL firearm owners must be registered in.
C) A total ban on ALL military assault weapons of death.
D) Ban high capacity clips and drums.
F) Additionally, Require background check and permit renewal every 3-5 years.
Guns owned by idiots like anonymous above are at the heart of the American gun problem.
Oh, almost forgot. Ban the terrorist NRA. The juice that has sustained the problem since its beginning.
PS - No sale and pick up at gun shows. Anywhere. 30 day waiting period.
Life is SO MUCH MORE IMPORTANT than guns,.
Some 19 “good men with a gun” stood in the corridor while two unarmed female teachers tried to shield children from high-velocity bullets with their bodies. This is America’s eternal shame. It is highly unlikely anything meaningful will come of this. Too many Republican members of Congress value their jobs and their future electability more than they value the lives of our children.
We cannot stop all evil people, or evil acts.
It might seem reasonable to sell a person a gun when they pass whatever restrictions may be, but that same law-abiding gun owner may five years down the road, kill multiple people with that gun for whatever reason life has affected their mind.
People should have to pass periodic background and competency tests to continue to hold their right to own a gun. Once every 4 years, or so, let's say. Of course, Republicans would never agree to that, but maybe someday we will have a true Democratic majority again.
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