My God… ANOTHER school shooting… ANOTHER assault rifle used. My heart goes out to all the families in Minneapolis.
My God… ANOTHER school shooting… ANOTHER assault rifle used. My heart goes out to all the families in Minneapolis.
This must be made a death penalty crime and enforced with a speed lane
Shooter killed himself
It still needs to be done they all don't take the cowards way and yes assault rifles must be banned again and permanently
I kinda agree however the damage is down there millions of these fucking weapons in homes ( along with the various variants ( mini14,ak47, etc )…
Down? You mean done? That's why the assault rifle ban must be brought back and enshrined it absolutely must include all of them
Yes ‘done’
It’s absurd kids have to spend class time running active shooter drills. They increase kids anxiety about school safety. It’s more effective to ban assault rifles. We did it in the 90’s and mass shootings went down. Mass shootings ⬆️ after assault rifles became available again. GUNS KILL PEOPLE‼️
Fight another one. Please get on the phone or e-mail and tell your reps in DC what you think about guns. It only takes a few minutes and it doesn't cost any money. We don't need money in politics. We just need people to participate. www.nationalfinancialplan.com
Yet another one. I’m not sure I have much heart left to give.
Another day, another shooting. Children dead and injured. Why is there never enough white hot burning rage about this? I don't want to hear Democrats telling us that their "hearts go out..." etc, etc, etc. I want to hear them screaming "ENOUGH OF THIS FUCKING SHIT!!!!" at the top of their lungs.
Both parties are being paid by the nra. They are all sipping whisky and smoking cigars whilst the people grieve yet again. And laughing all the way to the bank.
I’m just gutted …!
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Yeah, and the Mayor of Minneapolis told the media that everyone should save their thoughts and prayers. Which do absolutely nothing.
Just your daily reminder to never vote for a republican.
Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V daily.
The only praying that Republicans do after a mass shooting, is praying that the shooter is part of a community they routinely vilify.
More useless thoughts and prayers from Republicans, instead of gun legislation.
Drump and pals want to militarize cities to make them “safe”, but don’t want to pass common sense gun laws. Make sense?
Or, just another day, in AmeriKKKa. Violence, is all it knows, or does.
Protect trans people.
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Watch even more stripped and blatantly removed restrictions hitting the pipeline. The obvious is in your face, but staring at the sun makes more cents.
I don't want to seem unsympathetic, but it's never stopped under either Party and will likely happen again soon because your right to have a gun is apparently more important than a right for a child not to be killed.
This is the way: stop manufacturing them, buy up the ones made and destroy them. I know this works because this has worked elsewhere.
I'm baffled. If it's a mental health issue why does it make sense to hand out more guns? I agree that we are not a well people. Our "warrior-ethos" soldiers are pulling weeds in DC while gangs of masked men round up the gardeners who used to work there. Assault rifles will not cure what ails us.
If Trump & GOP wanna Make America Safe Again, they should start wirh AR15s in our classrooms.
Assult rifle?
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No such thing as an assault rifle. An evil person killed others.
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Insanity
And now we'll hear that it's not the time to talk about gun control, that would be disrespectful to the families, we need thoughts and prayers, we have a mental health problem but let's not talk about funding it now because 'thoughts and prayers time', and blah, blah, blah.
I thought our country was so much safer now since 🍊🌮 closed the borders??
You are right. He must be (he's not ) a Columbian gang member. It's usually crazy white males doing this. Should send us all back to where we came from
But guns don't kill people right 'Merica? Stupid fucking religious shitbags! How many of your children have you die before you join reality?
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When will USA take action against. It's unbelievable
"We couldn't have prevented this tragedy", says the ONLY country in the world where this happens regularly. Who cares if Iran or North Korea get nukes? Nukes don't kill people; PEOPLE kill people. ... see how fucking stupid that sounds? Demand #GunControl legislation!
Since Gun control is apparently never going to happen in the USA, Perhaps they need to start putting metal detectors that automatically sound an alarm, lock the person that was caught in a room that can only be opened by police, and lock all classroom doors, only to be opened from inside by teacher?
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Going to start calling school shootings "late term abortions" so the government will actually rush in to do something.
Another angry white man. Not a drag queen. Not an immigrant. Not a lgbtq person. Not a woman. Another angry white supremacist inspired by the same garbage that comes out of our hateful president's mouth.
10 yr old tells reporter he was sitting by stain glass window when shooting started and his friend jumped on top of him and his friend was shot. How do we allow this and just go about our lives?
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Gun manufacturers' shareholders need more gun sales. Shareholders need more chaos for a pedophile president and their tax breaks.
Hopefully, a bright and imaginative group of attorneys will file a class action lawsuit against the NRA and trump. It's past time for the NRA and trump to play DEFENSE!
There is no god. We need to wake up people. People need to be taught and helped. This is humanity thing not a god thing. We need to have more faith in ourselves and not some inanimate object, that’s what got us here.
Merica
It's going to turn out to be another right wing nutcase that did it too.
Please Hug Them For any #BlueSky member who knows a Minneapolis surviving family member, please give them a heartfelt hug for me!
He had a rifle... what is an assault rifle?
Quick question: How do you find the biggest, most pathetic peice of crap loser weirdo in the shortest amount of time? A: Refer to them as assault rifles.
How do you legislate against these shootings? No one, has been able to provide a definitive definition... if it was so easy to identify them... why hasn't there been legislation and something done? Nothing has been done... how do you account for that?
Wow, that's like a programmed response. How does it feel be programmed?
No... I have researched this at length and written about it. People use the term "assault rifle" and immediately assume AR15, yet, they cannot define what an assault rifle is. Can you?
Glad to see you spent your time wisely.
The FBI liked my work well enough. Why do you think studying mass shootings is so bad?
Don't have to. We had an assault weapons ban in the 90s that defined it. Why are you so predictable?
How am I predictable? Can you tell me the definition of an assault weapon?
How are you predicable? Before you made your comment on this very post, I myself commented the following: "In before someone comments demanding you define assault weapons"
Spitballing - ‘ a semi-automatic ‘sports’ rifle that is fashioned after a military rifle that shoots a .223 or bigger caliber and has the potential to hold more than 5 rounds. And allows for tactical attachments like scopes, under barrel grenade launchers, flashlights, etc’
What is the actual definition of an assault rifle?
The only difference is selective fire. With a bump stock that is a moot point.
Bump stocks are banned in some states, but not others... so, how would you write a law banning "assault rifles"?
Very simple… any semi-auto( or automatic) sports rifle of a caliber >= .223 of any barrel length. Now let go hunt some deer with a nice Remington 30-06.
What is the definition of an assault weapon?
What is the definition of a assault weapon?
There isn't one.
Oh, and now you're ignoring me because your game isn't fun anymore. What a cool person you are.
I'm an author, retired professor and have written about shootings. I worked on the analysis of the FBI shooting that took place in Miami in 1986 along with other cases. There isn't a definitive definition of what an assault rifle is. If you think it is so easy, why hasn't there been legislation yet?
Why do you think you're clever by asking what you think is a trick question?
Oh, so you think you're being clever by asking what you deem to be a trick question?
No. In order for lawmakers to write the legislation banning any gun, there needs to be specific descriptions. The problem is, most rifles can be modified so, how would you write a law banning "assault rifles"?
Spitballing - ‘ a semi-automatic ‘sports’ rifle that is fashioned after a military rifle that shoots a .223 or bigger caliber and has the potential to hold more than 5 rounds. And allows for tactical attachments like scopes, under barrel grenade launchers, flashlights, etc’
None of them, because that's obviously an AI generated photo, as all the rifles have grips sticking out pretty much everywhere.
And I just noticed that the one on the left doesn't even HAVE a grip. I betcha thought you had something there. 😂
Yeah I acknowledged that.. the point stands though.
You missed the point of my question... can you answer what an assault rifle is?
Btw in my definition some examples are : mini14, ak47( semi), ar15…. List is not exhaustive.
Hun... try again. What is an assault rifle? You listed some weapons but not a definition. Can you see the problem here?
Spitballing - ‘ a semi-automatic ‘sports’ rifle that is fashioned after a military rifle that shoots a .223 or bigger caliber and has the potential to hold more than 5 rounds. And allows for tactical attachments like scopes, under barrel grenade launchers, flashlights, etc’
Jfc grok AI’ed these photos… the point stands, only close examination will you be able to tell which is an Ar and which is the m4 or m16
NONE OF THEM ARE.
Hun... what is an assault rifle?
And who needs one? For what?
For legislation. How can anyone write a law banning assault rifles when no one can agree on a definitive definition of what they are.
Spitballing - ‘ a semi-automatic ‘sports’ rifle that is fashioned after a military rifle that shoots a .223 or bigger caliber and has the potential to hold more than 5 rounds. And allows for tactical attachments like scopes, under barrel grenade launchers, flashlights, etc’
BREAKING: MN Catholic school gunman is trans, named Robin Westman, said to "kiII Trump" on magazine.
We’ve normalized so many atrocious and horrible actions and people in this country. I wonder if it will ever be a sane place to live again.
My 7th grade daughter on her first day of school today picked up her heavy backpack full of school supplies and declared “at least if there is a school shooting I can use my backpack as a shield.” My heart broke a little this morning.
This is Trump World 2.0‼️
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Trump Effect as a permission structure www.cambridge.org/core/journal... “…in the presence of prejudiced elite speech – particularly when it is tacitly condoned by other elites – the study finds that the prejudiced are emboldened to both express and act upon their prejudices.”
This press conference is horrific! Kids in church attacked. Where are our priorities?
We have participants on both sides, whose 1st priority is to veraciously push narratives that blame the other side rather than to come together to mourn. The USA is so far from moral decency it will take generations to recover if ever at all.
They should be monitoring NRA donations right now
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I believed we are being TARGETED by hired guns from TACO REGIME so he can send in the Guard. Seemingly, a few of these yesterday people were gunned down with high powered rifle (military issue?). Then shooter(s) disappeared. And no one being shot at is talking. ?????
What is wrong with these people shooting innocent kids and teachers when there are so many MAGA to choose from?
Because MAGA is doing all the shooting.
I am so tired of these and another in my area. How do we send our children to school....and keep them away from the GOP pedophile protection society. His "suicide" note has been posted on X.
ANOTHER *man* thinking he is entitled to kill people.
Given the pattern of those shootings was declining during the Biden years (but was near daily during the 45 years), it's a safe bet these are going to just start increasing again in blue areas, then used as a justification for Shitler to invade said cities. I hate that we all have to endure this
Well, between 2021 and 2024, there were exactly ZERO pedophiles in the White House.
Yes there was.
You were never president.
Another reason to disarm the masses before a major military style take over already in the works. This was Tim Walzes district, no?
Sadly with Trump we won't even get that effing action. I hope to gawd they don't use this to use this to get more military in the streets.
BUT HE ORDERED THE FLAGS TO HALF-MAST!!!1!1!!111
We don't have to live like this. Blame republican policies.
In before someone comments demanding you define assault weapons
And reminding you that the A in AR stands for ArmaLite
No. It’s Asshole. The R is republican
They're popping champagne bottles at the NRA, the lobbyist for The Murder-Industrial Complex.
How on earth can this be stopped? It’s almost like having open gun laws and regulation is a bad thing….
Step 1, stop electing republicans. Every problem starts with this one simple step.
Would put paid to a great many unsavoury and unpalatable things, not just gun deaths. In the UK we hoped we would see the back of the right wing, but they are only getting stronger. The US the same.
I’m convinced it’s a malignant form of entitlement our species has. So much in our lives is just given to us. Brexit sounded super dumb from 3000 miles away. I can only imagine what our 320lb orange turd must look like.
It’s the whole process of voting for something or someone that is without any doubt going to cause direct harm to the people and the country. How Trump managed to get reelected is incredible, but I guess his opponent was ill prepared, too short a time to complete. Next time 🤞🏼
His getting elected was a real shock. 1/3 of voters just stayed home ffs. I can’t imagine being that devoid of civic duty. As I said, too entitled to vote for the less than perfect candidate. People should have crawled over broken glass to vote against that fuck Whitt.
We need to heavily regulate the “transgender” population that keeps committing these horrific acts.
How? What hasn’t happened is that after every mass shooting, some despondent AR owner gives up, finds a room of elected Republicans somewhere, anywhere, and takes one for the team. “Justified self-defense of others.” Motivation to make an effort.
So when AR-15s are banned and destroyed, and it possibly, but probably not, saves about 100 lives, and over 30k continue to die to guns every year, what's your next step?
Why stop at AR-15s?
It’s telling that as a citizen of the United Kingdom, I had to Google what an AR-15 is… So to answer your question, my first step would be to heavily regulate firearms, especially automatic and semiautomatic. Then just keep going along the road of removing access to buy and operate arms full stop.
The facts speak for themselves. Those poor families and children. Those who weren’t killed will never forget this trauma.
True that AR. Kinda like how Eskimos have 30 worss for snow. Your first step is 100% impossible. A complete guaranteed non-starter. Now what?
Elect an administration that’s prepared to stand with this as their policy. Danger is (of course) is they won’t get elected. In which case kids and teachers and their families get shot dead in schools and other places. It’s ingrained now and will likely never change. So more heart ache and sorrow.
I properly reject your far-fetched hypothetical. You literally pulled those numbers out of your ass. Typical Asshole. So … when you are arrested for the thousands of child pornography videos you downloaded on your secret hard drive, what’s YOUR next step? Plead insanity? Claim an Addiction?
June 14 - Vance Boelter, 57, of Green Isle, Minnesota, has been charged by federal complaint with stalking and murdering Minnesota House of Representatives Speaker Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. - John F. Kennedy.
It was a MAGA white guy not surprised.
MAGA but "Kill Donald Trump" was written on their gun?
“A University of Massachusetts researcher found a 43% drop in mass shooting deaths during the [Clinton assault rifle] ban. compared to the prior decade. After the ban expired, deaths increased by 239%.” Definitely the guns.
Guns enable gun violence seems self evident.
It's maga
We can use technology to end this now. Without having to try and change a single law. We can use technology to make the use of a firearm in the commission of a crime obsolete.
Completely nuts and should not be happening anywhere...
Another trans school shooter with a manifesto
Yeah but what are YOU going to do about it? Will you join a local anti-gun lobby? Will you march in the street to protest? Or is it all a bit too hard, you wouldn’t know where to start, you have your own life to lead and it’s up to government to do its job? Apathetic rubbish!
Another trans atheist terrorist What is a non assault rifle?
In 2026, when we regain Congress Majority ... we must introduce & pass gun reform legislation. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
" 'Merica"
Once again another mass shooting. This happened in a gay Florida nightclub and the memorial was removed by DeSantis. America is a heavily armed country and we seem to love killing each other.
I feel like it mostly comes from one party though, its straight up white right terrorism, like every time. Antifa and BLM aren't shooting people up
Congrats to the NRA. They're the reason so many kids are being shot to death.
The Greatest Bestest Country in the world can't solve the horrific carnage to our kids. The powers that be obviously don't want to..
THERE ya go.
Another 4chan troll murdering innocent people because parents refused to pay attention to their kids once the internet became mainstream. Her guns literally had 4chan memes written on them.
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I heard that another bullying incident occurred in a certain school.
ANOTHER…
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When neighborhoods-schools-churches-synagogues-mosques -temples should be safe -like the current threats to our democracy-these horrors are normalized-threats to voter rights-to rigorous scientific methods-and make no mistake: gun violence IS a public health issue.
Thank the NRA $ for preventing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from collecting public health data on gun violence for 20+ years (they do now). The Dickey Amendment on Federal Funding for Research on Gun Violence: A Legal Dissection - PMC pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Exactly
blah blah blah. donate blood
Ted Cruz yet to do a thing about “too many doors.”
Don't talk about gun laws. Talk about US self inflicted Genocide.
I drove past Annunciation last night on the way to a friend's house. Saw two very young girls, dressed in their school uniforms, they reminded me of my God-daughter who attended school there several years ago. Now, I'm just hoping those two beautiful kids are safe and unharmed.
I know the fix, you know the fix, but the money and lobbying seems happy with the status quo.
I agree. We need to heavily regulate the “transgender” population that keeps committing these horrific acts.