Need to change terminology (Page 8): All countries have crimes and crimes committed with guns. But most of those crimes are greed, for certain monetary gain, sometimes for revenge.

BebuLamar

Canisdirus wrote:

Why is the US different? All countries are different.

However...the US no longer houses the mentally unfit...and the US no longer houses violent criminals.

It's been catch and release...for decades.

That right there is the difference...we closed down the psych wards...and put a revolving door on our prisons.

Before the 80's...guns were everywhere...and mass shooting was an anomoly...it's not the guns.

All countries have crimes and crimes committed with guns. But most of those crimes are greed, for certain monetary gain, sometimes for revenge. However, many of the mass shootings in the US are not money motivated and the target are often unknown to the shooter and the shooter often didn't expect to survive either.

Canisdirus

BebuLamar wrote:

All countries have crimes and crimes committed with guns. But most of those crimes are greed, for certain monetary gain, sometimes for revenge. However, many of the mass shootings in the US are not money motivated and the target are often unknown to the shooter and the shooter often didn't expect to survive either.

Other countries have way better mental health services.
US just...let's them walk the streets.

I would suspect other countries are not popping anti depressants like candy either...

cbabcock

burkphoto wrote:

Sounds like a perfectly red-necky thing to do. Take photos of your boss and put 'em on sticks in the ground, eat a half dozen Krispy Kreme donuts, drink a six of Bud, pull out your 12 gauge, and blast your frustrations away! Perforate those prints!....Friends, it's not about political correctness. it's just about respecting people

Very well said! Thank you.

cbabcock

Blenheim Orange wrote:

....The idea of "political correctness" is just a lazy and simple minded way to bully others about their speech and thoughts, while claiming to be the victim somehow.

Well said!

brentrh Loc: Deltona, FL

I am sick of political correctness I shoot timefreezes

Bohica Loc: SE Coast of NC

I hane always uesed the term shoot and will continue to dso so! If anyone doesn't like it you know where they can place their lips!

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

Bohica wrote:

I hane always uesed the term shoot and will continue to dso so! If anyone doesn't like it you know where they can place their lips!

The OP made a personal decision to quit using the word shoot and he didn't ask anyone else to quit using it.

fantom Loc: Colorado

JohnSwanda wrote:

The OP made a personal decision to quit using the word shoot and he didn't ask anyone else to quit using it.

No, he didn't, but his hyper sensitive concern over the word implies that he would like the rest of the world the embrace the same hysteria and refrain from using it.

Shoot, I'll continue to use the word but, then again, I don't understand why I can't use him, her, she, he and it, either.

Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan

fantom wrote:

No, he didn't, but his hyper sensitive concern over the word implies that he would like the rest of the world the embrace the same hysteria and refrain from using it.

Shoot, I'll continue to use the word but, then again, I don't understand why I can't use him, her, she, he and it, either.

"Hyper sensitive concern" and "embrace the same hysteria?"

You maliciously mischaracterize the OP, yet you want us to think that you are the one who feels put out? Because the OP implied that he would like the rest of the world to consider his point of view?

Aren't you asking all of us - "the rest of the world" - to consider your point of view?

Irony is dead.

Of course, unlike the OP, you were not very straightforward with the way you punished your point of view on us.

fantom Loc: Colorado

Blenheim Orange wrote:

"Hyper sensitive concern" and "embr... (show quote)

I mischaracterized nothing maliciously. The OP honestly and righteously feels the word "shoot" is linked to terrible and horrific actions in all cases. That is silly and untrue and his position is extreme and overly sensitive. Good for him, he is entitled to his opinion, but shoot, I prefer to take a more reasoned, and less extreme view of the word.

It appears you take a similar extremist view of the word but are offended by anyone who takes a more reasoned approach and disagrees with you. So in light of your narrow-minded and hyper-sensitve response I will end my side of the conversation now.

I wish you luck with the long winded and self-offended response you undoubtedly will inflict on us.
Unfortunately I will not hang around to waste time reading it. Do yourself a favor and don't burn daylight nor waste electrons compos(t)ing it, as I will now gleefully do an Elvis.

Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan

fantom wrote:

I mischaracterized nothing maliciously. The OP hon... (show quote)

Again, irony is dead.

I'm never going to talk to you again, either! So there!