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Nice allies, Putin cozies up to.This is unheard of in international affairs. I’m shocked.
Quite correct, rosie. The cost of processing meat here is four to five times that of overseas, and, yes, countries like Indonesia don’t have the capacity to store chilled meat.
I see the tree of American liberty has been nourished once again by the blood of its children. What an evil cult the NRA is.
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Indonesia has a significant number of jobs in feedlots & the slaughter supply chain. They do not want pre-slaughtered meat under any circumstances.
1. It costs more, much more.
2. It would destroy an entire domestic industry & tens of thousands of jobs.
If Australia does not supply, they’ll get it somewhere else, perhaps from somewhere that has Foot & Mouth disease.
mutley is parading his brand of disinformation again… yawn
m0nty says: May 25, 2022 at 8:36 am
Name the NRA members who carried out the shooting.
Then name the NRA members who celebrated the shooting.
Do it now.
the current situation in Sri Lanka makes this an easy decision. Still I don’t think anyone should be forced to live in Queensland.
“If you could specify the cruelty, it’d be most helpful to the thousands of jobs tied to that industry.
There’s sure to be something they’ve missed. Outside eyes are always helpful.”
If you’d read my piece, I’m not advocating for its abolition. It is my opinion.
Every week people are killed by illegally owned guns in Chicago and other places.
Is that the fault of the NRA?
rickw, how is Mrs w doing?
MRI on Monday, results today. Still feeling pretty much the same.
Soros at Davos
Soros Warns ‘Civilization May Not Survive’ Putin’s War
This from someone who’s done his considerable best over decades to bring it all crashing down.
Daily Mail.
All the best, rickw.
Somebody should tell her the doom goblin thing is so last year.
let’s unpack mutley’s nonsense.
apparently if some nutjob shoots up anyone we must take all guns away from everyone.
so with this collectivist punishment logic. if someone stabs someone with a knife, we must take knives away from everyone.
if someone buys drugs with money we should take money away from everyone.
if someone uses a car in a ramraid, we must take cars away from everyone.
if someone says something nasty we must censor everyone.
you’re the enemy of freedom and liberty mutley, a useful idiot and mere canon fodder for fascists.
Uvalde, Texas. I spent a few weeks there in 1986.
m0ntysays:
May 25, 2022 at 8:36 am
I see the tree of American liberty has been nourished once again by the blood of its children. What an evil cult the NRA is.
Have you confirmed that the shooter is a member of the NRA, or are you just slandering because you can?
Have you confirmed that the weapon use is registered to a licensed owner, who used it in the attack. or are you just slandering because you can?
Kenneally conqueror Dai Le’s eligibility under question under s44.
Perhaps someone should lodge a complaint about Elbow?
Every week people are killed by illegally owned guns in Chicago and other places.
Is that the fault of the NRA?
Yes!*
*Munty logic.
Shooter apparently shot his grandmother first, she appears to have survived so far, seems to me publicising these school shootings makes them more attractive to the next angst filled young man wanting to be remembered for all the wrong reasons.
Robb elementary
APRA already forced the individual company funds out of the market and into industry funds or master trusts in the early 2000s through increasingly onerous compliance and qualifications requirements.
So Jim Chalmers was only yesterday turning back a boatfull of illegals as proof that Labor would control the borders. Yet today he’s saying that not deporting illegals to the same country is necessary or something? Obviously the two sides of his brain don’t talk to each other. Or he’s speaking out of both sides of his mouth.
Yes, Rosie. They wrote the laws passed by Republicans to make guns easy to get, legally or illegally.
Texas Governor Abbott passed six laws last year relaxing gun regulations. The NRA is set to move its HQ to Texas. This massacre is entirely on the gun lobby.
Cassie of Sydney says: May 25, 2022 at 8:41 am
No if I read your piece. I did read it. You used this sentence:
If you could specify the cruelty Cassie, it’d be most appreciated by the thousands whose jobs & prosperity depend upon the industry. For it’s clearly something they’ve missed.
(“Shop blindness” applies just as much to livex as it does to a corner shop)
Outside eyes are always very useful.
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Nazis controlled guns.
Nazis must be punched on sight.
M0nty wants to control guns.
[this next sentence writes itself]
they should be easy to get, your brain is rotting from parroting marxist talking points
“I think it’s cruel.”
That’s right and I do think it’s cruel. That’s my opinion, one I’m quite entitled to. Yes, it’s based on emotion, I read Johanna’s piece above and her rebuttal is one I respect. She’s right.
She embarrassed them. She must be punished!
You’ve discarded a lot of critical thinker points there Cassie.
How many thousand jobs are involved in the live sheep trade?
Full time equivalents.
I remember years ago ( the 70s?), there was some sort of unofficial agreement by the media not to publicise school fires. There used to be a lot of them during school holidays.
When they were no longer reported, the number of fires dropped.
Have I remembered this correctly, or just imagined it?
Monty, tell us about your views on killing babies,…….abortion…..
Surprised mØnty went with the NRA evil cult thing,
not the Tucker Carlson superfan thing.
Hmm.
US Hospitals Overwhelmed With Teens in Mental Crisis (Newsmax, 24 May)
So fascist lefty policies have caused a teen mental health crisis in the US. I wonder…?
It seems the National Party is thinking about saying …
FUCK OFF BARNABY!
He’s not centre-left enough for them.
(Not that I have much time for him, but that appears to be the reasoning.)
While people’s time gets taken up dribbling shit with Monty, is there anyone else that feels like being proactive and can help finding out who the Austraians are , like our “E commissioner” at Davos, and the WHO power grab being held simultaneously?
…..
3,500 jobs, the majority in Western Australia, and the trade itself is worth just over 130 million dollars a year.
Funny how it’s always “Ban the guns!” when the worst school massacre was using explosives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster
Then, of course, they ignore things like the Whiskey Au Go Go fire. It’s never about meaningful measures, it’s about control. Can you imagine the amount spend on the 1996 buyback being spent on mental health? What a difference that would have made?
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munty
Yes, Rosie. They wrote the laws passed by Republicans to make guns easy to get, legally or illegally.
Chicago has some of the strictest gun control laws in the US.
You haven’t answered my questions, repeated below for your convenience.
Have you confirmed that the shooter is a member of the NRA, or are you just slandering because you can?
Have you confirmed that the weapon used is registered to a licensed owner, who used it in the attack, or are you just slandering because you can?
Mr Tedious continues to be tedious.
Job for Life: W.H.O. Chief Tedros Gifted Another Five-Year Term Unopposed (24 May)
Monty, I’m more worried about guns and other weapons in the hands of governments. They kill children and others wholesale as well as retail.
100 million + killed by governments as a matter of policy since the beginning of the 20th Century.
Your side don’t want to spend money on mental health either.
It’s all bad faith with you lot.
When Billy-Joe Whiteboy runs amok it’s extreme right wing terrorism.
When Salvador Ramos runs amok it’s the gun.
It is never just a crazy person.
And when they identify 100 – 200 potential Martin Bryants nation-wide who are gun-owners, what then?
Semi-automatic you-lotting this morning.
You should be glad of that. You’d have been committed by now.
Don’t change the subject, Eyrie. It’s okay to be concerned about school shootings and about war.
There could be an upside…lately he’s been very critical of China’s zero covid policy and he’s said he’s open to the possibility of a Wuhan lab leak. Two years ago that would have seen him sacked.
The ABC still wallowing in Morrison Derangement Syndrome:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-25/lifting-minimum-wage-isn-reckless-its-whats-needed/101095804
What, by the way, will Nikki Savva do for a living instead of her weekly ‘Scott Morrison is hopeless because ….’ column in the SMH?
But China and the WHO are Siamese twins.
What’s wrong exactly with having a discussion about a current event, Monty or no Monty, wannabe Narrative Controller?
Answer the question monty.
Stop prevericating and deflecting with false accusations of “bad faith” from “yewlott”.
At least twelve months of “this is the legacy of that wrecker Morrison”.
That is very strange. Any theories???.
Hands up everyone who’s cool with a Keating style inflation event.
18% interest rates for everyone!
Monty:
Perhaps it’s a little early to be trying to ascertain blame here?
Should we wait a little to find out some, you know, FACTS?
If you have money invested at 0.25%, rising interest rates might not be such a bad thing.
Semi-automatic you-lotting this morning.
Liberty quote.
Doesn’t Monty share that “you lot” affectation with Numbers as well as that late old commie, Peter Cundall? Something about collectivists and stereotyping your enemies.
Has Fat Cloive launched his Court of Disputed Returns case yet?
munty is “you lotting” (stereotyping, like all good fascist leftists) again.
Makes it easier to shoot them when the time comes.
Presumably this serves their purpose, not ours.
Struth:
On the Recallibration Of Our Speech post.
Found this one buried in the news. Doesn’t seem to be as prominent as another story. I wonder why?
11 Dead, 5 Wounded In Mexican Hotel Massacre (25 May)
We should ask the NRA about it. /s
Winston Smithsays:
May 25, 2022 at 9:33 am
Monty:
Perhaps it’s a little early to be trying to ascertain blame here?
Should we wait a little to find out some, you know, FACTS?
munty don’t need yer steenkeeng facts, he knows that everything bad is caused by “you lot”.
johanna says: My understanding is that one of the main reasons for live exports of meat animals is that the retailers (e.g. local markets) and their customers do not have access to, or can’t afford, refrigeration.
Correct. Take a trip through the small villages of isolated parts of Indonesia and East Timor and you will see this. They slaughter on a Thursday night at the coolest part of the night, and everyone buys from the market on Friday.
They only have meat safes – some places pay a bit to connect to a small generator – but in general they can only eat meat Friday to Sunday or thereabouts.
Zipstersays:
May 25, 2022 at 8:47 am
Very well said, Zippy.
I saw some footage of this guy’s presentation last night. No wonder the klimate pharisees are not happy.
Note also who are the purveyors of this interminable laughable screechy wrongness – collectivist cretins. No surprises there, eh labore economics PhDs? You preposterous numbskulls.
YES!
Only 35% of Indonesian households own a fridge. If they could afford to buy one, most couldn’t afford to run one.
The wheels are coming off Xi’s rickshaw.
The gun lobby is responsible for the massive proliferation of guns in America. I don’t care if the shooter was a card-carrying NRA member or not, the gun lobby is to blame for the easy access to guns that the shooter took advantage of. 14 kids are dead, that is a fact.
There is no defending this morally, just as there was no defending Sandy Hook. The only choice is whether to ignore it or not. The gun lobby successfully prevented action after Sandy Hook, they will no doubt be working furiously to keep enabling the next school shooting. They don’t care about kids, they just want the money.
Rose I’m not cool with it, but we’re getting it anyway.
Dutton to be elected unopposed as gliberal leader this morning apparently, with that useless idiotic bint Ley as his deputy.
That’ll continue the gliberals’ lurch to the extreme right …
You could be bloviating about tranny activists there, you useless infuriating fact free dunderhead.
what’s not to love about 8% inflation and 2% bank return…
It helps.
Where are Angus Taylor’s pants?
In other news: latest NY subway shooter: a mentally disturbed black chap.
School shooter a mentally disturbed hispanic
But white supremacy.
What caused the massive proliferation of guns in Mexico then? As I recall Mexico has very tight firearms laws.
I’m yet to determine whether the school had a sign on the front gate saying “gun free zone” like Sandy Hook did. Doesn’t look like the teachers were armed either. And apparently no security guards. But since the Left pretty much controls schools, including in Texas, that would not altogether be surprising. However such details don’t seem to’ve been addressed in the commentary yet.
And obviously white supremacy drove these innocent muzzies to try and honour kill heir yung daughter/sister.
Yes, m0nster can’t even wait until the bodies are cold before appropriating them for The Cause.
The trouble is, he’s not the only one guilty of that.
#alldeathsarevaxdeaths
There is one gun store in all of Mexico, which sells less than 50 guns per day.
More than ten times that many are smuggled in from America every day.
More than ten times that many are smuggled in from America every day.
IIRC, the Obama administration did a bit of that.
And who is this kunt:
Australian Politician at Davos Explains that We Need a “Recalibration” of Freedom of Speech
Is deportation an option here?
So you are saying the massive proliferation of guns in Mexico has nothing to do with sale and regulation of guns? How odd.
Not a politician.
Not elected anyway.
More than ten times that many are smuggled in from America every day.
You’re such a liar. One hopes you get sick again soon. Also that rub and tug’s first scandal happens soon so you slither back into your crevice.
You’re an idiot Monty.
The shooter was apparently Hispanic, the shooting occurred 75 miles from the Mexican border, a country renowned for its superb law and order and appropruate use of guns but law abiding NRA members are at fault because money?
And no I don’t have a glib solution to this apparently unique American problem.
I wonder if controlling the border better would help?
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Perhaps having a wall would inhibit flow of illegal traffickers. It’s an idea.
But Gateway Pundit cohenite.
Opens up with:-
FMD.
Must be one of the CHRISTIAN websites.
Mexico might be better off making it easier to legally acquire guns in country.
More than ten times that many are smuggled in from America every day.
Munty forgets that firearms are pre industrial revolution technology and we are post industrial revolution.
Bans and controls are ridiculous and pointless. Remember that time the Bikers in Adelaide set up a bloke in a machine shop to fix their gun shortage?
Also that rub and tug’s first scandal happens soon so you slither back into your crevice.
Rub and tug is out and about in Asia, anything could happen.
Armadillosays:
May 25, 2022 at 9:44 am
It is not the case that refrigerated meat can be substituted in these markets.
Only 35% of Indonesian households own a fridge. If they could afford to buy one, most couldn’t afford to run one.
Just what the Liars and Slime (and Teal Ducks) want for here.
No, the people decide to own guns because it’s a constitutional right, champ.
Though 35% might be a bit above their target number.
The Texas school shooter was, it is emerging, possibly a gang member. As well as fetanyl and every other drug weapons in large numbers are coming across the border. There is no information as to whether there was an armed guard at the school.
You’re a grub muntifa.
If only they could build something along the border to stop the flow of drugs and guns, some kind of barricade or barrier … a wall?
Mmyes, just think of all those Australian school shootings.
The gun lobby is responsible for the massive proliferation of guns in America.
No.
Freedom and Individual Responsibility is, per 2A.
Quickly M0nty…
Which has the higher per capita rate of gun massacres; USA or Switzerland?
Bans and controls are ridiculous and pointless. Remember that time the Bikers in Adelaide set up a bloke in a machine shop to fix their gun shortage?
There was a CNC machine shop in California where the employees came in after hours and had a nice sideline in making sub machine guns.
Then there are EM launchers/mass drivers/rail guns.
Ammo is bits of steel. All you need is copper wire, plastics, LiPo batteries and a few electronic components. These will get better.
Armed guards at school, or arming teachers in classrooms, is such a dumb idea. How about disarming the crazy people, try that to see if it works (hint: it works in literally every other country).
The availability of firearms is one issue but what’s more difficult to address is why an eighteen year old boy would kill little children.
The debate has already formed around gun control and party politics yet the inexplicable nature of the attack is not canvassed.
Funny how liberals never seem to wonder why a mass shooter intends to kill himself while murdering the unprotected and innocent. Liberals never want to look in the mirror; always talking about root causes except when it matters. I don’t know if its because they’re afraid of what they will see or because there is nothing there. Nihilism either way.
Mmyes, just think of all those Australian school shootings.
Australia has plenty of shootings, just not well publicised because we “fixed” the problem. Those gang members don’t seem to be having much trouble finding their guns.
How about disarming the crazy people,
Plus of course the arseholes and Trump supporters and every other category faux conservatives like you disapprove of.
SSRI’s for males under 25 is a bad idea. A small percentage of them get into murderous rages as a result.
Stop drugging school children!
Switzerland, which has an extremely high gun ownership rate with very lax laws.
Good one Salvo, you proved my point.
munty
The gun lobby is responsible for the massive proliferation of guns in America. I don’t care if the shooter was a card-carrying NRA member or not, the gun lobby is to blame for the easy access to guns that the shooter took advantage of.
The depth of stupidity displayed here is astonishing.
The “gun lobby” is responsible for criminal cartels smuggling guns into the US, across the Mexican border. Has the idiot munty not heard of Operation Fast and Furious, under which the Obama administration facilitated such actions? Is he really that stupid and ill-informed? How does he remember to breathe?
Like all ‘good’ socialists he will use the vehicles to serve a political purpose and celebrate past heroes of Da Revolution!
There will be ‘The Gillard’, which will have a klaxon like horn and a massively roomy boot. You can have any colour you like as long as it is Gingerella red (mostly red but grey where the seams of the panels and doors are – like hair roots)
The will ‘The Rudd’. The cabin will feature space for four people to sleep, a small kitchenette and larder. It will be insulated with tinfoil which will be connected to the battery. It will be worth $10,000 but the price will be $150,000 to stimulate the economy.
For those with a taste for more stately things there will be ‘The Gough’. A massive ornate vehicle with gold fittings, tasselled blinds for the windows, Corinthian leather interior – the lot. Sure, when you drive it oil leaks out in a steady stream and the engine will sound like the it was built from a mix of spare parts for a VW and a steamboat, the climate control will be stuck on ‘hot’, and it will grind to a halt after about 300m. It is then towed home, put in the garage, and people from all around to rhapsodise about what wonderful days they were when the Gough was running – but being very careful never to suggest driving it again. Just like the real Gough who was careful not to make too many public statements in his waning years for fear of drawing attention to the disfunction he actually created.
munty
How about disarming the crazy people, try that to see if it works
Are you recommending prejudice against the mentally challenged? Insanity shaming? Or simply more stereotyping?
You forgot the Hawke ML.
Panel van, obviously.
Worth keeping this in mind when Biden drones like monty extemporize. These are also the same people that think it’s cool to ‘shout their abortions’.
Across five years, Operation Fast & Furious involved a total of guns amounting to about four days’ worth of US-Mexico gun smuggling, a tiny drop in the ocean. It was an attempt to take down the crime cartels that are exploiting the NRA’s lax American gun law regime. It failed, but it was trying to do something about the problem that the American gun lobby caused.
Not that I know of.
Terror victim’s sister: I don’t want vengeance, just deterrence (Israel National News, 24 May)
Deterrence does seem to work, although with nutters it may only limit the damage they do. On the other hand Israel, which has a lot of armed teachers, seems to be able to deter school massacres pretty well.
Here’s What Happened When Israel Armed Teachers (2018)
Switzerland, which has an extremely high gun ownership rate with very lax laws.
Montifa is getting the attention it craves.
Mass shooting study by John Lott.
This is the important point: UPDATED: Mass Public Shootings keep occurring in Gun-Free Zones: 94% of attacks since 1950.
The Keating.
The working man classic sedan but with a fine French clock on the dash because you have a certain je ne sais quoi.
And the Keating.
A hearse.
There is no defending this morally, just as there was no defending Sandy Hook. The only choice is whether to ignore it or not. The gun lobby successfully prevented action after Sandy Hook, they will no doubt be working furiously to keep enabling the next school shooting. They don’t care about kids, they just want the money.
Actually there was action after Sandy Hook.
A friend of mine has lived all her life (except for university years) in or within about 10 minutes from Newtown Connecticut. She said that after the Sandy Hook shooting the woke community realised what a fuckup their “guns are bad so we shouldn’t have guns because guns are bad so we shouldn’t have guns…” policy had been. They reversed their previous ban on school security guards having guns. The schools have been safe since.
Lott talks specifically about the Texas school shooting by the alleged gang member:
A shooting at a Texas elementary school left 14 children and one teacher murdered. While about 30% of school districts in Texas 2020 had armed teachers and staff, unfortunately, the Robb Elementary School in the Uvalde, Texas CISD doesn’t appear to be one of them. Their firearm regulations are detailed here. There are no provisions in their regulations for teachers or staff to carry.
Unfortunately, as we found in our 2019 study, despite 20 states allowing teachers or staff to carry guns, all the school shootings have occurred in schools that don’t allow them to carry. From the abstract of our study.
Something like 60 million abortions in the US in the last 50 years – mostly the children of the poor. Hugely promoted by the caring lefties.
Quite a nice theme there – if governments were cars….
The Howard. Reliable and quiet. Costs little to run. Very boring to drive though, so when the idiot son gets to drive it he badgers the parents to trade it in.
The Turnbull. Erratic at best. Continually performs U-turns. Lurches to the left every few hundred yards. Leather-clad exterior.
You’re about as conservative as wong’s twot montifa.
Yes the problem isn’t gun ownership.
It’s nihilistic youth who murder innocents.
How do you fix that problem?
It’s an access issue we’re told.
-Access to guns
How about?
-Access to violent on-line games
-Access to violent films
-Access to mind altering street drugs
-Access to a good family home
-Access to a worthwhile future
-Access to good mental health care
Funny how alleged leftists like Monty have become apologists for big business and the military industrial complex. After all they put Biden there.
ML at 10:24.
Noice!
Or the Keating Arse-End.
Upholstered in Armani, with Louis XIV clockface instrumentation.
Left hand drive.
Very hot exhaust emissions.
m0nty says: May 25, 2022 at 10:18 am
Much smarter to allow kids to be shot dead.
So speaketh M0nty.
Okay Roger but a hearse with a fine French clock.
The Morrison, just a good ordinary car without a right indicator so it always turns left.
munty
It was an attempt to take down the crime cartels that are exploiting the NRA’s lax American gun law regime.
More like an attempt to sponsor a few big shootings, to arouse the ire of simpletons like munty.
and
Yes and yes. monty on script as usual.
Actually that could be the liberal party car.
Iirc it was Jim Killen who said Billy McMahon looked like a VW Beetle with the doors left open.
m0nty says: May 25, 2022 at 10:21 am
Proved your point, uh huh.
Now, please copy & paste, or link to, your posted comments on Swiss mass shootings, including your slurs against the Swiss NRA equivalent.
In matters related to Wong’s twot I am prepared to take your word for it.
m0ntysays:
May 25, 2022 at 10:21 am
Quickly M0nty…
Which has the higher per capita rate of gun massacres; USA or Switzerland?
Switzerland, which has an extremely high gun ownership rate with very lax laws.
Poor old ultra-wrongologist m0nty. It’s desperately sad.
https://www.businessinsider.com/switzerland-gun-laws-rates-of-gun-deaths-2018-2
In these different times a car with ‘ears’ that could be paddled by passengers isn’t so far fetched.
I remember years ago ( the 70s?), there was some sort of unofficial agreement by the media not to publicise school fires. There used to be a lot of them during school holidays.
The media still do this with railway related suicides ….
somebody should take their dicks off them
mUnty ?
They do it with all suicides.
Just a note at the end about services available.
Most movie goers and critics regard The Magnificent Seven as a classic western, but it bombed in the US when released in 1960. Some think this was because the film’s ending depicts the gunfighters as losers, even though they won the gunfight with the bandits, with the young gun Chico (Horst Buchholz) opting to settle down with a village girl rather than becoming a gun for hire.
It has an annoying whine in the front end.
The Abbott. Big wing mirrors. Several stickers which outrage doctor wife types. Glamorous co-driver named Peta. Tries to steer straight but bad design means it weighs too much on the left hand side, so veers off that way. Eventually comes to a stop due to the passengers constantly opening the doors and trying to get out.
Respect.
JC, earlier and using a one-sentence takedown:
Whap. The faux concern troll and cognac communist smacked straight in the forehead with the business end of a dessert spoon.
What’s the racial breakdown of gun killers, are they nearly all white supremacists as the media would have us believe?
For instance, who’s killing all those people in Chicago all the time – Whites, Blacks, Latinos, Asians?
For instance, who’s killing all those people in Chicago all the time – Whites, Blacks, Latinos, Asians?
White supremacists with strangely dark skin.
There is a balance to be struck between the constitutional right to own a gun and a legal environment which enables school shootings. The balance at the moment in America is tilted way too far in favour of massacres of innocents.
The Fraser.
Roars with horsepower in the garage, then when it gets on the road sputters to a halt and does nothing for seven years. After that it makes a hell of a racket without actually getting anywhere. You ship it to Memphis and it comes back with the undercarriage totally exposed.
A debunking of John Lott’s rubbish.
Pay that one!
They do it with all suicides.
Just a note at the end about services available.
Not if you read the “Mail Online” .. they all get a wonderful eulogy ( length depending on celebrity status) on their “untimely” demise and the “unexpectedness” it has on all who knew/read/watched or passed them in the street once 35 years ago .. LOL!
This ×1000
The availability of firearms is one issue but what’s more difficult to address is why an eighteen year old boy would kill little children.
Lots of the reports saying he was a student so accessing the school would have been no issue .. and, reality, pick a”soft” target not one that you expect to shoot back …..
George P Bush loses in Texas.
Eat shit Bush family.
Eat shit.
With the prevalence of guns in the US, all businesses, schools etc. which have large concentrations of persons should allow persons properly trained in firearms to carry a fireman on their person. Whilst it would not guarantee a mass shooting wouldn’t occur, it does act as a significant deterent.
It is no solution to say we should have gun control. There are too many firearms distributed throughout the US and too many copy cats wanting to have their day in the sun so they can end theirs and others lives. There wouldn’t be many volunteers in law enforcement or the armed forces to enforce gun control. It is a bit of a death wish to go from home to home to collect. Eventually your number would be up. Those wanting to kill would get a gun any way.
Also what is causing young single men do this? It wouldn’t surprise me if this young man had no father or father figure around to guide him through life.
m0nty says: May 25, 2022 at 11:03 am
That legal environment which enables school shootings is known as a “Gun Free Zone”
Mass shootings in the genpop (i.e. not in a gun-free zone) are rather thin on the ground. There is a reason for that.
If the delicate petals see what goes on at sheep stations we would all starve. Best to keep them ignorant.
I blame The lion king movie.
The problem is not GFZs, it’s that people can acquire guns easily then enter them.
In Footscray on a building housing migrant services iirc is a mural dedicated to Malcolm Fraser.
Hasn’t been defaced, I suppose people assume he’s a Labor man.
The ScoMobile was apparently recalled for problems with the emission management system.
This motoring writer points to the convenience of such an excuse when the car, though promising good performance, seemed underpowered and only good for short suburban commutes.
Very few ScoMo’s were ever seen in the bush under harsh environmental conditions.
When pressured the car would make odd noises and the handling was atrocious.
Though apparently fitted with lane management, the car would veer left without warning and stay out on the green verge no matter how hard you tried to correct course.
Early sales were good but the poor performance of the ScoMobile saw interest rapidly fall away. If you see this model advertised anywhere, don’t buy. If you do then my prayers are with you.
It’s harder to enter schools that aren’t gun free zones.
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A hybrid, all-wheel drive* boasting driver-assist technology and three reverse gears, and with room for all your (and everyone else’s) baggage. Specifically designed for those needing a sense of undeserved prestige without actually achieving it.
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Which we all know is a smokescreen for vax deaths.
With oversize visors to accommodate the make-up mirrors.
Ford XD but the clock has Roman numerals and the sat nav is preset to Oxford St.
Don’t go there.
How long before Animals Straya and Dan Xi Man mandate CCTV monitoring on every deck of every cattle crate in the state.
Mostly speculating here, not having done any study but instead having tried winnowing the wheat from the chaff in news reports.
I would guess one of the reasons gun crime is so common in the inner cities is partly a sense of injustice in poverty, and also partly the impersonal existence that cities can promote. Democrat cities stoke the sense of injustice everyway they can and at every chance.
I think also that not only does the impersonal space that people inhabit make it easier to kill a stranger, but it actually makes it possible to hate enemies more strongly than you could if you lived in a more community based setting where your enemy is also nevertheless connected to you.
Governments might enact laws that reach all the way into people’s closets, but they have no means to actually look into and police those closets. The laws only work on the people who are normally law abiding and don’t need to be policed.
Republican run cities may spend less time antagonising social groups – although there are always Democrats lurking around in the sewers, in the alley ways, in the dumpsters etc. And they will be hissing their poisonous words in targeted areas so I imagine the inner cities will still have a strong Democratic influence on the world views of its denizens and, to be brutally honest, that means Black communities which the Democrats have long used to foment unrest. All that violence and crime is just post-natal abortion. They have long promoted the other kind among the Black population.
But further to this I think people who are brought up with guns, or who are trained with guns perhaps for hunting or sport (I would think predominately rural communities) have reflexes built into them. They don’t see a gun as something to kill people, instead learning the primary rule is that you never take any chance with another person’s wellbeing. They will have heard cautionary tales and, when young enough, been clipped around the ear for carelessness. They would have a better idea as to what a gun can do. They will have any number of reflexes that stop them firing that they would have to overcome.
City people would think of guns as weapons to fire at people. They have seen the movies, they have seen how the good guy wins. They think all will play out like it does in the movies. This is probably where most Australians are at.
And, sadly, Black Gangsta culture (it is not the old men and women in their apartments or the single mums dressing their kids for schools or the middle-aged man putting in his hours at the meat-packing plant) glorifies gun violence specifically because it is anti-social and becomes more attractive as more laws are applied. The gun violence is part and parcel with the distorted alpha-male posturing with multiple ‘hos’, the shirking of responsibility when they get a woman pregnant, the violent drug-fueled hedonism, and the false promise of invulnerability instilled by their music if only they are ‘bad’ enough.
But it is all NRA to Mongty.
Next week I’ll be taking a look at the updated Albo Romeo.
It’s been branded an Italian car but the final touches and finish were done in Thailand.
🙂
Snort, cackle.
Very hard to find one without damage to the grille.
A debunking of John Lott’s rubbish.
No it’s not; it’s a Newsweek primer based on the premise guns are evil. No stats or logic. Lott on the other hand is PhD and applies stats and logical conclusions. Mass shootings don’t happen in gun protected schools.
m0ntysays:
May 25, 2022 at 11:07 am
A debunking of John Lott’s rubbish.
Alas, no.
They use different statistical techniques to Lott’s.
They assert that their statistical techniques are superior.
Among their grounds for asserting that their techniques are superior are further assertions, unsubstantiated, that some of Lott’s results are improbable, or “bizarre”.
I.e. they make value judgments about Lott’s results and use the value judgments as a basis for pseudo-scientific claims that their methodology is more rigorous.
Does anyone else see the potential problem here?
Yes Sancho. All owe meat is raised in temperature controlled sheds and spend the day frolicking in green pastures.
Average (Mean) Annual Death Rate per Million People from Mass Public Shootings (U.S., Canada, and Europe, 2009-2015):
Norway — 1.888
Serbia — 0.381
France — 0.347
Macedonia — 0.337
Albania — 0.206
Slovakia — 0.185
Switzerland — 0.142
Finland — 0.132
Belgium — 0.128
Czech Republic — 0.123
United States — 0.089
Austria — 0.068
Netherlands — 0.051
Canada — 0.032
England — 0.027
Germany — 0.023
Russia — 0.012
Italy — 0.009
This site analyses it further etc etc
Old fella just walked past me, doing the Joe Biden shuffle, leaning a little forward, feet barely leaving the ground, look of slight bewilderment on his face but with a tiny smile to mask the confusion.
Where am I going? What am I doing?
It is impossible to enter a ‘gun free zone’ if there are not any gun free zones.
And there’s the Independent.
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In fact, TE, the article you linked to comprehensively destroys John Lott and his cherry-picked data. Good link.
Nothing I value more in a comment is the claim something or someone hasn’t been ‘destroyed’.
We must never be out of sight of a gun! A gun in every room of every building!
Listen to yourself Salvo, you have swallowed the gun lobby propaganda wholesale. What they want is to pump up gun sales. We don’t have to listen to them.
It’s funny how you lot are all against corporate lobbying when it’s for causes you disagree with, like Mike Cannon-Brookes, but when it’s politics you can align yourself with you’re all in for Big Gun.
Ours comes from free-range, organic tofu fed, home-schooled, gender neutral Dorpers.
m0ntysays:
May 25, 2022 at 11:30 am
That legal environment which enables school shootings is known as a “Gun Free Zone”
The problem is not GFZs, it’s that people can acquire guns easily then enter them.
And do they acquire those guns legally or illegally? Chicago has very strict gun control laws, but is awash with illegal guns. How do even stricter gun control laws stop that?
Or, maybe build a wall along the Mexico/US border, to restrict the opportunities to import illegal guns? Nah, munty would reply, that’s simple Trumpism!
Utopia? Plays footy for a lifestyle?
A MAN has been sentenced to three months behind bars after hitting his partner with a weapon in Central Australia.
Daniel Ngwarai Jones will spend three months behind bars after being charged with aggravated assault and engaging in contact that contravenes a domestic violence order.
According to a statement of facts read out in the Alice Springs Local Court, Jones struck his partner with a stick on the leg in May after they got into a heated argument.
The assault resulted in the victim calling police, who noticed signs of bruising and swelling. The victim told police that felt pain as a result of the attack. The assault with the weapon took place inside the victim’s home in Utopia, Northern Territory.
Later that same day, an NT police officer found Jones inside the bedroom of the same house where the assault took place and he was arrested.
Judge Greg Borchers said there was no option but to send Jones to jail.
“I accept that you’re very remorseful,” Judge Borchers said. “I suspect that the remorse is about yourself, not about your partner because you are about to lose your liberty.”
Jones has expressed that he wishes to dedicate his time to playing football when he is released.
Judge Borchers also said Jones hit the victim over a trivial matter and that his experience playing football could have given Jones the idea of how to hurt the victim.
“You play footy, you don’t work,” Judge Borchers said.
“You occupy your life playing footy and the manner in which you have hit your wife would indicate some form of knowledge about how to do this, to strike her to the leg.”
NT News
Pretty sure gun sales are already pretty darn good.
Monty on other hand not knowing anyone who isn’t green left progressive can’t envisage ordinary American who take their constitutional rights seriously and have always owned guns.
My friends in the south and the Midwest of the US certainly do.
Just catching up and may have missed something.
Re Ley.
No. Just no.
A fruit loop in moleskins.
No-one is aligning with ‘big gun’ you dorper.
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rosie says:
May 25, 2022 at 12:11 pm
And there’s the Independent.
Available in teal,
Buyers may be surprised to find the interior decked out in deep red. The climate control system is strangely set permanently to heat.
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But it appears the majority of researchers who work in the field say Lott’s wrong: that his analyses are misleading, that they skew data to favor certain outcomes, and that his research methods don’t stand up to scrutiny. If they did, his critics say, Lott would still be published in academic journals, or doing his research out of a university instead of a non-profit called the Crime Prevention Research Center.
His analyses are misleading: Translated: We don’t like his results.
his research methods don’t stand up to scrutiny: Translated: We don’t like his results.
would still be published in academic journals, or doing his research out of a university: Translated: We really cancelled his arse.
What’s the opposite of diversity? University.
A fruit loop in moleskins.
Our man on the spot has now confirmed earlier reports.
In the US every time the Democrats do something stupid firearm and ammunition sales skyrocket.
Maybe if the Democrats stopped doing stupid things people wouldn’t feel a need to buy firearms.
OTOH if the Democrats stopped doing stupid things they’d be righties, so that there is the problem.
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