Today's mass shooting in the US

Rroff said:
I dislike the focus on stuff like "assault" weapons and magazine capacity - mechanically most of the AR15 and similar in civilian ownership are no different really to a hunting rifle, magazine capacity only really makes a tiny difference - a far bigger difference would be attained by restricting semi-automatic - which allows for more rapid aimed fire as well as more easily modified by things like bump-stocks for rapid fire.

I'm not a fan of prohibition type approaches and/or reducing things down to purely a needs basis - everyone if fine with it until it is something which affects them :rolleyes: but for many people having firearms restricted to straight-pull and/or bolt action does not prevent them using and enjoying their firearms while going a very long way to reducing their effectiveness in mass-shooting scenarios.
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America did just fine when the Assault Weapons Ban was law. I'm sure I saw a stat that showed a massive increase in mass shotting since the ban was lifted in 2004

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www.judiciary.senate.gov

Studies: Gun Massacre Deaths Dropped During Assault Weapons Ban, Increased After Expiration | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Gun massacres fell 37 percent while ban was in place, rose by 183 percent after ban...
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Gun massacres of six or more killed decreased by 37 percent for the decade the ban was active, then shot up 183 percent during the decade following its expiration
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Colonel_Klinck said:
America did just fine when the Assault Weapons Ban was law. I'm sure I saw a stat that showed a massive increase in mass shotting since the ban was lifted in 2004

Quick google
www.judiciary.senate.gov

Studies: Gun Massacre Deaths Dropped During Assault Weapons Ban, Increased After Expiration | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Gun massacres fell 37 percent while ban was in place, rose by 183 percent after ban...
www.judiciary.senate.gov www.judiciary.senate.gov
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Personally think that is misleading - if you look at a larger number of years prior the reduction isn't much different to the normal ebb and flow over the years of mass shooting casualties and there are a lot of reasons why mass shootings have ramped up, and continue to ramp up, after 2008 including the various financial/economical collapses which always tend to precipitate that kind of stuff.

EDIT: While the proportions aren't massively out, also around 80% of mass shootings involve weapons not covered by the ban, though it doesn't preclude the ban having some extended psychological impact - by far the most mass shootings are carried out using non-assault weapon type handguns or shotguns.
 
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C Kent said:
Seems the trans shooter manifesto has been leaked and its a racially motivated shooting, guess that why its been hushed up.
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Well, there's no manifesto, for a start. There's a bunch of diary entries and an attack plan. But no real manifesto.

Colonel_Klinck said:
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WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) – The transgender school shooter in Nashville had a fierce loathing for “little c*******” and “white privilege,” according to her leaked manifesto.

According to The Post Millennial, the three-page handwritten letter, which was first discovered and made public by the right-wing YouTube program Louder with Crowder, reveals that Audrey “Aiden” Hale, 28, carefully planned her final moments as well as the mass shooting at The Covenant School on March 27. Before the police shot and killed Hale, three small children and three members of the school staff had perished.

The manifesto is written in a spiral notebook with different ideas and heavily racial language jotted down. On one sheet, Hale drew a pistol and a target reticule and scribbled the words “DEATH DAY” along with the date “3/27/23.”

...“The day has finally come!” Hale continued. “I can’t believe it’s here. Don’t know how I was able to get this far, but here I am. I’m a little nervous but excited too. I have been excited for the past two weeks. There were several times I could have been caught, especially back in the summer of 2021.”

Hale further stated that she hated kids who went to “fancy private schools with those fancy khakis + sports backpacks w/ their daddies mustangs + convertibles.”
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So basically, the shooter was jealous of rich white kids.
 
Sankari said:
Well, there's no manifesto, for a start. There's a bunch of diary entries and an attack plan. But no real manifesto.
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Quite often a 'manifesto' in cases like this is just a bunch of ramblings. Wanting to kill a bunch of children becuse they are blond haired white kids, along with terminology such as white privilege and 'cracker' paints a picture that the shooter has been radicalised by leftist dogma. People have no issue with calling out shooters that spew racism when its directed at black/brown/asian (well maybe not asian as that's seemingly swept under the carpet by the msm) but when it's racism against white folks theres crickets.
 
C Kent said:
Quite often a 'manifesto' in cases like this is just a bunch of ramblings. Wanting to kill a bunch of children becuse they are blond haired white kids, along with terminology such as white privilege and 'cracker' paints a picture that the shooter has been radicalised by leftist dogma. People have no issue with calling out shooters that spew racism when its directed at black/brown/asian (well maybe not asian as that's seemingly swept under the carpet by the msm) but when it's racism against white folks theres crickets.
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Yup, looks like the insane ramblings of somebody suckered in "woke" dogma.
 
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C Kent said:
Quite often a 'manifesto' in cases like this is just a bunch of ramblings. Wanting to kill a bunch of children becuse they are blond haired white kids, along with terminology such as white privilege and 'cracker' paints a picture that the shooter has been radicalised by leftist dogma. People have no issue with calling out shooters that spew racism when its directed at black/brown/asian (well maybe not asian as that's seemingly swept under the carpet by the msm) but when it's racism against white folks theres crickets.
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Interesting theory, but I think you could be doing a little radical sweeping yourself.
 
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