Posted on 07/21/2012 7:59:29 PM PDT by Starman417
There's an old adage that states "keep your friends close and your enemies closer." I am a "member" of Moveon.org because I like to see what kind of rank insanity comes from their absent minds.
Today, I received an email that frankly I expected to receive - just not as soon.
We all woke up to the tragic news of the killing of at least 12 people and the wounding of many more at a late-night screening of the new Batman movie in Colorado.Reports indicate that the disturbed individual who committed this horrifying act had a bulletproof vest, used some kind of gas canister, and had multiple guns when he opened fire in the crowded theater. A three-month-old is among the injured.
We are immeasurably sad for those who lost their lives, those wounded, and their families—and for all those who experienced the horror of those terrible moments. Let our thoughts and prayers go out to them today.
We're also so angry. From children's lives lost in school shootings, to Trayvon Martin, the Representative Gabrielle Giffords attack, and this latest slaughter of innocents, we are not safe from gun violence.
Mayors Against Illegal Guns has been campaigning to put a stop to senseless gun violence like this with commonsense measures, like fixing gun checks to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people.
Sadly, it often takes moments like these to bring politicians to their senses about guns. And while signing a petition seems so inadequate in the face of what happened last night, it's important to do what we can. Today that means taking a small step toward preventing this kind of tragedy from happening again.
The people who died at the Colorado theater last night are only 12 of the 34 people statistics tell us will die from gun violence today—and among 19,000 murdered with guns since the attack on Representative Giffords in Tuscon.
And yet today isn't about statistics. It's about the pain of human loss—the loss suffered by the community of Aurora, Colorado. And the losses to gun violence suffered today and every day by other communities, whose tragic stories won't be covered on the news.
It's in the power of Congress to greatly reduce these senseless shootings and make tragedies like today's far less possible. They can start by enacting commonsense measures, like fixing giant loopholes in gun checks, that are supported by the vast majority of Americans—including gun owners.
It's difficult to decide where to start on this nonsense, but I'll give it the old online college try.
We're also so angry. From children's lives lost in school shootings, to Trayvon Martin, the Representative Gabrielle Giffords attack, and this latest slaughter of innocents, we are not safe from gun violence.
We're all angry. We should be angry every time someone breaks the law and illegally discharges a firearm at an innocent person. However, there is no surefire way to prevent gun violence. Before guns, there were swords, axes, spears, and arrows. Before those, there were clubs and rocks.
Mayors Against Illegal Guns has been campaigning to put a stop to senseless gun violence like this with commonsense measures, like fixing gun checks to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people.
You can create all the "commonsense measures" you can think up and it won't stop dangerous people from being violent. Sure, if some psycho goes to the local Cabela's to purchase a gun legally the mental state of an applicant MIGHT be discovered IF that person had previous diagnosis. As much as Morons.org would like to think to live in a Minority Report nation, it simply isn't possible to see into the future what every single gunowner will do. What we do know from past data is that the overwhelming majority of gun owners do NOT commit crimes.
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How about a counter program to eliminate gun free zones so we can defend ourselves? A few permit holders carrying in the theater could have greatly reduced the carnage.
Morons indeed.
Start with the absolute insanity of believing guns can every be completely wiped out, and even if made totally outlawed, would not be available through a black market to criminals.
Then go to the absolute outrage of insisting that there would have been no way to stop this bastard even if people in the theater were armed, because - why? Because an insane murderer has beeter gun control than 400 people? Because people are babies and can’t learn how to shoot a gun?
it’s hard to believe that something connected to this mass murder is more sickening than the mass murder itself - but that’s what these gun-grabbing liberals are.
The revulsion I feel at the people who would rather they, and others, be massacred than fight back, simply has no words to describe.
Especially since these “peaceniks” historcially, and right now, have absolutely no way of enforcing disarmament, except through the creation of despotism a totaltitarian police state, and concentration camps - and they’re still all for it, and still call themselves morally superior pacifists.
The last liberal would stand on a pile of seven billion skulls on a dead world policed by mass murdering battle cruisers in orbit, and scream at the bloody bodies that it was all their fault.
Liberals are moral perverts.
Who do ya'all pray to? The G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? No, I didn't think so.
Moveon.org: We're also so angry. From children's lives lost in school shootings, to Trayvon Martin, the Representative Gabrielle Giffords attack, and this latest slaughter of innocents, we are not safe from gun violence.
Let's see...school shootings? See Chicago public schools. Trayvon Martin? See thug wanna be (also see Chicago public schools). Gabrielle Giffords? See leftwing, algore, democrat, lunatic Jared Loughner.
Moveon.org: Mayors Against Illegal Guns has been campaigning to put a stop to senseless gun violence like this with commonsense measures, like fixing gun checks to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people.
Let's see...governments like Stalin's, Mao's, Pol Pot's, Hitler's etc.? Is that what you mean Moveon.org?
Just like the Brady campaign, it's all about capitalizing on tragedy to raise funds.
5.56mm
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if, in a few weeks after intense media propaganda and Tea Party bashing, Obama “breaks the legislative deadlock with an Executive Order giving the gun grabbers what they want.
Oh, but the Colorado massacre very much supports their agenda. For details, see tagline.
This may explain all of the liberal gun grabbing flooding Twitter with their anti-gun rants and how they blame lack of gun control on the shooting. Sickening! We need to supply them with facts.
https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23theatershooting
https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23aurora
“If Bill Ayers had a son, he’d look like James Holmes.”
Good one!
“Reports indicate that the disturbed individual who committed this horrifying act had a bulletproof vest....”
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The guy was not disturbed — he knew exactly what he was doing.
The MSM and the anti-gun crowd are disturbed.
How about the “entertainment” industry producing something for impressionable young people besides endless murder and mayhem?
I’m old enough to remember what this country was like before the liberals took over. Hollywood used to know how to tell a good story with a moral, without sex and violence.
Games used to challenge one’s mind without any form of violence.
There is no question but what Hollywood and the liberals are responsible for the deaths of these people. Somebody decided to live out the fantsy he’d seen on the screen before.
The real irony? Suppose the libs were to succeed in banning guns. Would Hollywood have to drop it’s love affair with violent films? In the movies, everybody will still have guns.
personally, I believe the fault is with the wetware ... the programming stuffed into the skulls full of mush
it would be interesting to show a chart that plots the civilian murders per capita and the rate at which people attend church or some spiritual service
I believe if you could show a 100 yr chart, the evidence of lack of moral foundation will be apparent
Require all men over age 21 with no felony record, to be armed. That asshat would not have gotten all those shots off if the people in that placed had been armed and trained for conceal carry.
Since we live at time to of Marxist revolutionary movements and Islamic terrorism, we can not afford for the public to be walking around unarmed.
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