Thoughts and prayers are a start, not an end

No it is not. The problem on this case was the kid

If he was the problem, why does it happen more than a hundred times a year? That's one busy kid!

Hmmmm…when I went through 1st through 12th grades as a child and adolescent, not once were there any school shootings, except for Charles Whitman shooting from the clock tower at the University of Texas. While going through 6th to 12th grade, during hunting season we would bring our shotguns or rifles with us to school. No one ever shot any one.
I contend that it is todays f**ked up society that has caused the shootings in schools. There is zero respect for anything anymore and todays “education system” is turning out a great, huge number of spoiled and entitled brats. This started when they began to coddle kids instead of demanding excellence from them…everyone gets an “attaboy” just for participating, to hell with actual merit. Now they are so confused that they think they are a different sex than they really are and are encouraged by the so-called “adults” to mutilate themselves.
Our world has gone crazy.

Correct, shooters shoot people with the guns they shoot them with regardless of whatever completely irrelevant excuses provided which nevertheless do not alter the fact that these shooters shoot people with guns.

Just look at this case.
Shooter felt lonely. He had no friends. On the first day of school. That he just transferred to.

Another Kamala impersonation?
Sheesh, it’s getting tiresome, already.

Shooter shoulda shot himself, the little snot.

Had friends that used to have their rifles on gun racks in their trucks. Used to bring "45" water pistols and "shoot" friends during break and they likewise. It was a saner world.

Exactly! Back when one could leave a .30-30 on the rifle rack and no one would steal it.
Kids back than would “meet behind the gym” and go fist city to work out their differences. Then they usually became friends…

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The problem is NO parenting

You’re out here acting like criminals are gonna follow those gun laws

Every first world country has criminals, but we're the only one with bunches of mass shootings.

Bullshit…even the most rudimentary of internet searches willl dispel that myth.

The "myth" that every first world country has criminals? (doubt) Or the "myth" that this stuff doesn't happen a lot in other first world countries. Get off the fanfic internet and onto the data sites, please.

This graph is from the Rockefeller Institute of Government. https://rockinst.org/blog/public-mass-shootings-around-the-world-prevalence-context-and-prevention/ By a less narrow definition of mass shootings, i.e., "a minimum of four victims shot, either injured or killed, not including any shooter who may also have been killed or injured in the incident," the Gun Violence Archive (with an actual indexed archive of events to back it up) counts between 270 and 690 mass shootings by year every year since 2014. https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/

And, yes, they have a political angle: they don't like seeing Americans die senselessly. But they're gathering data, not manufacturing it.

No, it won't.
That's why you posted an expletive instead of posting data to support your assertion, of which there is none.

The problem is always politicians

The liberals may have a point. Democrats should turn in all their guns. May save lives keeping guns out of the mentally ill.

The problem is not guns. Read about the Colt family. They see themselves as victims. The problem is people seeing themselves as victims, use that mindset to justify their own bad behavior. Seeing yourself as a victim is a national disease. The Schools promote victimology with a Wokeness agenda. And the medical community gives them pills, instead of treating victimology for what it is.

You can choose to not see yourself as a victim.

So, if the Colt family were the ones killing 40,000 Americans a year, I'd agree.

Nope. People who use a victim mindset to justify their bad behavior is.

And where do these killings happen the most? Places like Chicago, Baltimore. And victim mindset prevents people from actually addressing that the majority of the killings are among the blacks killing blacks. But you sure don't see the parents of these blacks being charged with murder when their kids commit murders now do you? Nobody bats an eye.

No... it's just too damn easy to just blame guns. But tell me, do you want to ban cars for all the motor vehicle deaths?

They happen the most where the people are the most? Really?

Yet the highest per capita rates of gun violence occur where again?

When people die too often because of cars, we make cars and roads safer, change lights, signals and traffic laws. We don't just accept it.

Well that's pure bullshit, and doesn't excuse not addressing the real problem.

No, actually that tends to either response.

In fact, in the area of the US more prone to such gun violence, they've been busy banning books because they're 'dangerous'

It's too bad this poor young woman didn't have a gun to defend herself.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/megan-kelemans-family-wants-know-090243873.html

Demonstrably false. Possession of a gun makes you MORE likely to get shot in an assault. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2759797/

"Results. After adjustment, individuals in possession of a gun were 4.46 (P < .05) times more likely to be shot in an assault than those not in possession. Among gun assaults where the victim had at least some chance to resist, this adjusted odds ratio increased to 5.45 (P < .05).

Conclusions. On average, guns did not protect those who possessed them from being shot in an assault. Although successful defensive gun uses occur each year, the probability of success may be low for civilian gun users in urban areas. Such users should reconsider their possession of guns or, at least, understand that regular possession necessitates careful safety countermeasures."

Living in a house with a gun also raises the risk that you or someone you live with will be shot significantly more than the chances that you will defend yourself successfully with it. I've posted the data on this multiple times before, and if you really want it, I'll repost. But I've noticed that being pro-gun seems to oblige people to be anti-statistics, so you get to decide how much you want to think today.

Where do you get your numbers from?

Everywhere.

Pew research center https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/ cites more than 48,000 gun deaths in 2021.

News sources: Here's the BBC on how many mass shootings we've experienced so far in the first 2/3 of 2024: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081

Stat sites: Everystat: https://everystat.org/ Statista: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1380025/us-gun-violence-rate-by-state/ https://www.statista.com/chart/9594/kids-pulling-the-trigger/

healthcare: the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/injury.htm (they're apparently not super precise about gun injuries, because of the way they gather their data, but their death statistics are decent)

It's an epidemic.

No it isn’t an epidemic. It’s not a medical issue.
It’s a societal issue.

Like smoking, or type 2 diabetes! The medical community refers to this sort of issue as "behavioral health". The medical community takes those seriously, because they don't just want to be cleaning up failures of behavioral health.

See: https://doctorsforamerica.org/subcommittee/gun-violence-prevention/ also #thisisourlane

No, it's pretty much an epidemic. You said so yourself earlier.

......... and the culture surrounding it.
There's a certain demographic with a propensity for violence going back centuries, and they celebrate guns like it was a religion. There's something of a pattern emerging here...

Horse shit

"Large animal feces" just doesn't cut it in a debate with so much factual input.

Oh, I'm talking about humans. Horses don't shoot people, do they?

Let's face it: American horses may.

We live in a violent society,,,,