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Shooting rampage victim's father blames NRA
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Posted on 05/25/2014 10:29:02 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck

A father of one of the victims of the California shooting rampage blamed the NRA Saturday in a news conference.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: banglist; california; camassshooting; elliotrodger; nra; santabarbara
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While I sympathize with this man's loss, it doesn't change the fact that he is an idiot.

If somebody loses a child to a drunk driver, does the family of the victim blame the auto industry or the alcohol industry (or their lobbies) for the death? No, they put the blame squarely where it belongs: on the drunk driver. Yet the same people are conditioned to throw the same logic out the window when firearms are involved. It's almost a Pavlovian response.

1 posted on 05/25/2014 10:29:02 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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Please Stop!You’re Making Too Much Sense!!!


2 posted on 05/25/2014 10:31:00 AM PDT by bandleader
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Had he not used a gun, he would have used a knife on them all. He used a knife on three of them, after all.


3 posted on 05/25/2014 10:31:28 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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What about the shooter?! Doesn’t he care about him? The shooter died “a virgin!” Is that the NRA’s fault too? Morons.


4 posted on 05/25/2014 10:31:51 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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I forgot to check "this is an excerpt" so the link to the article didn't show up. Could you please go back and check that option so that the link appears? Otherwise:

Link to video/story is here

5 posted on 05/25/2014 10:32:48 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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Perhaps some engaging reporter could point to the number of time an NRA member has gone on a shooting spree


6 posted on 05/25/2014 10:33:45 AM PDT by digger48
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If our gun rights were respected, this kid would have been shot before he could kill so many people. And if they made it into some European panty-waist country, loons like this would find another way to kill people. Like with his German BMW, or a bomb. He stabbed 3 of his 9 victims, let’s blame the knife.


7 posted on 05/25/2014 10:34:11 AM PDT by Defiant (Let the Tea Party win, and we will declare peace on the American people and go home.)
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Then the Dad is as crazy as the son.


8 posted on 05/25/2014 10:34:27 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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"California"

Keyword there...

I couldn't imagine what it must be like to be such a moron. To put myself in that place. Imagine.... Someone kills your kid, and rather than blame the killer, you focus your anger towards an organization that has absolutely nothing to do with the murder. WTF!! ....

The leftists have got to see things like this, and feel emboldened/accomplished as a result. Their plans/agenda is working.

9 posted on 05/25/2014 10:34:31 AM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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As they say, whenever some lunatic or psychopath murders somebody with a firearm, the first thing the authorities and media set out to do is to try and punish the people who didn't do it.
10 posted on 05/25/2014 10:35:28 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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I can see where the son got the “blame everyone else” mentality!


11 posted on 05/25/2014 10:37:02 AM PDT by loboinok (Gun control is hitting what you aim at!)
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Meanwhile the stabbing victims families are blaming the Ginsu company.


12 posted on 05/25/2014 10:37:57 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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Blames the NRA?

He conveniently forgot to mention violent movies and violent video games:

The father was an assistant director on a film series - “Hunger Games” - in which the main plot line is teenagers murdering other teenagers.

Also, the self-videos left behind by his murderous son clearly imitates language and plot lines from “American Psycho,” a movie about a man who murders female prostitutes.

Finally, in his son's manifesto, the young man mentions his enjoyment of violent video games.

13 posted on 05/25/2014 10:40:49 AM PDT by zeestephen
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“And if they made it into some European panty-waist country-——”—

Where there’s a will,there’s a way.

Norway-——77 shot dead in spite of strict gun laws.

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14 posted on 05/25/2014 10:41:07 AM PDT by Mears
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Shooting rampage victim's father blames NRA

And we properly blame you, ya barking moonbat.

Had an armed concealed carry individual been on the scene, the only mortality would have been the murderer.

15 posted on 05/25/2014 10:43:13 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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Typical liberal response. Blame outside forces and not the culprit himself for the crime. How long will it be before some city council member in Santa Barbara will propose banning the use of silverware in that city’s restaurants because of the fear they could be used to injure or kill? Just being facetious but you never know with the convoluted minds of our leftist countrymen.


16 posted on 05/25/2014 10:45:13 AM PDT by dowcaet
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He conveniently forgot to mention violent movies and violent video games:

I'm more interested in whether the kid was on Ritalin or worse psychotropics for the better part of his life. Being the prescription-based equivalent of a cocaine addict from early childhood has probably short-circuited many a young mind:

Mass Shootings and Prescription Psychotropics

17 posted on 05/25/2014 10:46:10 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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The distraught dad’s comments sound a lot like the wanker shooter’s - blaming the wrong people for his unhappiness.


18 posted on 05/25/2014 10:46:14 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
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In this case I blame Hollyweird.


19 posted on 05/25/2014 10:46:23 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Sooth2222

Your deep insight is needed here.


20 posted on 05/25/2014 10:47:01 AM PDT by null and void (When was the last time you heard anyone say: "It's a free country"?)
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