The price a culture pays for its love of the gun

Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | 3/28/2006 | Robert L. Jamieson

[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...

[Junior_G]

Just another anti-gun Seattle leftie who thinks violence will end if we just get rid of enough freedoms.

[MineralMan]

Hey! You guys just have to quit watching Google change its news every few minutes. Two posts almost simultaneously...amazing.

[Petronski]

How terrible that those guns leapt from their cabinet, somehow propelled themselves to the party and killed all those people.

Bad guns!

[Junior_G]

Wow...just a 15 second difference. I was first, but his post has the cool pictures. Let's see which thread gets pulled.

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

Robert L. Jamieson wears panties. About as supportable a statement as anything he wrote.

[dirtboy]

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

Might as well not blame drug deaths at raves on the rave scene, either. Blame the drugs.

[CholeraJoe]

Guns cause violence just like a spoon caused Roseanne to get fat.

[Smokin' Joe]

It ain't much of an "arsenal" if you can carry all of it in one trip...

[WideGlide]

From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Guns don't kill people. Chimps do.

[Jack Hammer]

Same old horse dung.

[GnL]

This guy must have cut and pasted his article, because I'm sure I've read this same tripe about a thousand times before. What a moron.

[Sopater]

Congrats Junior_G, yours stuck, mine got pulled. Funny thing is I thought about posting it earlier this morning, but got busy. I must say that you have excellent taste in FR new.

[Smokin' Joe]

From: Pair hide in bathtub, bullet whizzes by

The victim was slumped across the threshold of the red, two-story house on East Republican Street where the Clementes have lived for 26 years. He wore a black T-shirt, a pacifier around his neck and what Clemente described as "sci-fi gloves," referring to the light-tipped gloves some ravers wear.

No drugs? Why the pacifier? Can you say: ecstacy?

I knew you could.

The agendits are busy sanitizing this for your protection so they can blame the firearms involved instead of the drug culture. Go figure.

As W.C. FIelds used to say, "Don't let 'em bamboozle you kid!"

[xrp]

On the dupe thread, someone suggested filming a stand alone gun in an effort to see how long it takes for the gun to off someone.

I can attest to my AR-15 not having killed anyone in the 6 months that it has been all alone in my closet.

[Junior_G]

I can only hope that when I die I don't have a damn pacifier dangling from my neck.

[Smokin' Joe]

I can only hope that when I die I don't have a damn pacifier dangling from my neck.

Sheesh! You wouldn't need to shoot me --I'd die of embarassment.

[kerryusama04]

I would just once love to hear, "Gosh, if only someone else at the party had a gun, this might have turned out differently"

[philman_36]

The uncomfortable truth is, the right to bear arms has become a right for lunatics to get tools of lethal efficiency and shoot up people.
The whole uncomfortable truth is that this peckerhead wants to disarm his fellow Americans without them realizing it!
Remember the student assault just the other day? Lunatics have access to cars as well as "arms". Cars are just as effecient and lethal if they're used properly.

Let him come to my door ask ask for me to hand my weapons over.
I'd respond "Molon Labe", but the point would probably be missed and mute anyway.

[Overtaxed]

How terrible that those guns leapt from their cabinet, somehow propelled themselves to the party and killed all those people.

Don't be silly...they used an SUV!