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The children in China were only injured, not killed. That's the difference between guns and knives. Get it now? Probably not.
Ever worked in an ER? Anyone who has ever worked in one, will tell you that a stab wound is typically much more critical than a gunshot wound. The blade is larger than the diameter of a bullet and does more damage. An adequate knife will kill you much faster than a gunshot.. Perhaps the children in China were slashed rather than stabbed, but I guarantee you, you will die faster from a stabbing than you will from a gunshot...
I thought you said this isn't a courtroom? However terrorism is to induce fear, violence or intimidation to achieve a goal. What that goal was we will never know but I would call this a terrorist attack because it caused fear, violence. Was that the goal? Could be.
A terrorist is not just anyone who induces fear, but someone who's primary motive for violence is to do so.
Off the top of my head, I couldn't name 5 that are white. Do I need to? No. Are you attempting to counter the statistics posted by conducting a memory test on me?
I'll just put this out there: if you keep making guns even more prevalent and easily accessed by anyone and everyone... then get used to more events like today's coming shortly. Mark my words.
What, mass murders? Mass murders are even more detached from gun ownership, as they arise from deep rooted insanity, not heat of the moment gun use. Crime has been dropping for decades.
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We are already the most heavily armed civilian population in the world, right up there with Yemen, and yet all those guns do not seem to be preventing these things...they appear to only be increasing in frequency.
If we have the world's greatest concentration of guns already, then how come we're not safer and already have proportionally lower incidences of gun homicides? Instead, we have the opposite. Riddle me that...
Because there are a million variables that go into any comparison like that, especially internationally. It doesn't pass even the most basic scrutiny.
Why is it that with gun ownership at an all time high, crime has been on a consistent drop for decades, within this country?
Wouldn't it have been better to see that headline today? You probably wouldn't believe it, but it actually did happen in 1997 - not that the media spent much time reporting it.
Of course today he would have been fired and probably arrested for bringing a firearm into a "gun free zone".
We can only guess how many kids might have been saved over the years if teachers had had the option of being armed, we know for sure on that day in 1997 some were.
only 3 newspapers out of the ~1600 worldwide even reported that the vice principle had a firearm and stopped further bloodshed.
I thought you said this isn't a courtroom? However terrorism is to induce fear, violence or intimidation to achieve a goal. What that goal was we will never know but I would call this a terrorist attack because it caused fear, violence. Was that the goal? Could be.
And until that goal is known, calling him a terrorist is foolhardy.
With seemingly every report of violence on the evening news in the inner city I am inevitably bombarded with the predictable onslaught of calls for the black community to look deep within itself and atone for its "cultural ills" on CD and elsewhere. What I consistently fail to hear, though, are those same calls for introspection and atonement in suburban communities where there appears to be a steady stream of young men lurking in the shadows ready to erupt at any given time. And when they do erupt there is always shock expressed at how something like this could have happened "in this kind of community". Perhaps it's high time we begin to address and examine some of the cultural dynamics of suburban life in America that give rise to people capable of this magnitude of violence.
An old article by Tim Wise, but still very relevant, perhaps even more so today.
Poor Timmy wrote this before the Arab Major Hassan massacred 13 people and the Asian Virginia Tech shooter broke all records with his 32 kills.
Tim Wise is also being an elephantine hypocrite when he whines about white flight since his own neighborhood is 97% white. DO WHAT TIM SAYS NOT WHAT TIM DOES.
He's the prototypical, hypocritical white-guilt prog-tard.
You ramble on about poo eating and you claim I'm showing my stupidity?
I didn't think you would answer because after all you can't.
You're right, you don't think. Keep the flow of stupidity coming chief, there appears to be no end to it.
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