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RamboLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 01:13 AM Original message |
Singer shot dead on stage (By sniper trained husband from outside?) |
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CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 01:17 AM Response to Original message |
1. That is horrifying! |
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David__77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 02:53 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. There are too many lunatics. |
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stressfulreality (118 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 06:28 PM Response to Reply #5 |
46. yeah... then there's the beast of love. n/t |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 08:05 PM Response to Reply #46 |
54. And jealousy and |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 09:28 AM Response to Reply #1 |
11. A mild counter point |
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billbuckhead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 10:22 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. This Swiss had 7 times the gun homicides as England and Wales |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 10:28 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. 48 people out of 6 .8 mil.(your numbers are misleading) |
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tabasco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 09:18 PM Response to Reply #13 |
20. The US murder rate is 10 times higher than Japan's. |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 08:28 PM Response to Reply #20 |
57. Swiss numbers |
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Crayson (463 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 08:20 AM Response to Reply #57 |
62. Tons of guns, but none in the street |
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billbuckhead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 10:14 PM Response to Reply #13 |
29. Killing each other enough it's a national debate and laws are being changed |
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benEzra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 10:49 PM Response to Reply #29 |
33. Just like you ignore the 100,000 alcohol deaths each year... |
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superconnected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 07:29 PM Response to Reply #33 |
50. Heart disease kills ppl over 60, now compare it to drownings. |
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benEzra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 08:05 AM Response to Reply #50 |
61. No, they do bother me; I think you missed my point. |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 01:26 AM Response to Reply #29 |
39. And the 1.2 million defensive gun uses a year? |
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benEzra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 08:47 PM Response to Reply #12 |
18. Except that sniper rifles are LEGAL in the UK... |
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Greenboy (11 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 09:27 PM Response to Reply #1 |
22. These people are downright scarey not even having to be close to kill. |
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benEzra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 10:06 PM Response to Reply #22 |
28. A typical deer rifle has a maximum range of about 3 miles, IIRC, |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 01:19 AM Response to Reply #28 |
38. I think they run a little less than two miles... |
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benEzra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 07:15 AM Response to Reply #38 |
40. I was thinking of a .30-06 bolt rifle... |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 09:57 AM Response to Reply #40 |
41. 34 seconds of flight time... oy vey |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 08:41 PM Response to Reply #40 |
60. Most people can not hit |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 06:41 PM Response to Reply #28 |
48. My dad has hunted his whole life, and is good up to 1000 yards. |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 09:10 AM Response to Reply #28 |
66. Average hunter? More like less than 300 yards. |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 07:28 PM Response to Reply #1 |
49. Now you did it!!! |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 01:24 AM Response to Original message |
2. How many people saw this coming and did nothing? |
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Phrogman (940 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 02:05 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. There will be an avalanche of these type incidents in the years to come... |
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Drum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 03:10 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. I hate to say it, |
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saigon68 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 07:12 PM Response to Reply #6 |
17. Only look to Tim McVeigh |
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zanne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 08:44 AM Response to Reply #6 |
63. I feel alot less safe when there are guns around. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 09:08 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. I agree. And the VA is in no way ready for it. |
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la la (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 04:38 PM Response to Reply #3 |
14. the military 'prepares' these youngsters |
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Fierce (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 04:42 PM Response to Reply #3 |
15. Nah. |
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Greenboy (11 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 09:37 PM Response to Reply #2 |
24. Lots probably. We had a lunatic in Nevada county, CA that was on heavy duty medications for |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 10:46 PM Response to Reply #24 |
32. Welcome to DU, Greenboy. These are preventable tragedies. |
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Kingshakabobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 02:17 AM Response to Original message |
4. She should have been more careful who she associated with. |
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billbuckhead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 08:52 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. But rifles just aren't used in murders according the black rifle crowd |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 09:18 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Very Rare.. |
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benEzra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 08:49 PM Response to Reply #7 |
19. Rifles account for just under 3% of homicides. |
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Greenboy (11 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 09:21 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. We need routine mental health checkups for all gun owners, after the VA Tech shootings.. |
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benEzra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 09:34 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. The VA Tech shooter had one, and IIRC was legally barred from buying a gun |
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Greenboy (11 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 09:42 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. Gun controllers? You mean that people dont have a right to be safe from gun-crimes? |
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benEzra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 09:58 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. People don't have the right to have MY door kicked in |
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billbuckhead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 10:22 PM Response to Reply #27 |
30. It seems this is some fantasy the black rifle crowd dreams about. |
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benEzra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 10:46 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. No, actually I was objecting to YOUR fantasy... |
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Alexander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 08:32 PM Response to Reply #30 |
58. People like you lose elections for the Democratic Party. |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 08:36 PM Response to Reply #30 |
59. Why is an armed society like switzerland |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 09:24 AM Response to Reply #30 |
68. What does "black rifle" have to do with this? Snipers don't use those things |
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Speaker (225 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 12:25 AM Response to Reply #21 |
36. If we could ban only one of those two things from them... |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 07:29 PM Response to Reply #7 |
51. As long as they're handguns |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 09:18 AM Response to Reply #7 |
67. Bolt action scoped rifles? Just about never. |
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Nevernose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 11:10 PM Response to Reply #4 |
34. Very true |
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UpInArms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 09:25 AM Response to Original message |
10. Murders and suicides by military personnel might be part of the Iraq war toll. |
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AnneD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 05:38 PM Response to Original message |
16. My uncle was a sniper during WWII and the Korean Conflict.... |
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Hobarticus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 09:43 PM Response to Reply #16 |
26. What's sad is, that was a generation before PTSD was even talked about... |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 12:01 PM Response to Reply #26 |
43. Actually PTSD was talked about during WWII and Korea. It was just called Operational Exhaustion. |
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AnneD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 01:10 PM Response to Reply #43 |
44. So true... |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 06:26 PM Response to Reply #44 |
45. I would be remiss if i didn't credit George Carlin. I am paraphrazing him in the post above. |
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bleedingheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 10:49 AM Response to Reply #16 |
42. My Aunt was married to a guy who was so shellshccked after WWII |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 11:58 PM Response to Original message |
35. Slightly off topic: But is there any word as to what song she was singing? |
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3waygeek (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 06:29 PM Response to Reply #35 |
47. My guess is |
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2Design (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 01:07 AM Response to Original message |
37. this is what happens when you train people to kill - it screws with their |
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Harper_is_Bush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 07:39 PM Response to Reply #37 |
52. Your comment is unmitigated nonsense. |
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superconnected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 07:45 PM Response to Reply #52 |
53. How is that comment unmitigated nonsense? |
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Harper_is_Bush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 08:06 PM Response to Reply #53 |
55. No actually, it doesn't "seem like it fits the scenario" at all. |
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BleedingHeartPatriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 08:13 PM Response to Reply #55 |
56. It was jarring to read. A broadbush statement. |
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Eugene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 12:33 AM Response to Original message |
64. AP: Shooting Suspect Commits Suicide |
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Socal31 (707 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 03:47 AM Response to Original message |
65. Sad indeed. |
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