Yet another college shooting

[RI]

This time it's Texas A&M. Several people have been shot, including police officers. Still developing.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Didn't they just have a tragedy when a bonfire collapsed? There don't seem to be any reported deaths, and I hope it'll stay that way.

[Marokai Backbeat]

Just the price we pay for freedom, RI.

[Franzl]

Just the price we pay for freedom, RI.

Guns don't kill people, people kill people.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Just the price we pay for freedom, RI.

Guns don't kill people, people kill people.

Specifically, people with guns, generally speaking.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

The shooting was off campus, so calling it a college shooting might not be accurate, but RIP to the deceased and best wishes for the injured.

[Vosem]

Just the price we pay for freedom, RI.

Guns don't kill people, people kill people.

Specifically, people with guns, generally speaking.

Do we really have to go through this again? It's not like anyone's convincing anyone else and the good guys have already won on this issue anyway, pretty much.

[Franzl]

Just the price we pay for freedom, RI.

Guns don't kill people, people kill people.

Specifically, people with guns, generally speaking.

Do we really have to go through this again? It's not like anyone's convincing anyone else and the good guys have already won on this issue anyway, pretty much.

Are the good guys the ones shooting people every second week?

[RI]

Two confirmed dead, one of whom was a cop, and five others wounded at least.

[fezzyfestoon]

This country is f[Inks]ed from top to bottom. What a disaster.

[Franzl]

This country is f[Inks]ed from top to bottom. What a disaster.

In most countries, these common "incidents" would change some opinions on certain matters...

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

This settles it, I'm moving to Canada.

[CLARENCE 2015!]

Terrible.....rest in peace to the victims. We do need a serious conversation here- not only for these tragedies but the hundreds more which occur every day and are not reported in the news media

[Mechaman]

Violence seems to be a serious issue in this country.  And I don't give a sh**t if it's gun related, knifing related, bathing salts related, etc. etc. etc. there needs to be an improvement in the national dialogue on this issue other than political strawmen.  Otherwise, this will remain a pretty pointless issue.

We need more ideas on how to tackle crime besides "ban all (insert violent tool here)" or "oh don't worry, it's just another day in America!"  There are a variety of issues at stake here that seem to be ignored by a large majority of people now days.  It's concerning that American culture is this violent, and I for one don't think we can change that by waving a magic wand and getting rid of guns.  Or by treating it like it's normal for people to shoot up colleges and sh**t.

Seriously, why is America so finksing violent?  Anybody, please?

[Hash]

This settles it, I'm moving to Canada.

If it's because you don't like violence, best not move to Toronto (and Montreal or Winnipeg?). If it's political, our Prime Minister is a hybrid of Mittens and Paul Ryan.

[Holmes]

Oh cool, I was starting to think the next massacre would be late.

And Toronto is a great city to live in. Don't take advice from someone who's never even lived there.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

I would suggest Calgary.

Also, southern Mississauga is nice, all things considered. Swing riding, good people, not too busy, close to the GO Station (especially Port Credit)... I'd go for it. In fact, I do.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I've spent time in Quebec City/the St Lawrence Estuary and in parts of the Maritimes, and while I personally thought that the former was nicer to visit I'd probably recommend sounding the latter for an Anglophone.

[Person Man]

This settles it, I'm moving to Canada.

If it's because you don't like violence, best not move to Toronto (and Montreal or Winnipeg?). If it's political, our Prime Minister is a hybrid of Mittens and Paul Ryan.

From what I heard about Harper is that he's basically as conservative as any Big Business Pro-Personhood Southern Strategy Nationalist Republican in the US....and pretty popular, too. I mean, Canada seems to be progressive enough that he probably just gets elected because the average Canadian voter probably says to himself "though  I think he's full of sh**t most of the time, the guy's a total badass and no one we actually agree with is as competent or as ambitious as he is"...but that's how it started here with Reagan and it could only be a matter of time before Harper, or Tory that is more conservative or  less restrained than he is starts talking about how to slowly sell off the Single-Payer health system (perhaps in a way that maintains current obligations to avoid unpolular political fallout) to insurance companies and implement personhood laws. That might be missing the point, but his Tories were elected in a landslide (like Bush-43 getting to 51 in New York or California...or at least in Oregon or Connecticut).


...but back to the original thing...we also have to worry about someone who claims that violence is caused by modernity or social or scientific progress debasing the value of human life. "Because we are so tolerant of gays and that he wasn't given a religious instruction and taught evolution in public school, he thought that life had no meaning". 

Then again, the same could be said about radical capitalism destroying the value of the rights of others to be safe...or it could just be that the pressures of a depressed economy have caused people who have much less to lose.