@Walter Hinteler,
Quote:According to JD Vance, reality of school shootings is a bleak ‘fact of life’.
he wants people in this country to make more babies.
when they reach school age, go ahead and put them in harm's way, because 'murrka'...
@izzythepush,
Horrifying – yet not all that surprising. As the person who originally reported the crime said, “Once a creep, always a creep.”
CNN News Alert:
Supreme Court upholds rules requiring background checks for 'ghost guns'
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Biden-era federal regulations on “ghost guns,” mail-order kits that allow
people to build untraceable weapons at home – handing gun control groups a rare win at the conservative high court.
Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the opinion for a 7-2 majority that included both liberal and conservative justices in one
of the most closely watched Supreme Court cases of the year.
In 2017, after Stephen Paddock shot over 1000 rounds and killed 60 Americans from the broken out windows of his 32nd floor Las Vegas hotel room, the death count and other factors of the incident were terrifying enough to get a ban on "bump stock" gun modification accessories, a much more significant action than anything following a paltry 10 or 20 Americans randomly shot dead in public. BUT, just last year, the Supreme Court overturned that rule, and remains in the majority committed to the narrative that gun-entitlement is a right.
But before the bump stock ban, those old "mental illness" (and iirc, video games) angles were trotted back out by the gun-entitlement groups and then-president Trump.
Now, seven years later, again-president Trump has cut over 11 billion in funding for health services which address, among other things, mental health care. And just like the other agencies where Trump's administration has cut jobs and funding, it was a kneecapping, with no plans in place to unwind or sunset programs while Americans are currently involved with them – in perfect keeping with the easy-answers approach to governing that just enough voters preferred.
So for now, to justify cuts, we can victim-blame people who struggle with things like mental illness, and judges can credulously agree with well funded arguments that some things that can kill people can't kill people. Those are the easy answers. But next time there's a big one, and we're once again in the same old arguments with proponents of gun-entitlement, remember who decided that doing nothing was cheaper and easier, and why.
This ain't America, look what happens when you try open carry over here.
Quote:Man shot dead by police at Milton Keynes train station
Officers responded to reports of person carrying firearm, Thames Valley police say as IOPC launches investigation
A man has been shot dead by police responding to reports of a person carrying a firearm at Milton Keynes railway station.
Thames Valley police (TVP) officers were called to the station by members of the public at 12.55pm on Tuesday. The man was shot by police in the station square outside the building and died at 1.44pm.
At 2.26pm, about an hour and a half after TVP officers arrived on the scene, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) launched an investigation into the incident after being contacted by the force.
The force said: “Officers from Thames Valley police and British Transport Police were called to reports of a man carrying a firearm at Milton Keynes railway station, Elder Gate, Milton Keynes, at 12.55pm today.
“Armed officers from Thames Valley police responded and challenged the man, before shots were fired by police. Life-saving actions were immediately taken at the scene, but the man was pronounced dead at 1.44pm.
“There is not believed to be any further risk to the public at this time. We will provide more details as soon as we are able to.”
A spokesperson for the police watchdog, who described the investigation as being “in its very early stages”, said: “We were notified by TVP shortly after the incident and IOPC investigators have been sent to the station and the police post incident procedure to begin gathering information.
“Our thoughts are with the family of the man who died and all those who have been affected by this incident. Our role in these circumstances is to independently investigate all of the circumstances surrounding this incident including the actions and decisions taken by the police.”
Shivani Sharma, a reporter from LBC, said a witness told her “he heard screaming back and forth for around 30 minutes and the man refused to drop to the ground”.
British Transport Police officers were also on scene. A spokesperson said: “BTP received a report from Thames Valley police at 1pm today, of a man carrying a firearm at Milton Keynes station.
“Armed officers from Thames Valley Police responded and he was shot and pronounced dead outside of the station. BTP officers are on scene to assist our colleagues from TVP, and the station is open as normal.”
A witness told the Daily Mail they would have nightmares after seeing the “shocking” scene outside the station.
“I was having my coffee and I saw a police Volvo arrive, they said. “I heard a pop – I used to work with firearms in private security, I knew it wasn’t a car backfiring or anything.
“When I went out people were crowding around and I could see the hole in his stomach and blood gushing out. They turned him to look for an exit wound and then laid him flat and started doing compressions. I heard him gasping.”
Police put a cordon in place around the area and several entrances to the station were closed off. London Northwestern Railway said there had been no impact on services.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/01/man-shot-dead-by-police-at-milton-keynes-train-station