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slackmaster

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31. I'm not here to get support for my issues or to provide any support to you for yours

Reply to brentspeak (Reply #30)

Fri Sep 28, 2012, 10:34 AM

Sep 2012

That's what mental health professionals are for.

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Police confirm 2 dead, at least 4 wounded in Minneapolis office shooting [View all] Judi Lynn Sep 2012 OP

More guns in the workplace would have prevented this. nt onehandle Sep 2012 #1

More AUTOMATIC weapons would have prevented it. valerief Sep 2012 #3

This is all Obama's fault CitizenPatriot Sep 2012 #4

You made me feel bad :( Liberalagogo Sep 2012 #7

There are no victims cosmicone Sep 2012 #21

... tosh Sep 2012 #5

And anyway, if this guy didn't have a gun, he'd have done it with a stapler or a toner cartridge. Squinch Sep 2012 #6

You're so right. I completely forgot about all those stapler deaths. valerief Sep 2012 #10

Oh what a Happy Land you live in to miss other alternatives. I should take a Bath if I were you. dmallind Sep 2012 #28

Hey! I can go wolfuclear if I have to... onehandle Sep 2012 #9

Oh, dear. I just spit. Squinch Sep 2012 #18

It usually is someone with a gun who stops these kind of people. nt Atypical Liberal Sep 2012 #15

Police: 2 dead, 4 wounded in Minn. office shooting Judi Lynn Sep 2012 #2

The Gunners can write this off - not enough dead xchrom Sep 2012 #8

word. KG Sep 2012 #11

Wow, that's terrible. harmonicon Sep 2012 #12

legal gun-owner Berserker Sep 2012 #17

What about "god bless guns" is "anti-gun bullshit"? harmonicon Sep 2012 #19

That wasn't obnoxiously condescending at all... Dr_Scholl Sep 2012 #20

why are you so unhappy??? Skittles Sep 2012 #22

This. Occulus Sep 2012 #34

Yes, it's a good thing that murderer stood his ground. valerief Sep 2012 #26

Mental illness is not something to joke about slackmaster Sep 2012 #13

Not every murderer is mentally ill. Betsy Ross Sep 2012 #16

I'm sorry, but murdering innocent people is not something a mentally healthy person does. slackmaster Sep 2012 #23

And we all know how passionately slackmaster feels about the topic of mental illness brentspeak Sep 2012 #30

I'm not here to get support for my issues or to provide any support to you for yours slackmaster Sep 2012 #31

Rather, you are here to sell the gun lobby's line brentspeak Sep 2012 #32

The opinions I express here are strictly my own. I built them, I own them, I take credit for them. slackmaster Sep 2012 #35

more from the strib azurnoir Sep 2012 #14

So that's the explanation for all the sirens and such hifiguy Sep 2012 #24

I have never seen a single reference to a gruntled employee. Comrade Grumpy Sep 2012 #36

I've never heard a drunk go off on a jointed rant or seen someone look sheveled after an all-nighter slackmaster Sep 2012 #38

Fired worker shoots colleagues in Minneapolis killing 5 Judi Lynn Sep 2012 #25

Ah yes, the rush to blind judgement followed by lame cliche' remarks. Remmah2 Sep 2012 #27

U.S. new motto Kindly Refrain Sep 2012 #29

So sorry for the victims, families, friends. RIP uppityperson Sep 2012 #33

Just another installment payment in our grand gun bargain: Comrade Grumpy Sep 2012 #37

Yeah it is always the gun's fault MindPilot Sep 2012 #39

Excellent point! The perpetual gun debate obscures the other causes. Comrade Grumpy Sep 2012 #40