Will our anger be buried alongside Newtown’s dead?
A flag flies at half mast on a dark, wintry night in Newtown, Conn. This week, the townspeople will bury their dead, including the bodies of 20 young first-graders murdered by an assailant who broke into their school. Coffin manufacturers have donated the 20 small caskets that will be needed in the burials. (AP)
The Bushmaster .223, the weapon used by Adam Lanza to kill 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Each victim had been shot three to 11 times, according to the coroner's report. Lanza is reported to have brought multiple 30-round magazines to the school, and at the time of his death at his own hand still possessed hundreds of rounds of ammunition.
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Robbie Parker, the father of six-year-old Emilie, has had to explain her death to her two siblings, ages 3 and 4. "They seem to get the fact that they have somebody they're going to miss very much," he said.
An excerpt from President Barack Obama’s message to Newtown and the nation, delivered at a prayer vigil Sunday night (entire text available here):
“Someone once described the joy and anxiety of parenthood as the equivalent of having your heart outside of your body all the time, walking around. With their very first cry, this most precious, vital part of ourselves — our child — is suddenly exposed to the world, to possible mishap or malice. And every parent knows there is nothing we will not do to shield our children from harm.
And yet, we also know that with that child’s very first step, and each step after that, they are separating from us; that we won’t — that we can’t always be there for them. They’ll suffer sickness and setbacks and broken hearts and disappointments. And we learn that our most important job is to give them what they need to become self-reliant and capable and resilient, ready to face the world without fear.
And we know we can’t do this by ourselves. It comes as a shock at a certain point where you realize, no matter how much you love these kids, you can’t do it by yourself. That this job of keeping our children safe, and teaching them well, is something we can only do together, with the help of friends and neighbors, the help of a community, and the help of a nation. And in that way, we come to realize that we bear a responsibility for every child because we’re counting on everybody else to help look after ours; that we’re all parents; that they’re all our children.
This is our first task — caring for our children. It’s our first job. If we don’t get that right, we don’t get anything right. That’s how, as a society, we will be judged.
And by that measure, can we truly say, as a nation, that we are meeting our obligations? Can we honestly say that we’re doing enough to keep our children — all of them — safe from harm? Can we claim, as a nation, that we’re all together there, letting them know that they are loved, and teaching them to love in return? Can we say that we’re truly doing enough to give all the children of this country the chance they deserve to live out their lives in happiness and with purpose?”
I’ve been reflecting on this the last few days, and if we’re honest with ourselves, the answer is no.”
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The answer is no.
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– Jay Bookman
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Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 17th, 2012
3:25 pm
Pist, Jay, check your facts. That gun WAS NOT used.
The coroner said that it was.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
December 17th, 2012
3:26 pm
That one person had mental problems and took them out on the innocent is no reflection on the millions and millions of us that DID NOT.
Well, I’m sick of people calling the shooter “mentally disabled” or saying he had “mental problems.” That’s a load of hooey.
He knew that shooting all those kids was wrong. When the police showed up, he knew what was going to happen to him after a trial. He had enough mind to shoot himself to keep that from happening. If he was really crazy, he would of shot it out with the cops.
Some people just have a hard time accepting there’s people meaner than a snake. Even his mom knew he was. That’s why she warned a babysitter for him never to turn his back on the kid, not even to go to the bathroom. You can read about it here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57559502/ex-babysitter-says-newtown-conn-school-shooter-adam-lanzas-mother-warned-dont-turn-your-back/
He was this way all his life. You can call it “mentally disabled” if you want, but he was plenty calculating. There ain’t a court in this country that would say he’s insane.
Have a good night everybody.
JamVet
December 17th, 2012
3:26 pm
The NRA that police chiefs around this county despise for making their jobs even more perilous?
OK, where do I sign up?
UNCLE SAMANTHA
December 17th, 2012
3:26 pm
i hate it when bros are letting bros die in chicago
and are standing around NOT MOURNING their deaths
but instead mourning white kids
and the media IGNORES the horror in CHICAGO
its a messed up world we live in
For some perspective, the host Marc Lamont Hill threw out some statistics that put a sobering spin on the conversation: Since 2001, about 2,000 American service men and women have died in Afghanistan; in that same time period, 5,000 people have died in Chicago.
http://atlantablackstar.com/2012/08/17/why-are-so-many-young-black-males-killing-each-other-in-chicago/
They BOTH suck
December 17th, 2012
3:27 pm
barking frog
I’m sure yacht availability could certainly play a part
JamVet
December 17th, 2012
3:28 pm
…about 2,000 American service men and women have died in Afghanistan; in that same time period, 5,000 people have died in Chicago.
So which one are you happiest about?
stands for decibels
December 17th, 2012
3:28 pm
I don’t care much for Michael Moore, but in the movie ‘Bowling for Columbine’, he interviewed Marilyn Manson – I don’t really know why. But one of his questions was “If you somehow could have talked to those kids before the shooting, what would you say to them?”
Manson answered “I wouldn’t have said anything at all. I would have LISTENED to them.”
I think that response is worth thinking about.
Agreed.
But the real reason I’m replying is to answer the “why” you implicitly raise, about MM interviewing MM.
He interviewed Marilyn Manson because that band was targeted as some kind of dark influence over Dylan Klebold. The point Moore was making in the title of his movie, was that the Columbine shooters also took a bowling elective in high school, but nobody seemed to want to blame bowling for their mental instability–so why blame Marilyn Manson?
A crude point, but not an unjustified one.
godless heathen - Law Abiding Citizen
December 17th, 2012
3:28 pm
The police originally said that the Bushmaster was found in the car, but later changed the statement to reflect that it was used. No explanation was given.
Also didn’t hear any more about the 2nd gunman captured in the woods. Probably some poor deer hunter in the wrong place at the wrong time.
williebkind
December 17th, 2012
3:29 pm
A reason the NRA would shut down its facebook and webpage is to avoid the abusive behavior of liberals. That was too easy!
Joe Hussein Mama
December 17th, 2012
3:29 pm
williebkind — “Only a liberal would react like the liberals infer the NRA should act. The NRA’s silence makes the liberals think they have gained the high ground. What a bunch of losers.”
I pretty clearly said over two hours ago that the NRA’s going to keep its collective head down on this, just like it does every other time there’s a public shooting incident in the country. But hey, don’t let reality and facts screw up that rant of yours, okay?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 17th, 2012
3:29 pm
So which one are you happiest about?
Isn’t it good, Norwegian wood?
Regnad Kcin
December 17th, 2012
3:30 pm
“I’m sure yacht availability could certainly play a part”
No gun violence?
YouLibs
December 17th, 2012
3:30 pm
They put up a flashing yellow light around the corner from my house, in front of the elementary school. Every morning for one hour, and every afternoon for one hour, they reduce the speed limit from 40mph to 25mph. They frequently place jack-booted motorcycle cops with radar guns in hard-to-see places along that thoroughfare.
WAKE UP PEOPLE! This can only mean that Obama is trying to take away our cars.
Brosephus™
December 17th, 2012
3:31 pm
godless
I remember the police interviewed that person, and I think it was stated that they fled when they heard the shots start. I’ll have to see if I can find that information.
JamVet
December 17th, 2012
3:31 pm
A reason the NRA would shut down its facebook and webpage is to avoid the abusive behavior of liberals.
No, I think getalife is right. The people who made that decision are unprincipled, politically correct cowards. Otherwise, it would still be up…
Joe Hussein Mama
December 17th, 2012
3:31 pm
K. Chak — I had no idea you were Norwegian.
Erwin's cat
December 17th, 2012
3:33 pm
Has anyone considered these shoot’em up video games that are desensitizing these youngsters to this kind of violence?…I have been concerned about this for years….gaming is training
GT
December 17th, 2012
3:33 pm
Kid is killed and the right defends the situation, a policeman who signs on knowing this risk, is killed and the right is posting his picture on every telephone pole for miles around. One thing about gun totters you increase your odds of dying by a gun. English police don’t even carry them on routine jobs, and less of them get killed than our John Wynns over here, wonder why.
williebkind
December 17th, 2012
3:34 pm
“just like it does every other time there’s a public shooting incident in the country”
Now, I am sure you have a source for that remark or are you just blowing sparks out your tail pipe?
Doggone/GA
December 17th, 2012
3:34 pm
“I remember the police interviewed that person, and I think it was stated that they fled when they heard the shots start. I’ll have to see if I can find that information”
Well, if it was a hunter that close to a school…they were probably closer than the law allows
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 17th, 2012
3:34 pm
The police originally said that the Bushmaster was found in the car, but later changed the statement to reflect that it was used. No explanation was given.
Also didn’t hear any more about the 2nd gunman captured in the woods. Probably some poor deer hunter in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I also read an early report about a fourth gun found at the scene that belonged to his father, that vanished when I went to look for it again. Now it seems there was a shotgun found there.
skipper
December 17th, 2012
3:34 pm
You cannot institutionalize everyone, for sure. However, at some point if a Psychiatrist or someone knows somebody may go off, then AT LEAST have a group meeting, warn law enforcement (see Colorodo shooter) or something. We have become so aware of mental health now, that the politically correct thing to do is to turn the loons loose on the street along with the truly mentally challenged folks that have made progress. There ARE warning signs…….like when one of them says “I’m gonna kill a bunch of folks!!!” C’mon, man! In 2010 there was a settlement between the State of Georgia and the U.S. Department of Justice to address the “perceived” failures of state hospitals to adequately serve individuals with mental illness. this basically ended up taking people from institutions (and later keeping many from ever getting sent there) to more community-based or home-based care. Admitedly, there was a need for reform….even Downs syndrome kids back in the day were automatically institutionilized. However, you reckon’ they overdid things?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 17th, 2012
3:37 pm
K. Chak — I had no idea you were Norwegian.
Ja ja.
Doggone/GA
December 17th, 2012
3:38 pm
“You cannot institutionalize everyone, for sure. However, at some point if a Psychiatrist or someone knows somebody may go off, then AT LEAST have a group meeting”
According to a psychiatrist I heard interviewed yesterday..MILLIONS of people have the same personality traits as a mass killer…but never kill anyone. Are you prepared to have a “group meeting” millions of times?
Regnad Kcin
December 17th, 2012
3:38 pm
California Governor Ronald Reagan felt the best place for the menatlly disabled was on the street – it’s cheaper.
Skipper – are you really okay with the tax increase you appear to be advocating?
Nunna Yobinnes
December 17th, 2012
3:39 pm
The Norwegian Steppes? Hmmm.
Buzz Belle
December 17th, 2012
3:40 pm
Brosephus™ @ 3:16 pm – Thank you!
GT @ 3:25 – Thank you!
Regnad Kcin
December 17th, 2012
3:40 pm
“gaming is training”
Isn’t it possible that gaming allows over-stressed people to “blow off steam” in a non-destuctive manner, thus preventing murerous rampages?
stands for decibels
December 17th, 2012
3:40 pm
Has anyone considered these shoot’em up video games that are desensitizing these youngsters to this kind of violence?
Countless people have.
And I will second what Rude Pundit said and add to it.
I think our nation’s acceptance of the death penalty, ridiculously overlong prison sentences for routine crimes, assassination-by-Presidential-decree, willingness to use torture because we think it works, and oh yeah, pre-emptive invasions and occupations that have resulted in countless thousands of civilian deaths, might just have desensitized us a bit more than shooter video games.
(and I mostly can’t stand such things, won’t let me kid play ‘em, and have almost no stomach whatsoever for violent movies, so if anything I should be ready, willing and able to blame them. But I don’t–tend to I see them as merely symptomatic of far nastier institutionalized evils at work.)
Brosephus™
December 17th, 2012
3:41 pm
skipper
I understand your point on mental health notification, but HIPPA rules would likely make that impossible to do. Some medical information can not be shared, by law, unless the person gives consent for that information to be shared. I don’t think mental health issues is something that can be shared without consent.
DownInAlbany
December 17th, 2012
3:43 pm
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 17th, 2012
2:45 pm
Never mind, thug. I guess I understand your logic.
Facts are logical.
You are now just trying to walk back your erroneous comment
I don’t have to walk back anything for you, thug
williebkind
December 17th, 2012
3:43 pm
To show you the character of liberals, they would exploit this horrible event to promote their agenda. Whether you believe in that agenda or not what kind of mindset would use such a terrible case to impose different beliefs. Liberals are lower than a snake’s belly in a wagon rut! Have respect for the grieving family and community!
godless heathen - Law Abiding Citizen
December 17th, 2012
3:43 pm
I remember the police interviewed that person, and I think it was stated that they fled when they heard the shots start. I’ll have to see if I can find that information.
There were reports of a handcuffed man in camo being led away by police.
Nunna Yobinnes
December 17th, 2012
3:43 pm
Lobotomies for all, and to all a good night.
Randy
December 17th, 2012
3:45 pm
No one on the right is defending killing a kid GT, you are hallucinating. Reegarding England, I’ve spent a lot of time in England and you are right at what you are implying, murder there is a fraction of hat it is here…but the difference is that they got rid of guns before every street punk had a collection. The problem here is the “Genie is already out of the bottle”. With 300 million guns already out there, how are you going to take them away from the criminals instead of just the rest of the people? And it is John WAYNE, not Wynn.
@ Erwin’s cat…personally I think you are closer to most of these mass shootings than other’s realize. Those games, TV, movies, and a general movement of progressives to tell everyone it is not their fault and they are not responsible, have desensitized a couple of generations now. Life imitates art…happens all the time. If media says an action or an irresponsibility is correct, it must be, right?
S&W, HK, Sig and the others may have created the weapons, but the progrssive attack on values for the last 40 years has created the shooters.
Peace
December 17th, 2012
3:45 pm
Indigo@2:36 – Do you blame your mother for your pathetic life? Your father? The mailman? Your uncle? Perhaps a brother? You owe me answers to these questions as much as I am obliged to answer yours. Good day.
Brosephus™
December 17th, 2012
3:45 pm
Buzz Belle
No need to thank me. I have no problem with people engaging in the usual Left/Right pissing contest when it’s called for. I simply don’t think this is one of those situations when the rhetorical BS not relating to the incident in CT or other mass shootings need to be injected into the conversation. Some people are attention whores and seek whatever attention they can get. I wish they would become solution whores instead and put the rhetorical bullsh*t aside for at least one day to actually carry a dialogue like a grown assed person instead of a childish nitwit.
TaxPayer
December 17th, 2012
3:46 pm
The NRA shut down its web site because it is run by a eunuch. Or eunuchs. They cannot take the heat so they cower.
JamVet
December 17th, 2012
3:46 pm
Have respect for the grieving family and community!
Yes, because yours is so very admirable.
Heal yourself.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 17th, 2012
3:48 pm
Sure do seem to be alot of efforts to blame “video games” while avoiding blaming “guns” for the outcomes of violence. And yet the “science/logic” behind the “blame” is never really explained nor is any studies or evidence.
Doggone/GA
December 17th, 2012
3:49 pm
“actually carry a dialogue like a grown assed person instead of a childish nitwit”
but aren’t you assuming an childish nitwit knows HOW to carry on a dialogue like a grown person?
YouLibs
December 17th, 2012
3:49 pm
willie @ 3:43
“To show you the character of liberals, they would exploit this horrible event to promote their agenda. Whether you believe in that agenda or not what kind of mindset would use such a terrible case to impose different beliefs. Liberals are lower than a snake’s belly in a wagon rut! Have respect for the grieving family and community!”
Just like they did with Benghazi, right?
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Regnad Kcin
December 17th, 2012
3:51 pm
“Sure do seem to be alot of efforts to blame “video games” while avoiding blaming “guns” for the outcomes of violence”
It’s not guns, it’s those durn Z-rays. That’s wyt a tin-foil hat is mighty important. That new-fangled aluminum foil just don’t do the job.
Hey, theres just as much evidence for ^^^ that theory as there is for the “gaming” theory…
Brosephus™
December 17th, 2012
3:52 pm
Doggone
You got me there…. I’ll go back to silent mode now.
TaxPayer
December 17th, 2012
3:53 pm
Cons do not want emotions to prevail in matters such as these. They prefer to save the emotional outbursts for when they are attacking women that choose to use birth control pills, etc.
Nunna Yobinnes
December 17th, 2012
3:56 pm
TP – “Cons do not want emotions to prevail in matters such as these. They prefer to save the emotional outbursts for when they are attacking women that choose to use birth control pills, etc.”
I haven’t been coming to this blog all that long, but in all that time, I can truthfully say that I have never heard anyone “attacking women that choose to use birth control pills.”
TaxPayer
December 17th, 2012
3:57 pm
To show you the character of liberals, they would exploit this horrible event to promote their agenda.
You caught me. I was promoting saving children from being killed by guns once owned by an irresponsible person. I admit it. That was my agenda. Damn. Why didn’t I wait to exploit it at a time of the NRA’s choosing.
skipper
December 17th, 2012
3:57 pm
@Bro,
Yes you are right. but some of these folks have basically declared what they were going to do. Perhaps the rules chould be changed when there is a clear and present danger……………….
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 17th, 2012
3:57 pm
Did I mention, SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS! ?
Erwin's cat
December 17th, 2012
3:57 pm
ever heard of a flight simulator…or a company called f.a.t.s.?
http://www.meggitttrainingsystems.com/Commercial-ranges/Commercial-simulation-equipment/FATS-L7.aspx
gaming is training
TaxPayer
December 17th, 2012
3:58 pm
Stick around, nunna, and you might just be surprised what you read here over the course of many years.
Regnad Kcin
December 17th, 2012
3:58 pm
Nunna – you missed the “Sandra Fluke” postings? Lucky you! You still hear that “free birth control” fallacy here from time-to-time.
Joe Hussein Mama
December 17th, 2012
3:58 pm
N. Yobinnes — “I haven’t been coming to this blog all that long, but in all that time, I can truthfully say that I have never heard anyone “attacking women that choose to use birth control pills.”
You should have been here around the time of the Sandra Fluke story.
Despite the fact that Fluke wasn’t even asking for health care or birth control for *herself,* numerous cons here called her (and some still call her) a “slut,” a “whore” and other similar names.
Joe Hussein Mama
December 17th, 2012
4:01 pm
SHEETZ
Justice
December 17th, 2012
4:03 pm
It’s not the guns that kill…it’s the mentally insane, thugs, gangs, etc. I don’t remember anyone that killed in one of these haneous crimes having a consealed carry permit. Most police encourage law abiding citizens to get a permit because if you have to call 911 it’s too late! We as a Nation kill thousands of innocent children every year through abortions, drunk driving, child abuse, neglect, etc. but where is the compassion and support for these innocent victims??? We removed God and Prayer from our schools but when a tradegy such as this occurs we see the President quoting from the Bible. Well, maybe if he quoted the Bible more often and restored God and Prayer in our schools this type of tradegy wouldn’t happen. Everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon of gun laws but when insane people want to kill, they will find a way. Timothy McVeigh used fertilizer! Muslims used planes! This nutjob could have just as easily used propane, gas or some other explosive to killed just as many if not more. He could have used a vehicle to run them down on a playground! The problem is we as a society always want to blame something other than the root cause. There’s no accountability for crime anymore! The news media runs the name of this guy all vover the news for days on end and gives them the attention they wanted to start with. That’s what they want to go down in history with their name being a household name! Now, thanks to them we run the risk of more copycat killers! Look to the rap songs, video games, movies, etc. that portray this type of behavior as well!
Nunna Yobinnes
December 17th, 2012
4:03 pm
I would commend someone for using birth control, but rather than imposing that on the woman, their male partners should be encouraged to “put a hat on that puppy.”
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 17th, 2012
4:03 pm
More gun SHEETZ
GT
December 17th, 2012
4:04 pm
Moon B Betty how you raise your kids, my parents never had a gun in the house, walked around confident and never looked hypocritical about what they said and what they did. I’m a little amazed that these right wing gun nuts think all this adds up to a normal childhood. I couldn’t imagine my mother toting an assault weapon like Bonnie in Bonnie and Clyde, nothing cool about that.
Brosephus™
December 17th, 2012
4:06 pm
skipper
That’s why my opinion is that there is little to nothing we can do to stop these incidents from happening. Ideology and entrenched opinions make that virtually impossible. What we should be focusing on is how to keep from making ourselves a target.
I don’t go places without knowing where the exits are, even the emergency exits. Unless I’m with people that I am very comfortable with, I don’t sit with my back to doors or windows. Instead of spending all kinds of money on ways to turn schools into maximum security prisons, why not focus on ways to help kids excape as quickly as possible? We make airlines install inflatable slides on the doors of planes to expedite evacuation, why can’t we use that same principle on classroom windows and such?
I think the mental problem is something that should be addressed. While addressing that, we also need to address our addiction to medicating people for any and everything under the sun too. How many of these mental issues have we brought on as a side effect to medication of some kind?
indigo
December 17th, 2012
4:09 pm
Joe – 2:46
Soldiers stand at a school door.
Men approach the door.
The soldiers ask for ID.
The men pull out weapons.
The soldiers shoot them dead.
If your training did not teach you how to shoot straight and fast, then I seriously doubt you were ever in the Military in the first place.
GT
December 17th, 2012
4:09 pm
John WAYNE now that changes the whole argument.
As far as I’m concern you did kill the kids supporting guns the way you do. How is it when a drug is involved you hasten to blame the drug pusher even terrorism is a matter of drugs laundering according to your ads. If that is connecting then in the same logic you who are gun pushers killed those kids.
UNCLE SAMANTHA
December 17th, 2012
4:10 pm
theater of the ABSURD
to look for solutions that will prevent mentally ill people from committing acts of violence
we had that solution………. we locked them all up and gave them electroshock therapy
td
December 17th, 2012
4:12 pm
What in the h3ll are you libs talking about about the NRA website and FB account shut down?
You are all full of crap. I was just on both and they are fully operational.
GT
December 17th, 2012
4:14 pm
td I have no dealt you were.
Justice
December 17th, 2012
4:14 pm
You are one deranged person if you think people that support guns had anything to do with killing those kids. I guess since you drive a car any kid that is killed by a vehicle is your fault as well!
indigo
December 17th, 2012
4:15 pm
Peace – 3:45
There aren’t many things you can count on in this world, really count on.
But, when conservative Christians like you are forced to answer a question that shows just how convoluted and irrational their faith is, you can always count on a MOST UNCHRISTIAN outburst.
moonbat betty
December 17th, 2012
4:16 pm
GT,
I am looking for a solution by identifying the root of the problem.
And society is the root of the problem.
Nunna Yobinnes
December 17th, 2012
4:17 pm
“td I have no dealt you were”
Habla Englais?
UNCLE SAMANTHA
December 17th, 2012
4:18 pm
moonbat betty
December 17th, 2012
4:16 pm
GT,
I am looking for a solution by identifying the root of the problem.
And society is the root of the problem.
========================================================================
the search for signs of intelligent life on this blog has hit PAYDIRT
GT
December 17th, 2012
4:19 pm
Justice deranged is the word of the day I have been looking for. A man or woman dressing themselves in military clothing and picturing Rambo is rather like playing doctor and filming it. Nothing sick about you, you got millions of right wings nuts to back up your thinking.
moonbat betty
December 17th, 2012
4:22 pm
And GT,
It’s not just parents toting guns around…
It’s parents that don’t care or pay attention to what their children are doing.
Everything from their kids getting involved in drugs and gangs to becoming isolated through technology (violent internet, games, music).
GT
December 17th, 2012
4:22 pm
moonbat betty not all society trust me, there has never been a more divided line in society than those who fear life and have no trust and those who live it for what it is worth.
GT
December 17th, 2012
4:28 pm
moonbat b you know what else I think heads us down this path, over religious parents who let the book do all their talking ,like that will cure the world. Same people will have a gun and a ton of fear but they believe in God, makes no sense why they are so afraid if they have God.
jays Brain
December 17th, 2012
7:58 pm
Lost in the gun debate
is the coming revolution of 3-d printing. People will be absolutely able to use open source software to build a firearm from the comfort of their home or office if they have a printer. Initial projects have already met with varying degrees of success and have already fired live rounds. Soon, it will be perfected. Gun control is a lost cause.
i stole this from another site
clem
December 17th, 2012
8:03 pm
nero, you sound pretty whiny to me complaining about jay. you know what you can do with your kimber.
A middle of the road skeptic
December 19th, 2012
1:44 am
While I think the seriousness of this issue certainly dictates the debate about gun ownership must be on the table, that’s as wise as placing a banquet in front of a starving obese man and then discussing the 300 calorie diet he is going to be placed on.
There is a thirst for violence in america – first person shooter games, virtually unlimited gun violence on our prime time television and movies, the glorification of the perpetrators in our national news media who broadcast everything about the guilty party, while leaving the stories and identities of the victims in the dust.
If you are going to “fix” this, you have to assign the discussion directly at that thirst for violence. That’s cultural, and until you do you can ban everything gun, bullet, and it won’t make a difference.
Guess who the number one responsible parties are to gun shootings and deaths? Drug crime related killings…
Last I check.. drugs are illegal in this country… how can this be possible?
And for those who think this administration is against assault weapons? Doubtful, as we’ve been selling our guns and assault weapons to mexican drug cartel since 2009. So the government sells bad things to bad men…
and we have folks believe they serious want to fix this issue here?
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120925/NEWS02/309250031/FACT-CHECK-Operation-Fast-Furious
dabir dalton
December 19th, 2012
7:15 pm
Jay…
Considering your support of abortion: the intentional murder of an unborn child within their mother’s womb. I find this essay more than just a tab bit ironic and hypocritical.