Mass Shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church/School in Minneapolis

Aldebaran said:

Felons aren't allowed to buy/own guns. Underage people aren't allowed to buy them. Background checks are needed, and an efficient method of processing them is in place.
Define "gun culture".
From what I've found: Despite common themes, there is no single American gun culture; rather, there are diverse subcultures based on location and individual perspectives, such as recreational use, self-defense, or the defense of the Second Amendment itself.
Is that what you find to be troublesome?

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Larniavc said:

Time to revoke 2A.

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Tinker Grey said:

Arming teachers is ridiculous. How would you like to be a teacher with a gun when the cops arrive? A black teacher with a gun? A black male teacher with a gun?

It's utter nonsense.

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Aldebaran said:

You know, a case is made for banning the type of every gun in existence. If not all at once, then individually.

"Semi auto rifle": Supposedly made to kill as many people at once in as short a time as possible. Used by school shooters.

Semi-auto pistol: Called an "assault handgun" and can be reloaded to quickly, which negates banning hi-cap magazines. Easy to hide.

Shotgun: Shoots hundreds of projectiles with one pull of the trigger. Used by the Columbine school shooters.

Revolvers: Doesn't eject the spent shell, making it easy for someone to cover up a shooting. Easy to hide.

Bolt action rifle: Enables someone to shoot people from long distances.

So there's your list of reasons for each one individually. When people say, "I don't want to ban ALL guns, just the ones people use to kill each other with", they use their most hated type of firearm to make the argument of the moment for banning it--until a different firearm is used, and then the argument comes out for that one to be banned. Eventually all guns are targeted because each one can kill and has its own aspects to be used for a reason to ban it.

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LizaMarie said:

I'm going to say something that is going to trigger both sides! (I'm an Independent)
Firstly, this shooter had something in common with the shooter in Tennessee in 2023, who was a female to male transgender.
Minneapolis shooter was a male to female transgender who started transitioning as a teen(changed his birth certificate at age 17,had gender affirming care,etc) and his mother worked at the school and he attended the school. So , was familiar with how the school operated, worked,etc.
We don't know the home-life.
I support the 2nd amendment but I agree with durangogodwood above. I also propose to raise the legal age to purchase firearms to be 21, maybe even 25(heck you can't rent a car until you're 25!)nationwide. The frontal cortex of our brains aren't fully formed until the early 20's (I've raised children and been a child myself.) They may not make a difference in all school shootings like this one, but it's a start. I also support red flag laws. Can they be abused, sure but I support them nationwide.
Secondly, and I don't know if it would have made a difference in this case, But gender affirming care/hormones/surgery should not be legal until age 18, or even 21. I can't believe it's even a debate in our society,but children are being sterilized and given hormones before they are fully mature. This is nothing to do with bigotry it's common sense.
Once you are a legal adult then if you want to change your gender, go for it!
This case has strong similarities to the one in Tennessee.
I would add that there is so much toxic stuff on social media and corners of the internet, his manifesto was in Russian, apparently.
If Trump wanted to write these two EO's I'd support them.

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JosephZ said:

This comes down to common sense. If a school shooter comes armed with an assault-style rifle with several high-capacity magazines, they are going to be able to kill and injure more children than they would with a rifle or handgun with magazines that can only hold 10 or fewer rounds.

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Below are a couple of screenshots from a video today's shooter uploaded that show the weapons he brought with him.

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Which weapon would be the most efficient at killing a room full of children? A revolver with 6 rounds, a semi-automatic pistol with several 10-round magazines, or an assault-style rifle with several 45+ round magazines?

Since the answer to the question is obvious, don't you think passing common-sense gun laws that can save children's lives, even if it's a few, is better than doing nothing at all?

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Aldebaran said:

The population allowed their freedom to be taken in exchange for security.
Wasn't Britain the country that also gave up firearm ownership before being threatened by the Nazis, and needed America to help with re-arming?
Some countries forget their past mistakes, and are doomed to repeat them.

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Valletta said:

The high percentage of violence among transgenders needs to be put out in the open. That means the media needs to quit suppressing the facts.

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Valletta said:

The media has much played down the high percentage of violence among transgenders.

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JosephZ said:

Trans people rarely commit mass shootings​

Over the past decade, the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive has recorded more than 5,300 mass shootings, defined as incidents in which at least four people were shot, excluding the perpetrators. Only four of those — less than one-tenth of 1 percent — were committed by people known to identify as trans or nonbinary. They were the 2023 Covenant School shooter, the 2023 Club Q shooter, one of the 2019 STEM School Highlands Ranch shooters, and the 2018 Maryland Rite Aid warehouse shooter. Right-wing personalities frequently point to these four incidents to suggest that trans people are a threat.

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essentialsaltes said:

Prevalence of identifying as transgender is roughly 1%, and transgender mass shooters are about 0.1% of mass shootings. So they are under-represented by an order of magnitude.

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