Shooting at FRC

[spikechiquet]

Didn't see anything on this from yesterday:

A guy walked into Family Research Council yesterday and ended up shooting a guard in the arm.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/15/us/dc-shooting/index.html

 

[Bob Cook]

Before the hounds are released, I'll say this: I'm glad the LGBT center where the alleged shooter volunteered has condemned the attack, because anyone taking upon himself or herself to get a gun to go after people of opposing viewpoints (or, hell, after anyone) is wrong on multiple levels.

 

[Azrael]

There was a thread. Now expunged.

Violence never succeeds in advancing ideology.

 

[spikechiquet]

Just glad the guy is apparently a bad shot and only winged the guard. I think this would be a differently played story in the mainstream media had it been a deadshot.

 

[heyabbott]

It's too early for the non-Fox media to be talking about gun control because of this shooting. Is it timely to talk about gun control in the wake of the January 8, 2011 Tuscon shooting?

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

Violence never succeeds in advancing ideology.

It has succeeded in stopping it though.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Good thing everyone inside had a gun so they could shoot down the gunman. What, they didn't even use a gun to subdue him?

 

[TigerVols]

Second Amendment remedies, anyone?

 

[Gehrig]

Just glad the guy is apparently a bad shot and only winged the guard. I think this would be a differently played story in the mainstream media had it been a deadshot.

Random question for the media people here. If same exact scenario occurred at an abortion clinic, guard shot and no one killed, would it have made bigger news?

 

[Azrael]

Just glad the guy is apparently a bad shot and only winged the guard. I think this would be a differently played story in the mainstream media had it been a deadshot.

Random question for the media people here. If same exact scenario occurred at an abortion clinic, guard shot and no one killed, would it have made bigger news?

Probably, but that's a poor comparison.

This happened at a thinktank. The parallel wouldn't be an abortion clinic, it would be the offices at NARAL or the equivalent.

 

[old_tony]

Just glad the guy is apparently a bad shot and only winged the guard. I think this would be a differently played story in the mainstream media had it been a deadshot.

Random question for the media people here. If same exact scenario occurred at an abortion clinic, guard shot and no one killed, would it have made bigger news?

I'm pretty sure you know the answer to that. Also, the thread here would be on Page 26.

 

[RickStain]

Just glad the guy is apparently a bad shot and only winged the guard. I think this would be a differently played story in the mainstream media had it been a deadshot.

There's a joke in there about being limp-wristed and not being able to aim a gun.

 

[Azrael]

Violence never succeeds in advancing ideology.

It has succeeded in stopping it though.

Violence can succeed in stopping violence.

But violence is useless against an idea.

 

[Football_Bat]

"Here's my Kelly ... [sob] She lives in Seattle now."

‏http://www.theonion.com/video/evangelical-hospital-holds-5th-annual-gayness-cure,29215/

 

[YGBFKM]

One lone nut, inspired by the rhetoric of many.

 

[heyabbott]

Just glad the guy is apparently a bad shot and only winged the guard. I think this would be a differently played story in the mainstream media had it been a deadshot.

Random question for the media people here. If same exact scenario occurred at an abortion clinic, guard shot and no one killed, would it have made bigger news?

June 9, 2009, right winger shoots and kills a guard at the Holocaust Memorial in D.C. Remember it? Now you do, but I bet it never registered when this non deadly shooting occured. The Mainstream Media certainly has amnesia . CNN and the old over the air networks are afraid to bring it up lest Fox brands them liberal elitists.

 

[heyabbott]

Violence never succeeds in advancing ideology.

It has succeeded in stopping it though.

Violence can succeed in stopping violence.

But violence is useless against an idea.

Ask any polytheist

 

[Killick]

Violence never succeeds in advancing ideology.

It has succeeded in stopping it though.

Violence can succeed in stopping violence.

But violence is useless against an idea.

Ask any polytheist

Now, that's just ridiculous. Who'd worship a parrot?

 

[Yodel]

Violence never succeeds in advancing ideology.

It has succeeded in stopping it though.

Violence can succeed in stopping violence.

But violence is useless against an idea.

Ask any polytheist

Now, that's just ridiculous. Who'd worship a parrot?

Nice

 

[Stitch]

Just imagine the reaction if the shooter was a gay Muslim.