Besides that there are also heros out there. Just like in an Americana movie. "Forget the zeroes and remember the heroes."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...ource=facebook

That report contains the following horrifying statistic (referring, of course, only to the US):

"For the 40th time this year, the 141st time since the Sandy Hook massacre, a gunman had opened fire in a school."


... and apparently the Oregon shooting was the 294th "mass shooting" in the US THIS YEAR alone. So far.

Again another incident proves that the majority of Americans are pretty stupid.

And I guess you see nothing wrong with Antisemitism either?

All religions are organizations of "us vs them", independently of who they are - it's a fight for power. I have yet to learn of a peaceful religion that doesn't send the non-believers or non-adherants to hell on this earth or have them simply killed, after which of course they are in hell and the killers get awarded by their god or gods.

Why do you find it a problem for one to dislike a religion, or all of them for that matter (count me in on this one) and actually voicing the fact that one doesn't like it? Shall we stone those who voice their opinions or burn them at stake? Do we really have to start a fight for equality from zero again?


When I say I don't like religions of any kind, I want to say that I don't want to be discriminated against in any way - by christens, adventists, mormons, muslims, jews, or whatever!

The shooter was born in the UK proving ............

Chris Harper-Mercer was British-born, had a British father. Some newspapers called him a Nazi fanatic who was supporting the IRA. Having read about the way he executed his fellow students I found it was disturbing to ask them for their religion, then tell those poor kids they'll meet their maker in a bit before gunning them down.

On a brighter note, Chris Mintz, the army veteran who attempted to stop the shooter and took seven bullets as a consequence is rightfully considered one of the heros of this tragedy.

That stupidity, as many other things, it's not a monopoly of one nation or another.

Meet the mormons.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/morm...icle-1.1031550

We had a mormon nanny when we lived in Philadelphia and she spent a couple of days in Washington DC baptizing the dead. DC is one of the mormon headquarters for this.

Being an American, I'd really, really like to argue with you here but after Sandyhook Elementary where a bunch of small children were massacred actually led to a spike in gun sales and even some states passing more lax gun laws, I just can't argue with you! The gun fetish in America is far and away my least favorite thing about my country. In love with a piece of metal thats sole purpose is to kill; I'll never understand. Growing up, I loved hunting ducks, geese, and pheasant. I drifted away from hunting when I went to university and it is the gun crazies that kept me away after university because I didn't want to be associated with them.

But lets be honest about this, the majority of most populations aren't that smart and America is hardly a "democracy". Money, corporations, money, special interest, and money, rule America and no lobby is bigger than the NRA.

Worst was when I was working in Dayton Ohio for ten months (I will never view my time spent there as actually 'living' there, ).

Co-worker would bring their guns to work for show-and-tell!

And I'm talking about engineers, V.P.s, etc, not joe stock-boy.

OK, here they'll bring them too, but to clean them up before their next stint, not to show off.

Tom

I wasn't referring to the guy who did the shooting.

Most of my American friends agree. There is a common theme though, no of them actually live in America anymore.


I've deleted the last part of your post because there simply are no 'buts'.

Just out of curiosity, what has actually happened here?

My father taught me target shooting when I was five. I was active in clubs when I was Stateside and never once encountered anyone who was even careless, let alone violent. I've been a member of shooting clubs here as well and I've never met a more responsible and conscientious group of people.

So what has happened in the US. It's definitely more difficult to buy a firearm now compared to the 60s and 70s. Why the resent spike in nutcases?

I've long wondered if the hyper-violent video games kids play today aren't lowering the threshold of 'acceptable' violence. Television has gotten FAR more graphic in recent years. I think people can become numb to it.

As far as the video games go, I'm no shrinking violet but some of them are so graphic it's really awful. Could the realism be partly to blame? I mean, some of here may have watched The Three Stooges when we were young (I loved them), but did anyone go around twisting other's noses with monkey wrenches? Or did anyone believe that Wile E. Coyote actually fell off precipice after precipice and just stood up and dusted himself off?

Yes, its all down to GTA.

Global warming.

I think the simple answer is narcissism. My life sucks, everyone else is having a great time. They need to die.
We're living in the age of 'Me', where nobody or nothing else matters. However if you're going to blame video games, you might as well blame Facebook too.

Nothing wrong with prejudice, I believe the 3rd Reich felt similarly

I would blame it all on depression and lack of something vital in life. In the country, where you have access to and believe so much in material things where people with high egos want something more, there is simply missing some psychological elements in life e.g. love, equality, acceptance and belonging to society, true freedom and other psychological factors that determine happiness and self esteem. That void cannot be offset by the current system in place and hence it produces psychos and lunatics. The rest is just to have the wrong material things in hands of the wrong people and you know the final outcome better ...

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America has always had a gun culture, the real problem lies in the intersection between our gun and pharmaceutical industries:

http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicin...l.pmed.1001875

enacting effective gun control measures will not stop criminals from killing other criminals in our urban centers, but it would very definitely curb the kind of mass shootings we are seeing in our schools and outside of our urban centers. after all, nearly every mass shooting in the US shares 2 common traits - weapons that were purchased legally, and legally-prescribed, psychotropic medications.

P.S. in my experience, the people who suggest that the problem is simply the result of "American culture" or "stupidity" have no familiarity with the former but probably a fair degree of familiarity with the latter.