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In reply to the discussion: Breaking: 2 Killed, 1 Injured by Man Armed with Rifle at Mall Near Portland (20-60 Shots Reported) [View all]friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)...but if someone posts an inconvenient truth it's a "right-wing NRA line". No musings on why
this maniac chose to do what they did. No inquiry about why no one stopped them beforehand.
No examination of the piss-poor system of mental health care in this country.
Instead, we get some pie-in-the-sky program for gun control that looks like it was 90% cribbed
from the Anti-Saloon League, with some 'faith-promoting rumor' as a side dish
Yeah, if I were using tragedy as an excuse to wave the bloody shirt for Prohibition, I wouldn't
be happy with a heckler, either...
And btw, there's one problem with your convenient stereotyping of your opponents as RW plants:
I broke with the NRA for the very wingerness *you* denounced- here at DU, as a matter
of fact. More than once, actually:
http://sync.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1172&pid=53805
Star Member friendly_iconoclast (7,873 posts)
215. And again, pointing out *your* specious claim is not a defense of *them*. A pox on both your houses!
-*The NRA* for becoming (as I said before) a hypocritical right-wing political movement with a bitchin' gun club...
This smells not a whit different from the UK Government's incessant Lovejoying about the need
to read everybody's email and look at what websites they visit- iow, "Controllers gotta control."