I don't give a fuck about the sick kid....

[busterbrown]

I do give a fuck about the politicians who take money from the gun lobby and pass laws which enable Gun Manufactures to make millions at the expense of so many innocent souls...

I'm done!

[Skittles]

1. is there a context to that subject line?

[dweller]

2. there's a sick kid

he's no fucks left for..

[Skittles]

4. who is this sick kid?

surely not the shooter - 19 years old is not a kid

[pnwmom]

5. Yeah, he's a kid. A 19 year old isn't even close to having a fully developed brain --

which doesn't happen till the mid twenties. A person that age is capable of logical thought -- BUT the part of the brain that controls acting out on impulses has a long way to go before it's finished.

Someone who can't even buy a beer shouldn't be able to buy an AR-15.

[Phoenix61]

6. Exactly! If you aren't mature enough to

manage a can of beer how in the hell are you mature enough to manage a fucking gun. It's completely insane.

[SCVDem]

9. I joined the Marines at 18.

Others were drafted at 18.

I recall that such a young bunch of guys are maintaining a nuclear capable attack aircraft.

We were good at it also!

[BamaRefugee]

11. Great answer!

[Phoenix61]

12. I'm sure that is true but you

you were carefully monitored. You didn't get to do whatever you wanted did you?

[pnwmom]

13. There's a reason they draft people at age 18. Because of the state of their brain development

they are more moldable -- and they are able to ignore risks that would terrify an older person.

[MFM008]

14. My dad was

In the army/air Corp and in Greenland at 17.

[jberryhill]

3. Agree

[BigmanPigman]

7. I got pissed off when earlier I heard the FL

gov, state officials, the GOP idiots all changing the subject and blame by bringing up the "mentally ill" issue again. There are a lot of people with mental health issues who would not do this and there are a lot of perfectly sane people who would. Case in point...the worst mass murder in our history was by a man in Las Vegas who apparently had no mental health issues.

https://www.vox.com/cards/gun-violence-facts/guns-domestic-violence-united-states-risk

[Cha]

15. Oh NO! I had to google that :(

I was on a 5 month all news blackout from July to December.

So terribly sad.. DU must have exploded then.

[OhNo-Really]

8. I'm pissed Police departments SELL confiscated weapons

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210232685

[arthritisR_US]

10. You are dead on, enough with the BS.

[malaise]

16. +1,000

You are right