Texas shooting...

[Armistead]

Here we go again, shots fired at Lone Star College. Obvious not a lot of info out right now, cept possibly several injured, rumors of maybe one dead.....

Sources say it was more of a fight between several students that turned into a later shoot out, not a random school shooting.

Right now they think another shooter is involved and searching for him.

[BossMark]

Oh bloody hell fire not another one :nope:

[Jimbuna]

None dead thank God but three injured and a possible suspect somewhere at the 200 acre site.

[Cybermat47]

Now the NRA is going to blame Mass Effect 3, and the anti-gun lobby is going to say "Disarm everybody", and anybody with common sense will say "Improve mental healthcare", then be laughed at by the two other groups, and while they're all arguing, they'll eventually calm down, then there'll be another shooting, etc, etc.

Still, thank God that nobody's dead. Hopefully the police will catch the creep who did this.

[August]

and anybody with common sense will say "Improve mental healthcare", then be laughed at by the two other groups


The NRA wouldn't laugh at that, they'd likely support it. Of course the devil is in the details.

[Skybird]

With more weapons sold, this would not have happened. :yeah:

[Sailor Steve]

With more weapons sold, this would not have happened. :yeah:
Sarcasm noted. :sunny:

[Tchocky]

Witnesses told local broadcaster KHOU they had seen a man pull out a gun during an argument with another man. "I saw two dudes basically get into an altercation and the dude that shot, he basically got angry and started shooting the other guy," Brittany Mobley said.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21153340


Good argument against free-and-easy gun ownership, just as there are plenty of arguments for it.

[ETR3(SS)]

I propose a moratorium on reproduction until common sense prevails and people learn to just walk away rather than provoke.

[HundertzehnGustav]

awesome!
the more the merrier!
Bring on the debates! bring on the change!
Better over there than over here.
In the sense of: Viva mi vida de p*** socialisto!

too much freedom and temptation is more than many can handle.
:stare:

if they were shootig the politians at least...???
But no! Kids shooting Kids... again.

*head explodes in rage*

[Penguin]

"I saw two dudes basically get into an altercation and the dude that shot, he basically got angry and started shooting the other guy," Brittany Mobley said.


Besides 'literally', 'basically' is probably the most misused word in the English language. This is the college version of "it was like ... and then I was like ..."

[soopaman2]

I saw this story when it broke, and they (the media) wanted so bad for it to be the next Newtown.

I remember being a youngin, like 4th grade learning about the Yellow Journalism in in the arly 20th century, and how bad it was, and here we are...

The article I read was trying to make this crap look like Virginia Tech. But it is because the media is so intent on being first, they do not fact check.

I will offer a solution.

British type libel laws, will put the brakes on this ratings grabbing sensationalism, so someone tunes in and watches your Cialis, and insurance commercials, in between scaring us with half truths, and un vetted info.

Freedom of the press, for what, so they become a propaganda arm of the moneyed who buy commercial spots on these networks, and newspapers?

Yellow journalism is mild, I'd welcome that, our media would make Joey Goebbels proud.

[Tribesman]

British type libel laws, will put the brakes on this ratings grabbing sensationalism
Do you mean the libel laws where Lance Armstrog can get paid a million becuse a newspaper said he was using drugs or do you mean the libel laws where you can not only block any story but also ban anyone from even mentioning that a story has been blocked(if you have the money of course)?

[soopaman2]

Do you mean the libel laws where Lance Armstrog can get paid a million becuse a newspaper said he was using drugs or do you mean the libel laws where you can not only block any story but also ban anyone from even mentioning that a story has been blocked(if you have the money of course)?


I mean something to where you are held accountable for what you report.

If you jump the gun, and report wrong, in the quest to be first, you can be sued for being wrong.

Maybe it will bring fact checking back into journalism, and not ratings , advertisements and the agendas that come with modern day news outlets.

They would rather twist the truth, to not offend advertisers, or attribute themselves to one agenda or another.

Accountability of the press is lacking.

[Tribesman]

I mean something to where you are held accountable for what you report.

They are held accountable, if they get it wrong they might have to pay money, or more usually issue a little correction and apology buried at the bottom of page 8 in very small print.

Accountability of the press is lacking.
Yet you held Britain as an example, they have just had a long running inquiry into the press not being accountable.