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Schoolchildren pay the price for America’s gun culture [UPDATED]
Published 9:41am Monday, December 17, 2012 Updated 11:44am Monday, December 17, 2012All of Connecticut is horrified by the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. What madness could drive someone to open fire on schoolchildren, let alone the people who care for them every day?
Hearts everywhere go out to the Newtown victims, their families and the community. This is devastating, numbing, anguishing news.
It is each time we hear it. And Americans hear it far too often. Earlier this week, an unhinged young man shot two people dead at the Clackamas Town Center mall in Oregon.
Gun violence is a constant companion of the residents of Connecticut’s cities. The state still carries the collective memory of the lottery shootings in Newington in March 1998, when a disgruntled employee killed four co-workers, and the 2010 rampage at Hartford Distributors, in which nine people died.
Americans may argue about whether their country is dominated by a pro-gun culture. But this much is certain, attested to by the Newtown school shooting: It is far too easy in America for a sick mind to find a gun and use it.
— Hartford, Conn., Courant
“It is far too easy in America for a sick mind to find a gun and use it.”
Are you referring to operation “Fast and Furious”, where 0bama supplied THOUSANDS of weapons to unhinged Mexican criminals? Hundreds of innocent people have been killed, as recently as this month. The guns were not tracked. This is believed to be an attempt to create gun violence for an excuse to pass legislation restricting access to guns. But now chairman Zero has something better to “organize”.
“You never let a serious crisis go to waste.” 0bama’s White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel.
Hey Mike if you want to complain about the so-called “Fast & Furious”, that’s fine. But be honest about it.
The program was started by George Bush, two years before President Obama took office and if Obama had abandoned the program you would be here whining about Obama being soft on crime and pro-gunrunning.
Additionally after months of republican hearings on this issue by California’s republican representative Darrell Issa, the only thing his committee has managed to do was to blow the cover of a few of our undercover field agents. Which if done by a Democrat, you would be here whining about that.
The reason you get caught misleading readers is because you assume everyone else is as stupid as those listening to Fox News. There are many of us who get our news from reliable sources and are not as easily fooled as those with whom you normally commiserate.
Differences between Bush’s “Wide Receiver” and Obama’s “Fast & Furious” explained:
Wide Receiver – The number of guns used in the operation from the beginning until the end of the operation was 300
Fast & Furious – The number of guns used in the operation from the beginning until the end of the operation was 2,000
Wide Receiver – Guns were traced with miniature tracking devices and constant surveillance from ground and air.
Fast & Furious – No tracking devices were used, no surveillance was made whatsoever.
Wide Receiver – ATF agents were ordered to follow the gun smugglers every step of their trip from the gun store to the US/Mexico border.
Fast & Furious – ATF agents were ordered to stand down and not follow the gun smugglers after they left the gun store. The only surveillance was made through the gun store own video cameras; after gun smugglers left the store, the ATF agents were expressly ordered not to pursue.
Hey Richard if you want to defend Zero, that’s fine. But be honest about it.
Wide Receiver and Fast & Furious are two different and separate programs neither of which was started by Obama. Facts override Fox, get used to it.
Fast & Furious began in October 2009, Zero was president. It was funded with stimulus money, which means Fast & Furious was enacted by the executive branch (Zero), because congress did not approved funding for it.
“With one exception since at least 1950, all public mass shootings, in which more than 3 people have been killed, occurred where concealed hand guns were banned.” ~John Lott 12/18/2012
Let’s count the qualifiers you needed in that sentence to make it sound reasonable….
“With one exception…1 since at least 1950.…2, all public…3 mass…4 shootings, in which more than 3…5 people have been killed, occurred where concealed…6 hand guns…7 were banned.” (7 qualifiers)
And I probably should have put a qualifier after your word “Killed”. You gun apologists always love to portray these shooters as “mentally disturbed” except when you want to argue that they have enough wits about themselves to go from one target to another reading signs, until they find one that bans guns.
All statistics require qualifiers, genius.
Look what society has made-No fear of the hereafter.
Why don’t they take God out all the Laws that would fix it.If you think you have trouble keep destroying God as you have.
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Listening to Christians constantly, incessantly and perpetually whine and complain about taking god out of everything is like Queen Elizabeth complaining about not having enough jewelry! Some of you people will never get enough god in each and every second of every minute of our life.
This is true, there is a restaurant in Chisom Minnesota that has a crucifix and a picture of Jesus in the men’s room. As if that were not enough, on a small table near the stool there are little pamphlets telling you how to “get right with God”. What! Right now? I’m busy, thank you.
Is there a verse in the Bible that I’ve missed that says Christians must be annoying? I personally know Muslims, Hindus’, Jews and even one Sikh, none of them have ever tried to shove their religion down my throat. But some (many, but not all) Christians feel it is their duty and right to act like jerks for Jesus. It’s like they think they get merit badges here on earth and when they get to heaven they hand their merit badges to St’ Peter and based on the number St. Peter determines whether you get to sit with the adults at the big table or are relegated to the children’s table, with those who didn’t get enough badges.