The woman's dead, Mate. That sounds like a final judgement to me.
Yes I used to do business, with one / them before the exchange rates crashed. Most are self opinionated, with hugh ego's. I'm sorry but your country's in the crapper. While it presents it'self as bigger and better then anywhere else, the truth is a different story, With slums, poverty, crime and bankruptcy , Just look at the fersard in down town Detroit. or your retirement mecca of Florida, Now go past the affluent big homes and estates, and take a look at the real Florida. Where normal people exist, with mass unemployment, and massive crime rates. Is it any wonder there all armed to the teeth, in a attempt to protect nothing. You have two classes, the very rich, and the dirtbag poor. It's really nothing to be proud off Your health care is non-existent, you ether pay or you die.
I'm not saying Australia is a modern utopia, But it's a bloody sight better then your country .
OK, let me ask this- do you know everything that led to the shooting? No, you don't. Nobody has revealed all of the details, so again, we should wait for details.
Did someone mention that she reported something about a car break-in?
I'm not going to argue about most of what you wrote- yes, our country is in the crapper and a lot of it is due to Congress, but also our education system. When the system allows kids to graduate without being able to read/write, do basic Math(s), make decisions that should seem like a no-brainer (lucky for them, they qualify for that), it's inevitable.
FYI- Detroit is led by Democrats and has been, for a long time. That city was funded largely by the Big 3 Automakers but when they left town, there was no one to pay for what the city needed. Milwaukee is another example of a city that was once very nice. but is circling the drain and once again, it falls on the shoulder of three of the four mayors who were elected in/after 1960. Before anyone tries to blame the republicans for this, you need to know that Milwaukee hasn't had an elected Republican Mayor since 1916. It has, however, had a Mayor who clearly wanted to keep minorities in 'their own' areas of the city. He was elected in 1960 and stayed in office until 1988. The city is very Liberal and the link shows that. Conservatives can no longer consider living there because they disagree with the politics, high taxes, bad schools, crime, terrible roads....it would take too long to list everything bad that's happening here and by 'here', I mean in the Milwaukee Metropolitan area, which includes all of the counties surrounding the city. I live in a suburb that shares its Southern border with Milwaukee and we're being inundated by the a$$holes from Milwaukee who think this is where they should do their one stop shopping.
WRT very rich and dirtbag poor, you know nothing about this country. You think you know about the health care system, but you don't. People who couldn't pay for health care would go to the Emergency Rooms of hospitals and they would be treated, for EVERYTHING. That means, they would go when they had a cold, a stubbed toe, a little splinter, a rash...any minor ailment that SHOULD have been treated at a clinic was handled by hospitals. The result, which I doubt you would imagine, was that many hospitals closed because they're businesses, not nationally-run.
You referred to the US being bigger and better- it's not the whole country, it's
some aspects of the country that have done great things. This is/was called 'American Exceptionalism' that made the country special but unfortunately, it has devolved to being 'short bus special'. Many people in this country can't be bothered to try supporting themselves. They quit school because they have some kind of safety net. It doesn't provide all they need, but with the supplemental income they receive from their criminal activities, they do OK.
You're putting everyone in the same groups- legal gun owners aren't the problem and you should be able to understand that, but it seems to be difficult for you. Here's an example of someone who shouldn't have had a gun, but he did and he used it to do something extremely stupid. Fortunately, only the house was hit.
A Milwaukee mom says she can no longer go inside the house she once called home after it was shot at multiple times by a man she didn't know in broad daylight.
www.tmj4.com
I hear gunfire throughout the year and it's from Milwaukee (I live about 300 yards from the border). If it happens in the city where I live, it's someone who comes in from Milwaukee, or has moved here from Milwaukee. The US Marshalls arrested someone in the house next door- he was wanted for shooting three, one of whom died. He was asked to leave a bar/restaurant because he was under the drinking age, according to their policy. He left and returned with a gun- he's 25 and that's the age someone needs to be in order to buy/consume alcohol in that place. The shopping mall that's 2 miles to the East has been raped by Milwaukee shoplifters since the early-'80-s and it came very near closing, entirely. They had lost so many stores that the owners handed the keys to their lender and basically said "Here- it's yours.Maybe you can do something with it".
This country has a helluva lot of stupid people as well as criminals and a terrible Congress that has had 12-13% approval rating for decades. But in the last two, I'm repeating myself.
