Shots have been fired in Kansas City during the celebration parade for the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl win, police said. Follow here for the latest.
The only thing more American than the Super Bowl is a mass shooting.
The only way Republicans would consider gun control is if the mass shooting was done by Taylor Swift and Joe Biden whilst holding hands and wearing pride flag t-shirts...
I'm convinced that if Dems came out and said, "we think ownership of the AR15 and any replica thereof is a human right!" then Republicans in their classic Anti-Dem platform would pivot to advocacy for a nation-wide ban.
They should start using reverse psychology on them. "Ukraine needs to be destroyed by Russia! Health care should remain private! Universal basic income is a terrible idea!"
That's why we need to focus on the why it happens, not what tool is used.
We need safety nets for people, single payer healthcare, ending the war on drugs and rebuilding our mental health support system. Ending for profit prisons and creating ubi so people don't turn to crime when they see no other ways to survive. Rebuilding our education system as well, pay teachers more build more schools and hire more teachers, so we don't have 40 kids to a single class room.
There is so much we can do that wouldn't need to even have new laws on the books that would curb all violence 1000xs what another awb would accomplish.
We don't need gun control. We need to remove the government regulation that prevents civil law suits against gun manufacturers. No reason they should get that special privilege.
Could be 2 people shooting at each other. Could be 1 shooter and 1 "good guy" with a gun trying to stop the shooter. Could be 2 shooter working together. Could be loud sound mistaken for gunfire and then 2 "good guys" try to save the day and shoot at each other.
In my opinion these are in order of most to least likely.
This makes me incredibly sad. We can't have shit in this country due to pathetic and incompetent governance. What's worse is that it will take a generation of time for us to dig out of this hole even if we start moving 100% in the right direction, today. It makes me sick.
Taking our heads out of the sand is a start. I would go into more detail but I checked your profile and I don’t think I’ll convince you of anything so we will just leave it here. Not in the mood for an argument over the same shit that keeps happening in this country.
At this point in American history ... I have to wonder if the shooting occurred because of US politics ... or was the shooting just PART of the parade.
With the extremely limited info available, it could also be two people who were wildly shooting at each other in a crowd. It would not be the first time that some stupid beef between people at a celebration escalates into a gun battle that takes out more bystanders than participants.
I don't know what's a more effective argument for gun control: That this was two idiots with beef firing off in a crowded place, or that it was some maniac with a racist manifesto.
Knowing the way shit is in KC, probably just a couple of crackhead assholes with guns who got in an argument and couldn’t be fucked about the collateral damage.
I was thinking about going down to the parade today. Glad I stayed home instead.
Based on it happening in a parking garage out of the way I'm assuming it was some (probably drunk) idiots fighting each other. I didn't go to union station this year, but last year everyone was fucked up, and shit would get rowdy at the edges.
Naturally There's people in this thread ready to jump on a tragedy to push their theories onto it. Nobody wants to wait and see what the actual cause was, and since we have two of them in custody we will know what it was about.
Once this is reported to be gang violence no one will give a shit. No one is in custody, handgun was used probably, and beef between two gangs happening during a parade.
No gun laws are going to stop shit like this, you have to solve societies problems, then violence will drop. Gun laws are just feel good measures for people in white picket fence communities.