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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
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Breaking: 2 Killed, 1 Injured by Man Armed with Rifle at Mall Near Portland (20-60 Shots Reported) [View all]
Hissyspit
Dec 2012
OP
A sign forbidding guns, a law against carrying in public, or a law against shooting people...
TPaine7
Dec 2012
#28
Intellectual dishonesty and the mouths of morons have probably killed more people than guns.
Remmah2
Dec 2012
#150
I couldn't help noticing it took some other men with "toys" to neutralize the attacking guy...
pop topcan
Dec 2012
#244
Thinking about it, this whole "GUNS & FREEDOM" religion pushed by the right is a SCAM.
alp227
Dec 2012
#76
Kids 7 and 11 threaten woman with loaded gun in neighboring multnomah county.. days apart.
fun n serious
Dec 2012
#114
Jamaica instituted a total ban a few years ago. It is drowning in gun violence as we pontificate.
pop topcan
Dec 2012
#245
Suspect on the loose after shots fired at Clackamas Town Center kgw.com - 7 minutes ago A masked gun
Coyotl
Dec 2012
#10
I live really close to this mall. The helicopters are out and so are the sirens
neverforget
Dec 2012
#12
The crime rate tracks the proportion of young adult males in the population. Nt.
Warren Stupidity
Dec 2012
#131
The point being that regulating, for example, high capacity magazines
Warren Stupidity
Dec 2012
#144
Gee, what if half the mall was carrying and a total fire fight broke out
ItsTheMediaStupid
Dec 2012
#53
Everyone who advocates that more people carrying firearms would have
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#188
Perhaps you can give us a real-world example or 2, instead of Hollywood ones...
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2012
#211
Well, let's see. Ask any vet who's been in a real live fire-fight, where
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#218
Surely you can come up with a real-world example. There are +/- 8 million permit holders...
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2012
#224
Holy fuck. Vile fucking bigotry against non-criminals certainly seems to be the order of the day.
PavePusher
Dec 2012
#243
You have the blood of at least 20 children on your hands. I hope you're
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#240
Yep, just as you have the broken souls of child porn victims on yours.
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2012
#242
Chosen, and dispatched to the scene: see #87. Typical NRA bullshit being spewed
apocalypsehow
Dec 2012
#100
I doubt the NRA runs the FBI, as they are the ones that confirming the declining violent crime rates
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2012
#118
I note you do not dispute the accuracy of that, instead choosing to carp about the messenger.
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2012
#170
When the "messenger" is peddling a right-wing NRA line on a progressive, Democratic
apocalypsehow
Dec 2012
#179
And the swarm is on! #7 in this thread, late to the scene but making up for it with
apocalypsehow
Dec 2012
#189
Someone has to contrast the antigun ideologues that got here first and almost always do.
beevul
Dec 2012
#197
Translation: "someone has to get the NRA's side of the message out there!!!11"
apocalypsehow
Dec 2012
#198
Does your worldview allow that theres a such thing as a non-nra pro gun position?
beevul
Dec 2012
#204
"is it simply that anyone thats pro-gun-rights is an an nra stooge?" - well said.
apocalypsehow
Dec 2012
#206
Doubtful: think Eric Hoffer's "The True Believer", or Richard J. Hofstadter's...
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2012
#209
Actually, they got their facts from the FBI-anyone can, at their website
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2012
#212
I don't blame you in the least: it's a crying shame we have to put with right-wing NRA talking
apocalypsehow
Dec 2012
#191
Facts are derailing the Two Minutes' Hate, and we can't have that...
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2012
#172
Disagreeing with you about gun policy is not a "two minutes hate," sport:
apocalypsehow
Dec 2012
#176
You blame the NRA; you bash gun owners that had nothing to do with this horrible case...
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2012
#203
"there's one problem with...your opponents...RW plants" - FIFY. Yep. n/t.
apocalypsehow
Dec 2012
#208
There are a couple books you should read- they might strike a chord with you.
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2012
#210
"You might not be getting the glorious, gun-free future you envision" - Sure I am: so is the entire
apocalypsehow
Dec 2012
#214
"What a beautiful world it will be; what a glorious time to be free..."
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2012
#216
Interesting; I never knew the validity of an argument depended upon...
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2012
#225
You'll get many fine explanations, most of them consisting of finely-woven bullshit.
apocalypsehow
Dec 2012
#98
Just heard the shooter has been neutralized from the police spokesman on CNN...
TPaine7
Dec 2012
#25
Portland Local News: - Suspect 'neutralized' after deadly shooting at Clackamas Town Center
Coyotl
Dec 2012
#27
Did anyone see Jon Stewart last nite? He asked WHEN is the right time to talk about Gun Control??
jillan
Dec 2012
#40
Gee, a mall full of people and nobody had another gun to shoot-it-out??111!!!!1
riderinthestorm
Dec 2012
#63
Yes, in Kennesaw. I lived there for about 5 years. All homeowners are required to have a gun.
RebelOne
Dec 2012
#83
I've had it. I'VE HAD IT. I wish we would enact the strictest gun laws in the WORLD.
nolabear
Dec 2012
#64
You know what would have prevented this? More people shooting wildly into a crowded area.
name not needed
Dec 2012
#68
They will not interfere as long as gun violence is at historic lows and declining.
hack89
Dec 2012
#88
Go for it, culture warrior! Demonize a large chunk of the voting population!
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2012
#117
Except, they haven't: the Democratic Party controls the White House and the Senate.
apocalypsehow
Dec 2012
#124
And that explains why gun control was so prominent in the campaign ... oh wait.
hack89
Dec 2012
#166
Keep cutting and pasting your own posts, they're quite convincing...
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2012
#173
I note you do not dispute the accuracy of that, instead choosing to carp about the messenger.
apocalypsehow
Dec 2012
#175
A quick review of the "rules" about when it's okay to discuss gun policy might be in order:
TygrBright
Dec 2012
#85
I live in Clackamas County, actually really close to this mall. This county is a swing county
neverforget
Dec 2012
#97
Maybe when everyone is armed all the time these sorts of incidents will taper off
Fumesucker
Dec 2012
#126
I read somewhere the gun jammed after 50-60? shots. The shooter ran off into a store.
Sunlei
Dec 2012
#213
How you figure that? Maybe he was just a bad shot and if he was limited to a 10 round magazine
doc03
Dec 2012
#162
They're always concerned about nomenclature. Such obfuscation helps protect their access to guns.
Hoyt
Dec 2012
#154
I can only imagine that in their last moments of life, the victims were comforted
LanternWaste
Dec 2012
#169
No, Hawkeye, Green Arrow, and Robin Hood are the patron saints of the arrow.
Agnosticsherbet
Dec 2012
#181