Another day another mass shooting

bnw wrote:

Mackeyser wrote:

And I have no idea what the crack meant about “with the way that culture is heading.” As in, I literally have no idea what that means.

It means Sharia Law being practiced with the consent of the government and beheading in the streets.

Did you just say Sharia Law? In the USA?

That’s literally the dumbest thing I’ve heard all week and my teens haven’t been terribly creative trying to get out of work around the house.

Sharia law is unconstitutional. Period. End of discussion. It’s IMPOSSIBLE. Any law based on the Quran or the Hadith would be unconstitutional. Done.

Moreover, we have had very heavily Muslim districts, be they Somali or other in various parts of the country for many, many decades and literally NONE of this has even been mentioned.

wv wrote:

…i never have a whole lot to say about these gun-debates-after-a-shooting
cause, to me, AS BAD AS THEY ARE,
on the hierarchy of problems we have, the shooting issues dont come close
to the deadliness of….corporate-capitalism. Corporate-capitalism kills people, starves people, degrades people, sentences people, causes cancer, causes war, mutilates people, causes climate catastrophes, destroys meaningful democracy, and poisons the biosphere — in a quiet way. A way that dont make the corporate-media’s Headlines.

McDowell County WV lifespan — 65
Fairfax County VA lifespan — 84

Now, THAT, should be a headline, everyday. But it aint all dramatic like a shooting.
The corporate-media dont do ‘system analysis’ — they do love certain kinds of ‘drama’ though.

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I agree with you which is why I quit debating guns years and years ago. A comment would quickly escalate to argument, and then to ranting, often laced with conspiracy paranoia that can’t be reasoned with. Just no point in having the discussion when other things are far more important. Besides there is the irony that gun owners are far more likely to suffer gun violence than people who have no guns. Shootings of strangers for crazy reasons is small potatoes compared to the number of domestic shootings and suicides that wouldn’t happen if the people didn’t have guns in their house.

Give them back? What? Why would I want to give my teenagers back?

You’re not making any sense…

Mackeyser wrote:

Give them back? What? Why would I want to give my teenagers back?

You’re not making any sense…

It was a joke in reference to your writing this-

“That’s literally the dumbest thing I’ve heard all week and my teens haven’t been terribly creative trying to get out of work around the house.”