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monmouth

(21,078 posts)
Sun Oct 21, 2012, 06:24 PM Oct 2012

According to the NY Daily News, the WI shooter was found dead. I'll give the

link: www.nydailynews.com.

A suspect in the mass Wisconsin spa shooting has been found dead at the scene, a county dispatcher told the AP. Radcliffe Franklin Haughton, who is reportedly the estranged husband of a spa employee, was wanted in connection with the shooting, which left three dead and four injured, at Azana Salon & Spa in Brookfield, Wis.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com#ixzz29yW9BwQu


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According to the NY Daily News, the WI shooter was found dead. I'll give the (Original Post) monmouth Oct 2012 OP
Better link PeaceNikki Oct 2012 #1
Thanks..n/t monmouth Oct 2012 #2
On all major news sites now. PeaceNikki Oct 2012 #3
I blame legal guns, the NRA and their states governor graham4anything Oct 2012 #4
Well if everyone in the Spa was armed doc03 Oct 2012 #5
the nra soundbyte line... graham4anything Oct 2012 #6
Banning guns from the mall perimeter wouldn't have stopped this SickOfTheOnePct Oct 2012 #9
neither would other people having guns graham4anything Oct 2012 #10
Same applies SickOfTheOnePct Oct 2012 #11
Believe it or not glacierbay Oct 2012 #12
I already have said there is a way to stop most (noone can stop everyone) graham4anything Oct 2012 #13
Your arguments are naive. Union Scribe Oct 2012 #14
talking about far better security than frisking graham4anything Oct 2012 #15
You're absurd. Decoy of Fenris Oct 2012 #17
My 1st amendment rights trump your 2nd graham4anything Oct 2012 #18
Interesting... SickOfTheOnePct Oct 2012 #19
Ooh. This will be fun. Let's see if you can keep it up. Decoy of Fenris Oct 2012 #20
this answers the last 2... graham4anything Oct 2012 #21
I'm still game. Decoy of Fenris Oct 2012 #28
Thank you glacierbay Oct 2012 #29
you can't get rid of illegal guns anywhere, til you get rid of outside the home legal guns graham4anything Oct 2012 #30
The only statement worth responding to: Decoy of Fenris Oct 2012 #31
His MO seems to be glacierbay Oct 2012 #32
I want someone else to pick it up. You guys tagteam one after another rat-a-tat style graham4anything Oct 2012 #33
The problem is that when you are asked a simple question glacierbay Oct 2012 #34
I could if I so chose, but I will not. Decoy of Fenris Oct 2012 #35
I've asked him several times why glacierbay Oct 2012 #25
I blame the shooter. virgogal Oct 2012 #7
Me too n/t SickOfTheOnePct Oct 2012 #8
it appears the shooter in this case is ill. Under our law, a mentally ill person cannot be blamed graham4anything Oct 2012 #16
Do you have a link to a story that says that? I watched much of the local coverage HereSince1628 Oct 2012 #22
and that is the sign of a healthy person, eh? graham4anything Oct 2012 #23
Thanks for all that, but I really was interested in a possible link. HereSince1628 Oct 2012 #24
I wasn't the OP, the link to the article is in the OP graham4anything Oct 2012 #26
I don't have a take on the story in the Daily news, I couldn't find it at their site... HereSince1628 Oct 2012 #36
You're saying it's personal and no sane person does that. The poor frail mind virgogal Oct 2012 #37
Don't expect a straight answer out of him. glacierbay Oct 2012 #27
 

graham4anything

(11,464 posts)
6. the nra soundbyte line...
Sun Oct 21, 2012, 07:57 PM
Oct 2012

more people would have died, not less.

and being that no one knew he would snap,his wife still would have died

because only by banning ALL guns from entering the mall perimeter, would one truly stop this.

SickOfTheOnePct

(7,290 posts)
9. Banning guns from the mall perimeter wouldn't have stopped this
Sun Oct 21, 2012, 08:06 PM
Oct 2012

Someone that is intent on shooting someone is going to shoot someone. People that are intent on breaking a law (murder) aren't going to be concerned with breaking another law (weapons possession in a mall).

 

graham4anything

(11,464 posts)
10. neither would other people having guns
Sun Oct 21, 2012, 08:12 PM
Oct 2012

but without a gun, a person wouldn't have died from a gun or bullet

I am rooting for Mayor Mike and his nationwide coming campaign to take on the NRA bully pulpit
like no one ever has done.

SickOfTheOnePct

(7,290 posts)
11. Same applies
Sun Oct 21, 2012, 10:53 PM
Oct 2012

Do you really believe that someone that is intent on murdering is going to hesitate to violate a gun law?

 

glacierbay

(2,477 posts)
12. Believe it or not
Sun Oct 21, 2012, 10:55 PM
Oct 2012

yes he does, he thinks that a law prohibiting guns outside of a home would be obeyed, even by criminals.

 

graham4anything

(11,464 posts)
13. I already have said there is a way to stop most (noone can stop everyone)
Mon Oct 22, 2012, 03:40 AM
Oct 2012

but most can be stopped, but it means taking legal guns out of the open and even if you don't ban them from being owned, LEAVING THAT GUN IN YOUR HOUSE only and not bringing it out.

then you have more security in place to know when any gun is there.

IF you take all legal guns out of the equation by having them secure in a home

then anyone else found with a gun- give them 15 to life mandatory.(they are now all criminals, right? that is your argument, right???) Or those with mental health issues, GIVE THEM HELP
(more money needed to combat mental health issues).

for every argument the pro-gun people make, I can make 3 against that point.

And no you don't stop everything. But you can stop most.

(and btw-make sure gunowners tell anyone who enters PRIOR to them entering, that a gun is there. So that the person entering can choose NOT to enter.

then many threats of a gun are stopped.

Without the legal guns-
ONE CAN SECURE a train station from having anyone enter with a gun, by having MORE security to tell anyone a gun is there.
Security is meaningless when a legal gun is found, because that legal gun breaks security by entering.(It is really so easy to see).

NO EXCEPTIONS to the rule.

and with the advent of a non-cash society- and with APS to deposit in the bank from your store or home-the threat of a business person being robbed going to bank is less and less.
(ending anothrer pro-gun person's argument.

...

so it's like a baseball game and I am a home run hitter-
you keep pitching in the ideas, I will hit a better idea out of the ballpark.

Union Scribe

(7,099 posts)
14. Your arguments are naive.
Mon Oct 22, 2012, 03:49 AM
Oct 2012

Do you honestly think that a suicidal killer is deterred by the threat of being imprisoned? And even if they weren't suicidal, is a potential murderer supposed to be frightened by a "15 to life" sentence for having a gun, considering the sentences for the murder they're planning to commit? Your law would only stop a shooting if dumb luck allowed for the gun carrier to be stopped and frisked before shooting someone, which hardly sounds like a great system for stopping shootings.

 

graham4anything

(11,464 posts)
15. talking about far better security than frisking
Mon Oct 22, 2012, 03:57 AM
Oct 2012

machines are available to let people know en masse if a gun is in the perimeter

but the thwarting of that is always the legal gun makes it useless

And better security can be built, more eyes in the sky etc.

As a liberal democrat, my rights are violated by any gun. As my rights are already taken from me, I would rather have my rights to freedom and liberty and happiness secure and allow more security to stop a gun from entering

(like at the airport, only bigger and better.)

yes, it can happen, and only those hiding something won't want it.

(and make sure it applies to 100% of the people, then it is not racist unlike now when frisks are done by police.)

BTW-it is the same concept as a swine flu or bird flu shot in a panademic where there is a vaccine.
You ring the area making the sickness have nowhere to grasp on to and it ends the panademic
even if it is not 100%. It stops masses from dying.

 

Decoy of Fenris

(1,954 posts)
17. You're absurd.
Mon Oct 22, 2012, 04:45 AM
Oct 2012

You're talking not only a complete structural reorganization in terms of society and economics; you're advocating for a completely authoritarian state.

~ Constant surveilance ("More eyes in the sky&quot
~ Extensively monitored and controlled public spaces ("machines... in the perimeter&quot
~ Essentially TSA everywhere. Ever. ("allow more security... like at the airport, only bigger and better.&quot
~ Directly saying that anyone who doesn't agree with a complete police state is hiding something. ("yes... won't want it"
~ That such measures are applied all the time, everywhere, to everyone. ("100% of the people.&quot

Likewise, even the example you give is blatantly authoritarian. "You ring the area making the sickness..."


Let me ask you something, friend. Are you telling the good people of DU that the best method of managing gun violence is to round up every one of the three-hundred-plus million people of America, disarm them of all guns, and then continue to do so for the foreseeable future? If so, why in the name of anything sacred would -any- Democrat support such an action? It's a blatant violation of almost every basic human right.

 

graham4anything

(11,464 posts)
18. My 1st amendment rights trump your 2nd
Mon Oct 22, 2012, 05:00 AM
Oct 2012

Most crime is handguns not machine guns, and I would rid handguns from outside along with all other types.

and my 1st amendment rights trump your 2nd

1% of the nation is a member of the NRA
I support getting rid of this super pac bully

and I support a better supreme court that one day will rule corporate personhood illegal,
and reinterpret the 2nd(which was referring to cannons anyhow).

your handgun is destroying my safety

"and freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose&quot c)K.K.
meaning your gun destroys my freedom and kills me, therefore I have nothing left if I am dead.

so the first thing a country has to do is make its people safe.

guns destroy that.

And when you cut the hyperbole and your name calling me, then people rationally talk,
well, that is how they get rid of the flu, and it has been done without a major change in the cigarette industry

make people aware of the peril, and the majority do not want it.

get rid of the NRA, and the single loudest pro-gun voice will stop being there to bully.

it really is simple

the question is safety. NOT bullshit.
your gun is more dangerous than the cure for the gun.

and you can own your gun. Long as it is in your home where that pesky #2 interpretation of yours states it belongs.
NOT IN A MALL, not in a restuarant, not in a movie theatre.

Want to stop Colorado movie event? Make sure NO gun gets in. legal or illegal.

Legal guns are a bigger problem than illegal guns.

And your hyperbole last line is such delicious irony.
Someone blowing my brains out if I have mental issues is a human right?
Judge/jury/executioner?

In what alternate universe is that logic???
That my friend, reeks of Master-race-ism. Get rid of the mentally ill by killing them.

sheesh. all for the love of a gun and a bullet.

Reminds me of the movie "THE MASTER".
A gun is a cult mass brainwashing if you ask me.

and since 9-11, there haven't been many episodes of plane violence.
I am man enough to walk through security.

Hell, living in NYC, I have been frisked 1000 times in the last 4 decades going into Madison Square Garden to see concerts and ballgames. If I don't want to be frisked? Hell, I just stay home.

so please stop the name calling and the hyperbole love of the gun nra soundbytes.

sticks and stones may break my bones, names will never harm me
but a gun and those dear bullets will kill me.

imho. (c)g4a.

remember-Columbine happened with legal guns. So did Colorado. So did most other big crimes.
It's all such bull.

SickOfTheOnePct

(7,290 posts)
19. Interesting...
Mon Oct 22, 2012, 06:10 AM
Oct 2012

You claim that your First Amendment rights trump my Second Amendment rights (false), yet you want to stifle the First Amendment rights of NRA members by banning the NRA.

Glad you aren't going to be a SCOTUS justice anytime soon.

 

Decoy of Fenris

(1,954 posts)
20. Ooh. This will be fun. Let's see if you can keep it up.
Mon Oct 22, 2012, 06:14 AM
Oct 2012
My 1st amendment rights trump your 2nd

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

According to the First Amendment, no, your first amendment rights do not trump second amendment rights. In fact, given that the Bill of Rights is a restrictive and not permissive document, no "Right" is held in any higher esteem than any other, given that the rights laid down in said Bill of Rights specify interference of the government, not of interpersonal communication, as being restricted. To be blunt, whatever I choose to do around you cannot directly infringe upon your rights as laid down by the Bill of Rights itself.


and reinterpret the 2nd(which was referring to cannons anyhow).

Incorrect, as I pointed out briefly in the Gungeon thread titled "Second Amendment Wording." You should stop by and engage in that dialogue; I'm sure you'll learn something new.


your handgun is destroying my safety

You're more likely to be hit by a meteorite three times in your lifetime than to be killed by a gun once. Your statement is false.


And when you cut the hyperbole and your name calling me, then people rationally talk,
well, that is how they get rid of the flu, and it has been done without a major change in the cigarette industry


I'm not entirely certain how to respond here; you make four separate and unrelated statements, then use them to correlate each other. All debate aside, is English a second language for you?


make people aware of the peril, and the majority do not want it.

get rid of the NRA, and the single loudest pro-gun voice will stop being there to bully.


I can't speak on the nature of the NRA itself, but in regard to "Majority", it seems that there are conflicting views. The majority still agrees that "some gun control laws" are favorable, but that number has declined immensely. Surveys in 2002 found that 57% of Americans supported "stricter gun control laws". The same surveys in 2012 found that only 51% support those same laws. The same study found that in 02, 37% of those polled opposed stricter gun control laws, while in 2012, the number opposed to strict gun control laws rose to 47%. That's a twenty percent swing right there, and that's just in ten years. The "majority" opinion of strict gun control laws is deteriorating. Extrapolations based on polling data and firearms sales indicate that the majority opinion will soon be of the mindset that stricter gun control measures are not necessary.



the question is safety. NOT bullshit.
your gun is more dangerous than the cure for the gun.


Authoritarian police states are -never- the answer. To think otherwise is, as you state, "bullshit."


and you can own your gun. Long as it is in your home where that pesky #2 interpretation of yours states it belongs.
NOT IN A MALL, not in a restuarant, not in a movie theatre.


So rights guaranteed not to be violated by the government, as laid down in the Bill of Rights and our associated Constitution, end when we set foot out of the house? It seems like we're back to that "Authoritarian" theme.


Want to stop Colorado movie event? Make sure NO gun gets in. legal or illegal.

You could also stop the Colorado movie event by not showing movies, or by not making movies that would inspire a potential killer to do such things, or by not opening a store until everyone waiting outside is certified gun-free by an appropriate authority.



Legal guns are a bigger problem than illegal guns.

Prove it.


And your hyperbole last line is such delicious irony.
Someone blowing my brains out if I have mental issues is a human right?
Judge/jury/executioner?

In what alternate universe is that logic???
That my friend, reeks of Master-race-ism. Get rid of the mentally ill by killing them.

sheesh. all for the love of a gun and a bullet.


No, someone blowing your brains out if you have mental issues is a fundamental human failing. However, what -is- a basic human right is the ability to defend oneself against you if you prove yourself an imminent and violent, life-threatening hazard. The minute you have directly and obviously become a threat to one's continued existence, "Judge/jury/executioner" ceases to apply, no matter WHAT your problems are. You know what that reeks of? Common sense. All for the love of life.



and since 9-11, there haven't been many episodes of plane violence.

And before 9-11, there hadn't been many episodes of plane violence.



I am man enough to walk through security.

So are hijackers. Your point?


Hell, living in NYC, I have been frisked 1000 times in the last 4 decades going into Madison Square Garden to see concerts and ballgames. If I don't want to be frisked? Hell, I just stay home.

so please stop the name calling and the hyperbole love of the gun nra soundbytes.


No one has called any names. I would appreciate it if you ceased attempting to characterize your one-sided beat-down of a "discussion" as you being victimized; I'm simply calling you on your inaccuracies, and you are refusing to fight back. That sure isn't my fault, friend.


sticks and stones may break my bones, names will never harm me
but a gun and those dear bullets will kill me.


Tell Miss Amanda Todd that names will never harm her. Tell every homosexual child who has committed suicide due to bullying that names will never harm them. Tell every woman who has ever defended herself against domestic abuse with a firearm that they were wrong to do so.


remember-Columbine happened with legal guns. So did Colorado. So did most other big crimes.

No they didn't. Most of the guns were illegal through current gun control. ALL of the guns were obtained by fraud. That same year, two thousand students brought firearms to school and were expelled, even though there is a law directly forbidding it: There were only two instances of school shootings in the same year.

Likewise, in examining a history and researching the details of school shootings, the vast majority are perpetrated with guns that should not legally be held by the persons in question. Ammo is stolen, guns are stolen, the types of weapons are already illegal or outright banned. In Aurora, the gunman had thirty homemade (and go figure, illegal) grenades primed and ready to take lives. His firearm purchase history stretched back six months before the shooting, and his obvious premeditation is assured. Are you telling me that this lunatic (Who, according to you, should not be held responsible because he is "Ill&quot wouldn't have killed people if he didn't have access to firearms?



Listen mate, I appreciate where you're coming from. I really do. Death is a sad thing, and anything that can be done to lessen it is a noble goal. You are terribly, horrifically wrong on almost all points that you bring up, though. I'm willing to continue this otherwise civil discussion, but I'm beginning to believe that you are either deliberately obtuse, or are genuinely uninterested in any viewpoint other than your own.
 

graham4anything

(11,464 posts)
21. this answers the last 2...
Mon Oct 22, 2012, 07:51 AM
Oct 2012

I don't know how to snip/cut/paste quotes in that other reply, so it would mush up all those unless each is separated out to a new post on each topic then the debate could go on.


someday those without official NRA clear concise talking points purchased with millions of tax free dollars can all argue.

I can't wait for consise talking points purchased by the superpac by meek mayor mike
so that those anti-gun people (the 99% who aren't NRA members) can deal against professional sound bytes.

all it takes is money.

people don't smoke anymore and they didn't even have to ban it.

the key is- the obsessive need to have these wmd's in ones house and pocket.

the NRA and the corrupt court that ruled for Bush will one day not be around.

at that point, peace in the nation might be possible.

and help for the less fortunate who have problems can be attained and the people cured of their problems.(Give some medication out, and hatred disappears).

the NRA is a tax exempt super lobby group Pac? Why is it tax exempt? Why are they not liable for every gun death there is legal and illegal?
How America could use those tax dollars.
But as they are here, thank God for meek mayor mike and an even bigger lobby group some day

A winner does what a loser won't. So the NRA needs to be moved from winner to loser.
just like a winning ball team or candidate can be defeated.

Cigarettes were.And they used to be the biggest super lobby group in the world


 

Decoy of Fenris

(1,954 posts)
28. I'm still game.
Mon Oct 22, 2012, 09:14 AM
Oct 2012
someday those without official NRA clear concise talking points purchased with millions of tax free dollars can all argue.

I can't wait for consise talking points purchased by the superpac by meek mayor mike
so that those anti-gun people (the 99% who aren't NRA members) can deal against professional sound bytes.


For reference, I have not, nor ever, received an NRA membership, mailer, magazine, or any other propaganda piece. When I counteract your arguments, I am using independently researched data coupled with facts issued from police reports or peer-reviewed studies on whatever topic I happen to bring up. I can produce citations for you from this point on regarding any statistic or information I state, if you so desire; You only need ask.

Until then, however, I'll point out that while 99% of America is not a member of the NRA, using that same logic, 99% of America DOES in fact own a gun. (This is not a true fact; it is only showing you the error of your analysis.) Not everyone who argues against gun control does so from an NRA standpoint.



people don't smoke anymore and they didn't even have to ban it.

No, they just increased the price until it was economically unfeasible for a low-income individual to purchase the product. That, my friend, is the most basic form of economic class warfare imaginable (See Orwell's 1984 for examples of price- and supplyside- class disadvantaging.)



the key is- the obsessive need to have these wmd's in ones house and pocket.

the NRA and the corrupt court that ruled for Bush will one day not be around.

at that point, peace in the nation might be possible.


The presence or absence of firearms on either a nationwide or even statewide scale is largely irrelevant upon the negative impact of criminal activity within the province in question. I refer you to Scotland, who has rigid gun control; their homicide rate is comparable with that of America, the crime is just carried out with knives instead. Do you have any evidence that the differing opinion is true?


and help for the less fortunate who have problems can be attained and the people cured of their problems.(Give some medication out, and hatred disappears).

Prove it. Cite your sources and show your work, please.


he NRA is a tax exempt super lobby group Pac? Why is it tax exempt? Why are they not liable for every gun death there is legal and illegal?
How America could use those tax dollars.
But as they are here, thank God for meek mayor mike and an even bigger lobby group some day


They are tax exempt for charitable work regarding education and information regarding gun control and safe use throughout America.

They are not liable because they did not kill anyone.

America could use those tax dollars in any number of ways, but would likely be added to the existing military budget.

Your religious, dogmatic worship of a small-time mayor is borderline worrying in regards to the functioning state of your mental faculties.


A winner does what a loser won't. So the NRA needs to be moved from winner to loser.
just like a winning ball team or candidate can be defeated.


No, a winner capitalizes on the weakness of his opponents while extending the associated circumstances to best maximize the potential of said winner's underlying natural strengths. To be blunt, to best combat the NRA, you would have to remove the supposed "fear" of potential crime while simultaneously enhancing an aura of fear and suspicion/distrust regarding the nature of firearms. In this way, you could mitigate the NRA's natural strengths and enhance any opposing group's strength in one fell swoop. However, then it's simply a level playing field in the mental game, and would require much more dedicated devotion on the economic front. The methodology that you currently espouse (A completely totalitarian regime) would only cause a rise in violent crime and animosity towards whatever government dared attempt to institute it in America.


Now, some people may be wondering why I'm still attempting to converse with you here, mate. To anyone reading this, I want to make myself understood: This is one of the reasons the Gungeon is as negative a place as it is. How do you argue with this on a scale any larger than one on one? How can you attempt to refute points that are given without cause? What's worse is that this poor sap is making the gun-control supporters look like idiots. Gods help if someone joined up and saw this sort of tripe littering Democratic Underground. No wonder we have something of an image as "Gun-grabbers".
 

glacierbay

(2,477 posts)
29. Thank you
Mon Oct 22, 2012, 09:21 AM
Oct 2012

very well written post. As you can tell, writing is not my strong suit, I guess that's why I got into Law Enforcement. You just pretty much countered every thing he said and very effectively.

 

graham4anything

(11,464 posts)
30. you can't get rid of illegal guns anywhere, til you get rid of outside the home legal guns
Mon Oct 22, 2012, 09:27 AM
Oct 2012

personally I would not even want to debate any more than post a topic and let others debate it.
the original post in any thread is what catches anyones eye, and is instantly googled.

I would rather post by post by post by post one subject at a time in a headline

(and you can call it soundbytes, that is fine, you have yours I have mine)

and yes, I am lazy sometimes and get bored with this crap posted by gun people
and don't keep track of the points i would start a new thread with, and then not bother to do it.


And some of the suggestions would make good points for others to take with them.

after all, I am not going to convince the 10 of you pro-gun people here to switch sides.
It is about people reading in. Not gun fanatics.

(i.e.- the legal gun is the cause of why gun violence can't be stopped because to ban illegal guns doesn't work, when legal ones are there.
So first you get rid of the legal ones, then the illegal ones and you stop crime that way.
You keep crime going in the opposite though.

and I believe you cannot argue that point or won't.

it is like Columbo
I do that sometimes like he does.
I put alot out, but there is one or two in the midst of all the large post, that stumbles upon a major, major point

 

Decoy of Fenris

(1,954 posts)
31. The only statement worth responding to:
Mon Oct 22, 2012, 09:36 AM
Oct 2012
So first you get rid of the legal ones, then the illegal ones and you stop crime that way.

and I believe you cannot argue that point or won't.


I have addressed this, dissected it, explained why you were wrong, and offered suggestions on why it wouldn't work and how best to go about it. I have yet to receive any response from you aside from your standard method of response: None of substance. Furthermore, I offered in several ways just -how- wrong you were and the resulting fallout from your attempt at a crackdown on every single living American.

I have been met with silence in return on multiple fronts.


You have been given the chance to elaborate on your points; I have been supremely patient, assuming you were simply misguided or perhaps young and naive, or even old and naive. I even briefly entertained the notion that you were a troll (given your textbook method of internet trolling that could have been lifted from 4chan itself), but in all regards, I like to think that I have been fair with you. All attempts at civilized dialogue have failed, all proof contrary to your opinion has been ignored, and apparently, such is your M.O.

You will not pursue fact.
You will not listen to logic.
You will not heed civility.
You will not heel animosity.
You are, for all intents and purposes, a waste of my time and the time of those who unfortunately stumble across your barely-coherent grumblings.


I do not believe in ignoring, but I will no longer waste parts of my life attempting civil debate with you.

Good day to you.
 

glacierbay

(2,477 posts)
32. His MO seems to be
Mon Oct 22, 2012, 09:44 AM
Oct 2012

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, then baffle them with bullshit.
I have yet to get a straight answer to a question I've asked him time and time again.

Does he really think that criminals will obey any law that forbids guns outside of the home?
And what is his experience in dealing with criminals?

I just can't seem to get him to respond to these questions, instead, he launches into a rambling, barely coherent diatribe about the mafia and how they will kill you if you kill one of their own and other such nonsense, but never a simple answer to my simple question.

 

graham4anything

(11,464 posts)
33. I want someone else to pick it up. You guys tagteam one after another rat-a-tat style
Mon Oct 22, 2012, 09:48 AM
Oct 2012

and today I found a second person who seems to agree on my side

but normally, I have found on this and other boards, the anti-gun side is bullied into silence.

I would like another person to pick up the questions who is against guns and answers.

Is that too much to hope for?

I know I won't change your mind, but are there others that see my perhaps badly worded post?

but you have the luxury of 4 decades worth of sound bytes professionally typed and passed to different sites courtesy of the ever loving NRA. Million dollar consice items.
Felix Unger meticulous.
Me I am Oscar Madison sloppy

hey- how about you write, and devil's advocate my question and see if you can beat the NRA guys, if you want a serious debate style

 

glacierbay

(2,477 posts)
34. The problem is that when you are asked a simple question
Mon Oct 22, 2012, 09:58 AM
Oct 2012

you launch into a barely coherent long winded diatribe that has nothing to do with the original question, you advocate for a more authoritarian society because of you hatred of firearms, you go off on tangents and call every thing an NRA talking point because you don't have an answer for the questions asked.

Try simple answers to simple questions asked and try to stay on the topic at hand.
Right now, you're not doing your side any favors at all.

 

Decoy of Fenris

(1,954 posts)
35. I could if I so chose, but I will not.
Mon Oct 22, 2012, 09:59 AM
Oct 2012

All statistics are worthless without properly-studied historical, sociological and in the case of the second amendment, linguistic factors. I have observed both DU and the Gungeon for years and have noticed glaring holes in the "NRA guys" arguments that are essentially mirrors of your own.

The problem with the debate as it is framed now is that, as I mentioned a few times before, the whole argument boils down to moral-slinging. "You can't deny my rights" is met with "In not denying your rights, you deny my rights." It is rare to find a genuine discussion using both fact and mutual respect, and no matter what side I am arguing, without those two things, the argument is meaningless.


The reason I -won't- is because I won't do your job for you. Statistics are currently trending against the gun-control agenda, and thus they are ignored and supplanted with issues of humanitarian base instead of fact. "Don't you care about the dying" may tug at the heartstrings more than "Don't you care about the second amendment", but as I have mentioned before, people die all the time from all manner of causes.

If you want a fact-based discussion free of speculation and "This will work", I'm game, but not before I explain something very, very carefully.


The gun control side of the argument is incredibly easy to defend. When statistics point your way, cite them. When they don't, fall back on moral superiority. Contrarily, those who support the second amendment are fighting an uphill battle of "If it saves one life, it should happen" and "Why don't you care about life?" You -already- have the upper hand in any debate, thanks to the moral high ground. Thankfully, the current trending statistics are weighed heavily against the gun-control side of the discussion at the moment, largely mitigating any immediate disparity.


The long and the short of it is this. Every argument I've seen from the gun-control side of the debate has been speculation, false-extrapolation, or an outright lie. Truth, in all things, is paramount above a political agenda.

Do your own legwork. If you can't defend a position effectively, don't try; it will end poorly.

 

glacierbay

(2,477 posts)
25. I've asked him several times why
Mon Oct 22, 2012, 08:48 AM
Oct 2012

he's on a progressive site, his views are more in tune with the Repugs. His hatred of firearms is so overwhelming that he would prefer a police state over a free society.
Every time I ask him a question, he launches into a long winded, incoherent speech without answering my simple question. It's like pulling teeth the get a straight answer from him.

 

graham4anything

(11,464 posts)
16. it appears the shooter in this case is ill. Under our law, a mentally ill person cannot be blamed
Mon Oct 22, 2012, 03:59 AM
Oct 2012

per se
as that person knows not what he does.

Advocating for the death of an ill person by having another gun in the area reeks of master raceism. imho

all the person needs is help to find their way back, not a bullet in them.

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
22. Do you have a link to a story that says that? I watched much of the local coverage
Mon Oct 22, 2012, 08:05 AM
Oct 2012

up here and don't remember anyone saying that.

There were indications that his reaction to his failing marriage had gone from abusive to criminal and restraining orders were sought and granted against him.

 

graham4anything

(11,464 posts)
23. and that is the sign of a healthy person, eh?
Mon Oct 22, 2012, 08:18 AM
Oct 2012

simple math

Get the unhealthy person healthy.

after all there but for the Grace of God go I, right? It could be me, you your family, my family, etc. Would you want your relative shot dead by someone not in authority being judge/jury/executioner?

I know I wouldn't want that, it would weigh on my mind forever.

 

graham4anything

(11,464 posts)
26. I wasn't the OP, the link to the article is in the OP
Mon Oct 22, 2012, 08:56 AM
Oct 2012

what is your take on the story?

might be a rightwing republicanlibertarianteaparty extremist that killed the judge, and attempted to kill Gabby Giffords, or like Timid Timmy a home grown terrorist full of anger over American Patriot Janet Reno, except that it obviously wasn't this time?
this wasn't political, it was personal
(you know its personal because he went after his wife, and he was ill).

and no sane person does that. But a poor frail mind does, and there is help for that.
If one cares about people like liberals are suppose to, and I do.

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
36. I don't have a take on the story in the Daily news, I couldn't find it at their site...
Mon Oct 22, 2012, 10:23 AM
Oct 2012

I do have an opinion on your reply:

I don't think it's logical to suggest a tautology binding murder to mental illness, and I don't think that makes me ill-liberal.

The circular reasoning I perceive is something like this: in such murders killers are mentally ill <=> the killer is mentally ill because this is such a murder

Certainly that promotes the far reaching assumption that no murderer could be sane. You seem to believe that something like that opinion is liberal and caring.

Yet, I fail to see how loading mental illness with all the killings on the planet does anything other than burden all the mentally ill. Isn't there even the possibility of that sometimes being a false association?

That stereotype exists in our society and maintains the belief that the mentally ill on the whole are potentially more dangerous than any other persons in society. I'm pretty certain that contemporary psychological research in NAm and Europe suggests that belief is both unwarranted by research and promotes unfairness in public attitudes toward the mentally ill.

IMO, the association of mental illness and criminal activity must be made through case-by-case determinations, dealing with specific evidence and, as well, definitions of sanity that function in both psychiatric and legal domains.

I live near where this event took place. In Milw. Co, there are many well documented problems with our mental health system (including terribly enough, both a recent homicide and patient rapes within the Co Mental Health facility). I'm interested in knowing if Houghton was mentally ill because I am interested in the status and effectiveness of mental health services in Milw county and WI and his association, if any, with that system.

 

virgogal

(10,178 posts)
37. You're saying it's personal and no sane person does that. The poor frail mind
Mon Oct 22, 2012, 08:24 PM
Oct 2012

needs help.

That sounds like open season on spouses. Wow!

 

glacierbay

(2,477 posts)
27. Don't expect a straight answer out of him.
Mon Oct 22, 2012, 09:04 AM
Oct 2012

I've asked him several times if he really believes that criminals will obey a law that forbids guns outside of the home and he will launch into a long winded, incoherent, jumbled speech and I still can't get an answer.
To answer your question, there is no proof that this man had mental problems, he had anger problems, he could no longer control "his woman" so he probably thought that if he could no longer have her, then no one else would either.
In my line of work, I have seen this far too often.

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