Proof once again of the Age of Unreason in which we find ourselves, where cowardice is called 'courage'.
Posted on 01/01/2011 3:19:29 PM PST by Baladas
WASHINGTON -- Surviving the deadliest shooting massacre in U.S. history wasn't enough to make Colin Goddard an advocate for stricter gun laws. Only when he watched another rampage play out on TV two years later did the Virginia Tech graduate realize he had to speak out.
"That took me back to the day like none other," Goddard said of another troubled gunman who killed 14 at an immigration center in Binghamton, N.Y. "I was watching the body count rise and I was like, this is just the same stuff that is happening to another family now. ... I was like, I've got to get involved. I've got to do something about this."
What Goddard did was join the nation's largest gun-control organization, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. At first, he made public-service spots, speaking for the 32 people slain by a deranged gunman on the campus of Virginia Tech. But he also spoke for the 32 people killed every day in gun violence, people whose deaths don't conjure a million hits on Google.
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Is there an odor of fish in the air?
“Gun control is kinda like trying to solve drunk driving by making it harder for sober people to own cars.”
That is one heck of a good analogy, thanks for that one, I’m going to have to use it if I have your permission heh.
If college students were armed, a real hero would say "I was watching someone get shot and I was like, 'I've got to shoot him.'
He’s an idiot.... I wonder why he survived. He’s living proof you don’t have to be smart to realize that when its the criminal who is holding the gun and you don’t, your prospects of survival aren’t very high.
Guns save lives and bad people kill good people.
Feel free.
Feel free.
well stated
You’d be shocked at how many young kids, in the 18-25 year old group who have absolutely no idea that they can fight and defend themselves and that they have a right to do it. A year or two ago the cops in a town here in southern NJ near where I live offered a basic self-defense course for young (college age) women. One of the biggest difficulties the cops had in teaching self-defense to young women was, as one cop put it,’’You have to tell them in order to protect yourself you really do have to actually injure someone’’.
....disturbing image.
Especially because the subtext is “The only good person is a dead person.”
Personally I like open carry more.
It TRULY shows the minds of those ‘authorities’ around you.
Proof once again of the Age of Unreason in which we find ourselves, where cowardice is called 'courage'.
[Proof once again of the Age of Unreason in which we find ourselves, where cowardice is called ‘courage’.]
Along with the “Peace is Patriotic” bumper stickers. These idjuts equate “peace” with pacifism and appeasement and want to call cowardice patriotic.
[Can I say “douchebag” on FR?]
Five times, evidently.
Idiot survivors wish for stricter gun laws. I’ll bet that not one member of the families of the slain would have complained if someone would have shot and killed the perp before he murdered their son or daughter.
Just One Gun by 10 Pound Test (no video yet...sorry...just click on the blue link and read along with the lyrics)
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
The history of the first paratrooper is at least factually correct. I served with the 1/508th PIR in the 70's as the first of 3 tours with the 82d spanning 9 years (11 years on Jump status) before retiring a 1SG with Master Parachutist Wings. I beleive the old guy is correct - a quick check of the 82d Airborne Divison Association roles will produce his name; and it is likely the other soldiers too are members of their respective military unit associations.
He mentions his battalion which is correct; the US threw a Division over three days at a 1000 man german battalion in Luxembourg; on that hill there were 5 lines across the hill at different levels - I have been there and excavated with the US Army and Boy Scouts in 2001-2002-2003. We had 10K KIA/wounded in that battle alone in which the unit he cites was committed for three assaults 12-hours apart. It took 5 assaults to take the hill which was at the CENTER of ther German line.
He also mentions the Hurricantan (SP) Forrest which was also a nasty campaign. I have been on the trail as well and the German 77th Inf Div graveyard.
It is better to hold one's toung than to unknowningly accuse as a "bonafide 'Crusader'.
If this guy had any sense, he would learn to shoot well and get his CCW.
I think “don’t ever have an affair with Lola ‘cuz her husband will shoot you” should be a secondary lesson.
Colin Goddard, would you like some tissues? You Jackwagon!
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