Yesterday's Mass Shooting.

[cannabineer]

Of course

There is a difference. Blades require combat up close. The psychological difference is large.

 

[bam0813]

Agree but i think decay is just that and with out some attention it will move to the next item. Lets be dark for a moment. How many heads could you bash in in 45 minutes with the right club

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

If they’re laying in the back yard does it still make you a pervert lol just playing i cant get a drone off the ground

This young fellow is an American, heart of gold. He's a professional FPV drone pilot and unlike RC planes there are many. We don't usually fly far off the ground, proximity equals speed and cheap thrills. He can do it with permission and international travel, but they would hang the average person for doing most of this shit today. The hobby is cheap, technical and accessible it attracts young men mostly. This is his show reel and this is his artistic expression ya could say.

 

[cannabineer]

Agree but i think decay is just that and with out some attention it will move to the next item. Lets be dark for a moment. How many heads could you bash in in 45 minutes with the right club

That depends on how the skulls in question were tied down.

 

[bam0813]

Not tied , corner and locked in a room?

 

[cannabineer]

Not tied , corner and locked in a room?

The model just exceeded my capacity to calculate.

 

[bam0813]

Been thinking about a story i watched , dare i say it involved Russians. Apparently some terrorists stormed a movie theater and took patrons hostage. The ones plan they came up with kinda sucked but kinda worked. They pumped the room full of a sedative and put everyone to sleep. The fail came with an overdose that killed a couple people . This was quite some time ago but im curious if something like this could actually be perfected a sprinkler type system with a near immediate effect. Not perfect but could reduce totals I suppose. You can laugh just food for thought

 

[Unclebaldrick]

Worked at Wendy's and saved his money, they've been getting raises lately. He had psychological issues and never showed up for school and failed to graduate. It wasn't a typical hate crime, just another nut case who murdered kids and never planned on living, unlike most of the hate crime shooters who tend to be white and give up to the cops. Why not, a burger is better than a bullet and if the victims are the right kind of people, the cops might take you for one, like Dylan Roof.

And people say kids today don't know how to work hard to achieve their goals.

 

[CunningCanuk]

This thread is almost a year old. I wonder what the body count will be this time next year?

 

[Dorian2]

I'm not surprised they'd have their own game but at least it looks like it's a target oriented one and not a first person shooter game. The NRA endorses something like that and it would be an entirely different story.
A gun club to me means , hopefully they're learning the proper way to shoot and handle guns. But yes, promoting guns at the same time.


Being ignorant about the NRA, of course I realize the impact they must have. But they arent infiltrating homes and reaching 10's of thousands( millions more like it) like xbox/playstation games.

I agree. I don't know much at all about the NRA, but my understanding is that they support a number of Politicians and laws that vie for less gun control. I'm a long term gamer from the 80's so I don't support the notion that these obviously fantastical shooter games have as much to do about the current situation as some people may believe. There of course will be individuals who already have an imbalance that may not be able to differentiate between the reasonable idea of "just a game" vs "this shit is real". They're few and far between IMO. Social media and certain types of broadcasting are a much more viable reason than Grand Theft Auto. My POV is that it's akin to saying Judas Priest was responsible for suicides or that the band name KISS means Knights in Satans Service. If it does mean that, I've been in his service since I was about 8 years old.

 

[bam0813]

This thread is almost a year old. I wonder what the body count will be this time next year?

Im just hoping next yr comes

 

[bam0813]

I agree. I don't know much at all about the NRA, but my understanding is that they support a number of Politicians and laws that vie for less gun control. I'm a long term gamer from the 80's so I don't support the notion that these obviously fantastical shooter games have as much to do about the current situation as some people may believe. There of course will be individuals who already have an imbalance that may not be able to differentiate between the reasonable idea of "just a game" vs "this shit is real". They're few and far between IMO. Social media and certain types of broadcasting are a much more viable reason than Grand Theft Auto. My POV is that it's akin to saying Judas Priest was responsible for suicides or that the band name KISS means Knights in Satans Service. If it does mean that, I've been in his service since I was about 8 years old.

It all adds up. I played them as a kid too and watched horror and violent shit routinely. I think your correct about the few who can’t differentiate between real and fantasy im just wondering if or why they are becoming less far and few. I personally cant make a comparison between frogger and COD or Donkey kong and GTA

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

It all adds up. I played them as a kid too and watched horror and violent shit routinely. I think your correct about the few who can’t differentiate between real and fantasy im just wondering if or why they are becoming less far and few. I personally cant make a comparison between frogger and COD or Donkey kong and GTA

There ya go GTA has been around for awhile and is popular, any increase in people being run down by cars at the same rate as gun violence is increasing?

 

[BudmanTX]

 

[bam0813]

There ya go GTA has been around for awhile and is popular, any increase in people being run down by cars at the same rate as gun violence is increasing?

I think your being too specific. There is a rise in violence period

 

[bam0813]

There ya go GTA has been around for awhile and is popular, any increase in people being run down by cars at the same rate as gun violence is increasing?

Im all ear to the solution i just dont think no guns equals no violence. If the mindset doesn’t change the means will

 

[bam0813]

The mindset to commit any murder not just mass

 

[CunningCanuk]

I'm a long term gamer from the 80's so I don't support the notion that these obviously fantastical shooter games have as much to do about the current situation as some people may believe.

I don’t either.

Besides, video games are passé when you can larp without consequence.

 

[Fogdog]

Unless we're talking about writing code in binary, sweeping statements is all we get. What it comes down to is whether or not we like it. If I say, "republicans are dumb", you won't mention sweeping statements, even though it's totally a sweeping statement. Plus, if you agree with it, then we're already up to roughly half the population, so how many more people need to be idiots before the statement becomes roughly true? I think 51% or better is good enough to make a sweeping statement, in which case, is republicans plus 1% of the other half of the country really a stretch?

And there are different tiers of better/worse people. If child A does something wrong and has their toy taken away and accepts it because they know they fucked up, but child B does something wrong and has their toy taken away and refuses to accept it because they think they're the most amazing thing ever created and will literally commit murder to keep their toy, which child do you think is worse and which child do you think is most closely aligned with Americans today?

If a sweeping statement means no less than 51% then the US is child A,

 

[mooray]

Maybe when it comes to seatbelts, but not when it comes to guns. That's something I might like to see, is for insurance to become a requirement of gun ownership.