I'm torn between thinking it's staged and thinking it was a desperate act of angry people who have every right to be. But I don't agree with more death. We're dangerously close to an outright war and that's not one us civilians will win.
im just peeved that there's another "#PrayFor___" trending instead of something actually being done to prevent these types of events maybe instead of doing something arbitrary that hasn't worked the other 226 times this year, we should, idk, try something else? something real? like, you know - just throwing ideas out there - put some actual control on the deadly weapons being used to kill millions of ppl every year? but u know....that's just me, apparently.
I hate seeing hashtagged prayers. Like okay, your God knew people were gonna be killed but decided she/he/it/they had better things to do than stop it.
tru dat u think praying is gonna help, go for it m8. but u dont need to "trend" something so counterintuitive when it helps literally no one. there are plenty of other ways to show support that are less useless and frankly less offensive.
Gun control is almost impossible. People will always find ways to get what they want. Whether they build them or smuggle them in. Also, unless they somehow they get caught carrying the gun, there's next to nothing you can do about it until someone's already been shot.
full offence, but this argument is stale af. mass shooting rates in countries with gun control vs without are literally all you need to put it tf to bed already. if everyone has heroin, there will be a significant increase in the amount of heroin users; similarly, if everyone has a gun, there will be a significantly larger amount of shootings - not just mass shootings, but domestic partner homicides, accidental shootings (include those of children), and suicides. remember missouri circa 2007 removing the necessity of firearm permits, after which gun-related deaths increased by 25%? care to explain that away by saying gun control is ineffective? even just one regulation being changed has that large of an effect and you're trying to tell me the US won't be impacted by gun control? there were 358 mass shootings in the US in 2015 alone. you believe all of those people built their own guns or smuggled them in, or that they would have had they not been readily available? 27,382 people so far, in 2016 alone, have been killed or injured by firearms. you think ALL of them are a direct result of people who, had guns not been easy to acquire, would have gone to the lengths necessary to get one under controlled laws? you think the 1,166 accidental shootings, and the 1,852 children killed and injured would have been unaffected by stricter gun control? it's honestly just nonsensical. the amount of flawed logic that goes into this tired excuse for an argument is phenomenal, ill give you that; but that remains the only impressive aspect of it
That was my opinion on the subject, not meant to be an argument. Thank you for bring out the statistics and enlightening us all though.
Every right to be angry and shot down multiple cops while injuring many others? EVERY RIGHT? To shoot innocent cops... Right okay
your opinion has a death toll. by validating this way of thinking, you're contributing to gun culture and taking backwards steps away from the attitude the country needs to be adopting.
Nowhere did I say the cops deserved to die. I do not condone violence of any kind. I just understand why people are angry. Police brutality in general is only escalating, and it goes unchecked because good cops won't speak out against the bad, or they can't without risk of losing their jobs and endangering their families. Feel free to twist more of my posts though.
I think of the movies Crash, Higher Learning, and American History X. The whole situation sucks. I wish none of it ever happened and that people would just act right. No one deserved to die in the first place. Killing more innocent people isn't the solution.
Hmm...Everything I post makes sense to me. I proofread and edit a lot so...I think it's pretty close to perfect.