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School shooting in Centennial, Colo.

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by MileHigh, Dec 13, 2013.

  1. WriteThinking

    WriteThinking Well-Known Member

    Yes, because God forbid a "right" to have a gun that you don't need were to get taken away.
     
  2. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    The cost of the 2nd amendment is random school shootings, increased domestic murders, armed robberies etc...

    Deal with it, because people want guns other people's children have been murdered. It is a fact that is indisputable, thats the cost of the 2nd Amendment. there are costs to the first amendment but too unlike the pussy gun nuts, there are 1st Amendment exceptions for libel/slander and child pornography.
    2nd Amendment perverts want no restrictions, no background checks, no capacity limit on magazines, no restriction of weapon caliber and no restrictions on the ability to carry, wear and transport firearms.
     
  3. Mark2010

    Mark2010 Active Member

    Not sure I like the choice of headline.
     
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  4. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    NRA's Facebook page

    NRA supports the legalization of silencers for firearms
     
  5. Mark2010

    Mark2010 Active Member

    People just don't learn. I don't want to wish ill on anyone, but I do wonder what the reaction of some of these NRA people would be if the next victim happened to be one of their loved ones.
     
  6. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    My side? You mean the side that's never owned a gun but understands the vast majority of gun owners are law-abiding citizens. The side that rolls its eyes at the rabid, unhinged anti-gun crowd as it continues to try to score cheap political points on the bodies of dead kids?
     
  7. This is obviously very scary for parents and families involved, but at the end of the day, one person was hurt. (And someone committed suicide). And yet it justifies a JAPAN BOMBS PEARL HARBOR headline in the local newspapers? I guarantee that there are black and brown people in Denver who are actually KILLED every day who get a two-inch brief on the inside pages.

    This also illustrates why people vastly overestimate the rate of mass shootings and the risk of being the victim of a mass shooting in the United States.

    Don't get me wrong -- the United States is an incredibly violent country, an absolute outlier internationally. But that's not a new development. And although definitions of mass shootings vary, most agree that current rate is not wildly out of whack with American norms over the last century.
     
  8. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    So what if the vast majority of gun owners are law abiding most of them are standing on the bodies of those kids as if someone is trying to pry the guns from their hands.
     
  9. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    We always seek "answers" to tragedies. Was the car crash victim drunk? Were they wearing their seatbelt? Did they live in a crummy neighborhood? We want the conditions surrounding the tragedy/death to be as far apart from our own reality as possible. That's why school shootings, movie theater shootings, mall shootings etc. get so much play. It is unsettling to realize we aren't as removed from the chance that something like this might happen as we would like to think.
    As a kid, we did duck and cover drills in school in case a nuke attack was heading our way, now they do armed intruder drills instead. That there is even enough potential that it is a possibility is unsettling.
     
  10. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    Yes, that's the one.

    Can you tell me what's cheap about these "political points?"

    Can you give me one tangible benefit to gun ownership that outweighs the risk of dead children?

    And, don't tell me "Because the Constitution." We rape and pillage constitutional "rights" all the time. Take a look at the job we did on protection against illegal search and seizure.
     
  11. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Heaven forbid somebody gets on their site, and actually has an opinion that doesn't jibe with their's.
     
  12. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    We agree.

    That doesn't make what I wrote any less true. It also doesn't make the side that won any less proud of themselves.
     
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