The NRA has proposed some restrictions
On gun stocksâŠ
The US is beyond reasoned debate - and beyond help.
Rather than linking arms with them we need to take a large step away from these people.
I think youâd need to give him a decent tip.
But we need to trade with them and rim them so taht we can feel we have a place in the world? and welike to rim yankee sphincter rather than EuroarseâŠ
Like âdonât eat yellow snowâ or âif I were you Iâd leave town for a couple of daysâ?
Nuts.
Holy fucking Christ.
[paraphrasing]
Interviewer: Thereâs a concern about guns and mental health
Mel Bernstein: Yeah, well if you get a brain tumour nobody is going to spot that immediately (here Mel is displaying a shocking lack of understanding about the meaning of mental health).
[The piece ends with Mel walking around his house which is decorated like an American diner from the 60s. He discusses being bullied growing up in New York and having to pay 25c for protection and explains that when he got older it was his turn to do the bullying. As his wife died in an explosion a few years back Mel has no company anymore, so dotted around his home are fabric mannequins - all female. He talks to them (about guns and hotrods), drinks coffee with them, puts knickers on them (only when itâs cold). Heâs a good boyfriend he feels.]
I think Mel might have a âbrain tumourâ.
America - land of fruit and nuts.
Iâm afraid until the majority of Americans see a link between gun ownership and gun deaths, nothing will change.
Perhaps every American family should have to nominate one of their close relatives as expendable as they seem to be unconcerned when a mass shooting doesnât involve one of theirs.
1 policeman dead and 4 injured in shooting
Thereâs a figure at the end of the article that says 15,000 people have been shot dead in America in 2017 (not including suicides). Thatâs almost beyond comprehension.
The world would be a better place if Kurt Vonnegut was in charge.
I thought Johnny Vegas was missing
There have been 11 school shootings in America since the start of the year. Thatâs not even a month. They donât even make the news anymore. So the solution seems to be to arm the teachers.
So arm the mentally stable teachersâŠwhich ones are those?
isnt their one that gets on fiver web?
Here we go yet again
No doubt the NRA will be saying the solution is more guns & Trump will send his commiserations which will have an effect as much as the square root of nothing.
18 shootings in schools now this year alone. At what point does enough become enough. I spent some time in Seattle a few years ago and dropped my friendsâ kids off at the school gate. There was a big sign up saying No Guns Beyond This Point. The signs donât seem to be working Donald!
The american people are getting what they wanted. I can only think that might be a tiny chance of change if a senior NRA member lost a child in a school shooting. But even then, probably not.