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Walter

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Re: Texas church shooting
« Reply #25 on: November 06, 2017, 09:38:37 AM »
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!
what?, did she think they should've been allowed to.?

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Re: Texas church shooting
« Reply #26 on: November 06, 2017, 09:46:01 AM »


What I found surprising is that the Church shooting is hardly making the news. In all the channels on TV in India the shooting is only streaming at the bottom and not the main news at all. Even CNN today morning was showing some program about European food rather than the shooting.   The Truck attack in NY also was likewise.

Are people bored or is it the new normal or what? Oh hum...another day another shooting!!  ::)
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Re: Texas church shooting
« Reply #27 on: November 06, 2017, 09:53:17 AM »
What I found surprising is that the Church shooting is hardly making the news.
Certainly not the case here.
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Re: Texas church shooting
« Reply #28 on: November 06, 2017, 10:11:25 AM »
Certainly not the case here.
Top item on the BBC web-site home page.

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Re: Texas church shooting
« Reply #29 on: November 06, 2017, 10:38:11 AM »
Where in the USA did your daughter live?

She was there for 6 weeks up in New York State near the Canadian border.

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Re: Texas church shooting
« Reply #30 on: November 06, 2017, 11:27:18 AM »
She was there for 6 weeks up in New York State near the Canadian border.

I can only presume that it was a rural area, perhaps teenagers had guns to shoot the likes of squirrels, and pigeons?

I was the other end, in southern Texas. Gun rules were quite strict, that did not stop the criminal elements from getting their hands on them of course. The main worry was not organised crime, but street punks using them to hold up convenience stores.

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« Reply #31 on: November 06, 2017, 11:33:51 AM »
I can only presume that it was a rural area, perhaps teenagers had guns to shoot the likes of squirrels, and pigeons?

I was the other end, in southern Texas. Gun rules were quite strict, that did not stop the criminal elements from getting their hands on them of course. The main worry was not organised crime, but street punks using them to hold up convenience stores.

My daughter trained as a primary school teacher, so they weren't teenagers but 12 and under! :o

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Re: Texas church shooting
« Reply #32 on: November 06, 2017, 01:10:34 PM »
One of the most successful ways propaganda can work is on the little and often basis, how many gun worshipping films have we seen coming out of America, yes, well of course that's very rare, it works in the same way that various manufacturers pay large sums for product placements.

I'm convinced that's a part of this complex problem Americans have with their gun culture, it'll be years, if ever, before they get at the very least somewhere near reducing this gun problem of theirs.

ippy 

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Re: Texas church shooting
« Reply #33 on: November 06, 2017, 01:32:45 PM »
I bet if the gunman had been non white Trump would have been screaming TERRORISM, mental health issues would not have been mentioned.

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Re: Texas church shooting
« Reply #34 on: November 06, 2017, 01:42:28 PM »
I bet if the gunman had been non white Trump would have been screaming TERRORISM, mental health issues would not have been mentioned.

You need to follow the rules


http://newsthump.com/2017/11/06/texas-shooter-a-white-man-so-now-is-not-the-time-for-new-laws-or-debate-confirms-trump/



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Re: Texas church shooting
« Reply #36 on: November 06, 2017, 01:55:04 PM »
Will the USA do something about gun control as a result? Will it fuck.
I have a pet termite. His name is Clint. Clint eats wood.

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« Reply #37 on: November 06, 2017, 02:14:29 PM »
Will the USA do something about gun control as a result? Will it fuck.

Of course it won't, Trump will soon insist babies are armed! :o

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Re: Texas church shooting
« Reply #38 on: November 06, 2017, 02:29:20 PM »
Apparently in Texas it is legal to sell on firearms without making checks. He wouldn't even have needed fake ID.

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Re: Texas church shooting
« Reply #39 on: November 06, 2017, 02:30:59 PM »
Apparently in Texas it is legal to sell on firearms without making checks. He wouldn't even have needed fake ID.

CRAZY!!! >:(

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Re: Texas church shooting
« Reply #40 on: November 06, 2017, 02:32:13 PM »
Any motive reported yet?

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Re: Texas church shooting
« Reply #41 on: November 06, 2017, 02:34:40 PM »
No

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Re: Texas church shooting
« Reply #42 on: November 06, 2017, 03:20:43 PM »
I bet if the gunman had been non white Trump would have been screaming TERRORISM, mental health issues would not have been mentioned.

Yes, 'lone wolf with mental issues' is code for white man, definitely not a terrorist.   They are brown.
They were the footprints of a gigantic hound!

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Re: Texas church shooting
« Reply #43 on: November 06, 2017, 03:32:58 PM »
Yes, 'lone wolf with mental issues' is code for white man, definitely not a terrorist.   They are brown.
please let him be a convert
please let him be a convert
please let him be a convert

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Re: Texas church shooting
« Reply #44 on: November 06, 2017, 03:33:33 PM »
He isn't. Or wasn't.
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Re: Texas church shooting
« Reply #45 on: November 06, 2017, 03:38:43 PM »
There is a campaign to call such killings terrorism, sponsored by the NRA.   Sounds reasonable. 
They were the footprints of a gigantic hound!

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Re: Texas church shooting
« Reply #46 on: November 06, 2017, 03:39:10 PM »
please let him be a convert
please let him be a convert
please let him be a convert
From what to what?

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Re: Texas church shooting
« Reply #47 on: November 06, 2017, 03:55:17 PM »
He's a 'convert' from Christianity to atheism.

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Re: Texas church shooting
« Reply #48 on: November 06, 2017, 03:59:42 PM »
From what to what?
insert whatever you like based on your own prejudices

Walt Zingmatilder

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Re: Texas church shooting
« Reply #49 on: November 06, 2017, 04:08:11 PM »
insert whatever you like based on your own prejudices
Apparently he is a convert to Atheism.