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Gun control is not the answer
CNN ^ | September 17, 2013 | LZ Granderson, CNN Contributor

Posted on 09/17/2013 12:51:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Edited on 09/17/2013 1:46:33 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

More blood, more tears, more knee-jerk rhetoric about finding a solution for a bunch of different problems.

Those who knew Aaron Alexis -- the shooter who killed 12 and injured eight more at the Washington Navy Yard this week -- said he was a quiet, shy man.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aaronalexis; banglist; guncontrol; navy; navyyard; secondamendment
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To: Uncle Miltie

It looks like he was honorably discharged.

http://m.washingtonpost.com/politics/alleged-navy-yard-gunman-had-checkered-military-career-officials-say/2013/09/17/a136ad0c-1fa1-11e3-8459-657e0c72fec8_story.html

The story has changed. Again.


21 posted on 09/17/2013 1:08:01 PM PDT by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: Socon-Econ

In Obama’s America? How dare you!!


22 posted on 09/17/2013 1:09:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I aim to raise a million plus for Gov. Palin. What'll you do?.)
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To: RKBA Democrat
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23 posted on 09/17/2013 1:09:59 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Power disintegrates when people withdraw their obedience and support)
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To: Uncle Miltie; Gondring

There was only one individual in all of history who was “always accurate” and I don’t think he uses the nickname “Gondring” on FR. Do you?


24 posted on 09/17/2013 1:11:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I aim to raise a million plus for Gov. Palin. What'll you do?.)
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To: Uncle Miltie
send out for Chinese

Maybe from here?


25 posted on 09/17/2013 1:15:21 PM PDT by jrg
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To: andyk

FOX has a copy of his Military record. Glowing reviews. Was busted from E3 to E2 over being missing, but was reinstated on appeal due to his being in jail for accidentally firing his firearm. Glowing reviews resume. Honorable discharge.


26 posted on 09/17/2013 1:16:30 PM PDT by publana (Beware the olive branch extended by a Dem for it disguises a clenched fist.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No banning AR15s after this??


27 posted on 09/17/2013 1:19:14 PM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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To: jrg
Maybe over their puddy tat? funny Chinese  restaurant photo:  6fa88c1c-3.jpg
28 posted on 09/17/2013 1:27:39 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: canuck_conservative

Or at a gun store.


29 posted on 09/17/2013 1:33:18 PM PDT by Sigurdrifta
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Another day, another mass shooting in America.”

Stopped reading as soon as I saw that line of bullcrap.


30 posted on 09/17/2013 1:42:14 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Register liberals, NOT firearms.)
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To: andyk

Probsbly had them reissue the story so his son wouldn’t look bad and lent them some of his forgery templates to assist...


31 posted on 09/17/2013 1:48:09 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is that gobeldy-speak for “medical?”


32 posted on 09/17/2013 1:55:05 PM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: publana

Maybe i’m missing something but the reports are saying he moved to DC just one month ago and within the month got a job that gave him access to the Navy shipyard and a security clearance? Does Lee Harvey Oswald getting a job at the Book Depository sound familiar?

From the article:

“With his honorable discharge, Alexis apparently was issued a government contractor access card that would have allowed him into the Navy Yard and other military installations, said Thomas Hoshko, chief executive of The Experts, a Hewlett-Packard subcontractor for which Alexis was working. His security clearance was updated in July.”

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“The honorable discharge could help explain why Alexis, 34, apparently had no difficulty landing a civilian job. He moved from Fort Worth to Washington about a month ago, friends said, and was hired as an hourly tech employee for The Experts, which is updating computer systems at Navy and Marine Corps installations worldwide. He was scheduled to begin work at the Washington Navy Yard this month.”

Starting to smell a little fishy. I wonder if someone in the administration paid him big time to create a national incident that would get the knee-jerk type reaction from the public they need to move farther along on gun disarmamnt? Makes you wonder...


33 posted on 09/17/2013 2:00:26 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: gundog

No, it means one didn’t quite meet the standards required by that branch of the service, had minor disciplinary, hygiene, attitude or behavioral problems, couldn’t adapt to military or naval service or is redundant.


34 posted on 09/17/2013 2:02:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I aim to raise a million plus for Gov. Palin. What'll you do?.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
That's me all over and I got an honorable. :)
35 posted on 09/17/2013 2:09:35 PM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And anyone who thinks it is, is a complete idiot.


36 posted on 09/17/2013 2:20:17 PM PDT by mulligan
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To: stboz

“Outlaw” used to mean, back in merry olde England, that an egregious miscreant had been deprived of the protection of the law (by which killing him without benefit of trial was a crime in itself) and that any worthy citizen was then free to kill him in the name of the Crown.

In effect, declaring someone an outlaw made the rest of society into a posse. Made the Sheriff’s job easier.

I guess “Wanted: Dead or Alive” is the U.S. equivalent.


37 posted on 09/17/2013 2:31:01 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: jsanders2001

At least two of the dead were in IT. He “had a pass” according to presser woman. Was the floor he went to the floor where he was going work?

For a while I wondered if he was the real shooter. So far, the only person I have seen that claimed to have seen him shoot was a Major. I saw many that said they did not see the shooter because they were too busy running to take time to look.

The story is so convoluted that I don’t know what to make of it. Something reeks. Horrid reporting is probably the cause of the stench, but nothing surprises me anymore.


38 posted on 09/17/2013 3:09:50 PM PDT by publana (Beware the olive branch extended by a Dem for it disguises a clenched fist.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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39 posted on 09/17/2013 3:31:03 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (Ignorance is not bliss. It is the road to serfdom.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The elitist NWO fascists are absolutely horrified by these random mass shootings because they fear some nut could show up at one of their East Hampton cocktail parties and spray the punchbowl with evil AR-15 bullets.


40 posted on 09/17/2013 7:53:17 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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