Posted on 04/07/2009 12:32:54 PM PDT by DCBryan1
Shep Smith just broke in with a new shooting massacre. In northern Alabama, police are looking for the father of four, Kevin Garner. Garner is reported in the middle of a divorce proceeding from his wife. Authorities will not identify those four (4) people found dead in his former home.
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it’s not about that to these sickos. it’s about hurting your soon-to-be-ex.
just waiting to snap when triggered and do their unwitting part in furthering the gun control aka gun confiscation necessary for complete totalitarian government to be realized in America
and worldwide. Global tyranny step by step through synthesis. In the next couple weeks I suppose we shall see more mass shootings and some totalitarian so called gun control legislation.
This Chinese guy (who migrated to Viet Nam before here) managed to kill atleast 13 and shoot maybe 30 people in ten minutes or less.
That's according to the Haitian unemployed cab driver who was their. He went to the shooting range all the time. I wonder if his psychiatrist told him to practice real good before he went on his spree. I wonder if he was trained first in the Chinese military as a sniper or assasin.
Maybe Schumer and Rudy can give him a medal for his gun control movement work. Why did he wear a bulletproof vest if he was going to commit suicide?
Interesting point.
I'd say there are a few things at work here. First, part of the problem with the statistics of small numbers is that a change of only one or two or three events is suddenly a doubling, or tripling or other massive increase in frequency. These sort of events do tend to be rare-- that's why they're still news-- but "random" doesn't mean that they'll be scattered evenly over time. Quite the opposite, they'll tend to clump up sometimes.
Second, the nationalization of news over the last couple of decades has made everything local. It used to be that when people watched the news for an hour, only a small part of that was national news. The local news would carry murders and this sort of thing, but only rarely would such a story rise to hit the national news. There wasn't bandwidth for it. But now, with 24 hours of programming to fill, it is easy for lots of otherwise "local" stories to become national news. It makes it seem like these things are happening all the time when in fact in any particular area they're of course still very very rare.
Third, all of the above notwithstanding, I was just reading a story (forget the source) this morning that said that sometimes these stories *do* help push the next one over the edge. The VT shooter was said to have been inspired by Columbine, for example. It's not a stretch to think that some borderline nutcase will see one of these stories on their TV and think "Hey, I'm that mad too!" ...and maybe it gets them thinking in a very dark direction.
So... there's my .02
What an exceptional observation. I must ponder further.
Yet human life is snuffed out everyday, in the form of abortion. The society has devalued life and the consequences are evident.
The law of the jungle preceded the law of the courts. Doesn’t make it right. Just what it is.
I was just on the phone with my brother talking about this latest shooting and he in essence said the very same thing...with all this upheaval in the economy, rampant fear, anger, etc., there will be more and more of this type of thing happening.
As I have a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, I cannot imagine how anyone who does not know Him personally gets through this life without going crazy...
While I agree with you to a large extent, you’re dead wrong when you say kids are not possessions. Mothers with the help of the court system turn then into just that every day.
Fathers have their kids stripped from them, and this is the end of any meaningful parental rights. What impact can he actually have on his child, when his wife has possession 12 out of 14 days? If she doesn’t like his rules for the children, that’s the end of those rules. The father’s input on the child rearing is simply non-existent.
At that rate, teachers have about 50 to 24 odds on fathers, getting far more face time than dads do.
No, I don’t agree with a father killing his kids. In that you are absolutely correct.
Bump!
I tend to think most of these men that kill their families during divorce/separation are already unstable. It’s not the unfair division of weekends or furniture that sets them off, it’s the fact that for once, they are no longer in control of the wives and kids. What do they say - a woman’s life is most in danger when she actually leaves her abuser? It’s not love, it’s not being enraged at the thought of seeing the kids on weekends, it’s about control, plain and simple. They no longer have it. “If I can’t have you/them, nobody’s going to...”
LOL.
- - - and I get replies here on FR that everything’s normal.
At least sharks don’t watch tv, and commit copycat crimes.
BINGO! We have a winner. Loss of control is exactly what this kind of thing is about
Seems to be another rather small, rural town.
You would never know it is there
I have still yet to confirm if this is a change in reporting or a change in behavior. Somehow, I suspect that its the former. Every time I look at Violent Crime Statistics and news reports, I notice that in the past 10 years there was a down turn in the annual murder rate, but depending on the media’s agenda the reporting varies from none to national.
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