Public Responses to Arizona shooting: New Bills, Comments (program, slavery, children)

[Joe_Ryder]

Originally Posted by Perlier

What do you think his "agenda" was, specifically?

About the same as yours.

[littlelamb3]

I do not believe in guns, never did, never will. Brings me back to my childhood when I was absolutely appalled that my father went hunting, HORRIBLE. What irritates me even more are the people that keep guns in the homes where there are children, and people with mental issues. NO ONE who has mental issues, depression, or ANY of that should own a gun, and I don't believe they should be around children. Don't give me this crap about your rights either. I know personally the horror of guns, and to defend them as your right is just plain ignorant. They fall in the wrong people's hands over and over again.

[outbacknv]

It's interesting how quickly McCarthy is promising to trot out new legislation. Makes a person wonder how long she's been sitting on it waiting for an excuse to introduce it.

[Mouser]

Originally Posted by littlelamb3

I do not believe in guns, never did, never will. Brings me back to my childhood when I was absolutely appalled that my father went hunting, HORRIBLE. What irritates me even more are the people that keep guns in the homes where there are children, and people with mental issues. NO ONE who has mental issues, depression, or ANY of that should own a gun, and I don't believe they should be around children. Don't give me this crap about your rights either. I know personally the horror of guns, and to defend them as your right is just plain ignorant. They fall in the wrong people's hands over and over again.

You are entitled to YOUR opinion...As I am

I don't carry a gun to kill people.
I carry a gun to keep from being killed.

I don't carry a gun to scare people.
I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place.

I don't carry a gun because I'm paranoid.
I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world.

I don't carry a gun because I'm evil.
I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the world.

I don't carry a gun because I hate the government.
I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.

I don't carry a gun because I'm angry.
I carry a gun so that I don't have to spend the rest of my life hating myself for failing to be prepared.

I don't carry a gun because I want to shoot someone.
I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed, and not on a sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon.

I don't carry a gun because I'm a cowboy.
I carry a gun because, when I die and go to heaven, I want to be a cowboy.

I don't carry a gun to make me feel like a man.
I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the ones they love.

I don't carry a gun because I feel inadequate.
I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate.

I don't carry a gun because I love it.
I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful to me.

Police Protection is an oxymoron.
Free citizens must protect themselves.

Police do not protect you from crime,
they usually just investigate the crime after it happens and then call someone in to clean up the mess.

[Joe_Ryder]

Originally Posted by shorebaby

If there is any doubt, I think it this will erase it. This guy is purely political and a disgrace.

Wow! This is no cop. There is an ongoing investigation for crap sake! If that moron keeps running his trap the nut-case will walk. Whether those folks he serves agree with his politics or not, they need to really re-evaluate their choice to put a partisan politico who puts his own interests ahead of the investigation in the position.

[oz in SC]

Originally Posted by mistygrl092

Nothing. Did he have a car though?

Should there be some sort of mental evaluation to own a car?
Do you see how what you would like to see is impossible without some VERY invasive laws.

[oz in SC]

Originally Posted by mistygrl092

ETA: I even think the military REALLY dropped the ball. When they evaluated him and rejected him, I think they had a responsibility to notify authorities.

Oops, wrong post, but it can go here too.

Privacy laws meant they couldn't....do you want to abolish medical privacy laws?

[shorebaby]

If there was any question where this guy was coming from this should erase it. He is purely political and frankly disgusting.

Megyn Kelly Debates Arizona Sheriff | Political Rhetoric | Mediaite

[azriverfan.]

Originally Posted by Gurbie

It is also true, by all evidence, that the shooter is a "nut job". But that doesn't mean his actions occurred in a vacuum. That young man was politically active, however spastically. He was able to walk into a store and buy a gun with an extended magazine, and he planned and carried out an attempted assasination of a US Congressperson whose district was marked by gunsight cross-hairs on a map on Sarah Palin's website.

There are political and socialogical implications to this tragedy that are national, not just confined to Arizona.

Had the Sheriff stated we should re-examine our gun laws, I would have at least understood those remarks but I fail to see how bigotry and discrimination played a significant if any type of role in this killing and didn't feel like his comments merited that.

[azriverfan.]

Originally Posted by Perlier

Do you think the Sheriff may have had access to the suspect, and/or may have been involved in questioning him, or involved in the investigation and had/has more knowledge about the incident than someone who was not on the "inside" had, therefore in a more knowledgeable position to know what he was talking about?

Perhaps but he essentially admitted he knew little about the suspect at the time he made those remarks.