Shooting of the Day
Shooting of the Day
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- mg338
The Highland Park shooting was 20 minutes northeast of my town in the north Chicago suburbs.
We were driving to our parade just a mile away and wondered why nobody was along the route. We pulled into a neighborhood and started to see posts on Twitter and NextDoor.
Our daughter is 7 1/2 and could tell we looked worried and shocked. This ended up being the catalyst for finally explaining shootings to her, because she didn't know why the parade wasn't happening.
As a parent, protecting my kids' innocence is important. I tried to explain things to her as delicately as possible. I wasn't ready for that conversation though. I just tried to tell her that sometimes people do bad things with guns, that they are mean and evil.
It really took the wind out of me and I felt numb for the rest of the day. I still do.
- Glad you're ok mg33! I was wondering if that was close to where you live.Bennn
- Thank you Bennn. I actually go up there every 4-5 weeks to get my haircut. It's a nice town, one of the wealthy suburbs along the lake north of Chicago.mg33
- Stay safe. its like nobody is safe anywhere :(Bennn
- you are the parent, so you know best course of action for your family but i wouldn't expose my 7 yo to this info. against what mass media wants us to believe...pr2
- ...this sort of events are way, way, way more rare than we think.pr2
- freedom1
Does any member of QBN actually own a gun?
- there are a few. my bro doesGnash
- Or know how easy it is to make your own from kits and don't even have to register.... Go to a local gun show and see.BabySnakes
- http://americanshoot…Gnash
- nah Gnash, you can buy an un drilled lower receiver and then buy a separate template to make it a working firearm. and then all the other parts separately.BabySnakes
- ouchGnash
- I own two.hans_glib
- lol gnash. that image.futurefood
- I own a pistol and a couple riffles of my late fathers. But, I don't have a gun safe so my mother keeps them. I don't have any city need for them.shellie
- I bet scarabin know how to make one...pango
- i own a few including a silencer, they’re all locked up in a safe in the states & im anti gun.moldero
- ever since sandy hook, ban them all, fuck it.moldero
- I'm set to inherit about 20+...my mom married an 'outdoorsman' and moved to Alaska and recently notified my bros and I that we get to split the guns & housePonyBoy
- ... but currently I don't own any guns... ... well technically I own 'two' and a possible 'third'... but let's not get immature when discussing firearmsPonyBoy
- we're all going to pony's during zombie apocalypses.pango
- Nice... you guys can teach me how to shoot these things.PonyBoy
- I have one. Haven't shot it in ages. I'd gladly hand it over if guns went illegal or bought back.formed
- I do...see my comments 9 posts up.GM278
- I grew up with them, own a couple rifles mostly as inheritance. Also live in Canada and I'm personally fine with strict as fuck gun laws.ben_
- i've fired an assault rifle when i was 9 at a gun range. it was still irresponsible for those adults i was with... i could have done something very stupid.pango
- Ramanisky28
from artist Pia Guerra.
- oh man.lowimpakt
- I know, right??Ramanisky2
- crushing....robotron3k
- Lotsa white people in heaven. Just saying.cannonball1978
- i_monk10
The NRA is a domestic terrorist organization, it's amazing you don't see it.
- Ramanisky28
- They’re practically celebrating this anomaly, because even they know it’s a rare outside occurrence that it wasn’t a white supremacist.monospaced
- LolGnash
- When everything is about race, don’t be surprised when everything is about raceGnash
- Surely guns are for all races? They're the great unifier? Anyone can get one and if they're fucked up enough, just gun loads of people down.PhanLo
- moldero6
- sickening. absolutely sickening. alex jones a few days ago said the shooter had antifa pamphlets in his hotel room, now he's selling this. unrealkona
- he's throwing gas on an already out of control flame.kona
- Get' em while they are hot!utopian
- this must be art -- he's a living performance piece.Gnash
- dekend? kuck inkowarssarahfailin
- Is this real?PhanLo
- I ask myself that everyday when I consider the conservative populace in this nation.monospaced
- ideaist2
2 hours from me; married with children.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/30/u…
Tragic and a sign of the times; 15 year old.
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- "If only every child had a AK-15 assault rifle to protect themselve."
– Merry Christmas, The NRAutopian - damnGuyFawkes
- These kids inspired by Kyle Rittenhouse think it's okay to solve their issues with guns,PioneerDJ303
- Ya, they should use SUV’s insteadGnash
- SUV toys more like itpango
- Ya, 8 people were killed with suv toys. Nice oneGnash
- ¯\(°_o)/¯PhanLo
- Three dead is barely worth mentioning by American standards.PhanLo
- Gnash. That's why they should use SUV toys to express their frustration. How do you use SUV toys to kill anyone? Chocking Hazzard?pango
- somewhere i read that the suspects dad bought the gun for him day or 2 before and then he took the gun to the school to give to his son.slinky
- Not far away from me either... can't believe 4 families did not have their children at home for dinner tonight. no wordscanoe
- At least one social media post pointing to elation at access to a handgun bought by his dad. A mom who thanked Trump for “my right to bear arms.”fooler
- "If only every child had a AK-15 assault rifle to protect themselve."
- Ramanisky25
Murica, Making Mass Shootings Great Again.
San Jose California
- The new normalmaquito
- meh, one of 230 mass shooting so far this year in the US. I'm tired of caring for people who are too dumb and incapable to care for themselves._niko
- -thoughs and prayers
-wouldn't have happened if more people had guns
-Libtard cucks
-Rinse and repeat_niko - Another day in paradise.utopian
- 8grafician
- The circle of life.PhanLo
- 11 days later and this is already forgotten. US needs to get its shit together.instrmntl
- Ramanisky25
- Guns don't kill people, cops do.nb
- The problem will still have guns and it's our right to defend ourselves from the problem, tyranny, etc...MondoMorphic
- Guns don't kill people, bullets do.utopian
- bullets don't kill people, the fatal injury does.sted
- bullets don't kill people, physics kills peoplefuturefood
- physics don't kill people, psychos do.utopian
- I seen it on a documentary on BBC2,5timuli
- hotroddy3
- there was no shooting hereGnash
- BLDMmoldero
- BAM = Black Attitudes Matterrobotron3k
- Don't comply...get laid out!utopian
- Won't get off her phone. I'd have shot her!HAYZ1LLLA
- "he is about to tase me" jesus what a twatsureshot
- entitled dumbass gets taken down a notchterry_cloth
- entitlementdbloc
- Oh c'mon how many times have we seen a bro act 10 times worse than this? "Are you seriously arresting me bro?"err
- There are entitled dumbass white people in this world as well, what's your point. Let me guess. . . .RACISMterry_cloth
- Bluejam7
- lolmoldero
- fuck susan g komen thosarahfailin
- or dukes of hazardsarahfailin
- this guy is coolsarahfailin
- bhahahaMiguex
- What's the reason? He couldn't muster up the self loathing to blame everything on white oppression, aw, so close, spent the whole video flagellating and couldn'terry_cloth
- -t go the final stepterry_cloth
- # White Privilege Mattersutopian
- Yea, all those white street gangs are out of controll, the disproportionate amount of white people in jail too, it's all somebody else's fault, good messageterry_cloth
- cum_cloth_commentaryutopian
- Obsession with ejaculate utopitardterry_cloth
- inteliboy6
It seems most people in "real life" have a lot of common sense... though you turn on the TV or read mass-media news and it's a bunch of triggered people running around causing havoc. Amazing how this planet is turned to shit by a few.
- more than just a few!utopian
- tv= tunnel visionyurimon
- Don't believe everything you see on TV, yoset
- TV is just holograms and CGIyuekit
- tv = lowest social common denominatorhotroddy
- Media sells sensationalism. Turn it off and read some news in yahoo or something. Ffs stay away from cable news they seem to be 90 percent opinion.HijoDMaite
- fooler5
- and the right to protect my child with said gun enables a lunatic to threaten my child's life... and the circle of doom continues [awaits pro gun backlash]fadein11
- proper gun storage makes kenley's point moot. plus, anyone with the name kenley probably has nothing worth listening to say anywaysterry_cloth
- not sure what you mean fadein, care to explainterry_cloth
- terry, see story above.fooler
- She should never be allowed to own a gun. And should face criminal child-endangerment charges.iCanHazQBN
- proper gun storage might hinder one's ability to get the gun in time to use it. that always bothered memonospaced
- Finger print pistol safes bolted down are the way to go. Quick deployement. The point is that the problem is irresponsible people. The same type of people who dterry_cloth
- Don't use weight appropriate child car seats and leave cleaning products lying around. The gun itself didn't do anything wrong obviouslyterry_cloth
- 'My nght to protect my child...' ...if they handle guns like they handle their kerning we're all fuckedPonyBoy
- There should be an IQ test before people are allow to buy gun. And ya finger print lock would be a nice add.pango
- IQ doesn't measure responsibility. Plenty of academically uninclined people who aren't complete shit at parenthoodterry_cloth
- perhaps parenthood test!pango
- Ramanisky21
Presidential hopeful Dr. Ben Carson says he would bum rush a gunman if he was in the same situation as last weeks mass shooting in Oregon ..
what an utter choad juggler
yeah OOOOOOOK.
at 1:00
- "If a gunman walks up to you and asks 'What religion are you?', that is the ultimate test of your faith." WTF IS HAPPENING WITH YOU, AMERICAnb
- haha "choad juggler".
I 100% agree with whatever that is.detritus - ben carson is a dip shit. a surgeon who refutes evolution. what. but yea, what a smarmy fucker, he would shit his pants and beg for mercygilgamush
- "Conservatives" eat this shit up. They'll probably compare him to Reagan or John Wayne...IRNlun6
- not really, he is a mealy mouthed weakling who would say anything to please his constituents, juuuust like every other poloticiangilgamush
- LOL Gilga "mealy mouthed"Ramanisky2
- mealy mouthed...spit coffee on my display:)utopian
- Yes, he would say anything to please his constituents, which is why he's talking tough. He knows his audience.IRNlun6
- Yeh. He's a complete dickbag. But he did grow up in the Detroit ghetto.dirtydesign
- Meh, so did my father in law. Doesn't mean he is tough or has street smarts unfortunately. Back then the ghetto wasn't all that unsafe a place to be livinggilgamush
- True. Race riots are no biggie.dirtydesign
- They only lasted for about a week so yea Mr sarcastic, no big dealgilgamush
- when I heard BC say this I immediately thought about the time I had a gun put to my head... YOU FREEZE UP if you're not trained... I froze of course...PonyBoy
- ... the last thing you think about is bum-rushing the gunman... ... who seriously thinks like that?PonyBoy
- Good for him. The anti self defense crowd believes you should be killed. Anti gunners are pro tytanny.Hayoth
- what would you do? some of you believe guns are bad, but confronted by a shooter, you'll just let him shoot you? I'm not understanding the logic??GeorgesII
- This guy always sounds so dull and lethargic. No energy. Yawn.Krassy
- Carson is the human XanaxRamanisky2
- nb3
It would be interesting if one small (low population) state could have a referendum and enact very strict gun control laws, a buyback program, allow residents to sell their guns to other states, and start doing state-border searches. Essentially, try to rid just one state of guns, and put up protection at the border. You would need overwhelming support from the residents of that state, but maybe there is a state that wants to try it.
Of course, this idea wouldn't ever become law because the NRA and gun-lobby would undoubtedly foresee that this idea would likely reduce shootings and spread to other states, so they would respond with intense legal pressure citing the constitution and would likely win in the Supreme Court.
But maybe the federal govt could step in and say, "Look, we're going to try this in this one state. The people voted for it, so let's try it." But, let's say some state figured out how to do this, and the violent crime rate in the state dropped significantly over time, eventually one day a gun would slip through and there would be a shooting. And on that very same day, even if it were decades later, the entire gun lobby would scream, "See it didn't work!!!"
The 2nd Amendment ultimately protects your right to live with guns, but does not protect you from them. Sad.
- Try Hawaii. Lowest gun ownership %, wouldn't have to worry about borders, can just throw the guns into the ocean.kona
- But then again... that would mean we'd be arming the aquatic life with uzis and ak-47s. I don't know if our government can handle sharks packing heat.kona
- Ok, that won't be a problem. I just got off the phone with Aquaman. He said he'd put the word out to the fish NOT to pick up the guns and start firing them.kona
- Crisis averted. Jesus, I really am a great problem solver. I wonder why I can't hold a job?kona
- gilgamush will have the last word in the comments thread, no matter whatmonospaced
- Not on my watchkona
- "put up protection at the border" — this is working great between the us and mexicoimbecile
- haha konamoldero
- US/Mexico border is not a fair comparison, because a) guns are legal on both sides, b) entirely different organizations on each side.nb
- Maybe your desire for control make you fit to run for office.yurimon
- The state would need to be extremely committed, to the point of battling the NRA in a 2nd Amendment vs State's Rights legal debate that would span for years.nb
- And, you'd also need a state where the people are largely in support of it. It wouldn't work if everyone decided to hide their guns in their basements.nb
- why would a state go against the supreme law of the land and its people? that type of state autonomy is a dictatorship. lolyurimon
- its good that you are just a passive aggressive and emotionally oppressed designer.yurimon
- you should try a province in canada, much more easily convinced of stupid shit ive been hearing.yurimon
- Yuri: Are you suggesting that the States should not have rights? Or that they everyone should obey the Supreme Court? Or everyone should submit to the Fed Govt?nb
- state is a dead fiction. it has no rights above its creators. the people. you need to really study broh. you are delusional on how things work. im not reallyyurimon
- yuri, if you're not an emotionally oppressed designer, or a primate, what are you and what are you doing here?monospaced
- you're certainly overflowing with passive-aggressivene... like most people here.monospaced
- pro gun person. i just understand these things from real research. which is different from assumption. if i was like 18 when i based all my ideas from hearsayyurimon
- i would have been exactly like you. reason its supposed to be a republic. i'm sorry dude.yurimon
- im not passive aggressive mono. i call like i see it. but im basing this on how he was going to do some crab shit react to noise from a neighbor. so.yurimon
- Sigh.nb
- state run governments are different on each side as well. you're asking for succession of a state who is willfully disarming itself.imbecile
- nb, seriously. study up a bit without political bias. youd be amazed what you find.yurimon
- northern states should separate and join canada, one by one, the rest of the country will be taken over by Latinos before or later anywaydrgs
- Fuck off, troll. You're consistently posting links from the most extreme right wing blogs. Don't patronize me.nb
- so much for unbiased study. lol. Its sad that for an artist you only see the world as labels. You interpret the constitution as a right wing document? you knowyurimon
- people who created were called liberal back then. dont study bro. there is kryptonite in books.yurimon
- I was talking about garbage like washingtonsblog.com and all that other trash you post. Don't talk to us about "bias".nb
- some stuff i post is good some not so good. can you tell which is which?yurimon
- you commented on the ak article, how good it was when it was just a vague personal experience editorial. so you tell meyurimon
- Ok, so I'm wrong for commenting on that editorial, and you're right for posting links to extreme right wing blogs. Got it.nb
- i really dont label content as right wing or left wing. thats just ignorant to do. cant speak for you though.yurimon
- *rolls eyes.nb
- To be clear, I'm not suggesting this as a workable plan. I just said that it "would be interesting."nb
- That's pretty much what happened here in Aus. Apparently gun numbers are rising again but the mass shootings are rare(r than the US).MrT
- *in the US.MrT
- it is an interesting idea. i find it problematic to adopt the thinking that the government and it's laws are the answer to this problem though. any one remebergilgamush
- how prohibition turned out. people want what they want regardless of other people misguided self righteousness. and people are going to get what they want one wgilgamush
- way or the other. in stead of domestic manufacturing revenue from guns, it will all be revenue right in the pocket of cartels and criminals. kind of like the wegilgamush
- weed legalization rational. you can't suppress a large group of peoples desires by force of law and expect it to go down wellgilgamush
- instead, you try to regulate it a little better on state by state basis and collect tax revenue off it, which is exactly what is going on. again, just like weedgilgamush
- and regarding the comment about how i always get the last word, you are fuckin right kiddo, i thought i told you, i am here to win. lolgilgamush
- gilga is right. its going to be like drug war. something happens when something becomes illegal. get profitable for large organized crime to take over.yurimon
- I've also aware that statistics dont cover prevention incidents. i know you guys hate this but I read while ago that the prevention rate is 300 times higheryurimon
- then crime reported.yurimon
- What is a prevention incidentgilgamush
- if you averted a crime by brandishing a piece. this along with other types of incidents dont get reported or hard to make into stats. crime prevention.yurimon
- That's not how stats work. You can't with any amount of accuracy try to measure the absence of something. If the crime was stopped than it never happened and magilgamush
- May not have. It would be a waste of time to try to get those numbersgilgamush
- fadein114
Can someone explain in a compact form why so many people will not let go of the right to bear arms... or at least have it tighter regulated?
It's insane... I just do not get it.
I know the right argues its liberals taking away freedom etc... but its gotta be deeper than that.
What a strange nation that cares more about the right to carry a gun than having free healthcare for anyone who needs it.
I am not stirring up anything here - just interested why a nation, after so many gun based tragedies refuses to accept it has a massive problem that no other country with tight gun laws suffers from.
- Just blame the victim...it's the Murican way!utopian
- Always wanted to know your nationality Utopian - I agree with pretty much everything you post, are you american but can seefadein11
- its faults? or an ex pat living there? genuinely interested. no QBN pisstake here.fadein11
- Americanutopian
- It's a fetish, plain and simple. 'Mericans are infatuated with guns and will use anything to justify more of them.formed
- Not all of them.monospaced
- formed is infatuated with melodramagilgamush
- the smell of freshly fired gunpowder is said to be addictive... also, taking away guns = castration to some guys...crazy it seemsvaxorcist
- oooooor, it's a constitutional right, not a privilege, and the government will and can not infringe on my rights regardless of the details of the circumstancegilgamush
- unless they feel like invoking the highly unconstitutional ramifications of the patriot act and then who ever they don't like are all getting royally shaftedgilgamush
- And cordite has no chemically habit forming propertiesgilgamush
- constitutional right... I hear this a lot. so you believe your government has no right to change laws that clearly are not working for the good of all? Bizarre.fadein11
- No, the government works for the people, in of itself it cannot change anything. And there aren't enough people who feel the way you so to make any differencegilgamush
- Gilga. Are you for more stric gun law or does that violates your constitutional right?pango
- Strict gun laws won't solve anything in the US. It's different over here. That approach doesn't work, we have tried that and it failedgilgamush
- That logic is more than a little fuzzy. The argument conveniently changes when you bring up the details..."it won't matter", "cars kill people", etc.formed
- The real problem is the lack of acknowledgement and unwillingness to negotiate to make for a safer world.formed
- Tried before? Like what?pango
- where do rights come from?yurimon
- seems like they dont teach critical thinking in art school or civics for that matter.yurimon
- You said USA tried more stric gun laws before. Like what? When?pango
- Are you lazy, do some research pango. should I goglle it for yougilgamush
- how do you know how I feel?fadein11
- Yes please google it for me.pango
- C'mon gilga you know there has never been a truly restricting national gun laws that have been attempted. If so, we would have heard about them being lifted.monospaced
- In fact, it would be a major topic.monospaced
- There was an assault weapon ban that has expired and various states have more or less severe restrictions. It difrent state to stategilgamush
- omahadesigns6
- Shoot a lion, blame the person; shoot a person, blame the gunBustySaintClaire
- Get out of here w/that sensible / logical statement, Busty... this is all about emotion right now! Also - who's regulating marriage and vaginas?PonyBoy
- And what do marriage and vaginas have to do w/gun laws?PonyBoy
- haha omaha the whole 2 wrongs don't make a right doesn't quite work. however gov should stay out of marriage and any tax arrangements. simply tax individualsdeathboy
- i always said the gay marriage crusade missed the mark because they missed the arguement. it was never about needing gov approval for private affairdeathboy
- but should have been focused on tax and rules that gov created based on marriages. of course that would trickle into immigration as well with marriages...deathboy
- but maybe a marriage gives no one any more right to be in the US than someone just wanting out of a shithole. and a hard numbered lottery betterdeathboy
- Curious how vaginas are regulated though?... that is news too me.deathboy
- ^ I assume it's referring to abortion.Hayzilla
- Of course it’s abortion ffsmonospaced
- ha i was thinking like piercing or physical alterations. when i think vagina i don't think life at all. a nice example of meanings on little infodeathboy
- of course you were ... fucking cluelessmonospaced
- So, you're saying that EVERY time you've seen a mention in a meme comparing vagina regulation to guns, you didn't know it was about abortions???monospaced
- You really thought, after all these years, it was a discussion about piercings and alterations? HOly fucking retard alert.monospaced
- haha mono you simp. I have never and will never relate guns to vaginas. you trying a simple art act or something? to connect the two you'd be a fooldeathboy
- but to the point gov may try such a absurd thing they'd fuck it up. Not sure effects but would depend on measuresdeathboy
- but keep in mind gun ownership is different than abortion and completely unconnected. idea of abortion differ based on age. However no baby has independet righsdeathboy
- and has nothing to do with gun rights. could argue age of consent on rights. but other than that no realtiondeathboy
- you literally asked how vaginas were regulated, so I told you ... and they are connected in the sense that politicians are regulating both, ffsmonospaced
- your attempts to make it seem like I'm either ignorant or unintelligent are pathetic, because I'm neither, btw.monospaced
- you clearly have little-to-know understanding of the history of abortion regulation in this nation, so your input is garbage.monospaced
- If you did, you wouldn't say such idiotic and ignorant things. Ask anyone here, and they'll agree you sound like a fucking moron on the matter. Fact.monospaced
- mono u always miss the point. marriage, "vaginas" and guns need no regulation. the whole 2 wrongs dont make a right...deathboy
- but since your hung up on the vagina issue yea i got it. but vagina doesnt quite highlight the nature of human rights to infants and suchdeathboy
- and i dont care what ppl think of me, but i will say i think you are a bit dim. always missing the point.deathboy
- Ramanisky27
- She's onto something.NBQ00
- It's ALWAYS going to be men. Wether the real cause is mental health, video games, gun laws or religion. Violence will always manifest through stupid bloody men.Hayzilla
- It’s almost like there are some inherent differences between the 2 sexesGnash
- If you look into it, almost all the problems on Earth are caused by men, not women.Bennn
- Ramanisky28
Words from a REAL President.
- A real ex-president, yes.Maaku
- so by taking all freedom away we may stop some. or is it just simply political fear of a well armed populace trying to hype statistically minor instances?deathboy
- collectivist societies usually like to disarm its people before pushing more drastic measures. historically speaking.deathboy
- look at xinxiang that has to have tracking qr codes on cutlery for control. if history is any measure the advents created by media (and yes the media is toodeathboy
- a large art of blame more than instruments) is more trouble comes after disarming a free populace.deathboy
- and as i said that racist talk that ignores the human condition and separates as evil or good does nothingdeathboy
- you can FUCKOFF deathboy !!!!!Ramanisky2
- utopian5
Armed with an AR-15 and a handgun, the white christian gunman Ryan Christopher Palmeter was an ardent Trump and MAGA supporter from Florida, killed three black people in a racially motivated attack.
- Not a drag queencrazyprick
- Not a drag queen?palimpsest
- Gravy Seal?PhanLo
- @crazyprick
You jynxed me.palimpsest - So not a gay trans bi fluid drag queen ??Ramanisky2
- This is a utopian post we speaking about!
No funny biznez.palimpsest - looks like a hotroddy to memonospaced