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while i'm not the poster that you are waiting an answer for , let me say this. yes a firearm had a role in this tragedy. however that firearm had to have someone, something behind it to pull the trigger, manipulate it. if you took a 50 caliber machine gun and it loaded and put it in the middle of 421 or wherever , and left it there, what are the chances of it going off by itself?

Gallup poll found that 46 percent of men own a gun in America, as opposed to 23 percent of women.)

For empowers:

This campus was NOT a gun free zone. There were other students that were carrying.

http://thinkprogress.org/ju...-massacre/

I'm confused, too. Are you saying guns had no role in these tragedies?

Note from GoNC: a portion of this post was removed for trolling.

School shootings have been going on since 1764.

According to research, these revenge mass murderers tend to have been bullied or socially excluded as children. As adults, they tend to be highly sensitive to any slight or rejection and to spend time dwelling on past humiliations. Given the right circumstances, these obsessive thoughts turn into violent revenge fantasies to protect a fragile � sometimes overly inflated � ego. In fact, it is when the perpetrator is feeling most powerless that he is likely to justify acting on his fantasies and begin the transition from obsessive thought to devastating action. The meticulous plans he make not only distract him from a reality that he finds increasingly intolerable, they give him a false sense of power and omnipotence.

America will continue to turn a blind eye toward the role of guns in these tragedies

Guns have been legal in America for how long? School shootings are more of a recent kinda thing, right? So, I'm not really making the connection.....

Good find, Truth.

We need to start here. America will continue to turn a blind eye toward the role of guns in these tragedies, so we probably need to focus our energy on dealing with the problem of males deciding their only logical recourse is perpetrating mass murder.

Shoulda, I found this....

"Some research supports the idea that males are more likely than females to develop negative attributions of blame that are external in nature, that is: �The cause � of my problems is someone else or some force outside of me'. And this translates into anger and hostility toward others."
[Women], on the other hand, "are more likely to develop negative attributions of blame that are internal in nature, that is: �The cause of my problems is some failing of my own: I didn't try hard enough, I'm not good enough."

http://time.com/114128/elli...a-shooter/

I removed several posts that were off topic and/or trolling.

Actually that is a Good Question !!!

Do tell us.

Sigh.

I'll ask again, my conservative brothers.

Why are men mass murders, and not women?

I removed several posts that were off topic and/or trolling.

Martyr time.

SWC,, we are talking about Oregon, not the Middle East, so quit trying to take the Thread off Course !!!

mommotwo (view profile)
Posted 9:46 am, 10/02/2015
It was said that he did target Christians. Not surprising. There's a lot of hatred out there for Christians. We do see a lot of it on here.

We see hatred towards a lot of people on here. Daily. The website is rife with examples.

The targeting of Christians has not been confirmed. That came from 1 victims dad and not from an official source.

Good morning, Blowfly.

Innocent people, regardless of race or religion, should not be gunned down so callously in a civilized nation, and that includes police officers simply doing their job. Tragic.

Nor should we make light of any tragedy that afflicts a people, across the world, in our day and age.

Like when you made fun of the crane tragedy that killed Muslims.

http://www.gowilkes.com/voi...1001133403