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In reply to the discussion: Multiple people dead in western Michigan shooting, police say [View all]JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,336 posts)51. Three children and one adult dead, and there is no search for a suspect.
Sounds like murder-suicide. It may feel good to blame the gun, but there is a mental/social illness component here that did not get addressed.
And we don't have a good medical infrastructure to deal with this kind of illness.
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you're sadly right. 300 million guns are here. The genie is out of the bottle.
oldsoftie
Feb 2019
#12
Eventually Americas will have enough...and guns will be outlawed and confiscated...I have no doubt.
Demsrule86
Feb 2019
#36
Easy peasy...make the consequences of owning one so severe that now one will risk it...
Demsrule86
Feb 2019
#43
Trust me. they are not. I refuse to live in the wild wild west and I know there are others
Demsrule86
Feb 2019
#45
Except too many own one. And an AR15 isnt a weapon of war. It just LOOKS like one.
oldsoftie
Feb 2019
#41
Nonsense...it is a weapon of war and it will in end be confiscated ....agree to reasonable
Demsrule86
Feb 2019
#42
I am not wasting time posting stuff that you know about...read the history of the AR-15.
Demsrule86
Feb 2019
#49
Yep. Because of the 24 hr news cycle. We hear about EVERY shooting these days.
oldsoftie
Feb 2019
#33
Welcome to DU. Thanks to the NRA and its Russian sponsors we have more gun deaths
lagomorph777
Apr 2019
#52
"A domestic violence incident report is not a conviction in a court of law"
Blackjackdavey
Feb 2019
#37
What you're proposing would be almost instantly struck down as unconstitutional.
Jedi Guy
Feb 2019
#40
While the traitor........was golfing this weekend, the country has had this shit.......of fear......
turbinetree
Feb 2019
#18
Three children and one adult dead, and there is no search for a suspect.
JustABozoOnThisBus
Apr 2019
#51