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So its ALL the NRA and GOP causing my democratically run state and local PA from prosecuting gun crimes or following sentencing guidelines?! OMG.. they are so awesomely powerful. It must suck playing the martyr and victim every day.
I dont need the internet.. I spent yrs in the PAs office. Save your condescension for someone else who might be baffld by your BS.
Originally posted by groingrinder
reply to post by randyvs
We need the death penalty to be implemented for shooters. We need it the sentence carried out quickly and within 60 days of sentencing. The price to pay is not yet extreme enough to stop them. Don't vilify the guns, gun sellers, and legal gun owners. NONE OF THEM DID ANYTHING WRONG. Penalize criminals who commit crimes.
Originally posted by Jeremiah65
Interesting to see the exchanges on this topic.
We have the "It's big news and the world must know" kinda crowd and then we have the "This happens all the time, it was not a mass shooting so it is NOT news"...
Before I go on...I am a Libertarian. I think trying to control things is the quickest way for it to get out of control...Prohibition...war on drugs...yeah...those really "got things under control" now didn't they?
This will be blow out of proportion by the media and we all know it. tragically, thousands and thousands of people permanently clock out everyday...it's called life....deal with it.
Wanna know what is really news and no one talks much about? How many women and children got blown to pieces this month from Drone attacks? That would be a number I'd be interested in hearing...ya know...as a baseline model. If we are all going to stop the killing and the dieing...I think we need to look at how many deaths the people that want to control guns actually cause or at least approve of...edit on 1/30/2013 by Jeremiah65 because: (no reason given)edit on 1/30/2013 by Jeremiah65 because: (no reason given)
In January, Congress passed HR 658, which requires the Federal Aviation Administration to take steps to facilitate the integration of drones “into the national airspace system.” President Obama signed the bill on February 14 with no public discussion or comment. (See “Drones come to the US”) Since Obama signed the bill, hundreds of drones have already begun flying over the US to spy on and monitor the population. A recent ABC News investigative report entitled “UAVs: Will Our Civil Liberties Be Droned Out?” outlined the possibility of drones buzzing overhead becoming “a fact of daily life.” ABC News reported: “Drones can carry facial recognition cameras, license plate scanners, thermal imaging cameras, open WiFi sniffers, and other sensors. And they can be armed.
Originally posted by xedocodex
reply to post by Advantage
Your local nowhere southern illinois town (near St. Louis, right?) issues has nothing to do with NATIONAL GUN CONTROL.
You are talking about GUN CRIME and local politics...they are two distinctly different things. If you don't understand this very very basic concept of the difference between the two, then I'm sorry, we can't have an intelligent conversation about it.
I know enough to know how you operate and to know you think you are always right.
Originally posted by antar
reply to post by xedocodex
I see it another way, had everyone in that Mortgage office been armed this tragedy could have been avoided.
Originally posted by PlausibleDeniability
So strange...I've posted this before but I worked at the Clackamas mall and left a couple weeks before that shooting and moved to phoenix, and now another mass shooting right down the road from me. I believe a WTF is in order...
Originally posted by Moshpet
Media sensationalism, making mass murder the norm, and 'cool way' to commit suicide. One last 'hurrah' to get your 15 minutes of fame when you are dead. If the media wasn't making such an issue of every single instance, the suicidal people would not be trying to do it in droves.
Frankly I find it pathetic that anyone sick enough to kill themselves in this manner get even a nod from the media.
There as a fake 'quote' from Morgan Freeman that essentially said these people need to be expunged from history. I personally would go one further and say that those type of murderers need no tombstone and they need to have their ashes dumped in a sewer, via a toilet.
Yeah, I would feel bad for the parents of such a creature, as no one should lose a child. However it is time to stop giving these type of killers anything more than a flush when it comes to media attention.
M.
Okay. You win... Im sure you believe that Federal law has nothing to do with state law and they are completely independent of each other. Its like a state is its own country, completely independent, and the feds have NO say in anything a state does.
I challenge you to actually educate yourself on this. SPecifically the federal gun laws that are enforced by the state. I cant imagine what you make of recent things like this.. since federal law has nothing to do with the state.
Originally posted by xedocodex
Originally posted by bo12au
This happens everyday across the world. Shame on the media for using this to push an agenda. Btw wait and see what events unfold when the shelves are empty and the pharmacies close
Shame on the media for doing it's job and reporting events because they are killing your argument and your own agenda.
Gun control is needed...every week we get more and more examples why.
Not everything is about YOU YOU YOU. I was pointing out the ones going off on a rant about gun nuts acting like jackasses. Before you get your panties in a wad.. maybe pay attention. Youre getting punchy in the gun discussion scene. Maybe go post kitty videos for a few hrs in BTS. I read alien abduction and exosex discussions when Im too sensitive. Burns it right out of me...
Before I go on...I am a Libertarian. I think trying to control things is the quickest way for it to get out of control...Prohibition...war on drugs...yeah...those really "got things under control" now didn't they?
Originally posted by Ghost375
Some of the responses are just sick. So many of you are outright cold-hearted. Get your heads checked.