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His mother knew he was nuts, yet gave her son free rein among the arsenal she kept in their apartment. I hope she does time.
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She is also nuts. Wackjob gun fetishist, a lot like junior.
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Well, since he said, “Other people think I’m crazy, but I’m not. I’m the sane one,” his mother didn’t think it would be a problem to let him handle multiple firearms.
Uh-huh.
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In the meantime the Sheriff will deny it ever happened (like Sandy Hook) and we will not have any sensible gun safety laws.
I hope Dems lead a succesful fight against this insanity.
I am a little surprised the ammosexuals are embracing the idea of not naming the shooter. At the end of the day, people are going to blame someone for the shooting. That is human nature. By naming him and exposing him as crazy, they can make the claim that he was just some lone nut job. But if you don’t give the disease a name, all of the sudden, other things become the culprit. Perhaps unrestricted access to guns is to blame.
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We will win, but it won’t be in this decade, or the next most likely. But long term, we will win.
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He sounds like some of our pro-gun trolls. There must be thousands of these potential tragedies waiting to go off.
Until the politicians taking money to prevent change relent.
“Harper-Mercer complained in writings about not having a girlfriend”
Hmm. I wonder if he plagiarized that from the UC Santa Barbara shooter?
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I studied on this for a while today and it seems to me communities might become aware of these individuals or groups of individuals and raise concern to some local authority without fear of retaliation. It could be to mental health care or perhaps child or adult welfare authorities. Even a gun shop owner who would get a pretty good idea of what a customer’s mental state was from conversations during sales of guns and ammunition might provide a clue to someone before the buyer’s needle redlined. Somebody knows.
I refuse to accept regularly occurring murder of thousands as normal.
When the fear generated so conveniently assists a corrupt party’s survival within the broken status quo.
That won’t happen until the politicians themselves are affected in numbers significant enough to make preservation of life (theirs) more valuable than preservation of campaign donations. Short of an Umpqua/Sandy Hook in the halls of Congress, that is never gonna happen.
What you say? We can vote out the Kock/Glock suckers and install more rational/responsible adults to represent our best interests? With our gerrymandered/balkinized nation, that too, is never gonna happen.
Umpqua is just the latest point on a connect-the-dots diagram which outlines an ugly portrait of our nation’s decline into barbarism. USA, USA…NUMBER ONE…FUCK YEAH!!
LD
Difficult, the shooter would have to hit targets equally on both sides of the aisle or a miffed media would dismiss the whole thing as political.
That’s why they want you to ignore the shooter.
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Two things:
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I do think a mass shooting at a major news network, or at an elite school where the children of many members of the media and/or members of Congress go to school would also have the same effect. I think that’s partly why the shooting of the news crew was covered so breathlessly. That hit the media close to home.
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Congressional districts will be redrawn after 2020, which is also a presidential election year. Two years prior, in 2018 many of the current GOP governors who won reelection last year will either be term limited out of office or would be unlikely to seek or win a third term. Also, that year, the vast majority of Democrats up for reelection are actually progressives, true Democrats running in blue states who can run as Democrats, so I doubt 2018 will look the same as 2010 or 2014. “Never” may only be five years from now.
What would it take to turn Bloomberg’s Mayors against Guns group into the sort of organization that could not only rival the NRA, but beat them dollar for dollar, lobbyist for lobbyist?
Serious question. The NRA’s strength comes from their money, and that has only been bolstered in the post-Citizen’s United world. If we want to beat them, that is how we do it. So what would it take? How big is the NRA really? How much money do we need?
There’s now a whole subculture of saddos influenced by the Pick-Up Artist mindset who think that women are this whole different species, yet complain that they can’t get laid. Unfortunately, they’ve discovered each other on the internet, where they egg each other on into ever-deeper misogyny and paranoia.
It’s very strange to me because back in the late '70s/early '80s, once I went away to college, I had no trouble hooking up, even though I was a not-all-that-goodlooking nerd in a world where nerds weren’t cool. I found that women liked to be treated with respect and friendliness, and even when I struck out, it was just c’est la vie. Have young women gotten that much pickier in the last 30-odd years?