Active shooter at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas...

[ChristianPatriot]

So what is the president's response to this? Does he simply say a speech about how horrible this is, and leave it at that, or does he try to come up with some sort of plan that addresses a problem we have with unsettling regularity

Any suggestions?

 

[Kutnupe14]

What can he do? In the end he will do what the last one did, and the one before that, and the one before that...

No idea, but I refuse to simply throw my hands up and accept that this is an issue that we should willfully accept as part and parcel of living in the United States. Solutions need not be black and white.

 

[Vigilant]

No idea, but I refuse to simply throw my hands up and accept that this is an issue that we should willfully accept as part and parcel of living in the United States. Solutions need not be black and white.

Why not, terrorism is part and parcel of living in London?

 

[bobzilla]

Don't know what to do but we HAVE to do SOMETHING. How many times have we heard that and dealt with the consequences

 

[Sylvain]

So what is the president's response to this? Does he simply say a speech about how horrible this is, and leave it at that, or does he try to come up with some sort of plan that addresses a problem we have with unsettling regularity?

At least his speech didn't include blaming the NRA, gun owners, high capacity magazines and silencers.
I don't have a solution for this, but not having a plan at this stage is better than the knee jerk reaction some politicians are already having.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

No idea, but I refuse to simply throw my hands up and accept that this is an issue that we should willfully accept as part and parcel of living in the United States. Solutions need not be black and white.

Living in a free country comes with risks. Can't stop people from doing what they seek to do.

Only thing I can see that would improve, even slightly, is if people were generally happier and less divided. Don't see that happening anytime soon, too many people profit off of it.

 

[KLB]

What can he do? In the end he will do what the last one did, and the one before that, and the one before that...

Well, the last one would have already been on TV calling for more weapon bans.

We have to fix the notoriety these guys get. I just don't know how we do that. People are fixated by tragedy, whether it is a car accident, a natural disaster, or a mass murder. The media will feed that fixation with non-stop coverage, fact or conjecture, of who, how, and with what.

 

[HoughMade]

No idea, but I refuse to simply throw my hands up and accept that this is an issue that we should willfully accept as part and parcel of living in the United States. Solutions need not be black and white.

So if the President doesn't have solutions chambered to spew forth at a moment's notice for every unpredictable act, he's incompetent, and yet neither you, nor anyone else can even suggest a solution, aside, of course, from banning every gun....and I suppose diesel fuel and fertilizer, lest we forget?

seems reasonable.

 

[Birds Away]

Don't know what to do but we HAVE to do SOMETHING. How many times have we heard that and dealt with the consequences

The last thing we need.

 

[Kutnupe14]

So if the President doesn't have solutions chambered to spew forth at a moment's notice for every unpredictable act, he's incompetent, and yet neither you, nor anyone else can even suggest a solution, aside, of course, from banning every gun....and I suppose diesel fuel and fertilizer, lest we forget?

seems reasonable.

I'm obviously not surrounded by some of the most capable minds in the world. That's my excuse.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

I'm sorry, I guess we have just the right amount of mass shootings, that we shouldn't try to think of ways to prevent them.

If the past is any indicator of the future, federal involvement will only siphon of freedoms of the law abiding and costing an arm and a leg without much to show for it.

 

[Jludo]

Reminds me of the Charles Whitman story. Given they've found no obvious motivation for the shooting, I'd be curious to see what an autopsy says.

[FONT=&quot]discovered that Whitman’s brain harbored a tumor the diameter of a nickel. This tumor, called a glioblastoma, had blossomed from beneath a structure called the thalamus, impinged on the hypothalamus, and compressed a third region called the amygdala. The amygdala is involved in emotional regulation, especially of fear and aggression.[/FONT]

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/07/the-brain-on-trial/308520/

 

[Kutnupe14]

If the past is any indicator of the future, federal involvement will only siphon of freedoms of the law abiding and costing an arm and a leg without much to show for it.

Fair criticism, but we need not empower the federal govt to a degree that threatens our rights. But this discussion on mass shootings is long overdue.

 

[Sylvain]

I'm obviously not surrounded by some of the most capable minds in the world. That's my excuse.

Well sadly the president can use the same excuse.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Fair criticism, but we need not empower the federal govt to a degree that threatens our rights. But this discussion on mass shootings is long overdue.

What do you suggest? What will cause people to drive evil from their hearts?

 

[Kutnupe14]

Well sadly the president can use the same excuse.

Lol, have I told you how much I like you Sylvain?

 

[Vigilant]

What do you suggest? What will cause people to drive evil from their hearts?

Laws, there are no laws about killing folks enmass! We need some!

 

[ArcadiaGP]

What do you suggest? What will cause people to drive evil from their hearts?

Imagine a media that didn't showcase the person's name, life, background, etc... when they did something like this. Do you think it would happen less often, perhaps?

Can't the fault be placed on a massively open and "social media" society where everyone has to see and know everything immediately, and let everyone else know what they think?

I think that messes with people's minds. Messes with how we were meant to think and behave.

 

[myhightechsec]

CBS Legal Executive: Las Vegas Victims Had It Coming For Being “Republican Gun Toters”

https://www.redstate.com/brandon_mo...s-vegas-victims-coming-republican-gun-toters/

 

[Fixer]

Anti Gun is already using this as a cause for more gun control. Which usually means a ban or total confiscation. CBSN has people at the Whitehouse on TV calling for more gun laws.