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What’s senseless is our tolerance for guns (What’s senseless is this moonbat author!)
Boston Globe ^ | January 11, 2011 | Derrick Z. Jackson

Posted on 01/11/2011 6:13:29 PM PST by neverdem

AS LONG as we call mass killings senseless, we will never make sense out of them. “Senseless’’ has become a code word for denial about guns.

It kept coming up in response to this weekend’s rampage in Arizona, in which a disturbed 22-year-old college dropout armed with a semi-automatic allegedly killed six people and wounded 14 others, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Everyone from President Obama to Republican House Speaker John Boehner called the shooting senseless.

That, too, is what President Clinton called the 1999 Columbine school massacre that claimed 15 lives. But “senseless,’’ it seems, was an excuse for not tightening up our gun laws. In fact, the federal assault weapons ban expired in 2004.

When the Virginia Tech massacre claimed 33 lives in 2007, President Bush said, “It’s impossible to make sense of such violence and suffering.’’ True to Bush’s word, Congress did not even try. President Obama caved in early on guns, signing into law a rule allowing loaded weapons into national parks.

This weekend, in a heartfelt question from the International Space Station, astronaut Scott Kelly, Giffords’s brother-in-law, asked: “What is going on in our country that such a good person can be the subject of such senseless violence?’’

What is going on is a quiet disaster. Neither Columbine nor Virginia Tech changed anything, and it is possible that not even an assassination attempt on a member of Congress is going to spur America into a fresh debate about guns and their availability to almost any angry, disturbed, immature, or coldly calculating citizen who wants to get their hands on them. We are in a quiet internal war that takes far more lives than what we are losing in Iraq and Afghanistan, and no one is calling for disarmament talks...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: banglist; giffords
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To: neverdem

21 posted on 01/11/2011 6:41:35 PM PST by Iron Munro (When a society loses its memory, it descends inevitably into dementia - Mark Steyn)
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To: neverdem

Molan Labe MF’er.

LLS


22 posted on 01/11/2011 6:43:30 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: wku man

In Tallahassee today. Another example of the good guy winning.

http://m.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110111/BREAKINGNEWS/110111004/-1/WAP&template=wapart


23 posted on 01/11/2011 6:52:53 PM PST by goseminoles
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To: neverdem

whats senseless is that in the 1960’s & 70’s the state and federal governments ruled that the mentally ill had the legal right to refuse treatment and could be involuntarily committed to mental institutions unless they posed a clear and present danger to themselves or others.


24 posted on 01/11/2011 6:55:04 PM PST by annelizly
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To: GailA

Very sorry for your loss.


25 posted on 01/11/2011 6:59:07 PM PST by panaxanax (IMPEACH THE MUSLIM MARXIST....NOW!!!)
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To: LibLieSlayer

I agree. Come get ‘em. This attack on our gun rights is back-firing on the libs, as per the current headline at Drudge:

“Glock Pistol Sales Surge in Aftermath of Arizona Shootings”


26 posted on 01/11/2011 7:02:17 PM PST by panaxanax (IMPEACH THE MUSLIM MARXIST....NOW!!!)
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To: neverdem
What is senseless is our tolerance for VIOLENCE.

Gangs run rampant in our cities. Murder & assault are a common occurrence in most places. People are afraid to go out at night. Doors are always locked & bolted. Teachers are afraid of their students.

This crap has got to stop.

The law should read: Anyone possessing a weapon or threatening violence in the commission of a crime gets life at hard labor, mando. Anyone using a weapon or violence in the commission of a crime gets the death sentence, mando. This law will be taught to all school children every year.

A couple of generations of this law would seriously reduce violence in this country.

27 posted on 01/11/2011 7:04:23 PM PST by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: panaxanax

The left sells more weapons than anyone.

LLS


28 posted on 01/11/2011 7:06:38 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: neverdem

What is senseless is that the tyrants ignore the fact that gun laws don’t disarm criminals; they disarm their victims.
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29 posted on 01/11/2011 8:20:13 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: tumblindice

Leon Pitts got it right yesterday when he denounced the new politically correct version of Huckleberry Finn with the “n word” removed.


30 posted on 01/11/2011 8:27:50 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: Celtic Cross

It is not worth wasting the time on Derrick.

At least he has “progressed” from his hate and blame whitey theme to whining about freedom. He’s a radical like his Kenyan brother.


31 posted on 01/11/2011 8:40:56 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: neverdem

90 million law abiding gun owner’s didn’t kill anybody last weekend.


32 posted on 01/11/2011 9:08:47 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: GailA
As the mother of a child murdered with a 2 ft 4 x 4 I can tell you it is NOT the weapon that kills, but evil people.

I am so sorry for your loss.

My sister was killed by an evil thing that pushed her in front of a moving bus..... on purpose.

Evil exists and it does NOT need a specific item to spread misery and pain.

33 posted on 01/11/2011 10:32:45 PM PST by Grenada
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To: Grenada

These anti-gun tools are truly fixated and disturbed. The Tucson murderer could have taken a speeding car and rammed the crowd killing many. Should we ban cars?


34 posted on 01/12/2011 6:19:11 AM PST by hal ogen (1st Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Grenada

Couldn’t have said it better. There will always be evil people among us to spread the misery and pain.

What compounds it is the INJUSTICE system we now have that no longer punishes, but coddles them.

I’m sure you miss your sister every day just as I miss my Jeremy. The hurt never goes away.


35 posted on 01/12/2011 6:26:15 AM PST by GailA (2012 rally cry DEMOCRATS and RINOS are BAD for the USA!)
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To: hal ogen

Maybe we should only license “qualified” persons then we would be safe from those dangerous SUV’s. No one would every have/drive a SUV that wasn’t licensed.
We have laws that work like immigration and DWI and they have proven to work so well. /sarc
http://articles.cnn.com/2003-07-16/us/farmers.market.crash_1_russell-weller-accident-pedestrians?_s=PM:US
Your point was brought up on “Hannity” last night.


36 posted on 01/12/2011 6:48:03 AM PST by GOYAKLA (Flush Congress in 2010 & 2012)
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To: harpseal; TexasCowboy; nunya bidness; AAABEST; Travis McGee; Squantos; wku man; SLB; ...


37 posted on 01/12/2011 9:03:43 AM PST by Joe Brower (Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
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To: neverdem

I have been around and owned guns my whole life. So did my father, and his father ...

None of us have killed anyone, robbed anyone, threatened anyone. Ever. In 3 generations.

How is disarming me going to make anyone safer?


38 posted on 01/12/2011 10:43:47 AM PST by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: neverdem
in which a disturbed 22-year-old college dropout armed with a semi-automatic allegedly killed six people and wounded 14 others...

Allegedly? Oh yeah, the gun did it.

39 posted on 01/12/2011 11:24:28 AM PST by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: neverdem

As long as Derrick Z. Jackson (who I presume is male) carries a penis, then he is in denial about rape.


40 posted on 01/12/2011 11:26:06 AM PST by MortMan (I am in no mood to be amused! (Ebenezer Scrooge))
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