Posted on 01/03/2015 8:37:02 AM PST by rktman
Every time someone runs amok in an American school or university campus, or even an idyllic Norwegian holiday island or a quiet Scottish border town, killing at random but for no obvious purpose, one simple truth is underlined:
If the killer did not have access to high-calibre, semi-automatic weapons they might not have exacted such a bloody toll.
Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and murdered 20 children just two years ago is just one of many, many examples of what can happen when unbalanced, out-of-control people step over the line between their simmering Rambo fantasies and atrocity.
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Childers was executed for the crime of carrying a revolver etc
more people are killed every single day by abortion then the entire year by gun violence (289 people shot every day compared to 3000+ aborted)
just the facts
High caliber. A give away that the writer is ignorant on the subject.
But let’s be helpful and not scornful. We can provide other terms for the gun fearing.
Really loud.
Black and scary.
Mean looking.
Bangy sounding.
Masculine flavored.
Hurty.
Military-ish.
Britain has a low homicide rate, but it has the highest violent crime rate in the EU, a violent crime rate that is higher than South African, and much higher than the United States. The only first-world nation with a higher violent crime rate than Britain is Australia, a nation that also banned and confiscated firearms, stripping its people of their ability to defend themselves from violent criminals.
But for people who only care about body counts, all the muggings, rapes, home-invasions and carjackings that happen to deliberately defenseless citizens is of no consequence.
I read someplace this morning that the death toll in the last 3 years is closer to a million. Of course it’s ONLY a tissue mass. Right? IPOS!
Kehoe first killed his wife, firebombed his farm, and detonated a major explosion in the Bath Consolidated School, before committing suicide by detonating a final explosion in his truck. It is the deadliest school mass murder in the United States to this very day.
You Irish journalists need to go back to the pub and research more whiskey because your research and agenda for this article sucks.
Oops, my bad. Make that the Irish Examiner vice Irish Times. I sincerely regret my misidentification of your cutting edge publication.
Dr. Harold Shipman didn’t need a gun, and he is one of the most prolific serial killers in history. 250+ known and perhaps double that number that cannot be verified.
Ironically, he was ahead of his time, as there are NHS doctors who have likely murdered a thousand or more helpless people, for an annual national toll of over 30,000 legally murdered.
The Irish Examiner might have heard of that place called England, not far from where they are.
Nonsense (of course).
Lanza could have murdered the same number of children with a .38 caliber revolver and a pocket-full of ammo.
Lanza, or someone bigger and stronger than he, could have murdered the same number of children with edged weapons, or even with a lead pipe.
As an aside; I tried to find a definition of “high-calibre”, but couldn’t find one. I was thinking that “high” would be the same as “large”, and therefore .223 wouldn’t qualify. Anyone know?
So, an "assault .22", then?
“I don’t recall any libs wanting to ban military hardware (and assistance) for the police after they slaughtered the Branch Davidians. How many died there??”
Those stupid commies are CONVINCED that the cops are the only people to be trusted with guns, yet they “forget” atrocities such as above, but are ready to riot and loot whenever an officer justifiably uses his weapon!
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