“The biggest problem for me and for many was that we didn’t hear anybody returning fire."

so says one of the survivors of yesterday's mass shooting

another says: "If you can find a gun law that would prevent this from happening I could sign up today, but I am proud of our country’s second amendment rights and I’m glad we are allowed to defend ourselves.”

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Posted By: Ralf Scrampton on October 3rd 2017 at 10:57:45

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“The biggest problem for me and for many was that we didn’t hear anybody returning fire." (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Oct 3, 10:57:45
- You know, I simply don't understand how some Americans can ignore the facts... (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Oct 3, 11:59:50
  - Looks like Wyoming or Idaho is the place to be based on map 3. (n/m) (General Chat) - bird table, Oct 3, 12:11:50
    - Yeah. Mind you very few people in Wyoming in general. I think Cheyenne, the capital is (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Oct 3, 12:19:42
      - Goodbye Old Paint, I'm leaving Cheyenne... (n/m) (General Chat) - Garry Brooke, Oct 3, 12:34:31
      - Duh. 60k. That's what ? Half the size of Ipshit (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Oct 3, 12:21:06
        
        and double the intelligence (n/m) (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Oct 3, 13:04:23
- The NRA spent $30million in support of Trumps presidential campaign. (General Chat) - jetblackbass, Oct 3, 11:53:44
- I dont understand how he got such an arsenal of weapons into the hotel (General Chat) - fond, Oct 3, 11:27:16
  - What hotels have metal detectors? (General Chat) - usacanary, Oct 3, 17:23:00
  - Yeah it beggars belief. (n/m) (General Chat) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Oct 3, 13:30:35
  - Probably just put DND on the door. However, if you do that for longer than a day or two I (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Oct 3, 11:49:09
    - Why do you do that? (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 3, 11:49:54
      - Sleep in late, and don't want to have to tidy away computer etc every time. (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Oct 3, 11:56:06
  - "Nevada has some of the most relaxed gun laws in the U.S. In Nevada, open carry of (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Oct 3, 11:46:15
    - Well if he basically took them in one by one making it appear as though it were the same (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Oct 3, 11:53:27
      - lolf, all he'd have had to have done is put them in the wardrobe (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Oct 3, 11:59:38
        
        Also true. They're not gonna go through your suitcases (one would hope) (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Oct 3, 12:00:24
  - I wondered that. If someone wanted to wander down the street (General Chat) - Azteca, Oct 3, 11:36:02
    - no, Nevada is open carry (General Chat) - CWC, Oct 3, 12:07:53
      - Security scans at hotels would be great in theory but not really possible - (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Oct 3, 12:24:12
        
        ref rail (General Chat) - CWC, Oct 3, 12:47:36
    - You mean like this ? (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Oct 3, 11:54:09
      - Good God. (n/m) (General Chat) - Azteca, Oct 3, 12:03:38
    - in certain situations (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Oct 3, 11:38:37
- Banning guns doesn't work, fact. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Oct 3, 11:22:09
  - Lads. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Oct 3, 12:04:25
    - Worked better on twitter (n/m) (General Chat) - megson, Oct 3, 13:06:48
    - Was this a Hicks inspired pastiche? (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Oct 3, 12:06:26
      - I literally copied it verbatim off someone else's twitter (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Oct 3, 12:06:51
        
        oh cushtie. Sounds like one of his political stand ups (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Oct 3, 12:13:36
  - vvvvvvv whoooooooooosh vvvvvvvvvv (n/m) (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 3, 11:48:09
    - Impressive catch... (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Oct 3, 11:52:05
  - Do we? I would have thought the type of things that are newsworthy here (General Chat) - SimonOTBC, Oct 3, 11:44:42
  - Rubbish. Of course you cannot stop 100% of them, but (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Oct 3, 11:43:53
  - Derek Bird and that Moat lad are the last two I recall (n/m) (General Chat) - MIKEWALKER, Oct 3, 11:36:00
  - It works in so far as it massively reduces these type of incidents (n/m) (General Chat) - Azteca, Oct 3, 11:34:26
- And there's their problem. (n/m) (General Chat) - bird table, Oct 3, 11:18:33
- Second amendment was passed when firearms were muzzle loaded. Let 'em carry flintlocks. (General Chat) - Higher Wrather, Oct 3, 11:08:18
  - remembering the 'well regulated' militia bit would also help (General Chat) - CWC, Oct 3, 12:03:24
- Yeah, heard both of them on the radio this morning (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 3, 11:08:12
- I heard that this morning (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Oct 3, 11:06:37

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