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.

Who doesn’t have friends who joke with them about selling fully depreciated women to them? I’m sure it’s all just “locker room” talk. On the other hand, Momma always said how I’m defined by the friends I have. Maybe in Donalds deprived childhood, he never got that message.

I’m speechless. Love Prater!

It’s all about acting like you are jacked up on steroids with a double dose of testosterone. When you are strong, you don’t have to tell anyone. This comes from Trumps broken insecure brain.

Covid was a bit more than a minor respiratory virus…. Unless you think these people didn’t die.

This anti vax movement in the Republican Party is as stupid as the defund police stuff on the far left. This is all the opinion of a guy with a brain worm. I’m sure the kids of the politicians will be vaccinated. The less educated, those Trump says he loves, will be vulnerable and suffer. This also might be an opportunity for the insurance companies to profit more if they dont need to pay for as many shots. Three years from now, Republicans will disavow any association with this lunacy.

At least for driving they require testing of vision and your license may be revoked depending on changes in your health status. There are required training programs to take and testing to qualify to drive. Not so with the right to pack. Any suggestions on approaches you would support to reduce the plague of gun deaths in America?

I hear the cars analogy before. Most people depend on cars to work and live. Guns are different. I’m not an advocate for confiscation. I am an advocate for public education about the dangers of firearms and buy back programs to destroy them. Safe storage laws, background checks etc… It’s pretty simple - guns kill. The more guns there are, the more opportunities for tragedies. Now, I will admit that I live in a relatively community. People who legitimately feel threatened may have different calculus. But for most people, to buy a gun just because you can is inviting the opportunity for something really bad to happen to you or someone you love.

Yes. The stupidity of social media stunts is infinite. Those two pranks have totally different implications for the stupid boys who do them. It reminds me of an incident several years ago, where an off-duty cop was sleeping in his motel room. Someone tried to enter the room. He shot the person. When he turned on the lights he realized that he had killed his own son. Guns require the judgement of the gun owner to be perfect, all the time, otherwise tragedies can happen.

Too many gun owners are idiots. A kid shouldn’t be shot just because of a prank. In New York, a gun owner shot a girl who pulled into his driveway to turn around. When people buy the gun, they don’t expect that they may end up in prison because of their poor judgement using that gun.

The reality is… is that Trump is a frail old man with health issues, as is expected for someone his age. Grandpa needs his rest now.