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Unfortunately I'm at the 'meh' stage. Stupid country with stupid laws.
Today's mass shooting in the US
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I put the same thing on twitter to a post what I put here and some person replied "criminals will still get guns" then another guy liked his post who happened to be from Minnesota with him shooting a gun in his profile picture.
You couldnt make it up I give up with it tbh you reap what you sow as a country no sympathy anymore.
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I'm most surprised they still haven't caught him
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Indeed. There seems little point in getting excited about something that the American people react to with horror, and then continue to sell guns to psychopaths.
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According to the west. Example those who fought the apartheid in South Africa, they were dubbed as terrorists but they were freedom fighters.
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Political gain is the bit you seem to have gotten confused.
Does the shooter seem to be doing it for political gain?
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Shooter's Twitterx account has been deleted, and his history wiped, but some people managed to archive it before that happened. He seems to be a MAGA type.
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As the saying goes "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter"
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If you use terrorist tactics, you're a terrorist no matter how noble you believe your cause to be.
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It did happen in the UK and we changed our gun laws.
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It is the ultimate in selfish society. All that matters is the individual.
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Sky news said there's been over 500 mass shootings (>=4) in the US so far this year.
Utter madness.
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I know (at least twice- Hungerford and Dunblane), that's my point.
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Apparently lots of the murders were head shots which is causing problems with identification 
I remember talking to a few of our American cousins about the 96 hand gun ban and they couldn’t believe we handed our guns over. When I said I had no issue with the ban as I never wanted anything like the Dunblane shooting to happen again and added that I would happily hand over all of my firearms to stop a single murder they just couldn’t grasp the concept. Some even started calling a lefty, a communist even, which I found to be hilarious but also slightly concerning.
Our laws needed looking at. I had a farmer friend get an FN SLR singed off for exterminating poison resistant vermin.
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The usual thoughts and prayers 
On a kind of related note - I've several acquaintances on Facebook who were just ranting about the Bully XL bans, etc. and linking stuff like https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=706495791516095&set=a.455919649907045 saying about how it is all the owner (ban bad owners) and people should be able to own whatever dog they liked and then pivoted to this event and were ranting on about banning guns and no one should own a gun... without a hint of irony.
#facepalm#
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That's what i always find rather baffling with these incidents, i get that for us in the UK with strict gun laws it's easy to find it baffling, but even for Americans you'd think there'd come a point where one of these people who always offer platitudes after every mass shooting would just say it like it is, that this is the price people have to pay if they want guns, guns, guns.The usual thoughts and prayers
Because that's the truth and one of the very simple things America could do to reduce the risk and still give the majority the right to own guns.
These people are typically mentally ill, and lone wolves as a result.
They're not doing these things for a wider ideological reason, it's because of 'voices in their head'.
But, except the extreme loons, I think most could accept a national register of gun owners cross checked against a national register of mentally ill people.