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If Only Stephen Paddock Were a Muslim
The New York Times ^ | October 3, 2017 | by Thomas L. Friedman

Posted on 10/03/2017 9:29:48 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Would this bloviating dirtbag please just go away already!


61 posted on 10/03/2017 10:42:44 AM PDT by Jean2
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To: Ambrosia

Islam? You must have meant ISIS?

They are full of rhymes with "hit".

62 posted on 10/03/2017 10:43:52 AM PDT by BlueDragon (..and that's the thing do you recognize the bells of truth when you hear them ring)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Friedman is a sick, dishonest, stupid man -- perfect for the New York Times.
63 posted on 10/03/2017 10:52:53 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Only their self-aggrandizement matters.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

AND YOU DUMB$$ES WOULD BE TRYING TO IGNORE THOSE FACTS

...And telling us not to judge all muslims by one guy

But in this case you DO want to judge all gun users by one guy.


64 posted on 10/03/2017 11:10:57 AM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING OBAMACARE THAT IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF***)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I have promised myself that I will not resort to calling the author deragatory names...let us see if I can resist....

If Nazism still controlled Germany and if the Third Reich were still going around attacking other nations it would be quite reasonable, and not a partisan political position to blame Nazism in the wake of any occasional Nazi attack reached our shores. Or would any disagree?

So when Islam, being responsible for thousands and thousands of attacks on innocents all over the world sometimes attacks us here, it ought not be the least bit partisan or political to blame Islam....but this gentleman seems to feel that it is. But why would this be different? Or does the gentleman not think we ought to have blamed Nazism in the first case?

Instead, the gentleman compares blaming Islam in the wake of such an attack to blaming the laxness of laws about possessions of weapons....and wonders why we are disgusted at somebody leaping to gun policy while we waste no time in condemning an ideology that promotes killing innocent people....uhm...well the opinion that guns should be more available is actually not the same thing (except in the minds of excitable people like our fine gentleman) as promoting the killing of innocent people. Many who want laxer weapon laws think it might make people safer on average because armed law abiding citizens may shoot back, or even discourage such attacks in the first place. Even if such people are mistaken, it is grossly unfair to compare them to people that actually want innocent people to die.

But these moral and intellectual considerations seem beyond the grasp of the respectable gentleman.

65 posted on 10/03/2017 11:15:20 AM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Dems won’t stop until they, like their communist forbears, take everyone’s guns away.

They are totalitarians.


66 posted on 10/03/2017 11:39:17 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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If only Stephen Paddock had been a Muslim

The Orlando shooter was. Didn't make a difference for your gun control agenda.

67 posted on 10/03/2017 11:44:11 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This headline tells me hen probably was and they’re trying to discount thenpissibility in everyone’s minds.


68 posted on 10/03/2017 11:44:27 AM PDT by Crucial
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Paddock wasn’t a member of the NRA was he?


69 posted on 10/03/2017 11:48:55 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: 9YearLurker

I wonder if they frequented a Mosque near their home.


70 posted on 10/03/2017 1:44:49 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: Crucial

My pure guess would be that they were together driven by that especially toxic modern mix of Marxism and Islam driving the modern left.

Two totalitarian ideologies making strange bed mates.


71 posted on 10/03/2017 3:22:35 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Friedman is an a$$hoe. Always has been.


72 posted on 10/03/2017 4:20:51 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Girlfriend is a person of interest. She’s from the Philippines which a problem with Muslims.


73 posted on 10/03/2017 8:53:09 PM PDT by Impy (The democrat party is the enemy of your family and civilization itself, forget that at your peril.)
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To: BlueDragon

Yes, ISIS made the claim. Excuse me, I have had a long week, and it’s not even Thursday yet....lol


74 posted on 10/04/2017 6:55:06 PM PDT by Ambrosia
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