DEGOP Rep. Lyndon Yearick’s basic point is that we need to learn to live with mass shootings
Permit-to-purchase gun laws are linked to fewer firearm homicides.
State laws that require gun purchasers to obtain a license contingent on passing a background check performed by state or local law enforcement are associated with a 14 percent reduction in firearm homicides…
But the DEGOP is in the hands of maniacs and gun extremists.
Ineffective Laws Won’t Reduce Gun Violence by State Rep. Lyndon Yearick
Mental health services need to be expanded, especially in public schools, so signs of illness and alienation can be spotted and addressed before leading to destructive actions and shattered lives.
California arguably has the country’s most restrictive gun control laws, which failed to prevent last month’s tragedies.
“NO WAY TO PREVENT THIS”, SAYS ONLY NATION WHERE THIS REGULARLY HAPPENS
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/02/13/michigan-state-shooting-what-we-know-about-shots-fired-on-campus/69901251007/
Living on the edge of what remains of White World here I avoid talking about guns, let alone gun safety and a possible solution. That’s because the only real solution is tight regulation of who may own a gun, followed by the NRA nightmare of no guns, no more. I well realize that the slaughter will go on and on, laws or not, also realize America has long been numb to gun slaughter and the massacre of the day. As noted we are “Unique” compared to a great many nations, to which I reply “Christians, where is thy god?”.
Gun extremists have a point, that criminals don’t care about laws. But gun makers and gun merchants do care. A criminal can’t kill with a gun that was never made.
At the shooting range with the angels.
Eff’ the gun fondlers and their tiny penis like organs. NRA and gun manufacturers recommend sleeping with your piece under the pillow and make sure the safeties off for quick reaction response. John Kowalko
Mass shootings are now like cancer in Delaware, its not a question of if, it’s when.
This fuckhole — what’s his name, Yearick? — uses the safety of women as a reason not to enact such laws.
I agree with him, to a point. Women should have access to guns.
Men should not.
This “protecting women” thing is, of course, so much bullshit. The number one cause of death in the workplace for women is now being shot by a boyfriend/husband. (Murder overtook industrial accidents a few years ago.)
So many murders happen at work because the boyfriend/husband knows where to find them and, even if they are psychos, they have as much access to as many guns as they want.
I look forward to rep yea rich greatly expanding funding for domestic violence treatment services, since dv is an early indicator of lethality
The first mass shooting I remember was at the Springfield Mall and the killer was a woman.
Killed one person. No do the men.
Now, I mean.
I wasn’t serious. Just following the logic of Yearick’s argument.
Sylvia Seegrist was the Springfield Mall shooter and she killed 3 and wounded 7.
I never said no woman ever committed murder but, okay, I recalled incorrectly, I guess because that was 37 years ago. Wanna tote up how many female vs. male serial killers there have been since then?
Also the idea that they are willing to spend money to “expand mental health services” is laughable.
Hearty and personal agreement, my brother was mentally ill since his early twenties, in the past he would have spent his life in an asylum, instead they substituted “psycho active” drugs and closed many mental facilities. If they got the meds just right he could pass for odd, but harmless. In the meantime he assembled a small arsenal of guns, when he stopped taking the meds life got interesting. At some point the courts took his guns after constant “contact” with the police, as in “well that took long enough”. If it was drunk driving one would have been enough, instead it was near a year long process. As noted the politicians have no intention of paying for mental health despite constant reminders that it can turn deadly.
OK, since Karen’s not gonna do it, I looked it up.
Mass shootings in the U.S.: shooters by gender, as of January 2023.
Published by Statista Research Department, Jan 24, 2023
Since 1982, an astonishing 134 mass shootings have been carried out in the United States by male shooters. In contrast, only three mass shootings (defined by the source as a single attack in a public place in which four or more victims were killed) have been carried out by women.
So the score is 134-3. You’re gonna need a lot points to cover the spread.
But as I said, this is about the false premise Yearick cited. Have any thoughts about that?
https://www.statista.com/statistics/476445/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-shooter-s-gender/