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Four Walls @FourWalls (86765) • United States 19 Jul 22

You might join me in a little irritation with this story. Everybody in America should know Kendrick Simpo’s name. He is a Houston policeman who, in February 2022, thwarted a mass shooting at the Galleria in Houston. His quick...

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I Am Safe and Not Injured in Recent Mass Shooting

Deborah-Diane @DeborahDiane (40848) • Laguna Woods, California 15 May 22

As many of my friends around the world know, I live in Laguna Woods, California and those of you who read the national and international news are about to hear about a mass shooting at Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods,...

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It's TIme To Start Over

cmoneyspinner @cmoneyspinner (9218) • Austin, Texas 23 Mar 21

You would think after spending a year or more in your home and not being able to come outside for fear of a deadly virus, once it started looking like there in was light at the end of the tunnel, people would be rejoicing that...

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Machine Gun Fire

Jim Bauer @porwest (112864) • United States 15 Feb 20

I kid you NOT. I am sitting here MyLotting and all of a sudden, somewhere off in the distance I am hearing machine gun fire. Literally. I am former military and I know what it sounds like. And it is definitely a military weapon....

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My Heart Breaks

Michelle Renee Kidwell @Michellekidwell (29953) • Sonora, California 6 Aug 19

I am still trying to come to grips with the events of this weekend, it’s still hard to make sense of the senseless, 22 now dead in El Paso, including a Mother and Father protecting their two month old, and a grandfather that died...

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And the mass shootings go on and on...

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5216) • Northampton, England 5 Aug 19

School/ mass shootings in America are nothing new. They were doing it in the days of muskets and six-shooters but the turn of the century saw Columbine, school kids shooting up their class mates with semi automatic riflers,...

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There are some facts of life you just have to accept ...

cmoneyspinner @cmoneyspinner (9218) • Austin, Texas 4 Jun 18

When I was a young girl, my brother gave some advice on handling a difficult and confusing situation in my life by asking me two questions and stating a fact. Q 1: Who told you that if you just be nice, everybody will like you?...

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$100,000 up for grabs!

Con Volines @ConVolines (1449) 23 Apr 18

Side Thorn Journalist is offering a $100,000 reward to anyone who can provide proof of a death* in any one of 33 false flag events. * Must be real evidence of a death, not staged videos of crisis actors https://sidethorn.com/

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American Schools More Dangerous Than the Military

Deborah-Diane @DeborahDiane (40848) • Laguna Woods, California 21 Mar 18

I have recently read some very alarming statistics about gun deaths in the United States. I thought I would share them. Between 1968 and 2015, there were 1,516,863 gun related deaths of ordinary American citizens. That is more...

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Stop Being So Freaking STUPID!!!!

Four Walls @FourWalls (86765) • United States 8 Mar 18

Comedian Ron White said it best: you can't fix stupid. Every time we have a mass shooting we also have a gun control debate. This time, though, it's different: even formerly pro-NRA people are saying something has to be done....

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Message to NRA Geniuses (It's Just a Hypothetical Scenario)

cmoneyspinner @cmoneyspinner (9218) • Austin, Texas 23 Feb 18

“The only thing that can STOP a Bad Guy with a gun is a Good Guy with a gun.” WOW! That's profound. I hear gunshots, people start scrambling for cover, I look up and I see two guys with weapons. In the blink of an...

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Pouring Salt in the Wounds

Four Walls @FourWalls (86765) • United States 6 Nov 17

And so we sit, numb, unable to understand why someone else pulled out a gun and shot people who never did anything to him. I look outside my window here at work and see the flags at half staff, something that's way too common. I...

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Mass Shooting Song

Go Crossbones @crossbones27 (52955) • Mojave, California 3 Oct 17

They kind of told you. Will not let it go till it gets fixed Said to be a lame album, but people are or were not in their right mind Short and sweet, but the impact to your heart is crazy . Stop the nonsense is what I get. Band...

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How Many More Must Die?

Deborah-Diane @DeborahDiane (40848) • Laguna Woods, California 2 Oct 17

Columbine Gabby Giffords Sandy Hook San Bernardino Virginia Tech Las Vegas So many people and so many deaths. Most of these deaths made possible by the easy access to guns, assault rifles, semi-automatic weapons, and...

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Gun Control in US History

cmoneyspinner @cmoneyspinner (9218) • Austin, Texas 9 Dec 15

Been here at myLot since August 2015. My second discussion was about gun control, a hot topic in US politics and it's not going to go away. WE NEED A SOLUTION OR RESOLUTION! Part of solving any problem is doing the research to...

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can we ever be free of gun violence

jason hargrove @tomford (135) • Richmond, Virginia 12 Oct 15

we have a unique culture of violence in the United States, our police force isn't militarized like some other cultures but they have access to powerful weapons mainly because the citizens do too. I'm all for protection and hunting...

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Why murder Christians on a Community College campus in Oregon?

The Horse @TheHorse (238330) • Walnut Creek, California 2 Oct 15

By now we've all read abut the young man in Roseburg Oregon who went into a Community College class in Oregon and murdered several people. In the most recent article I read, it said he asked people their religion, and shot them if...

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cheating death

winterose @winterose (39887) • Canada 20 Jul 12

Have you ever heard the expression, cheating death? You see it a lot in movies, where certain people should really have died but survived. Some people call it cheating death, others call it a miracle. But can you really cheat...

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Mass shootings

ElicBxn @ElicBxn (64169) • United States 17 Apr 07

This recent shooting at Virginia Tech refers to an event that happened in my home town. To quote from the story: In the former, Charles Joseph Whitman, a 25-year-old ex-Marine, killed 13 people on the University of Texas...

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