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1 Dead, 1 Hurt In Dispute During Basketball Game
AP) ^ | Mar 31, 2008 5:01 am US/Pacific

Posted on 03/31/2008 6:23:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin

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To: Vanders9
But they too have the “right to bear arms”.

But not the right to commit murder and assault on a playground.

21 posted on 03/31/2008 7:45:24 AM PDT by pgkdan (Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
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To: BenLurkin

“The article is silent on ethnic identification of the participants.”

That doesnt matter.

This is all due to slavery and its ramifications.


22 posted on 03/31/2008 7:45:48 AM PDT by Canedawg (No Che Hussein NObama, and the Hildebeast, too)
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To: BenLurkin

“The article is silent on ethnic identification of the participants.”

ME: yeah, like that is a real hard thing to determine...


23 posted on 03/31/2008 7:57:07 AM PDT by raygunfan
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To: robertpaulsen
"Was someone fouled in the act of shooting?"

More like they were shot in the act of fouling.

Nope... this is Kalifornia. Most likely someone shot for foul acting.

24 posted on 03/31/2008 8:44:01 AM PDT by RightResponse (It depends on what the defamation of Islam is .....)
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To: raygunfan

“The article is silent on ethnic identification of the participants.”

ME: yeah, like that is a real hard thing to determine...”

And the race is important to you because...?


25 posted on 03/31/2008 8:51:48 AM PDT by gracesdad
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To: gracesdad

...because the media is hesitant to admit that black people commit crime.


26 posted on 03/31/2008 9:15:16 AM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: gracesdad

“The article is silent on ethnic identification of the participants.”

ME: yeah, like that is a real hard thing to determine...”

And the race is important to you because...?

ME: Yes the race is important to me because im sick of news stories that continue to skip out that part of the story.

Just as in the middle east, islamic wackos are the main cause of problems, for themselves and those around them, the same can be said for black americans.

they are their own worst enemy and blame it on everyone else (especially white america) and inevitably, white americans ‘pick up the tab’ in money, time and sometimes, victims..

I agree with Bill Cosby on this sort of stuff, and im tired of folks trying to ignore it, soft sell it, or skip it all together.

It needs publicized over and over.


27 posted on 03/31/2008 9:51:05 AM PDT by raygunfan
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To: raygunfan

“Yes the race is important to me because im sick of news stories that continue to skip out that part of the story.”

So you would also want the race identified when whites commit crimes? Even if it’s against whites. Right?


28 posted on 03/31/2008 11:13:20 AM PDT by gracesdad
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To: BenLurkin

obviously the shot was blocked...didn’t use his hand, unfortunately!


29 posted on 03/31/2008 11:40:14 AM PDT by Flpoop (play it where it lies)
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To: gracesdad

absolutely, in fact, most of the time, when the perp is white, he/she is identified

Besides, what good is it to give a news story of a gun on the loose, but not describing him/her by approximate height, weight, race, features, etc...

yes, identify all EQUALLY.

but, that isnt what is done, is it?


30 posted on 03/31/2008 12:07:40 PM PDT by raygunfan
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To: raygunfan

absolutely, in fact, most of the time, when the perp is white, he/she is identified

that’s funny, because most black people believe it’s the opposite.


31 posted on 03/31/2008 12:11:45 PM PDT by CAPTAINSUPERMARVELMAN
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To: CAPTAINSUPERMARVELMAN

ME: AAAAh, but they are wrong. As history shows, and as most of my posts on this thread have shown. I watch the news here nightly in Pittsburgh.

We have our bad sections of town, and they are invairably the black neighborhoods, where the shootings and other violence occurs.

In that regard, i dont need to know the race, just the neighborhood, i.e. The Hill, East Liberty, Homewood, etc...for those of you in the pgh area...

but the news just last nite had a story, that was actually a few days old, regarding two men involved in shooting a u.s postal worker, they are still at large, were any descriptions given????

one of the original stories mentioned their race as black, but i havent heard ONE mention since then. Why?

absolutely, in fact, most of the time, when the perp is white, he/she is identified

that’s funny, because most black people believe it’s the opposite.


32 posted on 03/31/2008 12:44:49 PM PDT by raygunfan
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To: BenLurkin

People go nuts over sports. I saw an off-duty policeman come from the stands and out onto the floor and pull a gun on a referee at a basketball game.

Sadly, it was a YMCA game for 5 and 6 year olds. The referee in this case was a coach and they weren’t even keeping score.


33 posted on 03/31/2008 12:47:42 PM PDT by IamConservative (Only two have offered to die for a stranger; Jesus Christ and the American Soldier)
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To: raygunfan

Well here in Milwaukee it is actually the reverse. we often joke about it when we here of various crimes that are committed. If the perp is black you’ll see his/her face before the report begins and well unto it’s end. If the perp is white, it’s up to you to figure it out from the vague description given at the end of the report. This even happens sometimes when they catch the perp on video. Funny how media bias differs from place to place.


34 posted on 03/31/2008 1:13:04 PM PDT by CAPTAINSUPERMARVELMAN
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To: Kid Shelleen

The Federal Department of Ballers?


35 posted on 03/31/2008 1:17:23 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: pgkdan

True, but with the right to bear arms comes the responsibility to use them correctly - and a depressingly large number of folk don’t have that level of responsibility, certainly not those who would kill over a dispute in a game.


36 posted on 04/02/2008 1:11:41 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: raygunfan

“absolutely, in fact, most of the time, when the perp is white, he/she is identified”

Not so in my experience. I’d be interested in seeing some examples, especially any where whites have been identified for no apparent reason other than the fact that they are white.

“Besides, what good is it to give a news story of a gun on the loose, but not describing him/her by approximate height, weight, race, features, etc...”

If all you have is the fact that they’re black and, say, medium height, that doesn’t help in the least. If you have a very specific description, then, yes, it should be released.

“yes, identify all EQUALLY.
but, that isnt what is done, is it?”

Again, in my experience, it is. I rarely see race mentioned unless in the media unless it seems germane to the story. And I never see Freepers complaining because a white perp’s race wasn’t described in the media.


37 posted on 04/02/2008 7:51:47 AM PDT by gracesdad
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To: gracesdad

from my experience i have noted a concentrated effort in the pittsburgh area to downplay the race if a black is the suspect or eventual convicted party...

and that is just too PC for me....


38 posted on 04/02/2008 9:21:49 AM PDT by raygunfan
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To: BenLurkin

39 posted on 04/02/2008 9:29:53 AM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat lead.)
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To: Vanders9; pgkdan
"A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue."

- Daniel Webster

Indeed, elder statesmen from the very founding of this nation forward have communicated the need for rights to be exercised responsibly. These days however, morality is simply 'uncool' so it's easier to view the right itself as somehow defective or in need of modification rather than the abuser of that right.

40 posted on 04/02/2008 10:01:20 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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