Jerry Atrick wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 2:09 pm

Spigzy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 2:03 pm Perhaps we can start a new forum category of "Only in America" for these things, it tends to tarnish the look of the "Rest of the World" category. We can also discuss Imperial British Measurements in the same place over a pint?

Would that be a British pint or a US wet pint?

A subject quite hard to fathom for many metric folk!

Spigzy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 2:12 pm

Jerry Atrick wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 2:09 pm

Spigzy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 2:03 pm Perhaps we can start a new forum category of "Only in America" for these things, it tends to tarnish the look of the "Rest of the World" category. We can also discuss Imperial British Measurements in the same place over a pint?

Would that be a British pint or a US wet pint?

A subject quite hard to fathom for many metric folk!

3500* people killed on 9/11 and they conducted 2 wars and spent (wasted) $10Trillion*

But 50,000*+ deaths a year - every year- killed by their own gun wielding hands, and that's not worth the effort to fix?

If America doesn't care enough to fix this problem, why should anyone care?

*approx number, copy and paste 'experts' can shove their precise numbers where the sun doesn't shine

Doc67 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 2:49 pm

Spigzy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 2:12 pm

Jerry Atrick wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 2:09 pm

Spigzy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 2:03 pm Perhaps we can start a new forum category of "Only in America" for these things, it tends to tarnish the look of the "Rest of the World" category. We can also discuss Imperial British Measurements in the same place over a pint?

Would that be a British pint or a US wet pint?

A subject quite hard to fathom for many metric folk!

3500* people killed on 9/11 and they conducted 2 wars and spent (wasted) $10Trillion*

But 50,000*+ deaths a year - every year- killed by their own gun wielding hands, and that's not worth the effort to fix?

If America doesn't care enough to fix this problem, why should anyone care?

*approx number, copy and paste 'experts' can shove their precise numbers where the sun doesn't shine

Over half of those deaths are suicides. Tragedies of a different sort.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2 ... n-the-u-s/

The concept of a militia, with respect to the much referenced 2nd amendment, may need to be revisited, as it seems many of the forthright advocates want to use the idea almost as a provocation with the very entity that the 2nd amendment was intended as a protection against. I’m not sure that even the original proponents would have had that idea in mind.

It also seems to me that this much vaunted constitution might have benefited from some impartial legal input to avoid all these poorly thought out excuses in the face of common sense.

Back to the current event (all of a sudden, pushing the execution of school children towards page 2), I wonder if ethnicity is going to be pushed harder in this case, further obscuring the appalling tragedies in such a short period.

Jerry Atrick wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 2:09 pm

Spigzy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 2:03 pm Perhaps we can start a new forum category of "Only in America" for these things, it tends to tarnish the look of the "Rest of the World" category. We can also discuss Imperial British Measurements in the same place over a pint?

Would that be a British pint or a US wet pint?

That would be a megapint.

The alleged shooter was a patient at the hospital in question.

TheImplication wrote: ↑Fri Jun 03, 2022 8:20 am

Doc67 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 2:49 pm

Spigzy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 2:12 pm

Jerry Atrick wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 2:09 pm

Spigzy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 2:03 pm Perhaps we can start a new forum category of "Only in America" for these things, it tends to tarnish the look of the "Rest of the World" category. We can also discuss Imperial British Measurements in the same place over a pint?

Would that be a British pint or a US wet pint?

A subject quite hard to fathom for many metric folk!

3500* people killed on 9/11 and they conducted 2 wars and spent (wasted) $10Trillion*

But 50,000*+ deaths a year - every year- killed by their own gun wielding hands, and that's not worth the effort to fix?

If America doesn't care enough to fix this problem, why should anyone care?

*approx number, copy and paste 'experts' can shove their precise numbers where the sun doesn't shine

Imagine if the $50 billion or whatever it is up to now that was spent on Ukraine was instead used to help solve issues in the US. If that kind of money can just materialize for Ukraine, why not hardening up schools or treating mental health?

ok, i'll bite
what would you suggest the government do to stop gun violence with the 50 billion?

Harden up schools????wtf does that mean?