When is a mass shooting NOT "designed to intimidate a civilian population"?
Why is there not a liaison officer from the Sheriff's office - a position could be filled and instituted, if not - to coordinate services for these shocked and injured people????
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The World moved decisively to halt all 737 Max 800 flights after two crashes killed over 300 people, with a flight ban that also includes participation by the US. These machines were killing people and need to be fixed.
Why not halt the use of other machines that kill? The civilized World would not tolerate the virtually unrestricted availability and use by civilians of rapid fire, large magazine, high muzzle velocity mass murder weapons, for a host of reasons that form the bedrock of human decency and a love of life.
Meanwhile US gun policy is held hostage by the axis of evil: Trump, McConnell, and LaPierre.
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There were warning signs. But with all the signs, we still couldn't stop him. If he didn't have an assault rifle, the story may have been different. Time for laws - wake up America!
PS - anger is not considered a mental illness. All the mental hospitals in the world can't stop an angry person with a rapid fire rifle.
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Why are the victims being left to process this horrific event alone?
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I would like to see a NY times article or chart that shows who has eventually brought down the mass shooters . I think it’s very clear that the crazed President and other players big lie about arming citizens for self defense holds zero weight. Can’t believe we are not shouting in the streets. Hong Kong cares more about their future than lazy us.
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I don’t know how victims are paying for the medical care they received from their wounds, but state and/or federal governments should be paying for it since state and federal governments are responsible for supporting free wheeling gun advocates and mad MEN
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Republican "president" Trump, and almost every Republican in the House and Senate think this is just fine. No one is harming them or their families, are they? A dollar is more valuable to them than any shooting victim.
Keep voting for them if you want to live in a shooting gallery.
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In past shootings McConnell and Trump have rejected the idea of closing the private sales and gun show loop holes citing the fact that no previous shootings would have been prevented. So they did nothing. Unfortunately people had to die to prove them wrong. Thoughts and prayers did not spare any lives. It's time to close the McConnell/Trump loop hole.
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Some talk about mental illness as being the root cause for so many gun deaths. I think that line of logic is accurate but not the way most speak of it. Rather, I think there's a strong thread of paranoia running through a vast swath of the population who variously believe that the end times are coming and/or the government is poised to take all our liberties and that guns are required to defend themselves.
I'm certain I'm being a totally naive dreamer, but I dream of a day someday in the future when we finally agree that the 2nd amendment was written for a different era and that there is no place in an enlightened, civilized society for guns.
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This article is not completely accurate. The victims were White, Black and Hispanic. There were six victims that died: Joe Griffith, 40; Mary Granados, 29; Edwin Peregrino, 25; Rodolfo Julio Arco, 57; Kameron Karltess Brown, 30; and Raul Garcia, 35. You need to correct this.
Why put an emphasis on race? This shooting had nothing to do with race. It had to do with PEOPLE being murdered.
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@Jan The story reports the shooter made racist comments. Most of those who died are Hispanic, except for one person who could pass as Hispanic (and may be Hispanic but without a Spanish surname), and a black person. I find it very suspicious and race may have very well played a role. Odessa is 80% white. What are the chances of the distribution of deaths being what it is by chance?
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@Ted Pikul, Ted, I'd make it about race if most of the victims are dark or of one ethnicity because Texas has a long history of institutionalized segregation, discrimination, and law enforcement, vigilantes, and "settlers" murdering Latinos, Blacks, and Native Americans. Read about the atrocities committed by the KKK and Texas Rangers (not the baseball team) over the last 150 years.
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@jp-ia I grew up in Odessa, it's at least 60% hispanic and about 30% white non-hispanic.
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The contention that poor mental health is at the root of our nation being racked with gun violence has proven to be the case in two recent gun incidents. One bloody perpetrated in Texas and the other nick-of-time averted in North Carolina. The bizarre explanations behind the intent of both individuals is symptomatic of them suffering from OCGD.
True, other nations are no freer of mental health suffering than are people in gun-violent USA, however what is different here is guns all over the place because of a strain of OCD. An obsessive-compulsive fixation on guns (Obsessive Compulsive Gun Disorder).
The irrational explanation given by the two OCGD suffers mentioned above is symptomatically in line with the paranoid insistence of others that suffer an obsessive need to have guns for self-defense. These OCGD sufferers as a group have their grasp of cause-and-effect blotted out by a gun fetish that engages them to mystically chant incongruous explanations for why guns must be ever and everywhere available to them.
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