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And not even one smidgen of advice about being there for your boys, bullying, teaching emotional maturity, and how a young man felt so threatened as to run for the gun in his mother’s car. 
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NBC is confirming 22 dead.
Fox News is giving advice to victims on how to stop the bleeding if your injured.
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I have a sibling in Maine that I don’t speak to but I was concerned so I checked Google maps to see how close they were(30 miles) and Google maps has pins marking the shooting locations and they gave a warning saying your route may be affected by the shootings.
So we’re at the point where mass shootings show up like a traffic jam or construction zone.
Oh, and Hannity said everyone should have a defense plan like him. He explained how he’s trained in mixed martial arts. He thinks he can win a fight with an assault rifle with his bare hands.
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I sincerely look forward to the news reports of the aftermath of his attempt to do so.
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… thoughts and prayers?
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I happened across the below post just after I saw the news about Lewiston, and posted about the same time as this one.
It’s of course way too early to speculate, but my brain just went ahead and hypothesized a connection anyway. Because everything is terrible, and all the terrible things seem to cause all the other terrible things.
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I’m not one for conspiracy theories, but there is a local ballot question asking us to give $45M, but really $83M with interest to build a new cop station.
I don’t think that fancy new station would’ve changed what we’re dealing with tonight, but I do wonder if it will change people’s votes.
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… another poster boy for the Second Amendment
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I didn’t even want to be the one to post that; let a more seasoned user do that or perhaps an author/contributor.
And I have spent awhile trying to come up with words, but all I think to say is trite and patronizing.
Try to find joy in the small things is all I got. Earlier, I spent nearly two hours on the phone with an old friend. That helped. Sending good mojo your way.
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I turn to music to help me
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Another poster boy for “Why the fuck didn’t they take his guns away?”
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Hey, now, don’t you know the rule in America? “Pay no attention to the easy availability of firearms in this country!”
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To Dinesh D’Souza’s post: so you want to treat guns like cars?
- require owners to register them with the government
- require users to be a certain age in order to operate them
- require users to get tested (both written and practical skill) before they’re licensed to operate them
- require annual inspections of the devices by third parties (not taking the owner’s word for it) to ensure they fall inside certain requirements for safety and efficiency
- allow (require) police to arrest people who use them while under the influence of intoxicants
- allow police to stop and fine and/or arrest those who use them unsafely (even if not intoxicated)
- allow courts to easily suspend gun licenses for abusers (indeed, have certain offenses automatically suspend the license)
Those sound like reasonable suggestions. [Which is exactly why I suspect D’Souza would hate them and argue against them with the mantra “Second Amendment”.]
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