Friday, October 2, 2015

Just another day, in the land of the free......



A couple quotes from the comments section of the Oregonion today. 




lalochezia
We're just going to have to accept that gun violence is the price of living in a free country.
pdxsoftwareguy

pdxsoftwareguy
Posted on a British website:
isn't it time you yanks enter the civilised world and stop killing your own kids!
They're are not laughing with us ....


A prediction:  Yesterdays incident will not even make the national news, above the fold, in a year. 

I've said it all before, it's just getting boring and tedious to repeat. I expect there are at least 10 families out there who are freshly torn up, but that's how it goes, eh? Price we pay......

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    1. Problem is the bastards manage to take many with us. If gun nuts would just shoot themselves, I might not have any problems with the ownership.

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  2. We are a very violent and angry culture...it has little to do with freedom.

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    1. Dunno about that. How about the right to happiness, the right to life? 9 people in Roseburg no longer have that.

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  3. This was a direct terrorist attack and should be recognized as such.That's why I own guns, to protect myself from these types.

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  4. This was a direct terrorist attack and should be recognized as such.That's why I own guns, to protect myself from these types.

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    1. I heard you the first time. And yes, I've heard that one many times; if only the first graders at Sandy Hook had been packing, it wouldn't have happened. Got any original loony conspiracy ideas for us?

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  5. The world is making me sick to my stomach.

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  6. Universal background checks. Universal background checks. Universal background checks. Can you hear me now?

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    1. Problem is, you and I are old geezer retiree's. The NRA knows our views, but unless we get an audience outside the choir, they don't care.

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  7. Taoist saying;

    "Weapons are tools of ill omen, despised by heaven. Only to used when unavoidable is the way of heaven"

    Whilst I have held the belief that an armed society is a polite society, I have also come to the conclusion that the intellectual recognize when you resort to violence, you've already lost the battle, if not the metaphoric war.

    What kind of corner do these people feel they have been pushed into that the use of a weapon is unavoidable?

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    1. Dunno, Robbie. Not sure it's a 'corner', or what. A path, a wrong path their mind has gone on, maybe. Dunno.
      I'm trying to disconnect from this, saying I'm too old, have my own issues, things, etc. Problem is, some of those people killed had granddads too.....wonder how they are doing this morning?

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  8. Any hint of restriction impels strange enthusiasts to stockpile weapons and gangsters to buy them from the guy in the next alley, so I don't know what the solution is. As a father, I found it efficacious to avoid raising my children to bad ideas. Pretty much that simple.

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    1. Geo, I'm not sure anything about this horrid mess is simple.

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  9. So long as we have a culture that considers guns sacrosanct, we will continue to have these shootings. Sandy Hook was the heinous shooting that convinced me that we value guns more than human life.

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  10. Why can’t America keep murder weapons out of the hands of lunatics? The answer: the NRA Industrial Complex.

    From a Forbes article written in 2012.

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    1. were there a deity, they would have a lot to answer for.

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  11. Besides the obvious issue of being in need of serious gun control, what is wrong with our society that we continue to produce young men that commit these mass shootings? It's horrifying.

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    1. i don't think our country is different in that regard, they have them too...what they don't have is the easy access to guns.

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  12. Who was it that said "stuff happens" ?? You have to tear your hair.

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    1. that would be Jeb Bush, oddly one of the most moderate of the gop loonies.

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  13. I've owned guns and have never been a member of the NRA nor have I supported their crazy defense of the 2nd Amendment. Background checks, yes. Automatic and machine guns (along with bazookas and tanks), no way!

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    1. well, they'll never elect you ceo unless you re-think the bazookas.

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  14. http://monsterhunternation.com/2015/06/23/an-opinion-on-gun-control-repost/

    If you really want to see a thoughtful treatise on the issue from perhaps a different perspective than what you're use to, try this. It's long, but answers many stereotypes.

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    1. Oh, I've read less long-winded versions of the same thing, where the writer didn't go into so much detail of how well-versed they were in every facet of the subject. Actually, I've seen them on both sides of the issue: the 'I'm an expert. If you don't agree with me, it's either because you're ignorant, and I can give you knowledge and you'll agree with me' or 'You're so wrong-headed there's no reason to talk to you.' It's just one of many stereotypes on the side of the gun culture.
      I'd perhaps answer more fully, but not to an anonymous post.

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