and yet there's no escaping it.
1 death is a tragedy
1 million deaths is a statistic.
When the Left kills, they kill in the millions ... and no one seems to care.
A right-winger who kills at point blank range is seen as a monster. The world uses that outrage to dismiss anything which is non-Left. You see, we need to support the Leftists so that tragedies do not occur. We seek a calm world of simple statistics.
Seems to be a pretty clear indication as to the futility of gun control.
Norway is one of those passive-aggressive gun rights countries. They have some excessively unnecessary rules such as being subject to a random search given 48 hours notice, but they tolerate it otherwise.
There’s also apparently very little public support of concealed carry, and garbage like what’s going on here with Zimmerman is used as anti-gun propaganda.
“Look at what gun cultures do to their people!” *sigh*
Always run away or towards an armed person intent on violence.
Once you start down the road of compliance you will end up waiting while he reloads for your bullet to the back of the head.
The Virginia Tech student was using a .22 IIRC - not a very dangerous round (all things considered) for a body shot - but so many students waited for the bullet to the back of the head - one of the few places a .22 is sure to kill you.
I really don't understand this term. I define 'right' as conservative, capitalist. I define 'left' as big government socialist.
Hitler, Stalin are far left. Skinheads who support Hitler's goals are far left, but called far right.
Long drop, short rope. Historically appropriate justice. I don’t care what his politics are, there is no possible justification for his murders.
Wow, I bet the Norwegians are sad they don’t have a death penalty, or even a life sentence.
“Barbaric”
I disagree. I think he was humane. When you look at what the Left has done in the past 100 years then you’ll see real barbarism.
Billions enslaved. Hundreds of millions murdered.
And Breivik was brilliant (and sane) in his strategy not to try to assassinate the current crop of leftist leaders but to assassinate the next generation of leftist elites.
It is cold, it is unthinkable to contemplate as a mother of three, but in fifteen years what Breivik did may allow Norwegians to cast off the shackles of leftism when there are not enough elite leftist youth moving into leadership.
Again, I do not approve of what Brievik did but if the tables were turned and some leftist murdered 100 kids at, say, a Tea Party summer camp I do not doubt that the left would be openly celebrating. Bill Maher would call the killer ‘brave’, Obama would call the killer the son he never had, and any number of academics would call the killer a hero.
We’re better than that, of course, but let’s not lost track of the fact that the left would do this same thing a million times over to our kids if they could. History shows that’s how they roll.
I suppose this is what happens when a maniac sees his nation going down the toilet of socialist mediocrity. He targets and wipes out an island full of teenagers who are attending a camp to be nurtured and groomed to be the political elite of the future with the goal of furthering the socialist/communist agenda.
Has this insane killer ever stated precisely what his specific goal was? Was it entirely political?
Does he consider himself a martyr?
"'You will die today Marxists,' I yelled," Breivik recalled.
Standing there like a sheep at the slaughterhouse while he reloads? Some maniac tried this years ago at an Oregon high school and was tackled by an Eagle Scout, IIRC.
I still don't care.
The New Black Panther’s are taking notes.
"Some teenagers were frozen in panic, unable to move even when Breivik ran out of ammunition"
This is important. Many of the victims were boys, descendants of Vikings for heaven's sake, yet they did not seize upon their chance to jump the murderer when he paused to reload.
This is the sad outcome of a gun-controlled, liberal social democracy that teaches non-violence and peace studies. The children of this culture become lambs led to slaughter.
Had this happened in the 1950s, even as late as the 1960s, in any western country, the d-ckhead would've been jumped by 5-10 youths. One or two might've been plugged but the other 8 would've beat the h-ll out of Breivik.
My son took three years of self-defense classes. HE would've launched into his martial arts training and alone would've taken Breivik down.