If Black people were as violent as white america fantasizes about, there would be slaughtered cops every other day.

I dunno, Stephen. To my knowledge there has never been a school shooting at a school that issued buckets of rocks to its students. Everyone knows that mass shooters prefer rock-free zones.

I wish I could celebrate that this company going into chapter 11 had anything to do with America’s declining taste for guns. Unfortunately, it’s more likely that the venture capitalist did their usual trick of buying a company, leveraging the shit out of it, taking the money and pushing the debt onto the company which…

Hugfart has been trolling all weekend, feel free to dismiss them.

Hugfart is one of the random letter username trolls who just says mean, incendiary things for attention. Just dismiss any replies he sends your way.

That’s ridiculous and condescending. I understand my own logic fine. I don’t think the “right” to very loosely regulated access to firearms trumps the right to life, liberty and security of person. (And no, “liberty” doesn’t mean freedom to own weapons, it means freedom from political oppression, slavery, or…

Smug Canadian here. I know no one asked for my opinion, but here it is anyway.

He flatly refused to consider that guns have anything to do with it: “50 and 100 years ago, children did not slaughter other children at school. What has changed? It isn’t the gun.”

It’s not an either/or thing, I don’t think. The gun laws, or lack thereof, in the States are stupid but I don’t think you can just dismiss out of hand the idea that there’s something about American culture that contributes as well.

Yup, and that’s the exact thing that was told to Trump when he met with the various video game companies. They just ignore it because the only solution is gun control, and it’s easier to keep blaming it on TV or video games.

If video games are the issue - wouldn’t the rest of the world be suffering from the same rash of mass school shootings?