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Minnesota School Massacre Latest Example of the Human Toll of America's Love Affair with Guns
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| 3-22-05
| Marty Langley
Posted on 03/22/2005 10:53:46 AM PST by Dan from Michigan
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To: Dan from Michigan
"Restricting Access to Firearms is the Only Way to Prevent Future Tragedies"Yes, only law enforcement and the military need firearms.
We'll be much safer when all civilians are disarmed.
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posted on
03/22/2005 11:26:38 AM PST
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: Dan from Michigan
Guns cause school violence like cameras cause child pornography. If we outlaw cameras then pornography wouldn't be possible.
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posted on
03/22/2005 11:27:18 AM PST
by
skyman
To: scott7278
Followed up by the always predictable...'It's Bush's fault.'
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posted on
03/22/2005 11:28:00 AM PST
by
Okies love Dubya 2
(“Moral issues are always terribly complex, for someone without principles.” G.K. Chesterton)
To: Dan from Michigan
A gun didn't kill these people - THE SHOOTER KILLED THESE PEOPLE - AND HIS WEAPON OF CHOICE WAS A GUN.
End of story!
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posted on
03/22/2005 11:28:03 AM PST
by
CyberAnt
(President Bush: "America is the greatest nation on the face of the earth")
To: Brilliant
"America must face the fact that we have a love affair with guns that exacts a tremendous and unacceptable cost in human lives lostI must have missed their missive on America's love affair with cars, which exacts a tremendous & higher cost in lives than guns.
Oh, WAIT.....I mentioned facts, sorry. Never mind.
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posted on
03/22/2005 11:29:45 AM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it.)
To: Texas Federalist
The vast majority of shootings are perpetrated by guns?Perhaps the gun came from a broken home, or a public school?
That's why my wife & I home school our guns. They're much more law abiding and tolerant that way.
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posted on
03/22/2005 11:32:02 AM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it.)
To: Dan from Michigan
To: elbucko
Anyone who is legally permitted to vote should be permitted to own a gun -- mental illness or not. There are certainly inherent risks in that approach, but there's no way in hell a person who is deemed "mentally unfit" to own a gun should have any say in who serves in my government.
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posted on
03/22/2005 11:33:20 AM PST
by
Alberta's Child
(I ain't got a dime, but what I got is mine. I ain't rich, but lord I'm free.)
To: Dan from Michigan
I guess the fact that the kid was a Goth, dressed in black and frequented Nazi/skinhead type websites and used the monikker of "Angel of Death" has little bearing on this case...SSZ
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posted on
03/22/2005 11:35:05 AM PST
by
szweig
To: NavyCanDo
I was actually a little shocked last night that this was the 3rd story into the news. When the Columbine shooting occured it was not only the Top Story it was the Only Story. Because the shooting happened at a Native American reservation, and minority-on-minority crimes get little, if any MSM exposure.
Now if the shooting happened in suburban Minneaoplis, then there'd be widespread coverage.
To: Navydog
>>This may sound crazy, but I wonder how many would have died if this kid had walked into this school of 300 kids where all of them were armed.<<
An armed society is a polite society.
To: Dan from Michigan
What about our love affair with cars? 43,000 dead per year but liberals won't touch this one. What hypocrites!
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posted on
03/22/2005 11:37:22 AM PST
by
biblewonk
(Neither was the man created for woman but the woman for the man.)
To: Alberta's Child
Keep on thinking that way and you won't have a gun or a right to vote. Voting and guns are not co-equal rights in the mind general public and the general public have more votes than gun owners. Look, you guy's can stand on all your theories of rights all you want, it won't prevent adverse gun legislation. However, partnering with mental health organizations to prevent
MINORS from shooting up schools will go a long way to keeping the 2nd. Amendment viable.
You know, some of you gun nuts have the habit of looking at history and current events through its muzzle, rather than its breech.
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posted on
03/22/2005 11:47:29 AM PST
by
elbucko
(A Feral Republican)
To: Dan from Michigan
Dear VPC.......
.....had that security guard , principal, janitors, or teachers been allowed to bear arms if they so choose the little murdering whacked out POS you ignore would have been dropped in his tracks before he could kill anyone else.
Paper laws still don't stop lead projectiles......or criminal acts.
FNC's Martha McCallum (?) is all toothy & goofy about how "many guns" this poor child was allowed to gain access to........stupid assed presstitutes !
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posted on
03/22/2005 11:53:50 AM PST
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
To: szweig
I guess the fact that the kid was a Goth, dressed in black and frequented Nazi/skinhead type web sites and used the moniker of "Angel of Death" has little bearing on this case...SSZNot to me it doesn't. This kid had a father that whacked himself and a mother in nursing home. He was ripe for the sick crap that these web sites serve up. If I were the NRA, I would publicly condemn these hate sites and seek to have them considered XXX rated on the net. Children, minors, do not have First or Second Amendment rights.
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posted on
03/22/2005 11:54:50 AM PST
by
elbucko
(A Feral Republican)
To: elbucko
Voting and guns are not co-equal rights in the mind general public and the general public have more votes than gun owners. Go back and look through all of my posts in the 4+ years I've been here on FR, and ask yourself if I come across as the kind of person who really gives a sh!t what goes on in the mind of the "general public."
One of the major factors in the Minnesota school massacre yesterday was that someone in the "general public" got this brilliant idea to use unarmed security guards as a means to prevent school violence. There isn't damn thing anyone is going to do to prevent these incidents when you're dealing with that kind of idiotic mindset.
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posted on
03/22/2005 11:58:15 AM PST
by
Alberta's Child
(I ain't got a dime, but what I got is mine. I ain't rich, but lord I'm free.)
To: elbucko
However, partnering with mental health organizations to prevent MINORS from shooting up schools will go a long way to keeping the 2nd. Amendment viable. I'll also point out that school violence of this sort was nonexistent before the phrase "mental health organization" was ever used in public discourse. You think that's just a coincidence?
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posted on
03/22/2005 12:00:04 PM PST
by
Alberta's Child
(I ain't got a dime, but what I got is mine. I ain't rich, but lord I'm free.)
To: All
What it is, is the state of parenting in America
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posted on
03/22/2005 12:00:40 PM PST
by
The Wizard
(DemonRATS: enemies of America)
To: Alberta's Child
Anyone who is legally permitted to vote should be permitted to own a gun -- mental illness or not.The kid doing the shooting was 17, unable to vote or buy a gun. How do you reconcile that with your theory that if someone is crazy enough to vote, than they're crazy enough to own a gun?
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posted on
03/22/2005 12:00:43 PM PST
by
elbucko
(A Feral Republican)
To: Dan from Michigan
Ward Churchill had more to do with this than the NRA.
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