Who said the drunk was holding the shoot gun Tommy. No one right. The hunt group were the one pissed and were probably Americans up visiting to do a little hunting American Style.

Oops, I stand corrected. I could blame it on your rambling style of writing. 

Or you could have just added to try and get a rise. Am I right again?

No the savages are all civilized now. Its the rest of you that are not.

Who said the drunk was holding the shoot gun Tommy. No one right. The hunt group were the one pissed and were probably Americans up visiting to do a little hunting American Style.

Oops, I stand corrected. I could blame it on your rambling style of writing. 

Or you could have just added to try and get a rise. Am I right again?

Well Pete, there are no flies on you eh?

Who said the drunk was holding the shoot gun Tommy. No one right. The hunt group were the one pissed and were probably Americans up visiting to do a little hunting American Style.

Oops, I stand corrected. I could blame it on your rambling style of writing. 

Or you could have just added to try and get a rise. Am I right again?

Well Pete, there are no flies on you eh?

Not for another week or so.

We are up to 19 kids killed now and two adults. Cruz gets on and says we have to start thinking about arming the teachers better. What an "A" hole he is. There was an armed guard at the school but when an 18 year old can buy an AR-15 which is a miltary style rifle with extended mags and body armour. That's where you problem is and has been for most of your mass shootings. The AR is not a hunting rifle but was made for one purpose and one purpose only and that's for killing other people. It has nothing to do with your second ammendment rights if assault weapons are banded for civilians. When your own cops say they want them band maybe it's time to listen. Instead of parents buying a new backpack this year in the fall, maybe the money would be better spent if they purchased them body armour.

The trouble is the company that makes all these weapons also supports the majority of the Republican party. None of them have the Bal** to say anything out of fear of losing the NRA's support. Pretty sad when one group controls everything that comes out of your mouth as a politican.Time maybe to start listening to their own police forces and consitituents instead.

We are up to 19 kids killed now and two adults. Cruz gets on and says we have to start thinking about arming the teachers better. What an "A" hole he is. There was an armed guard at the school but when an 18 year old can buy an AR-15 which is a miltary style rifle with extended mags and body armour. That's where you problem is and has been for most of your mass shootings. The AR is not a hunting rifle but was made for one purpose and one purpose only and that's for killing other people. It has nothing to do with your second ammendment rights if assault weapons are banded for civilians. When your own cops say they want them band maybe it's time to listen. Instead of parents buying a new backpack this year in theNo fall, maybe the money would be better spent if they purchased them body armour.

The trouble is the company that makes all these weapons also supports the majority of the Republican party. None of them have the Bal** to say anything out of fear of losing the NRA's support. Pretty sad when one group controls everything that comes out of your mouth as a politican.Time maybe to start listening to their own police forces and consitituents instead.

See date on launch post. You don't have to be Nostrathomas to predict this. Now for the reasons:

Mental illness on the part of the perps. 

Availability of guns.

24/7 News coverage which encourages copy-cats.

Now to address Pete's usual drivel. The Second Amendment was put into place because of the oppressive conditions forced upon the colonists. It was to protect us from those types of government & foreign invasion. It has nothing to do with hunting. So if the English weren't so oppressive we would never have had to put the Second Amendment in place. So by using Peter Logic.........the English are to blame. There ya go, problem solved until the next one. 

Just a note.  AR does not stand for assault rifle.  It stands for ArmaLite Rifle.

Good point Shula, & if I shoot a person with my .22 squirrel gun would that be considered an assault rifle?

Just a note.  AR does not stand for assault rifle.  It stands for ArmaLite Rifle.

It's an military assault rifle no matter what the initals stand for. It can also take extended mags which the kid had. There is no need of a gun like that unless you are a cop or in the military. It's not a hunting rifle. It was made to kill people and not for defending yourself. You have hand guns for that.

They should be banned from civilians owning one. 

And for Tommy, no country is attacking your country, and never has.

Suck it up America, it's just the latest instalment of the price you have to pay, indeed are willing to pay, for your much treasured rights. But be aware that another payment payment is due and it's due soon and another after that......................... 

We bled plenty for those rights and we intend to keep them.  You all might be okay with living in a country where only the police,  the military and the criminals carry guns, but we aren't.

A sad indictment of American society. 

Further, those Americans who oppose gun ownership are the same ones who are pushing legislation in Congress to make it legal for women to have access to abortion on demand up to the moment of birth, so the argument that guns kill people holds no water with me.  If that isn't violence I don't know what is.  They care not a fig for the lives of children.

You talk as if the Democrats want to make gun ownership illegal, even they wouldn't go that far, limited restrictions are what they're looking for. 

I've asked this many times before, but I'll ask it again, why do so many Americans want an arsenal of guns?

1. Crime is so bad in your fractured society that you feel the need for the protection guns give you.

2. We're allowed under the Constitution so we'll damn well take full advantage, it ought to be mandatory.

3. It's to protect the people from an overweening government.

4. It makes us feel big and powerful.

It must be one of those four. 

The same over here for all our supposed faults. 

Just a note.  AR does not stand for assault rifle.  It stands for ArmaLite Rifle.

It's an military assault rifle no matter what the initals stand for. It can also take extended mags which the kid had. There is no need of a gun like that unless you are a cop or in the military. It's not a hunting rifle. It was made to kill people and not for defending yourself. You have hand guns for that.

They should be banned from civilians owning one. 

And for Tommy, no country is attacking your country, and never has.

Well Pete, this is a history site so look up Pearl Harbor. To answer your question, perhaps it is because of 400 million guns & armed citizens eh? 

We bled plenty for those rights and we intend to keep them.  You all might be okay with living in a country where only the police,  the military and the criminals carry guns, but we aren't.

Pity you miene schatzi. You have never been out of America so what do you know about real rights. All those people who died also had rights, they had the right to live a life in peace without being attacked with military hardware.

America doesn't have to fear an enemy from outside, it's the enemy from within that will be your down fall.

Then you get the Texas cowboy cops with the 20gal hats, that instead of rushing to the gun fire stand back and leave the shooter in the building for 40- 60 minutes before taking the shooter out. They were on TV patting each other on the back as if they had done well. If I was Govenor,  they all would be fired on the spot for neglect of duty in front of the cameras. They had swat teams and every other Tom, Dick, and Harry there, why didn't they deploy stun grenades, tear gas or even smoke grenades.

There not trained cops for this day and age. Their make believe cops that don't know what to serve and protect really means.                                                     

Target shooting in Montana, fire away mate we don't need no stinking license. Your mate is right about the open carry & crime rate, it is not an urban area with "them" shooting each other. Common sense should prevail on where you keep your firearms, kids in the house you must be much more careful. We keep our guns anyplace we have license to be, you home, business, car, truck, hip, ankle, pockets, wherever. You don't want to be the only one out there without one. 

Target shooting in Montana, fire away mate we don't need no stinking license. Your mate is right about the open carry & crime rate, it is not an urban area with "them" shooting each other. Common sense should prevail on where you keep your firearms, kids in the house you must be much more careful. We keep our guns anyplace we have license to be, you home, business, car, truck, hip, ankle, pockets, wherever. You don't want to be the only one out there without one. 

Further to the last: The AR-15 is the civilian version of the M-16. It is a semi-automatic which fires a .223 caliber round which is 5.56 NATO. The AR-15 is made by the Armalite company & as Shula pointed out the AR does not stand for Army. It was designed by the brilliant Eugene Stoner who is often compared with Mikhail Kalashnikov who was equally brilliant & the designer of the AK-47 rifle.