Shooting up a Halloween party

@earl-of-trumps said
Bang on, busman.

Moonbus and I grew up in the 50's and 60's when we never saw school shootings, carjackings, drive Bys, and such.

It seems the more successful America got, the meaner and more violent the people became.
The people need a reset, as there is only so much law enforcement can do.
Nature abhors a vacuum. Watch out for the Christian right making a serious rise.

My mother told me that when the police showed up in force at her university (Lincoln NE), students let the air out of the squad cars’ tires. The cops kept their distance after that. Hilarious!

@kannstipated said
Libs using 100 year old stories are hilarious.

Cons who think the 90s are “new” are silly

@jj-adams said
Who is "they" that estimate 300 bodies?
300 bodies never found ....in mass graves....in a major city.....and 100 years later they are still not found.
BS claim.

The same source you were quoting!

@athousandyoung said
The same source you were quoting!

Exactly...."They" say there may be 300...somewhere...somehow.
Who is "they" that the article quotes?
Typical weasel words:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word

@athousandyoung said
The 19 twenties were quite violent what with all those white boys machine gunning each other in the streets

That was the Irish and the Italians.
Prohibition made some of them millionaires.

@moonbus said
Some uninvited guest to a Halloween party was asked to leave and fired randomly into the group, killing one and injuring others. Teenagers.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/us/kansas-city-halloween-party-shooting/index.html

Same night, a drive-by shooting in Chicago…

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/us/chicago-drive-by-shooting/index.html

America, wake up! This has ...[text shortened]... . A generation of brats who think they’re entitled to go to parties and are prepared to kill for it.

Yes, precisely.
In general terms:
The kids these days have no self-discipline.
No internal locus of control.

@jj-adams said
Exactly...."They" say there may be 300...somewhere...somehow.
Who is "they" that the article quotes?
Typical weasel words:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word

If you don’t think your sources are reliable then don’t quote them.

@athousandyoung said
If you don’t think your sources are reliable then don’t quote them.

I quoted the govt sources I considered reliable and made fun of the second claim in the article that used unknown and unnamed sources.
Now go away.

@woofwoof said
Yes, precisely.
In general terms:
The kids these days have no self-discipline.
No internal locus of control.

Weak impulse control and an unquenchable sense of entitlement. In a word, brats.

@moonbus said
Weak impulse control and an unquenchable sense of entitlement. In a word, brats.

Increased levels of poverty caused by a government that caters to the desires of the wealthy without making them pay sufficient taxes to pay for the services they get leading to a sense of powerlessness and embitterment among most of the youth

@jj-adams said
I quoted the govt sources I considered reliable and made fun of the second claim in the article that used unknown and unnamed sources.
Now go away.

The government sources you find reliable are the ones who made the estimate

@moonbus said
Some uninvited guest to a Halloween party was asked to leave and fired randomly into the group, killing one and injuring others. Teenagers.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/us/kansas-city-halloween-party-shooting/index.html

Same night, a drive-by shooting in Chicago…

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/us/chicago-drive-by-shooting/index.html

America, wake up! This has ...[text shortened]... . A generation of brats who think they’re entitled to go to parties and are prepared to kill for it.

This is what happens when anyone and everyone can easily obtain and carry around a loaded gun, legally or not.

@athousandyoung said
The government sources you find reliable are the ones who made the estimate

The GOVERNMENT sources said 36 or so, a third of which were white. The unnamed "sources" said up to 300.
With no proof whatsoever, out of thin air with nothing to support the claim.