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Offline CC27

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Disturbing...
« on: May 25, 2022, 08:33:48 AM »
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Disturbing...

Yesterday, almost everyone in my office including another Doctor and I were sitting up front awaiting the next patient, and I casually looked down at my phone and saw an alert which stated that there had been a mass shooting in a school in Texas, with at least two children dead. My instant reaction was to say aloud, “Oh my God, another school shooting, this time in Texas. They’re saying two are dead but I’m sure it’s more, it’s always more.“

No one else looked up from what they were doing, and so I figured I’d spoken under my breath and I repeated exactly what I had said but a little louder, and one individual said “Oh that’s a shame” and went back to what she was doing. No one else reacted at all whatsoever.

I came to two realizations simultaneously: the first was that these people with whom I work possess very little in the way of altruism and I should always remember that in other contexts, and secondly that for a vast number of people, no matter how they claim to be “other-oriented” in their business or profession, they simply are not. I believe this is important because you need to know with whom you are dealing. There is no point in looking through rose colored glasses and pretending that most individuals truly care about your personal plight. I hate to be the cynical, but in my advancing age I have come to the realization that many if not most people are fundamentally selfish, despite their protest to the contrary.

And I simultaneously thought of something else: a few years before I was born a 28-year-old man named Howard Unruh in Camden, New Jersey, walked down the street and murdered I believe 13 people in a random act of violence. From the earliest age, his name was bandied about in the Philadelphia area as an anomaly, an extreme action which occurred once in a generation perhaps, and his name was synonymous with irrational behavior. As recently as my college and professional school career, his name would be used by lecturers as an example of what virtually never happens, and the worst thing that could possibly occur to an individual on the street.

We have clearly eclipsed this once in a generation Horror and apparently we are going to have “mass murder of the week” competitions. This society is devolving quickly and there are going to be many many casualties in this war upon humanity. I do not believe the facilitators will ever be held accountable , the NRA people, the legislators who refuse to address common sense gun control, or the gun manufacturers who also don’t care. Quite frankly, I think that for many people as long as it didn’t happen to them or their family it Just. Doesn’t. Matter. As long as they have their online gaming, free pornography, sports, and music, their lives are “complete and satisfactory”.

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BLAH BLAH BLAH STFU
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Re: Disturbing...
« Reply #1 on: May 25, 2022, 08:46:50 AM »
Quote from: CC27 on May 25, 2022, 08:33:48 AM
BLAH BLAH BLAH STFU

Or, maybe your coworkers are smart enough to see that while you and yours are happy to send 40 billion to ukraine, you and yours are thoroughly uninterested in hardening and securing schools from the monsters you and yours create and/or let out of jails when they shouldn't be...

And that all you stains care about is getting the guns, no matter how many dead bodies you have to dance on to get them.
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Re: Disturbing...
« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2022, 08:52:26 AM »
My guess, which is more likely 100% accurate, is that none of the people you were with want to say anything because that opens up the opportunity for you to start lecturing about things you can't even begin to comprehend, and they simply don't want to hear it.

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Re: Disturbing...
« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2022, 09:26:50 AM »
Did that word salad have a point? If it was attempted virtue-signalling, it got zero bars.
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Re: Disturbing...
« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2022, 09:53:43 AM »
What "Common sense" gun law would have prevented this? 
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Re: Disturbing...
« Reply #5 on: May 25, 2022, 10:51:23 AM »
DUmpmonkiees:


Shooter supplied vast amounts of info, why wasn't he investigated?
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Re: Disturbing...
« Reply #6 on: May 25, 2022, 11:06:49 AM »
Quote from: Wineslob on May 25, 2022, 10:51:23 AM
DUmpmonkiees:


Shooter supplied vast amounts of info, why wasn't he investigated?

Follow-up question: If this shooter and the Buffalo shooter weren't investigated, and if existing laws didn't stop the latter from illegally modifying the gun he used, why do you think more restrictions will do any good?
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« Reply #7 on: May 25, 2022, 09:12:15 PM »
Any time a Lefty talks about a "common sense law," you can bet it's something that transfers power from the individual to the state.
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