Texas church shooting

[Nearly Sane]

Tragic news, small poor town, effectively decimated.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41880511

[Rhiannon]

Oh good grief. I'd seen the breaking news but had no idea that there were so many casualties.

[Nearly Sane]

Was 'chatting' about other things with a friend in Houston when I saw the news, he hadn't seen it at that stage and he used to do some work in Luling which is near by. Apparently it's a tiny place.

[Rhiannon]

We have friends in Dallas. Texas is suffering this year.

[Humph Warden Bennett]

Wilson County is next to Bexhar (Bear) County, where I lived for several years. It is a quiet rural place, churches there are either RC, or Southern Baptist. Not the sort of place where anything much happens.

[Rhiannon]

 

[Rhiannon]

Over half the congregation have been killed.

[Shaker]

Will this be the straw that breaks the gun lobby's back?

Probably not - I've thought that too many times before.

[Rhiannon]

No, it’ll just mean churches posting armed security.

[Shaker]

With the amount of churches in the US the nation will be bankrupted in a fortnight.

[Rhiannon]

No, armed security will just mean members of the congregation with guns.

[Shaker]

Trump tweeted: "I am monitoring the situation from Japan."

Somebody has replied: "You mean from a golf cart in Japan."

[Shaker]

No, armed security will just mean members of the congregation with guns.

Oh, so they can recreate that scene from Kingsmen. Can't see any problems with that at all.

[Nearly Sane]

According to Trump, the individual had mental health problems and it isn't a 'guns situation'.

[Walter]

This is a terrible thing and I realise we need to talk about it but please don't speculate now
Let's wait for information first . I feel it's the right thing to do

[Rhiannon]

NS isn’t speculating, he’s repeating Trump.

[Gordon]

Trump is quoted (BBC website) as saying the shooter was '"a very deranged individual" and denied that guns were to blame for the shooting' followed by 'We have a lot of mental health problems in our country, but this isn't a guns situation'.

Hard to understand how 26 people can be shot to death and it not be a 'guns situation'.

 

[floo]

Another terrible gun crime. When will the US realise that their universal gun ownership doesn't make them any safer?

[Rhiannon]

If accounts are accurate a neighbour with a rifle prevented further deaths; this will give the gun lobby all it needs to justify a citizen’s right to use guns to defend themselves while ignoring the obvious.

[Walter]

NS isn’t speculating, he’s repeating Trump.

I wasn't addressing NS

[Anchorman]

Apparantly, the murderer was a dishonourable dischrge from the USAF...and therefore barred from holding weapons.
So, in a law-abiding supposedly civilised country, where did he get his illegal firearms - aselection of which were found in his vehicle with his corpse?

[floo]

Apparantly, the murderer was a dishonourable dischrge from the USAF...and therefore barred from holding weapons.
So, in a law-abiding supposedly civilised country, where did he get his illegal firearms - aselection of which were found in his vehicle with his corpse?

Apparently you can buy them at Walmart, along with your groceries. My daughter and family were on a tour of the US and Canada a couple of years ago, they were shocked when they realised they could buy a gun as well as their food supplies at that store.

[Humph Warden Bennett]

Apparently you can buy them at Walmart, along with your groceries. My daughter and family were on a tour of the US and Canada a couple of years ago, they were shocked when they realised they could buy a gun as well as their food supplies at that store.

Yes, but you need a license to buy anything like that, it's not as if you can put a shotgun in your shopping trolley & pay for it at the ordinary checkout.

[floo]

Yes, but you need a license to buy anything like that, it's not as if you can put a shotgun in your shopping trolley & pay for it at the ordinary checkout.

When our eldest daughter was doing part of her teaching practise at an elementary school in the US during the early 90s, she was shocked that one of the school rules was that the kids didn't bring their guns to school!

[Humph Warden Bennett]

When our eldest daughter was doing part of her teaching practise at an elementary school in the US during the early 90s, she was shocked that one of the school rules was that the kids didn't bring their guns to school!

Where in the USA did your daughter live?