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Old 10-01-2015, 01:20 PM
 
Location: Sugarmill Woods , FL
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Originally Posted by jeffbase40 View Post
This is what happens when you kick God out of the country.
Huh? When was God served eviction notice? Nuts are nuts!

 
Old 10-01-2015, 01:20 PM
 
Location: Type 0.73 Kardashev
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This is what happens when you kick God out of the country.
Sadly, you're beyond being embarrassed at posting such pathetic things.

Two points:
One, the American violent crime rate is at a 50-year low - so your absurd fantasy that as America has gotten less pious we've also gotten more violent is simply wrong.
Two, what kind of disturbed individual are you where you imagine that something worthy of worship violently kills young people as retribution for what other people in society do?
 
Old 10-01-2015, 01:20 PM
 
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Originally Posted by Mattie View Post
And it will continue to happen until common sense gun laws are embraced.

I just can't imagine what these "common sense gun laws" are which would prevent crazy people from acting crazy.

I live in Connecticut which had relatively tough gun laws. Clearly these laws didn't prevent a crazy person from acting crazy.

Connecticut now has, arguably, the toughest gun laws in the country. Shootings continue as a normal course of events on the evening news.

I guess I'm asking what is your solution?
 
Old 10-01-2015, 01:20 PM
 
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Originally Posted by Teilhard View Post
If the Sandy Hook massacre didn't move America, this minor incident in Oregon won't, either …

It's just more of the same … But, again … Thanks, NRA … !!

*shrug*
If you want to thank anyone thank the founding fathers.
 
Old 10-01-2015, 01:21 PM
 
Location: The Jar
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Originally Posted by DC at the Ridge View Post
Very sad.

These tragedies should not be political fodder. Real people, young people died today.
Exactly. They were potential/future good additions to society and the workplace. Tragic.
 
Old 10-01-2015, 01:23 PM
 
Location: San Francisco
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Originally Posted by headingtoDenver View Post
lol.. that's the funniest thing I've read all day.


I don't believe in god, yet you don't see me heading out to school to shoot up the place.
I hear that god is pretty popular in Tora Bora.
 
Old 10-01-2015, 01:23 PM
 
Location: Sugarmill Woods , FL
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If you want to thank anyone thank the founding fathers.
Or thank the shutting down of mental institutions!
 
Old 10-01-2015, 01:23 PM
 
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Originally Posted by DC at the Ridge View Post
Very sad.

These tragedies should not be political fodder. Real people, young people died today.
I understand your sentiment, but on the other hand what happens to real people is relevant to policy.
 
Old 10-01-2015, 01:24 PM
 
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No, it won't change, enough Americans are too enamored with guns for that to happen. These incidents are largely seen as a kind of tax for the right to bear arms. My message to those who support liberal gun laws is - let's see no vigils or tears - or hand wringing from you in the aftermath of these shootings, just walk away stoically into the sunset. To have it both ways is just embarrassing.
Why didn't the EXISTING gun laws that made the use of the gun illegal in this act work?
 
Old 10-01-2015, 01:24 PM
 
Location: Amongst the AZ Cactus
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Originally Posted by BostonMike7 View Post
Only took one post for someone to blame guns....and not blame the aspect of our society where someone feels the need to commit a mass murder.


If I walk up to someone and hit them with a baseball bat, are you going to get angry at the bat, or wonder what the hell possessed me to do such a thing and how to prevent that?
Indeed, much easier to blame symptoms rather than the source of the problem(hint:goes way beyond the device of blame). Simpleton type logic that much of the herd buys into. But sadly it makes for good talking points for some politicians, doesn't it? More than a few politicians will never let a good tragedy go to waste to further their own self serving selfish agendas.
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