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Another shooting: Jacksonville

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by 21, May 1, 2007.

  1. Boobie Miles

    Boobie Miles Active Member

    Did they really? Well I guess my foot is in my mouth, but the general point of comment remains.


    EDIT: I was just going on the posts in this thread when I made both of my posts in this thread. I just read the story about it and I'll change both of my posts. I initially thought this was a random act, but after reading the story it seems like this is a gang-type shooting (or at least between two rival groups, if that's not a gang-type area). Second it doesn't seem that the people who returned fire were probably carrying weapons legally and didn't save innocent lives by firing back.
     
  2. Killick

    Killick Well-Known Member

    From that story:
    Italics and bold is theirs, not mine. Petty, but I found that funny... in a corporate, self-aggrandizing sorta way.
     
  3. Perhaps nobody thought to ...RELEASE THE TIGER!
     
  4. cake in the rain

    cake in the rain Active Member

    http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/050107/met_166962604.shtml

    No one seriously injured. Fight over a girl. Run-of-the-mill stuff.

    Cable-news-created story.
     
  5. Simon_Cowbell

    Simon_Cowbell Active Member

    No.

    Just doing the only thing they are capable of doing.
     
  6. zagoshe

    zagoshe Well-Known Member

    they aren't capable of doing anything, until some whacko who is a by-product of a godless American culture that is going to hell in a hand basket picks one of them up and pulls the trigger
     
  7. What I don't get is that's the same right-wing people who are so for guns are the same guys leading the 'war on drugs.' But you can make the exact same argument for why drugs should be legal. Drugs don't cause any harm, it's people choosing to take drugs that hurt themselves or hurt society. Drugs, in and of themselves, aren't bad unless you use them for what they're meant to do. Muchlike guns aren't bad, unless you use them for what they're meant for - and that's killing.

    Why are drugs illegal if guns aren't? And why are we wasting so much of the country's money keeping drug abusers/dealers in jail, when you can buy stocks for Wal-Mart?
     
  8. dog428

    dog428 Active Member

    Wait a minute, are you saying God is a gun supporter?

    I find that hard to believe. Seems to me that the whole "thou shall not kill" thing would place him squarely in the anti-thing-only-used-for-killing camp.
     
  9. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    And the guy sprayed the six with birdshot. They were all sitting on a porch. It's not like he greased them with an AK47.
    Echo the above: cable-created, on a slow news day, George Tenet old hat by now.
     
  10. spnited

    spnited Active Member

    Yes, indeed, 15-17-year-old kids spraying birdshot aruond the hood. Only seven wounded. Hell, none died, they weren't even that seriously wounded.
    No story here. Just another day in the wild wild West that our gun-loving country has become.
     
  11. Boobie Miles

    Boobie Miles Active Member

    Haha I was thinking the same thing. I understand the spirit of the post about "no big deal" because I think they were saying this isn't something on the VT level or anything like that, but how sad is the state of affairs that high school kids exchanging gunfire in the middle of the afternoon is just business as usual.
     
  12. Lugnuts

    Lugnuts Well-Known Member

    ... Said the guy who stands behind last night's SportsJournalists.com porn stunt.

    That's what I don't get about some of you guys, and I don't mean this in a harsh way-- as a Christian myself, I'm genuinely curious. You claim to be God-fearing and all that... but you loves you some porn on this board.

    Explain if you feel like it....
     
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