Mass Shooting & Gun Violence | Shooting at Brown University

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wmheel1287 said:
Because as a society for at least my entire life and several decades before it, we have been completely beholden to whatever interests spend the most money no matter the societal cost. For at least the last 70 years, we have had no actual soul as a nation beyond "highest bidder". How long did we tolerate the lies about cigarettes? Just like everyone knew they killed, everyone knows it is the guns but allows themselves to be cowed by the big spenders in our governance.
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Actually, the truly powerful groups like the NRA don't get there via money. The NRA has cultivated a considerable set of "gun rights purists" who vote primarily on the basis of its recommendations about politicians based on how pro-gun they are. That's been the NRA's power. It's not different than the power the AARP used to have (though didn't exercise frequently). Or Bernie Sanders.
 
ZZLPHeels said:
I guess it is like having a neighbor that keeps you up every night by blasting loud music. Your town has an ordinance that says that anything under 80 DB is acceptable. The police have been over numerous times and the noise level on your property is at 78 DB so they can't do anything about it. You can try getting a new ordinance passed to lower the DB threshold, but you need 70% of your town to vote in favor of that idea and 60% of the town is friends with your neighbor and loves going over to his house to party, so you really don't have any good options.
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I would say it's like the noise level on your property being 90 db but the police can't do anything about it because they will get fired if they even try.
 
superrific said:
I would say it's like the noise level on your property being 90 db but the police can't do anything about it because they will get fired if they even try.
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And if they did, SCOTUS would say limiting the volume of music is a violation of the 1st amendment, even if they’d said something different before.
 
CFordUNC said:
This is purely rhetorical but why in the world do we as a collective American society tolerate living like this?
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Because a third of the country has decided they care about guns much, much more than other people and, given the 2A's place in the Constitution and how procedurally difficult it is to change the Constitution, that third of the country has been able to prevent any real efforts to address gun violence at the root of the problem.

It is yet another example of that third of the country exhibiting a tremendous moral failing while the rest of us continue to suffer the repercussions.
 
Ramrouser said:
No confidence in Brown’s President or the Mayor providing us any useful information regarding the shooter. Why no picture or name of the suspect? It’s like they’re hiding something.

Daily Mail reporting the shooter drove 17 hours from Wisconsin with two guns. Jewish Economics Professor’s classroom was targeted.
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www.rawstory.com

Cops 'throw FBI under the bus' in Brown move that stuns analyst: 'They said so explicitly'

CNN's Juliette Kayyem offered a harsh analysis of the investigation so far into the fatal shooting at Brown University, and she highlighted a significant break between local law enforcement and the FBI.FBI Director Kash Patel trumped the detention of a person of interest in the case Sunday...
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CNN's Juliette Kayyem offered a harsh analysis of the investigation so far into the fatal shooting at Brown University, and she highlighted a significant break between local law enforcement and the FBI.

FBI Director Kash Patel trumped the detention of a person of interest in the case Sunday morning, only to see him let go by police after finding no evidence to continue holding him. Kayyem told "CNN News Central" the case was already a mess.
 
I haven’t been following it closely, and now it’s gotten a little confusing. The initial guy who had his face, name, LinkedIn etc blasted all over the media was the FBI’s suspect but has now been released? And they have no idea who the shooter is?
 
lawtig02 said:
Maybe this is the moment for Kash’s magical gait analysis?
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If I represented the person arrested for the pipe bombing, the gait analysis pointing to a female DC cop and all the social media nonsense from Ka$h and Bongino would be part of my defense (reasonable doubt). Though I wonder if that case ever goes to trial.
 
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