Yet another mindless shooting in America....

http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-deaths-in-kalamazoo-as-gunman-kills-randomly

Nope, nothing to do with the American cultural fetish for guns.....

Drank too much water in Flint

I'm guessing his name is Muhammed.

How much do you want to bet?

We will see. Either we will be lectured that such shootings have no place in modern society or we will be lectured that such shooting have no connection to Islam.

Right, such negativity! Whereas you would embrace this news and celebrate.

Neither lecture is enjoyable. The Obama speech that will be remembered most fondly is his farewell address, although nobody will actually listen to it because it will be nothing but "I" and "me" with a few filler words thrown in.

Looks like we'll get the "these shootings don't happen in other countries" lecture. Jason Dalton, 45

Well Chump is really "bringing it" with this thread! The US fetish with alcohol is taking a terrible toll. Alcohol control works everywhere else across the English speaking world but we don't have the guts to try it here. We just accept these deaths as "normal" while we stock our store shelves with beer. Chup doesn't even know where to get a beer in his country, and has only met a handful of people who have ever even tasted alcohol.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...isoning-cirrhosis-deaths-hit-record-high.html

Oh before I forget:
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H
I got a gun in Kalamazoo....
Don't want to boast but I know
it's the toast of Kalamazoo
(Zoo, zoo, zoo, zoo, zoo)
Bullets will fly in Kalamazoo....
Dropping a lass when I shoot
center mass in Kalamazoo....

ONGz. I haven't heard that song in decades.

Actually I figure given this shooting killed "only six" it will be largely ignored. The public outrage threshold is far higher than it used to be.

That's kinda the point Chup was making, here.

What I'm curious about is why this thread showed up in my alerts box.....

Tex Beneke had a great, recognizable voice! Most people are only familiar with his Glen Miller hits (such as Kalamazoo) but he worked with a other people as well as his own band. A real class act!

Much like the threshold for drug overdoses, car wrecks, lung cancer from smoking, and everything else that's largely preventable but we seem to tolerate with no problem. Where's outrage over these things? Oh wait, those are things other "civilized" countries tolerate and engage in, so nothing to see here kids. IMO it's all about the odds. What are the odds that one or more of your family members will be killed by a crazy with a gun versus any of a dozen other dangerous activities they engage in - like driving to work or being 50 pounds overweight and blowing out an artery? No math in the Red Room, but do some on your own and tell me I'm wrong.

Shooter looks awfully white to me, gturner...

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/21/us/michigan-kalamazoo-county-shooting-spree/index.html

I can only assume it's a Muslim in a fatsuit and "Jason Brian Dalton" is actually Jaz'en Bin Daltar.

Guy was an Uber driver who picker up one fare between his killing spree.

Probably yet another mental health basket case....

Anyone a Mad TV fan? "Hi I'm Kenny Rogers, welcome to Jack Ass! This is called six-hour rampage!"

You're the only one making this claim. I wish somebody had stopped this with a rocket launcher.....then you and your fellow gun haters could play another tune about the US "rocket launcher fetish."

Fat grey Americans should be banned. Build a wall around them I say!

There's plenty of education on all these subjects. Every kid that entered the public school system after 1980 had Just Say No and various D.A.R.E slogans bashed over their heads after decades of the rampant drug abuse from the Free Love era.

We now have seat belt laws and various other safety features as standard on cars these days because there were a LOT of car fatalities from crashes that passengers from modern cars walk away from today.

It's easy to forget that drunk driving was once seen as not a big deal, either. But outrage from mothers losing children to drunks made it a national campaign.

FWIW, many civilized countries have adopted safe haven laws to decriminalize drug abuse so that people can get clean without fear of being arrested for using, as is often the case here. Said countries often have far lower rates of overdoses than we do.

The odds are slim for many things in the world, like being on a plane that suddenly loses power and plummets from the sky. But I'd support better technology to keep that from happening even less than it already does.

"The odds are slim for many things in the world, like being on a plane that suddenly loses power and plummets from the sky. But I'd support better technology to keep that from happening even less than it already does. " - Anna

So should be severely limit the number of aircraft or make air travel incredibly expensive (or even ban them) until they become 100 percent safe? If it saves one life, it's worth it.........right?

No one is asking for "100 percent." All I and most of America wants is better education on safety and less guns falling into the hands of complete whackaloons. We want fewer children accidentally shooting their family members.

Or to go back to the car example that is often brought up in these discussions: seat belt laws and safeties haven't eliminated car fatalities, but fewer people die from vehicle accidents today than most forms of cancer.

I thought the initial reason for seat belts in vehicles was to keep the driver from being thrown away from the controls so he or she could retain control of the vehicle? Just as school buses have a seat belt and shoulder harness for the driver but not for students/passengers

Do you think this whackaloon gives a shit about safety? My point is you can educate the shit out of gun owners and indeed the 99.9 percent of responsible gun owners will be even "more safe" than they already are. That will save a few lives - I'm all for gun safety. I'm all for background checks - except that the vast majority of people undergoing a background check are those who know they will pass it anyway and they only get the check because it's the only way to legally buy a gun. Not many criminals stroll into Cabela's and try to buy a gun and hope they pass the background check because someone didn't update the database. So how exactly would we keep a gun out of the hands of a potential crazy? How do we keep the booze out of the hands of an angry drunk wife-beater?

You're stupid.

That reminds me of when I worked in Walmart Sporting Goods Dept. and we sold handguns (they don't anymore). A Mexican guy came in and we were trying to help him fill out the paperwork. When we asked him the question about whether he had any criminal charges pending against him he kept saying "Si! Si!".

So we called the store manager over. He knew a smattering of Spanish and he kept trying to reword it for the Mexican guy. Asking if the police were looking for him and all that.

The poor guy kept saying "Si! Si!".

Finally the Store Manager told him simply "If you keep saying 'Si" we can't sell ou the gun".

So the Mexican guy quickly said "Nada! Nada!"