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Seattle mayor calls for tightened gun controls in wake of shooting
mynorthwest.com ^ | December 14, 2012 | Brandi Kruse

Posted on 12/14/2012 9:10:34 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe

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To: Route395

I stand corrected. I lost interest in basketball some time ago because of the thuggish behaviour. Though some of that same bs happens in pro football as well.


21 posted on 12/14/2012 9:42:53 PM PST by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: doc1019

What if the vermin whom you speak of are wearing uniforms???

And the reason they have for coming to your home is to disarm you???


22 posted on 12/14/2012 10:25:19 PM PST by kennyboy509 ( Ha! I kill me!!!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

“A tragedy beyond words”
But he manages to try ... So, what does it have to do with calling for the abridgement of the natural rights of scores of millions of Americans?

That’s like a prosecutor saying to a jury, “Murderer is a horrible crime.”
What does that have to do with the guilt or innocence of the defendant?


23 posted on 12/14/2012 10:26:55 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Yet not one word about the 52 million babies who have had a hole drilled in their skull, their brain sucked out and their bodies burned.

Miserable hypocrites.


24 posted on 12/14/2012 10:29:23 PM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Ban all guns in Seattle?

The next thing you know they will legalize marijuana and gay marriage.

Wait. They already did that.


25 posted on 12/14/2012 10:31:27 PM PST by garjog (Heroes Died. Obama Lied.)
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To: garjog

Ban all knives as well? On the same day, a man in China stabbed 22 school children.
http://news.ca.msn.com/world/china-stabbing-spree-hurts-22-schoolchildren


26 posted on 12/14/2012 10:33:55 PM PST by Eva
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To: tumblindice

“’Murderer”: murder

If they are going to confuse the issue, we bring up their state sponsored infanticide, with a difference being there are two Constitutional rights involved here: the 2nd and 5th amendments guaranteeing our God-given rights to keep and bear arms, and to life and liberty.


27 posted on 12/14/2012 10:36:25 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Two thoughts...

Rather than take guns away from law abiding citizens, perhaps we should REQUIRE them to ALWAYS carry guns.

And...

Forty years ago, perhaps half of these mass murderers would have been confined to a mental institution and would have been no threat to the public.

28 posted on 12/14/2012 11:48:05 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Another reactionary asshat.


29 posted on 12/15/2012 12:23:05 AM PST by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: Eva

Re: “Ban all knives?”

Eva,

Seattle will only ban knives if the Police try to use them!

Last year one of our cops shot and killed a man on a Downtown sidewalk who may, or may not, have refused to drop a whittling knife.

The man had an incredible drunk and disorderly arrest record - like 80 arrests in 20 years.

Plus, he had clearly become more violent and more irrational in the previous two years.

However, the public and media outrage against the cop was off the charts.

The cop was investigated for murder.

I don’t think a charge was filed, but the cop finally resigned.


30 posted on 12/15/2012 12:23:56 AM PST by zeestephen
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To: ThunderSleeps

“What can happen at a gun show - and what can happen anywhere - is a private sale. A private citizen (ie. not a licensed firearms dealer) can sell a firearm without a background check. That’s a private transaction, period.”

I’m in Washington State and I signed up as a “member” of the “gun club” so I could go to a show and perhaps buy a gun. They run the background check on you when you join as a member, so the seller at the show doesn’t have to do it. I believe that only members (with the check) could buy guns regardless if it was a private sale or a business. But with the private no record of the sale, while with the business need to run the sale through the database with the serial numbers, etc. And I’m pretty sure no waiting period on handguns either.

Signs at the door warn that it is illegal to buy or sell weapons in the parking lot, etc.


31 posted on 12/15/2012 12:31:55 AM PST by 21twelve (So I [God] gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. Psalm 81:12)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

I would recommend that Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn consider not running for reelection as mayor. McGinn should look at the real guns gunning for him and not guns that shooters like the gunman, Adam Lanza used that his mother purchased legally. McGinn’s vulnerability because of a long history of poor policy has nine candidates gunning for his position.


32 posted on 12/15/2012 1:57:59 AM PST by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: doc1019

The only way to get rid of “gangsta guns” is to eliminate the illegal drug industry. It is almost impossible to eliminate illegal drugs especially with designer drugs able to be cooked up when another drug is eliminated. Also, when drugs are made scarce, that drives up the price, which makes more money for the drug marketer. There has to be another way.

All of this violent stuff and drug use would be reduced if we returned to a God worshiping nation where the individual loves God more than himself.


33 posted on 12/15/2012 2:11:26 AM PST by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: samadams2000
They remind me of muslims at call to prayer.

Bend over and stick your butt in the air.

34 posted on 12/15/2012 6:47:09 AM PST by IMR 4350
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To: baddog 219

Gone are the days when such psychos were kept in institutions thanks to the ACLU lawsuits.

Gone are the days when vagrants were kept off the streets and out of our libraries again thanks to the ACLU.

Gone are the days when AMERICA was a safe place, before the ACLU.

I fear the unintended consequences from the do-gooders more than the “good” derived from them.


35 posted on 12/15/2012 8:42:47 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (SAVE THE SUMATRAN RAT MONKEY!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

***The guns didn’t do it***

“quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est.”

(...a sword never kills anyone. it is a tool in the killer’s hand.)-Lucius Annaeus (Seneca “The Younger”) ca,4BC-65AD


36 posted on 12/15/2012 8:48:30 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (SAVE THE SUMATRAN RAT MONKEY!)
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