Would it shock anyone here to learn that 5 of the top 10 deadliest mass shootings

[bottomofthehill]

We’re committed in Texas. Governor Abbott was right, with 5 of the 10 deadliest shootings happening in his state, the clear answer is more guns. Maybe with more guns they will be able to take all 10 slots.

Only a fucking idiot would come to the conclusion that more guns are needed.

All hat and no balls or brain power.

https://www.businessinsider.com/deadliest-mass-shootings-in-us-history-2017-10?amp

[Skittles]

1. that is the gun humper solution to any gun problem

MORE GUNS

they want EVERYONE to be a paranoid coward

[TheBlackAdder]

18. It's not like any of us can remember a teacher or two who had a few screws loose.

[Skittles]

19. OMG

let me tell you, I grew up as a GI brat, we moved constantly and you are CORRECT - there was a squirrely teacher in every school!!!

[BigMin28]

2. Texas is brimming

with _fucking idiots_ starting with Abbott and Patrick. I can say that. I have to live here and constantly be surrounded by said fucking idiots.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. Me too! But luckily getting out in 11 months !! My friends

In Boston said they were together and decided to ask me what they could do? Did they all just need to come down here and help straighten this place out! I think people elsewhere think it's like the wild wild west here.

[CurtEastPoint]

3. first one I recall as a kid was the Tower shooter in Austin

On August 1, 1966, after stabbing his mother and his wife to death the previous night, Charles Whitman, a Marine veteran, took rifles and other weapons to the observation deck atop the Main Building tower at the University of Texas at Austin, and then opened fire indiscriminately on people on the surrounding campus and streets. Over the next 96 minutes he shot and killed 14 people, including an unborn child. One final victim died from injuries in 2001, 35 years later. Whitman also injured 31 others. The incident ended when two policemen and a civilian reached Whitman and shot him dead. At the time, the attack was the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in U.S. history, being surpassed 18 years later by the San Ysidro McDonald's massacre.

It has been suggested that Whitman's violent impulses, with which he had been struggling for several years, were caused by a tumor found in the white matter above his amygdala upon autopsy.[1]

[captain queeg]

4. That was my first memory as well

How many have died this way in America? O

[BigmanPigman]

7. He instructed people before he committed the crimes

to examine his brain and see what had caused this sudden change in his behavior and thinking. He knew something was wrong with him and he knew he would die at the crime scene. He couldn't stop himself from doing something that was terribly wrong with him.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. Reminds my of those child sexual predators that begged

gor castration so that they wouldn't be like they were. Have long thought so much of evil is due to the way a person's brain is wired. Except FG of course

[BigmanPigman]

16. In about 50 years scientists

may finally discover the physical issues in a person's brain that are the cause of such extremely violent, uncontrollable behavior.

[budkin]

5. SO MUCH FREEDOM HERE

AND SO MANY GUNS!

[Initech]

6. Greg Abbott has to be the worst governor in the country.

I mean it's completely insane. He doesn't want gun control because he wants to keep his Fox addicted base. But he wants mental health coverage which he slashed the budget for! Definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

13. And yet last discouraging poll I saw had him with

like a ten? point lead over Beto.

[Initech]

14. WTF!!! What is wrong with Texas?

Talk about doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

15. For some reason people love it here. And most of the people I have

encountered don't read or watch news or care about the big world . Except for Facebook that is. Why Cruz didn't even campaign against Beto. Until Beto was within two points and then Cruz unleashed a darkened mugshot negative smear on FB of Beto when he got arrested for jumping a fence in college. It spread exponentially.

[bobGandolf]

22. Tht's because...

there are no brains in Texas.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

24. Some, but very few.. based on people I've encountered.

[Rhiannon12866]

8. Didn't he get rid of all the gun regulations?? And he's surprised that this keeps happening??

[IronLionZion]

9. No one could have seen this coming

after relaxing the already lax gun laws in that state. No one.

[BradAllison]

11. The McDonald's one traumatized me as a kid

I was 8 and living in California (Oxnard) at the time. I could not stop talking about it and my mother got me an appointment with a counselor

[UTUSN]

17. K&R

[eShirl]

20. put out a fire with lighter fluid and see what happens

[bobGandolf]

21. JESUS! did Abbott actually say...

that Texas needed more guns?

[DFW]

23. Keep in mind......

......that we have fucking idiots as Governor, Lt. Governor, and Attorney General in Texas