Andy1

Nice boring win. Hopefully no injuries other than Josh’s nose. Onto Thursday night.

That Moore TD was understanding the skill of the player, creating space around them and letting him use his advantage to win. Great easy TD.

Nearly unrestricted access to unlimited fire power + brains poisoned by social media algorithms designed to breed anger = deadly shootings. When I was his age, lots of friends had squirrel or rabbit guns, deer guns, etc. There was no social media, no assault weapons available to the public and no school shootings and extremely few mass shootings. The combination of the two factors above make for predictable outcomes. Should government do anything to change the equation? Utah Governor Cox is responsibly pleading for people to cool down. That is a start.

I too was playing in the snow, shooting BB guns with friends, getting shot by same, shooting hoops and doing other typical boy stuff. This kid appears to have been at the shooting range learning how to shoot his parents arsenal. The guy may have been nuts but the parents taught him the skill to do it. Most nuts don’t have the tools or skill. Social media probably poisoned his brain to give him the desire to do it.

So do his parents qualify as groomers teaching and training him to be a deadly shooter? Maybe if he spent more time playing baseball as a kid instead of shooting, it would be a different story.

I don’t know much about him, but Republican Utah Governor Cox seems quite impressive in his handling of this crisis. He had a good message to stay off social media as our enemies in Russia and China are flooding the zone with false information designed to incite anger and divide us as a nation.

Thousands of leftists celebrating? Maybe I’m missing something but I don’t see celebration parades in the streets. And if they were, it doesn’t matter - idiots on either side will be idiots.

The murder of Kirk is bringing the idiots out from all sides. I still believe the vast majority of people have grace and tolerance of others. This is the distortion of social media which elevates the morons to nationwide notoriety.

As far as we know, the shooter was a he and not a they (as in more than one) not that we can rule out a they as in a pronoun. - Bad humor but surely appreciated by many here.

Who the hell is They? Were there multiple shooters? Has the conspiracy already started?

I agree with your point on social media. The people I interact with every day, from all sides of the political spectrum, aren’t rabid lunatics like the social media stars are. Social media provides the brain washing to motivate some people to violence. A lot of businesses make their billions by fostering hate in our society.

What do you mean? Who? How?

Go take your knife to a gun fight and see how you fare. A car isn’t killing Kirk today. The inability to stop every form of homocide isn’t a reason to not take steps to reduce the access to deadly weapons. This is why other countries look at us like we are nuts with our guns.

I think I’m a bit more optimistic than your view. I interact with all sorts of people and in daily interactions, I don’t see that much division. Maybe it’s just people being polite and when they go home they turn into social media warriors behind their keyboards. Places like PPP attract those who want to espouse their political views and battle online. Are all the provocative posters here really as argumentative when they meet someone face to face from the other side of the political divide? That would be weird. What is apparent though is that it is easier than ever to act out gun violence to whomever your target is. If you want to kill someone, get whatever gun you want and have at it.

Instead of being upset at how he or those with different views talk on politics, maybe we should be discussing how we can prevent gun violence.