I can't find my Ouija Board, but yeah.

I pray for the day when partisan politics takes a back seat and someone in Gov't addresses the insane -------- the populace is getting from Landlords, low wages, high food cost, homelessness, and mental health.

Neither party has stepped up.

Hey, leave Portland out of this. We don't want her here!

My whole family was military. Father, Uncles, Grandfather, Great Grandfather, back to the French & Indian Wars. I am trying to get my head around this statement. On one hand PTSD, etc. runs through my family like a wildfire. OTOH, They all served.

Cowards.

No loss to Cochella.

There is a long history here. I am surprised someone didn't get hurt.

They failed. look at my previous post.
No one made Dylan Roof kill those people except Dylan.

As an aside, Dylan Roof was on a federal no buy list. The FBI failed on the checkup side of things. This is documented and should be common knowledge.

Well, more men commit suicides than women. 3 times the amount from what I am reading, and no, pills are much more readily available than guns, and that is not the point. What causes suicide? What are the underlying causes to violence in the US? More laws do not change anything. If all the gun manufacturers were forced to stop manufacturing guns in the US you would still have 400 million guns here.

Perhaps we have been trying to fix the wrong end. It is convenient for both parties to ignore core causes, in every social situation it seems. a real pattern there.

Again: The Drug War as an example. The drugs are winning after 54 years of the same methods being applied. How can we do this better?

People will do what they will do. More men use guns for suicide where as women use pills. Let's outlaw pills, okay?

Virtue Signaling.

More people are killed by being kicked to death than by "black rifles", any rifles in the US. (Check the CDC & FBI Stats) 3/4 of gun deaths are Suicides (again check the CDC & FBI Stats)

The number of gun deaths by the decades from the 60's up to the 90's were proportionally much higher than today, except for the last 2 years. Crime, and gun deaths have been falling since the 90's.

Maybe if we looked at the underlying social conditions that generate violence we might find actual solutions, you know social inequalities, piss poor education, that giant sucking sound of despair from low wages, high rents, families under stress due to economic policies favouring the few over the many. All I see is diversion from the real issues. This is the football for liberal media, as is voting suppression, abortions are for conservative media. We are all being played, daily.

If gun ownership was the problem, then the deaths from guns would be incredibly higher. 125 million people own guns in this country. Do the numbers.

Look to the success of the "Drug War" as a clue.

I am saying this as someone who has been firmly in the Left politically for their whole life. You cannot solve problems with more laws, but applying the current laws, and working on the basics to help people in general.

What a Maroon.

Unclear on most social issues, are you not?

yeah, seeing his name made me see red.

And ---- any apologist for that pile of excrement.

I still hate the man. He abandoned US and Philippine forces in the beginning of WW2. My stepfather was a medic captured on Corregidor. He was tortured by the Japanese in the camps each time a soldier died under his care. Outside of the fact that the medical supplies sent by Red Cross was denied to our troops. My step father weighed in at 180lbs at the beginning of the war, he came home weighing 89lbs. "How many soldiers died that you were trying to help?" "3500 died in my arms." My stepfather died screaming in terror from the memories. Screw MacArthur.

"Peace Keepers"