Consider investing in an alarm system. More expensive than a gun but a pretty good deterrent especially when you are not home. Renters insurance hopefully should take care of the rest.
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Mass shooting in Thousand Oaks, CA, 13 dead including suspect (Shooter was US Marines vet)
- Thread starter Cosmic Bus
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Consider investing in an alarm system. More expensive than a gun but a pretty good deterrent especially when you are not home. Renters insurance hopefully should take care of the rest.
Right yes there was also the shooting in the yoga studio. That was last Friday...
Functioning democracies have managed to all but eliminate mass shootings, yet they're almost literally a daily occurrence in the United States.
We are broken...so very broken. Apparently the countless lost lives don't mean anything.
Same reaction here. It just happens to often without anything changing.
Don't you understand that all those victims simply should have been good guys with guns? It's so simple!
This message was sponsored by the NRA and your dearly beloved president.
Multiple eye-witness reports of a semi-automatic pistol. As off press briefing, sheriff unable to confirm or deny whether another weapon was used.
Though I am, admittedly, very much a laymen on this matter, I think this is the main issue.
Well this isn't what I expected to wake up to. When will we decide that we want to do better than this, America?
I have a security system with a good number of cameras that are clearly visible as that alone can discourage thieves and some more discrete ones in case they tamper with the others. Of course this doesn't protect us from armed robbers and it's terrifying living in a country where we hear about mass shootings so often.
If small children and a member of Congress getting shot didn't motivate change, nothing will.
America is fucked
Just another day in the USA. I don't mean to be insensitive but I'm so numb to these stories now, and without widespread reform it's never going to improve.
To me it feels that Americans have started to accept this is "normal" even on this forum. The latest "trump said this" topic would have about 10 pages by now
I find it hard to believe that there is no huge protest in DC whenever this happens or even uproar in the media. Is life that cheap in America?
I find it hard to believe that there is no huge protest in DC whenever this happens or even uproar in the media. Is life that cheap in America?
Again, this is the 307th mass shooting of the year. We are 311 days into the year.
There needs to be protests going on every single day. I'm so fucking sick of this. Innocent people losing their life to another American terroist and nothing is fucking done. NOTHING.
Oh things changed, just dramatically in the wrong direction. Not only in power but number of shootings.
No, housing, health care, and food is that expensive and most people would no longer have their already hard to find job if they left to protest every time this happened. People in other countries love to scold us for not doing enough but most people have to literally choose between the most recent gun violence, the children in cages, the President's increasingly fascist behavior, and, you know, keeping their residence which in a lot of cases they rent instead of own because the housing market is a shit show.
But I guess that's all on us, huh? Lazy fucks.
Probably bigger news that some pumpkin farmer had a really big pumpkin.
When we can't even get a lot of Americans to agree that the lives of their black, brown and first nation peeps matter when it comes to violence, which requires only giving up their racism a bit not their toys, I think the answer is pretty obvious by now.
I remember in the 90s when this sort of tragedy would stop the country for a day or so. We're desensitized to it.
They're being professional, waiting to confirm if the shooter was brown or not, to know if it's worth reporting or not.
Just another Wednesday in America. Hardly even front page worthy anymore.
My kids schools have turned in to prisons/fortresses in the name of "safety". Even if we forget for a day they are always reminded of it. Unfortunately it will eventually just seems normal to them.
We already turn a blind eye to the suffering of the victims of non-'mass'-shootings that pile up in vast numbers each year. :(
https://mobile.twitter.com/GunDeath...thetrace.org/rounds/gun-deaths-increase-2017/
People are pretty gas-lit at this point with all the insane crap Trump does on a daily basis. I'd like to take a mental break for it for a week after the mid-terms.
I was reading that there are people who have survived multiple mass shootings. Apparently there were people at this shooting that were also at the Las Vegas shooting, that is just f'd up.
Do they even bother with "thoughts and prayers" anymore?
Do they even bother with "thoughts and prayers" anymore?
I wonder how many of the shooters politically aligned far right or alt right. Is there a way of finding out such information?
News that I didn't wanna wake up to. The US is rapidly becoming the wild west again and it's only gonna get worse.
The guy he guy on cnn said it's legal to own smoke grenade type things. Why would you be able to own that?
I remember reading a statistic that noted that all the guns in Australia that were purchased as part of the buy back scheme (in addition to implementation of gun laws); would only make up about 2 weeks of US NEW gun purchases.
Just the amount of new gun purchases in America is mind-boggling.
Just the amount of new gun purchases in America is mind-boggling.
'Merica.
God only knows wtf civilians are doing with smoke grenades.
And all these mass shootings is scaring people to buy even more guns.
Are you kidding me? My Republican relatives' right to own a gun is more important than human life! Look what happened to Australia? There are large swaths of the country that fell under MS13 and ISIS rule.
Also, is pointless. I can't find any statistics either way, but my gut feeling is that weapon ownership is ineffective for self-defense and is actually making America less safe, not safer like the NRA and their political cheerleaders and gun nuts want them to believe.
I mean, think about it, when people are robbed/assaulted is usually by surprise, even if they are carrying weapons on themselves, or have them easily accessible, they are just not going to be able to reach them. Criminals have easy access to weapons and ammunition and they will carry it (because they know their victims could be carrying them as well), which involves guns in basically every crime.
Why is the US police so trigger-happy? Because every fucking US citizen out there will be potentially armed with lethal weapons, so they know a shootout is very likely and if it happens they want to be ones that shoot first (because, duh, they don't want to die).
What is happening in the USA with gun ownership is utter madness.
You would be surprised to learn what it's legal to own with a Class 3 license.