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7 people injured this time...
Seven hurt in spa shooting spree
At least seven people have been injured in a shooting at or near a day spa in the midwestern US state of Wisconsin.
Police have told reporters they were looking for a black male who may be driving a black Mazda as a suspect in the shooting overnight in Brookfield, a suburb of Milwaukee.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/seven-hurt-in-spa-shooting-spree-20121022-2801o.html#ixzz29y0dIqwB
I'm not at all keen on hunting as a "sport" but I acknowledge that others disagree. The main issue I have with it, is that so far as I'm concerned a sport involves the possibility of win, lose or draw as the outcome. I fail to see how anyone "loses" hunting, unless they themselves are shot which seems to be rare. In other words, it seems awfully one sided - the animals aren't armed, and nobody fires even a single shot in the direction of the hunters.I just cant understand how people hunt for fun, my neighbour does but I just dont get it.
Connecticut shooting leaves at least 26 dead
At least 26 people, including up to 20 children between the ages of five and 10, have been killed in a mass shooting at the Sandy Hook primary school in Newton, a small town in rural Connecticut.
The gunman, found dead at the scene, was identified in US media reports as 24-year-old Adam Lanza, who killed his father at home before driving to the school and killing his mother, who worked there, along with many of her young students. His brother Ryan Lanza, who was initially identified as the shooter, has been questioned.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/connect...ast-26-dead-20121215-2bfw3.html#ixzz2F42S8aXu
What a world we live in....
Only days apart, 20 children are slashed at a school in China, horrifying
20 children are shot dead at a school in America, a senseless tradegy
But....access to firearms will be challenged eventually. The majority will get tired of the gun lobby.
God bless those poor, innocent little kids.
CanOz
US: Over 3,000 children killed by guns every year
Posted on Thu, 2012-03-01 00:00
Just over 3,000 children are killed and 17,500 are injured by guns every year in the US, according to the blog site ‘Kid shootings’, run by members of Ceasefire Oregon Education Foundation, Protect Minnesota and States United to Prevent Gun Violence. The site highlights statistics, articles and stories about minors involved in or affected by gun crimes or dangerous situations involving guns in the US.
Some states have decided to do something about mass shootings I see, Michigan for example has legislated for people to carry concealed weapons in Schools and churches, apparently the states politicians think it will act as a deterrent !!!! now how F@cked up is that ?.
http://www.examiner.com/article/mic...ns-schools-just-hours-before-newtown-massacre
There’s always been a gun culture in the USA , always will be but what I don’t get is as the weapons get more and more sophisticated no one will legislate or take on the powerful gun lobby to restrict them or have them banned, its one thing having a Colt 45 or similar but some of the weapons available are built to kill en masse which is what needs addressing.
So let’s state the plain facts one more time, so that they can’t be mistaken: Gun massacres have happened many times in many countries, and in every other country, gun laws have been tightened to reflect the tragedy and the tragic knowledge of its citizens afterward. In every other country, gun massacres have subsequently become rare. In America alone, gun massacres, most often of children, happen with hideous regularity, and they happen with hideous regularity because guns are hideously and regularly available.
For the first time, Gallup finds greater opposition to than support for a ban on semiautomatic guns or assault rifles, 53% to 43%. In the initial asking of this question in 1996, the numbers were nearly reversed, with 57% for and 42% against an assault rifle ban. Congress passed such a ban in 1994, but the law expired when Congress did not act to renew it in 2004. Around the time the law expired, Americans were about evenly divided in their views.
Would Banning Firearms reduce murder and suicide?
http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf
"[T]here is no consistent significant positive association between gun ownership levels and violence rates: across (1) time within the United States, (2) U.S. cities, (3) counties within Illinois, (4) country‐sized areas like England, U.S. states, (5) regions of the United States, (6) nations, or (7) population subgroups . . ."
There's no doubt banning guns would save lives but it would take years to take effect.
No you'll never stop crims from getting them but it would stop a number of suiicides as the immediacy of pulling a trigger would be gone and nut cases would find it difficult to get guns and it would also take away the immediacy of their actions.
Big political issue but I have a feeling Obama might get the ball rolling.
There's no doubt banning guns would save lives but it would take years to take effect.
Yes, maybe another 2 generations to go perhaps. It will eventually change. Just hope I'm still around to see it.Yep.
And in 6 months time, l'll be posting in this thread again.....sadly....
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