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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 01:21 AM Original message |
52 Dead in Mass Shootings in the Last Month: What Has America Become? |
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earcandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 01:24 AM Response to Original message |
1. I shudder and think of the criminals who believe that if you see it, you believe it and you can be |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 01:29 AM Response to Original message |
2. The incidents that gobsmacked me happened on Jan. 25, 2009 |
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paparush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 08:26 AM Response to Reply #2 |
30. How about all the gun owners move West of the Mississippi and all the non gun owners |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 01:18 PM Response to Reply #30 |
39. Nah, east of the Mississippi, hunters tend to be what westerners call poachers |
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Bushknew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 01:42 AM Response to Original message |
3. This phenomena is the consequence of our government spending more money to... |
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ddeclue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 02:03 AM Response to Reply #3 |
10. It is because we allow people to have guns who look at them as a means of control |
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earcandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 12:01 PM Response to Reply #10 |
37. You have a point. How can we make our middle aged men feel more secure? |
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The Traveler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 01:49 AM Response to Original message |
4. Hysteria |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 01:50 AM Response to Original message |
5. We have a hard debt to pay for our repuke/neocon/DLC legacy |
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bottomtheweaver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 01:51 AM Response to Original message |
6. Let's see, who would want to destabilize the current political climate |
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ddeclue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 01:59 AM Response to Original message |
7. This misses the Orlando area shoot out in Volusia county |
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bottomtheweaver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 02:01 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Convenient how the shooters always off themselves |
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ddeclue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 02:03 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. It's all about "control" read my other post on this. |
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bottomtheweaver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 02:17 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Cho, Poplawski, Harris and Klebold weren't 50. |
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ddeclue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 02:24 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Actually my theory has nothing to do with them being "loners" |
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bottomtheweaver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 02:28 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. I know, but I don't buy your theory. |
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ddeclue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 02:32 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Not everybody is pre-disposed to act this way just because they are white and middle aged. |
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bottomtheweaver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 02:40 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Well.. here's where I'm coming from: |
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ddeclue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 02:45 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Tin foil hattery... |
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bottomtheweaver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 02:48 AM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Could be, could be, but.. |
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virginia mountainman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 06:45 AM Response to Reply #18 |
25. They used to BLOW UP schools.... |
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bottomtheweaver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 06:33 PM Response to Reply #25 |
40. Wow. 1927. That's eye opening. |
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democracy1st (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 04:12 AM Response to Reply #7 |
24. thanks for the info here's the link to the Volusia shooting |
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bottomtheweaver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 02:02 AM Response to Original message |
9. Conspiracy theorist kills Pittsburgh cops, |
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countmyvote4real (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 02:22 AM Response to Original message |
13. This is sick. |
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bottomtheweaver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 02:25 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Yes it is. |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 02:45 AM Response to Original message |
20. 1400 other people were murdered in America in that same time frame |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 03:33 AM Response to Original message |
22. I live about 30 miles from the nursing home gun rampage incident. |
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SPedigrees (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 03:48 AM Response to Original message |
23. We will see more of this as the economy worsens |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 07:15 AM Response to Original message |
26. The United States has become one large behavioral sink |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 09:06 AM Response to Reply #26 |
35. you'd have to prove each individual involved was living in overcrowded conditions. |
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MellowDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 07:25 AM Response to Original message |
27. America hasn't "become" anything... |
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Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 08:18 AM Response to Original message |
28. Wow 52 in a month, scary but what about the thousand a day from tobacco related causes |
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Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 09:05 AM Response to Reply #28 |
34. "I'm not as bad as Big Tobacco....I'm not as bad as Big Tobacco" |
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derby378 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 08:26 AM Response to Original message |
29. This is still George W. Bush's America |
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paparush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 08:28 AM Response to Original message |
31. Government leads and the people follow. |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 08:40 AM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Correct. Setting the example that problems can only be solved through violence. |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 09:08 AM Response to Reply #31 |
36. And we've got a population that LOVES violent video games and mass media |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 09:02 AM Response to Original message |
33. America hasn't become anything. It's the way we've been for a hundred years. Enamored with |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 12:03 PM Response to Reply #33 |
38. Twas ever thus |
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