chassroc
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Post by chassroc on Jul 20, 2012 7:24:43 GMT -5
A gunman opened fire on defenseless people at a theater in Colorado, killing 14 and wounding 50; those poor innocent victims!
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Post by grayfingers on Jul 20, 2012 7:30:47 GMT -5
yeah, hard to imagine how a young person could be that warped. Also predictable, www.infowars.com/dark-knight-shooting-to-be-exploited-for-political-grist/"Within hours of the tragic shooting in Aurora, Colorado at a screening of the new Batman movie, the political machine is already gearing up to exploit the incident as a tool to demonize the second amendment and characterize Americans who are against big government as extremists.Every time there is a mass shooting in the United States, the establishment uses it to demonize its political adversaries." "The most recent example was the Jared Lee Loughner case. After Loughner shot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, the media instantly launched a smear campaign insinuating that Loughner’s political beliefs were shared by conservatives and libertarians. In reality, Loughner turned out to be a pot smoking left-winger who had dabbled in the occult."
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Post by chassroc on Jul 20, 2012 7:43:26 GMT -5
It is a shame that the progun or antigun lobby may want to politicize a tragedy.
Still... the truth is that guns have no place in a movie theater or in a political rally or in any public or private gathering. Charlie
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2012 7:46:29 GMT -5
Just saw this sad story. My guess would be middle to upper class family, no interaction with parents and grew up on video games. It will get worse before it gets better and outlawing guns will not solve the problem. Parents need to start being parents again. Jim
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Post by grayfingers on Jul 20, 2012 7:49:08 GMT -5
Charlie, I pretty much agree with you, especially on your first point. It might be argued that a sane armed citizen may have saved lives in both of these cases, gets into grey areas, no doubt. Bill
Right on Jim, one cannot legislate morality.
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Post by grayfingers on Jul 20, 2012 11:09:34 GMT -5
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Post by jakesrocks on Jul 20, 2012 11:51:49 GMT -5
Now the real wingnuts will crawl out from under their rocks. They'll be crawling all over the mainstream media for the next week or so, spreading their anti gun slime.
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Post by mohs on Jul 20, 2012 12:15:34 GMT -5
heartless --senseless Ed
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Post by Sabre52 on Jul 20, 2012 15:32:56 GMT -5
Another attention seeking whack job and the press is just making him hard by playing the story 24/7. Lot of parents are raising monsters these days and there's no longer a frontier for these beings to escape to. Best thing is to take him right out and shoot him and hang him from a fence in public view. Creatures like that need to be put down quickly and quietly because drawing it out just tickles their fancy and gives them the attention and sick pleasure they seek. Yeah and anti-gunners like Bloomberg are already exploiting the death of these poor folks....Mel
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Post by Fossilman on Jul 20, 2012 15:48:42 GMT -5
Sad news yes..In my opinion if more people carried with CWP,this would have been stopped as soon as he started his massacre! Someone could have dropped the dirtbag on the spot!!! Doesn't matter if he was wearing bullet proof armor,a head shot is always the best!
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Post by Sabre52 on Jul 20, 2012 17:48:30 GMT -5
Valid point fossilman. Around here folks carry in church, movies, whatever. In a way, this makes folks safer as, if one skilled marksman intervenes in this sort of situation, rather than being a herd of sheep waiting for the slaughter, a lot of death and injury may have been prevented, especially in a lone gunman scenario. Of course the Bloombergs and Holders of the world want everyone disarmed and put into the sheep category....Mel
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jul 20, 2012 18:01:32 GMT -5
What gets me, is that as the local media were reporting it, they all had to bring up "the San Diego connection." Apparently, the perp grew up just north of San Diego, and has family still living here. I think I would rather distance myself from it, not become a part of the story. But of course this way, the media vultures could descend upon his mom's house, and get sound bites from all the neighbors. Tsk, tsk, what the "main sleaze" media won't stoop to.
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Post by BAZ on Jul 20, 2012 18:38:11 GMT -5
I guess nothing else really can be said, it is done, a little baby was shot point blank. It is the most awful thing, monstrous. Now the media blitz and I have tuned out. Nothing can bring back those who were just out for a good time.
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