I just got home from bacchus & in the car, I literally just said how it seemed everyone had behaved this weekend.
Hard to say, because that's the St. Charles part of the route. Haven't most of the past typical violent events happened more around the Canal area? But either way, it's still a mass shooting. Four people shot at a parade that the world attends seems to me to be a mass shooting, regardless of the "why."
Up there gets very rough. We used to go up there when I was in high school but wouldn’t dare now for a night parade. Past Jackson, the st Charles route can get spotty. In fact, usually when they have shootings on the route, it’s around that area. Still sucks
. Like I said, I literally just said in the car that the weekend seemed to go well.
“Usually when they have shootings on the route”??Up there gets very rough. We used to go up there when I was in high school but wouldn’t dare now for a night parade. Past Jackson, the st Charles route can get spotty. In fact, usually when they have shootings on the route, it’s around that area. Still sucks
It’s not that I don’t care, but it’s that the solution is much more complicated than gun control for those types of crimes. I would bet my house that the guns used out there were not purchased legally (if they were even purchased).
Yep. Unfortunately. That part gets rough like I said.
Take a step back and consider what you're saying. You're normalizing mass shooting as "just something that happens up there." I wasn't at Bacchus tonight, but I've watched a lot of parades from that section, and blessedly never witnessed a mass shooting. But that so isn't the point. Mass shootings should NEVER be normalized or accepted. And they should be labeled as such, each and every time. Full stop.Up there gets very rough. We used to go up there when I was in high school but wouldn’t dare now for a night parade. Past Jackson, the st Charles route can get spotty. In fact, usually when they have shootings on the route, it’s around that area. Still sucks
Eta: I was gonna say earlier that I also bet it was on the neutral ground side & I just looked at Nola.com & it was. Unfortunately, that type of crime is all too common over there.
It’s not that I don’t care, but it’s that the solution is much more complicated than gun control for those types of crimes. I would bet my house that the guns used out there were not purchased legally (if they were even purchased).
Respectfully, I disagree. This wasn’t a mass shooting as much as thugs shooting at each other & unfortunately innocent ppl were caught in the crossfire. They do it all the time here, including on the interstate (as I’m sure you know). It’s a HUGE problem, I definitely agree. However, it’s been a problem my whole life & I am 44. We are talking generations of this kinda violence. Only thing I can do is stay away from the areas where these things are most likely to occur.
I'm so glad everyone is OK. My friends and family are as well.
Of all the countless gun violence threads there have been on the CB over the years, this has got to be the most gobsmacking post I've ever read. When any outcome of your gun-control debates can only ever hope to maybe stem the tide of the massacre of precious children, innocent mall shoppers and public revelers, but they're all still at risk of being mowed down by "regular" gun violence at any time, I'd say all hope is lost. It's incomprehensible to the rest of us, world-wide.
Ridicule thoughts-and-prayers if you will; it seems to be about all you have left.This. This is what I was trying to say, but you said it so much better. It terrifies me how much we in the US have made "regular" gun violence normal and acceptable. The FBI defines "mass shooting," or technically an "active shooter event" as an event in which one or more individuals are “actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area. Implicit in this definition is the shooter’s use of a firearm." (Source: Britannica https://www.britannica.com/topic/mass-shooting).Of all the countless gun violence threads there have been on the CB over the years, this has got to be the most gobsmacking post I've ever read. When any outcome of your gun-control debates can only ever hope to maybe stem the tide of the massacre of precious children, innocent mall shoppers and public revelers, but they're all still at risk of being mowed down by "regular" gun violence at any time, I'd say all hope is lost. It's incomprehensible to the rest of us, world-wide.
Sadly, states are going in the opposite direction. No permits needed at all to own and carry, allowing minors to openly carry guns with no adult supervision, as if it is not wild west enough now.
And the crazy part is that the wild west wasn't like that. You had to check your guns with the sheriff to enter nearly any major town (and lots of smaller ones). Sure, people snuck guns in sometimes, but just having the gun in your possession could get you locked up, never mind if you actually pulled the trigger in a public space.
Yes, that really is nuts!
