Today's mass shooting in the US

I was just reading earlier about one of the recent shootings.

IIRC multiple people dead and wounded, and it turns out the gunman wasn't legally allowed to own guns, but the state had recently done away with all pre purchase checks and had passed one of those stupid "permit less (hidden?) carry" laws*, so there was absolutely nothing to stop a person who wasn't allowed to own a gun from going into a gun shop and buying them, and the only way the authorites would ever know was if someone who knew he wasn't allowed one reported him (and the police bothered to follow it up).

So the old "but if you make guns illegal only criminals will have them" cries from the "it's impossible to control who has guns" crowd carries even less weight than normal, as if they'd not done away with the checks this guy would at least not have been able to just walk into a shop to buy them.


*The ones that mean you can carry your gun for self defence, but you don't have to show you even know how to hold a gun, let alone any ability to actually use it safely/semi competently.
 
Trig said:
And yet normally, if you tell someone what their opinion is, well, we all know how that goes down..
I understand that there are 3 sides to a story, but you can't pedal an opinion as fact, this whole 'your truth' thing is BS, there are facts, and anything that comes from either side has bias, and when bias is involved you have to look at why the person that is telling you the 'story' what their bias is, and what they stand to gain or lose based on that story.
If just the facts are reported, then perhaps things would be a bit better...
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Facts are, mostly, boring.

People generally like stories more than facts. You only have to look at reporting in the press to see that.
 
potatolord said:
Facts are, mostly, boring.

People generally like stories more than facts. You only have to look at reporting in the press to see that.
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And theres the line between reporting the news and an entertainment show, hell, even TOWIE says something about how its real but has been given some flair for entertainment purposes, 99% of 'news' shows should have the same disclaimer...
 
bingham67 said:
www.dailymail.co.uk

Suspect in the killing of 20-year-old Kaylin Gillis, held without bail

The father of Kaylin Gillis, the 20-year-old who was killed when her boyfriend drove up the wrong driveway in rural upstate New York, told the media he hopes the suspect in the shooting 'dies in jail.'
www.dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk

Just like this we talk about mass shootings but how many of these happen its tragic.
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Another:

www.bbc.co.uk

Six-year-old shot after basketball rolls into North Carolina man's yard

Police report the arrest of a man accused of shooting a little girl and her father in North Carolina.
www.bbc.co.uk

Obviously BBC are reporting on them more than usual because of the shooting through the door at the kid
 
Dis86 said:
www.bbc.co.uk

Six-year-old shot after basketball rolls into North Carolina man's yard

Police report the arrest of a man accused of shooting a little girl and her father in North Carolina.
www.bbc.co.uk

Another lunatic.
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VincentHanna said:
Another:

www.bbc.co.uk

Six-year-old shot after basketball rolls into North Carolina man's yard

Police report the arrest of a man accused of shooting a little girl and her father in North Carolina.
www.bbc.co.uk

Obviously BBC are reporting on them more than usual because of the shooting through the door at the kid
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