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Post by DanMcQ on Apr 14, 2023 0:45:05 GMT -5
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Post by tashoya on Apr 16, 2023 21:13:58 GMT -5
Maybe part of the problem is the guns. Just saying.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 17, 2023 18:20:18 GMT -5
Maybe part of the problem is the guns. Just saying. But that would be wrong, right? The problem is everything except the guns.
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Post by tashoya on Apr 17, 2023 21:51:40 GMT -5
Maybe part of the problem is the guns. Just saying. But that would be wrong, right? The problem is everything except the guns. Except, of course, "Republicans" are just as unwilling to address any of the other problems, either. "Pro-life" vibes are strong with that group of terrible humans. 6 week abortions are bad. 780 week "abortions," totally fine because #freedom.
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Post by Massholya on Apr 18, 2023 11:33:39 GMT -5
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Post by Massholya on Apr 18, 2023 15:52:33 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 29, 2023 9:37:02 GMT -5
Gee, Texas. I'm shocked! A man using an AR-15-style weapon shot and killed five of his neighbors, including an 8-year-old, at a Cleveland, Tex., home Friday night before a manhunt, the local sheriff said. Authorities charged Francisco Oropeza, 39, with five counts of murder and were searching for him Saturday morning, San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers told The Washington Post. Ten people were in the home during the shooting. Three women, a man and an 8-year-old boy were killed, Capers said. The suspect was the victims’ neighbor and went to their home Friday night after they asked him to stop shooting an AR-15-style rifle in his front yard because of the noise, Capers said. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/29/cleveland-texas-gunman-kills-five-8-year-old/
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Post by Massholya on Apr 29, 2023 10:27:06 GMT -5
Gee, Texas. I'm shocked! A man using an AR-15-style weapon shot and killed five of his neighbors, including an 8-year-old, at a Cleveland, Tex., home Friday night before a manhunt, the local sheriff said. Authorities charged Francisco Oropeza, 39, with five counts of murder and were searching for him Saturday morning, San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers told The Washington Post. Ten people were in the home during the shooting. Three women, a man and an 8-year-old boy were killed, Capers said. The suspect was the victims’ neighbor and went to their home Friday night after they asked him to stop shooting an AR-15-style rifle in his front yard because of the noise, Capers said. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/29/cleveland-texas-gunman-kills-five-8-year-old/Texas style Freedom. One can only thank Jesus that Oropeza’s right to bear arms was not infringed. That would have been a real tragedy that Merica would not stand for!
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Post by DallasHoya on Apr 29, 2023 15:40:19 GMT -5
Gee, Texas. I'm shocked! A man using an AR-15-style weapon shot and killed five of his neighbors, including an 8-year-old, at a Cleveland, Tex., home Friday night before a manhunt, the local sheriff said. Authorities charged Francisco Oropeza, 39, with five counts of murder and were searching for him Saturday morning, San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers told The Washington Post. Ten people were in the home during the shooting. Three women, a man and an 8-year-old boy were killed, Capers said. The suspect was the victims’ neighbor and went to their home Friday night after they asked him to stop shooting an AR-15-style rifle in his front yard because of the noise, Capers said. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/29/cleveland-texas-gunman-kills-five-8-year-old/US States and Territories - Intentional Murder Rates per 100,000 People: 1. DC 28.2 18. DE 7.4 25. TX 6.6 Maybe you should be shocked. Link
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 29, 2023 16:26:11 GMT -5
Gee, Texas. I'm shocked! A man using an AR-15-style weapon shot and killed five of his neighbors, including an 8-year-old, at a Cleveland, Tex., home Friday night before a manhunt, the local sheriff said. Authorities charged Francisco Oropeza, 39, with five counts of murder and were searching for him Saturday morning, San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers told The Washington Post. Ten people were in the home during the shooting. Three women, a man and an 8-year-old boy were killed, Capers said. The suspect was the victims’ neighbor and went to their home Friday night after they asked him to stop shooting an AR-15-style rifle in his front yard because of the noise, Capers said. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/29/cleveland-texas-gunman-kills-five-8-year-old/US States and Territories - Intentional Murder Rates per 100,000 People: 1. DC 28.2 18. DE 7.4 25. TX 6.6 Maybe you should be shocked. Link
Mass murders, Texas #2, maybe you guys should try harder. 1 in DC and 0 in Delaware. I prefer apple to apple comparisons. Sutherland Springs, Uvalde, El Paso Walmart . . . just off the top of my head. www.statista.com/statistics/811541/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-state/And of course Charles Whitman mass killing at UT is one of the earliest and more famous mass murders. And Luby's. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shootings_in_TexasSeems that the number of mass shootings in Texas are remarkable enough that the CBS affiliate in Dallas compiled this list. I wonder if the CBS Dallas newsroom was shocked? DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Before Uvalde, there was White Settlement. Before that, there was El Paso, Sutherland Springs and Killeen. Since 1966, Texas has been the site of more than 20 deadly mass shootings. From church to the workplace, these events have claimed the lives of more than 200 Texans. As part of our search for answers in light of the Uvalde shooting, we compiled a list of some of the deadliest mass shootings that have occurred in Texas over the past 50 years. www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/deadly-mass-shootings-in-texas/AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Once again, one of America’s deadliest mass shootings happened in Texas. Past shootings targeted worshippers during a Sunday sermon, shoppers at a Walmart, students on a high school campus and drivers on a highway. Among the latest victims were 19 children and two teachers in the small town of Uvalde, west of San Antonio, where on Tuesday a gunman opened fire inside an elementary school in the nation’s deadliest school shooting in nearly a decade. Each of those tragedies in Texas — which resulted in more than 85 dead in all — occurred in the last five years. apnews.com/article/uvalde-school-shooting-victims-0fc46ce400c3fed9081ee5c033d2aba5www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2022/06/03/texas-leads-nation-in-mass-shootings-and-gun-statistics-point-to-why/
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Post by DFW HOYA on Apr 29, 2023 18:31:25 GMT -5
Seems that the number of mass shootings in Texas are remarkable enough that the CBS affiliate in Dallas compiled this list. I wonder if the CBS Dallas newsroom was shocked? DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Before Uvalde, there was White Settlement. Before that, there was El Paso, Sutherland Springs and Killeen. Since 1966, Texas has been the site of more than 20 deadly mass shootings. From church to the workplace, these events have claimed the lives of more than 200 Texans. Serious, yes. Shocked? Probably not. In the view of a state with a population approaching 30 million people, with an estimated 51 million firearms in personal possession at any one time, and the lack of any leadership, Democratic or Republican, to address it, these type of events are not getting solved by broad public consensus. Nor is a statistic largely ignored in and out of the state: fatality driving accidents. If you've ever driven on Texas interstates, you may have seen the digital signage imploring drivers to "break the streak": Texas has not had a single day without a fatality accident in 23 years. The numbers ftp.txdot.gov/pub/txdot-info/trf/crash_statistics/2021/01.pdf are striking: -- The 2021 death toll was 4,489. Based on reportable crashes in 2021, one person was killed every 1 hour 57 minutes, and injured every 2 minutes 12 seconds. -- In 2021 there were 1,037 people killed in crashes occurring in intersections or related to an intersection. -- On the deadliest day in 2021, 27 persons were killed in traffic crashes. August was the deadliest month with 418 persons killed. -- There were four crashes that resulted in six or more fatalities in 2021. That last statistic could be considered a mass killing. Does it get coverage? No.
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 29, 2023 19:51:51 GMT -5
Seems that the number of mass shootings in Texas are remarkable enough that the CBS affiliate in Dallas compiled this list. I wonder if the CBS Dallas newsroom was shocked? DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Before Uvalde, there was White Settlement. Before that, there was El Paso, Sutherland Springs and Killeen. Since 1966, Texas has been the site of more than 20 deadly mass shootings. From church to the workplace, these events have claimed the lives of more than 200 Texans. Serious, yes. Shocked? Probably not. In the view of a state with a population approaching 30 million people, with an estimated 51 million firearms in personal possession at any one time, and the lack of any leadership, Democratic or Republican, to address it, these type of events are not getting solved by broad public consensus. Nor is a statistic largely ignored in and out of the state: fatality driving accidents. If you've ever driven on Texas interstates, you may have seen the digital signage imploring drivers to "break the streak": Texas has not had a single day without a fatality accident in 23 years. The numbers ftp.txdot.gov/pub/txdot-info/trf/crash_statistics/2021/01.pdf are striking: -- The 2021 death toll was 4,489. Based on reportable crashes in 2021, one person was killed every 1 hour 57 minutes, and injured every 2 minutes 12 seconds. -- In 2021 there were 1,037 people killed in crashes occurring in intersections or related to an intersection. -- On the deadliest day in 2021, 27 persons were killed in traffic crashes. August was the deadliest month with 418 persons killed. -- There were four crashes that resulted in six or more fatalities in 2021. That last statistic could be considered a mass killing. Does it get coverage? No. Texas Carnage brought to you by the "freedom" loving MAGA GOP. But your taxes are low, right?
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 30, 2023 5:58:05 GMT -5
Gee, Texas. I'm shocked! A man using an AR-15-style weapon shot and killed five of his neighbors, including an 8-year-old, at a Cleveland, Tex., home Friday night before a manhunt, the local sheriff said. Authorities charged Francisco Oropeza, 39, with five counts of murder and were searching for him Saturday morning, San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers told The Washington Post. Ten people were in the home during the shooting. Three women, a man and an 8-year-old boy were killed, Capers said. The suspect was the victims’ neighbor and went to their home Friday night after they asked him to stop shooting an AR-15-style rifle in his front yard because of the noise, Capers said. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/29/cleveland-texas-gunman-kills-five-8-year-old/US States and Territories - Intentional Murder Rates per 100,000 People: 1. DC 28.2 18. DE 7.4 25. TX 6.6 Maybe you should be shocked. Link
In reality, the region the Big Apple comprises most of is far and away the safest part of the U.S. mainland when it comes to gun violence, while the regions Florida and Texas belong to have per capita firearm death rates (homicides and suicides) three to four times higher than New York’s. On a regional basis it’s the southern swath of the country — in cities and rural areas alike — where the rate of deadly gun violence is most acute, regions where Republicans have dominated state governments for decades. www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/23/surprising-geography-of-gun-violence-00092413In the wake of the Uvalde school massacre, one thing is glaringly clear: The Texas way of guns is an American failure. And I say that as a Texas gun owner. You can’t say Texas’s gun laws failed because they worked exactly as designed. Everything the shooter did was strictly legal — except for the murdering. Yet those gun laws, many of them the result of loosening over the past seven years during the tenure of Gov. Greg Abbott (R), bear plenty of responsibility for the shooting. They reflect a “systemic failure” of Texas gun culture. In Texas, there is a Palo Duro Canyon-size gap between what politicians so often say they value — children — and what they’re willing to spend to protect them: a little less than $10 per student. As a gun owner, I think selling civilianized military-style long rifles to anyone is wrong — AK-47s, SKSs, AR-15s, the whole lot. Selling them to 18-year-olds is just perverse. But Americans own about 20 million of these weapons — and that’s just the AR-15-style rifles among the nearly 400 million guns nationwide. I’m dubious about ever getting them out of circulation. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/19/texas-gun-culture-and-uvalde/
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Post by SSHoya on May 1, 2023 5:15:40 GMT -5
Don't mess with Texas. The victims were only "illegal immigrants." But I'm sure Abbott purports to be "pro-life." Just another fake tough guy Texan. Exactly the kind of MAGA GOP cultist that deserves your vote, right? Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is getting criticized for identifying the victims of a Friday mass shooting in Cleveland, Texas, as "illegal immigrants" in the same statement in which he offered condolences to their loved ones. On Friday evening, a drunk man shot and killed five people, including an 8-year-old boy, after the neighbors asked the man to stop firing his AR-15-style weapon in the air, according to San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers. Abbott released a statement on Sunday offering a $50,000 reward for information regarding the shooter, who authorities say "could be anywhere" by now. The governor also offered condolences to the families, but not before the statement identified the victims as "illegal immigrants." www.businessinsider.com/gov-greg-abbott-immigration-status-cleveland-texas-mass-shooting-victims-2023-4
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Post by SSHoya on May 1, 2023 18:40:26 GMT -5
C'mon Texas! Pick up the pace per your MAGA GOP cultist governor! Number 2 in mass murders and number 2 in new gun purchases! How can you stand the embarassment!! Yee haw! What a fine "Christian" gentleman, your governor . . . Coldly dismissing the Latino victims of Friday’s horrific mass shooting in Texas as five “illegal immigrants” was a new low for Gov. Greg Abbott, a gun-loving Republican. The previous low was when he said he was “embarrassed” that his state ranked only second in new firearms purchases and implored Texans to “pick up the pace.” For the record, it is apparently not true that all of those senselessly slain in Cleveland, an exurb of Houston, had no legal right to be in this country. It is true, however, that one of the victims was a 9-year-old boy. It is also true, according to authorities, that two of the women who were killed sacrificed themselves by throwing their bodies over children to protect them. Abbott would rather score points with the Republican base by claiming that everyone involved in the Cleveland massacre was “illegal” than grapple with the fact that huge majorities of Americans want reasonable gun control. We want universal background checks for gun purchases. We want red-flag laws to take weapons out of the hands of those judged to pose a danger to others or themselves. We want laws mandating that firearms be stored safely. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/01/texas-shooting-family-greg-abbott-illegal-immigrants/
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Post by DFW HOYA on May 1, 2023 18:53:49 GMT -5
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Post by WilsonBlvdHoya on May 1, 2023 19:23:31 GMT -5
DFW, I'd argue Frederick was once (60s & 70s) more of an exurb of Baltimore -- since the 90s, it's definitely an exurb of DC! Just like San Jose is an exurb of SF *runs and ducks---just kidding!*
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Post by SSHoya on May 1, 2023 19:24:24 GMT -5
Abbott is a good "Christian"? Inquiring minds want to know. I don't care that he "walked it back." What possesses him to make such cruel statements in the first place? His political purposes outweigh any humanity that he may or may not possess. He is scum for using the death of human beings for political purposes. In your world that is justification?? But Texas got the opposite of that sort of workhorse: a governor who wanted to continue being governor and didn’t seem to care about much else—except, perhaps, for positioning himself for a run at the White House. From the beginning, Abbott was attuned to the 4 percent of Texans who decide Republican primary elections and that group’s many peculiar priorities. The slightest shift in the wind from the right would provoke a change in direction. (Before the 2020 election, when the GOP’s hold on the state House seemed in doubt, he briefly shifted to the middle. After the campaign was over, he swung hard-right once again.) Big, substantive issues seemed to slide to the periphery, and in 2021 the chickens came home to roost. In his sixth year as governor—the twenty-sixth consecutive year his party has held the office—Texas, the energy capital of America, couldn’t even keep the lights on. This has been a hard year for everyone, and no governor in the U.S. has had it easy. (“At least we don’t have Andrew Cuomo,” Texans could say.) But every step of the way, Abbott has made it harder for nearly everyone, rendering life more difficult, the death tolls higher, and the experience of being a Texan more demoralizing. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/2022-bum-steer-greg-abbott/Has he solved the Texas energy grid issue yet? I truly don't know if he and the Texas legislature has or hasn't. And some of my best friends are Texans and are embarassed by Texas governance, including the fact that AG Ken Paxton has been under indictment for, what is it now, about 7 years? My cousin was a LEO in Houston until his retirement (also a retired U.S. Naval Reservist) and still lives in Houston. Guess what he thinks of the availability of AR-15s to civilians? And Frederick is definitely an exurb of DC now. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exurbs_in_the_United_StatesTo New Exurbanites, the traditional suburbs—like the central city before them—feel full. Arlington County is now home to 229,302 people, Fairfax County to 1,118,884. It’s “saturated,” says Sue Smith, a real-estate agent in Northern Virginia for 27 years. So they trek to once-distant areas: Stafford and Spotsylvania counties and Winchester in Virginia and Frederick County in Maryland. Over the coming years, an increasing number of people settling these exurbs will be millennials, like Lindsay Arnold, and the generation that follows. www.washingtonian.com/2015/04/01/the-fastest-growing-suburbs-of-washington-are-in-counties-youve-never-heard-of/
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