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konnichiwa on 04 August 2019
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KLAMarine said:

the-pi-guy said:

-universal background checks

-programs to help mental illness

-programs to deal with extremist propaganda

There, 3 things that can be done without even banning a single gun.  

All three sound perfectly reasonable. The devil is in the details.

Jaicee said:

"When seconds count, the police are minutes away" is the only one that strikes me as a valid argument. [sarcasm] Which explains exactly why you need to have a semi-automatic instead of just a normal hand gun. It also explains why the NRA opposes the sale of smart guns that recognize their owner's fingerprints only fire when they pull the trigger. [/sarcasm]

The fact is that gun violence does, in fact, drop off starkly when stricter gun laws are in place.

Well if I was defending myself against someone else with a gun, I'm going to want as much in my favor as possible. If someone comes at me with a semi-automatic, I don't want to be stuck with a normal hand gun. I'd go for what gives me the greatest chance of success/survival and that would mean the most power money can offer.

konnichiwa said:

Well their are cases that are overblown, you can literally have at the same time a police officer shooting a black guy and killing him and a police officer shooting a white guy and also killing him.  The first police officer will be called racist and we get a rise in 'black lives matter' while we will not see the same effect with the white 'victim'.  

but in the case of texas everything points to a man who seemed to be a white nationalist who wanted to kill and shoot non whites, if all the points are confirmed you can only speak about a white nationlist terrorist attack.  The fear of white domestic grown up supremacists terrorists is growing. 

The second shootings seems clear to a non terrorist attack because he wasn't aiming at a certain group of people but rather a place so the colour of the shooter doesn't seems to matter.

Do we know why the Texas shooting occurred? Is there a manifesto somewhere?

That's why I said 'if all the points are confirmed'

The suspect is believed to be the author of a text posted on 8chan, an online message board frequently used by the far right, which describes a "cultural and ethnic replacement brought on by an invasion", alluding to Hispanic people in the US.

The four-page document, reportedly posted some 20 minutes before police received the first emergency call, also expresses support for the gunman who killed 51 people in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March.