CRYm i$ DowNE ** -- ryno hoo 11/23/2022 3:44PM
Quite a spread in the rate of gun deaths by state -- NJHoo 11/23/2022 2:15PM
9 out of the top 10 are RED states, 10 of the bottom 10 are BLUE states, 19 -- Hoo TV 11/23/2022 2:50PM
Only 168 in the OK City bombing. No big deal either. ** -- HoosWillWin 11/23/2022 1:52PM
That’s not a full measure of the harm done by mass shootings. -- hoolstoptheheels 11/23/2022 12:32PM
Or daring to go to a school play on a chartered bus. That's an excellent -- Hoodafan 11/23/2022 1:03PM
Oversimplify is what rwnjs do best ** -- 81_Hokie 11/23/2022 12:59PM
As the famous quote goes, “Everything should be made as simple as possible, -- TomGlansAski 11/23/2022 1:43PM
They also deflect pretty well (see "mental health" canard) ** -- Fuzzy Dunlop 11/23/2022 1:13PM
Mental health is one component of the problem…not the only one but -- Tuckahokie 11/23/2022 1:23PM
Don't forget weed ** -- Brown Water 11/23/2022 1:33PM
RQ sort of beat me to the punch, but what evidence can you -- hoolstoptheheels 11/23/2022 1:31PM
Sounds like we need to ban guns until we can solve our mental health issues ** -- Hoo TV 11/23/2022 3:33PM
There are too many guns, and too much destructive capability in many of -- Tuckahokie 11/23/2022 1:37PM
Gun violence was worse in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s than it is now. If you -- WahooRQ 11/23/2022 1:51PM
Well, this problem has been around for decades, and its only -- hoolstoptheheels 11/23/2022 1:42PM
How do mental health drug prescriptions in the US compare -- Cold Hoober Hoo 11/23/2022 1:52PM
Other than idiots on the internet looking for non-guns to blame for gun -- WahooRQ 11/23/2022 1:59PM
I said I wasn’t blaming the drug, rather trying compare how many people -- Cold Hoober Hoo 11/23/2022 2:04PM
Didn’t say you did — but that seems like grasping at straws to me. There -- WahooRQ 11/23/2022 2:10PM
Ok, but your claim that our mental health issues aren’t abnormal to other -- Cold Hoober Hoo 11/23/2022 2:21PM
I disagree with “baseless”. Perhaps not definitive, and I’m more than ope -- hoolstoptheheels 11/23/2022 2:55PM
It seems to me when there's a 100x difference in shootings, the burden of -- TomGlansAski 11/23/2022 2:29PM
Sorry you took it that way but that’s not what I meant. -- Cold Hoober Hoo 11/23/2022 2:39PM
This is in the same vein as your prior post - saying that we must accept -- TomGlansAski 11/23/2022 2:47PM
I’m just being practical. Australia had a population of Va and -- Cold Hoober Hoo 11/23/2022 5:35PM
Fair enough. I agree with several of your ideas -- just would prefer to -- TomGlansAski 11/23/2022 6:28PM
You too pal. ** -- Cold Hoober Hoo 11/23/2022 7:06PM
Exactly. And FTR, I said I wasn’t aware of any material difference between -- WahooRQ 11/23/2022 2:35PM
If we were serious about stopping these incidents -- Fuzzy Dunlop 11/23/2022 2:15PM
Yeah domestic issues are another place for improvement. -- Cold Hoober Hoo 11/23/2022 2:27PM
Yes. History of violence, anger management, domestic abuse, or verbal -- WahooRQ 11/23/2022 2:26PM
We'll get to video games soon enough ** -- Fuzzy Dunlop 11/23/2022 2:00PM
Is our mental health 100x worse than any other developed nation? If not, -- WahooRQ 11/23/2022 1:26PM
Except for a few RWNJs, probably not. ** -- TomGlansAski 11/23/2022 1:44PM
And even the righties who are sincere about it haven't really considered it -- Fuzzy Dunlop 11/23/2022 1:35PM
Are mass murderers mentally healthy? ** -- Tuckahokie 11/23/2022 1:27PM
Show us a model where you can identify these people ex ante with such -- TomGlansAski 11/23/2022 3:05PM
Depends upon how you’re defining “mental health”. -- hoolstoptheheels 11/23/2022 1:36PM
Does my dog’s breath smell like dog food? Not sure if you’re being -- WahooRQ 11/23/2022 1:33PM
Totally agree - we should just ignore these mass shootings ** -- FfxStationHokie 11/23/2022 12:30PM
20,000 gun homicides. 24,000 gun suicides. Discuss. ** -- SixerHoo 11/23/2022 12:14PM
The vast majority of those gun homicides are by people -- Cold Hoober Hoo 11/23/2022 12:36PM
Well over 90% of all guns, even the ones used in crimes, had at least ... -- HowieT3 11/23/2022 1:39PM
Agree, I think one a month is perfectly reasonable, maybe less for -- Cold Hoober Hoo 11/23/2022 1:44PM
And how many those guns started out as legal? -- SixerHoo 11/23/2022 1:08PM
Basically all of them. Most street guns are lost or stolen weapons as I -- WahooRQ 11/23/2022 1:25PM
I have posted here before that there needs to be a better -- Cold Hoober Hoo 11/23/2022 1:20PM
FWIW someone pointed out that concealed weapons charge could've been for -- Hoodafan 11/23/2022 1:01PM
Right, that’s why I asked if it was a gun or another type of weapon. -- Cold Hoober Hoo 11/23/2022 1:05PM
Yea, that was a pretty selective set of statistics. ** -- Cav113 11/23/2022 12:34PM
Don’t forget the 80-100K non-fatal shootings that also occur every year on -- WahooRQ 11/23/2022 12:33PM
Only a few of those other things involve yucky gunz.** -- ResistHoo 11/23/2022 12:08PM
Legitimate gun control could help with upwards of 50,000 of those deaths ** -- Fuzzy Dunlop 11/23/2022 12:05PM
If you are talking about the suicides, I don’t think even most -- Hokieesith 11/23/2022 12:13PM
TBF, you did conveniently omit gun murders from your list of statistics. -- Hoodafan 11/23/2022 12:26PM
I believe roughly half of suicides are by gunshot. ** -- BocaHoo91 11/23/2022 12:19PM
I have legitimate control of my gun currently, but I'm all ears. -- hoobedda 11/23/2022 12:11PM
Here's what I've posted before on this -- Fuzzy Dunlop 11/23/2022 12:33PM
Someone, maybe Seattle, posted OR's new gun laws which all seemed very -- Hoodafan 11/23/2022 12:23PM
Background checks on private sales? I've heard that. It does sound like -- hoobedda 11/23/2022 12:34PM
How do you do it with cars for example? -- Zhoo 11/23/2022 2:08PM
I'm not sure why Govco couldn't set up an inexpensive or even "free" system -- Hoodafan 11/23/2022 12:56PM
Like this guy? (link) -- PBCHoo 11/23/2022 12:44PM
It’s pretty easy, you go to the gun shop or any FFL dealer and -- Cold Hoober Hoo 11/23/2022 12:40PM
Did not know that. Makes sense and reasonable cost. ** -- hoobedda 11/23/2022 3:17PM