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The price a culture pays for its love of the gun
Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | 3/28/2006 | Robert L. Jamieson

Posted on 03/28/2006 12:09:47 PM PST by Junior_G

Don't blame the rave scene for the Seattle's worst mass murder in more than two decades.

Blame the guns -- and a culture that celebrates firepower...

(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.nwsource.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Washington
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To: Junior_G
The Seattle Times chimes in...

Even before the shock subsided, The Blame Game began.

It was the rave scene that killed those poor kids Saturday on Capitol Hill. It was the city's weak All Ages Dance Ordinance. It was the weed they smoked, the beer they drank, the music that drained their heads of reason. It was the parents who didn't keep track. Stop.

What killed those people was a 28-year-old man named Kyle Huff, who took advantage of American gun laws and packed his pickup with an arsenal of weapons that no person should ever want or need: An assault rifle. A handgun. A shotgun. A machete. Hundreds of rounds of ammunition... Why would someone want to buy an assault rifle?

"Because they can."

Kyle Huff owned an arsenal. And then he killed six people.

Because in America, he could.

Oh... because we can... Does anyone need a gun to kill someone just because you can? We should have laws against killing people, then he couldn't. Right?
41 posted on 03/28/2006 4:17:07 PM PST by Sopater (Creatio Ex Nihilo)
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To: Junior_G

I would have included in the title (MASSIVE BARF ALERT!) :-). Libs are so-o predictable.


42 posted on 03/28/2006 5:14:43 PM PST by GOP Poet
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To: Junior_G

What would the P-I had to say if this nutcase had used, say, a chainsaw? Axe? ___ (fill in this blank with your favorite weapon of choice)


43 posted on 03/28/2006 7:43:17 PM PST by ASOC (Choose between the lesser of two evils, and in the end, you still have - evil.)
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To: Junior_G

It does appear the author of the article, Robert L. Jamieson, has a problem called hoplophobia (fear of weapons). Some psychologists have expressed the opinion hoplophobia springs from an individual, such as Jamieson, being inadequate.


44 posted on 03/28/2006 8:16:17 PM PST by punster
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To: B4Ranch

What key?


45 posted on 03/28/2006 8:22:49 PM PST by xrp (Fox News Channel: MISSING WHITE GIRL NETWORK)
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To: WideGlide

So do bulldozers.


46 posted on 03/28/2006 8:24:14 PM PST by TeddyCon
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To: xrp

The key to the closet. Don't try and kid us that you have an AR-15 in an unlocked closet. I'll bet you even keep the ammo in your garage under lock and key.


47 posted on 03/28/2006 8:30:49 PM PST by B4Ranch (Immigration Control and Border Security -The jobs George W. Bush doesn't want to do.)
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To: B4Ranch

The AR-15 is locked n loaded!


48 posted on 03/28/2006 8:37:12 PM PST by xrp (Fox News Channel: MISSING WHITE GIRL NETWORK)
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To: Junior_G

You know one good thing about the Iraq War has been that commie-libs have not had much time to right gun-bashing articles. I guess they are becoming bored with Iraq now.


49 posted on 03/28/2006 8:43:59 PM PST by StockAyatollah
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To: xrp

Man, you are living on the edge!


50 posted on 03/28/2006 8:53:04 PM PST by B4Ranch (Immigration Control and Border Security -The jobs George W. Bush doesn't want to do.)
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To: Travis McGee; Joe Brower

It's articles like this that make me glad I moved to NH 6 months ago.

A few weeks ago I finally got my drivers license and picked up a Smith & Wesson 642 on my lunch break. The next day I filed for my CCW and had it in my wallet 6 days later.

Compare that to the communist state of NY... *GAG*


51 posted on 03/29/2006 11:33:29 AM PST by t_skoz ("let me be who I am - let me kick out the jams!")
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