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Take Our Guns? Over our Dead Bodies!
Take Our Guns? Over our Dead Bodies!
Well, maybe.
Or the dead bodies of our children and friends.
I know, I know, Second Amendment and all that but get real; you will never be better armed than your government and you are going to lose a shootout with them no matter what. This isn’t 1776. Ruby Ridge, Waco and Occupy taught us that.
I know, guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Not to put too fine a point on it, but technically, it’s the bullets.
And, that would seem to me to be at least one place we could start to find some compromise between no guns and vast unlimited arsenals of nothing more than implements of death. Ammunition could be made far less deadly and destructive, and who needs thousands of rounds?
Hunters, real sportsmen, go into the field with single shot weapons. Being from the middle of nowhere, my parents owned thirteen guns between them, none of which was a handgun. And, only two of them were repeaters; my mother’s custom Browning 16 gauge over and under (2 shots) and an automatic repeating rifle that I never saw come out of its very distinctive leather case.
It was half the length of the long gun cases. It may not have been legal at the time because, even as a kid, I perceived that my parents seemed to regard this particular gun with a great deal more gravitas.
If they take all of our guns away, we won’t need the bullets. So, maybe the two sides could come together and find common ground on the ammunition.
Unfortunately, the discussion involving whether or not guns should be legal is an argument that leads right to where the gun lobby wants it—nowhere.
On the one hand, those with criminal intent won’t care whether guns are legal or not. They’ll just get them from the Department of Justice when they work out the agreement on the money laundering services also conveniently available through a “single point of contact” at the DOJ.
Beyond that, with over 200 million privately owned guns in about 50 million American homes, seizing them would be a monumental task involving lots of domestic bloodshed.
What we do not need right now is a nationwide search of every farmhouse, outhouse, or chicken coop looking for guns to confiscate.
Guns and bullets are only symptoms of a disease, our mental health crisis.
The unrelenting stresses of a failing economy and the sense of outrage being felt as more and more people feel powerless against the oppression are increasing the murder and murder/suicide rates in every community.
Always absent from any discussion about health care are the health care risks posed to innocent people by a system that devotes fewer and fewer resources to mental illness. If it isn’t bleeding it won’t be treated.
The reaction in Aurora in the wake of the theater shootings has been a curious one, an increase in gun sales…presumably to take to the movies.
The people who sell metal detectors must be just drooling having calculated that there are about 39,000 movie theatres in America.
But, it won’t help. Anywhere people gather can provide an opportunity for a nut job to kill a bunch of people. The mall, the marina, the hospital, the amusement park, the day care center are all vulnerable. We don’t need metal detectors, we need mental detectors.
You don’t need a gun to inflict mayhem and misery. Timothy McVey brought down a seven story building killing 178 and injuring hundreds with a U-Haul full of fertilizer.
But, there is a bigger problem. We are a nation steeped in violence. We forcibly took this land and murdered those who stood in our way. I’m not pointing the finger; my family was leading the way.
War is our primary domestic export. Remember when we were “hog butcher for the world”? Today we are the people butcher for the world. At the moment, there are 121 wars being waged around the world, and one way or another, we have got our hand or our arms in all of them.
If we aren’t selling them weapons directly, we are supplying them through some sort of shadowy middleman. That is why there is the occupational title of “Arms Dealer”.
This is how they avoid the brief but embarrassing revelations such as the Justice Department selling guns directly to the Mexican drug cartels. Text your friendly arms dealer and build a layer of plausible deniability. Those wild and crazy, though grossly incompetent, guys over at the Justice Department. What a hoot!
Remember when we went to Iraq looking for weapons of mass destruction? We didn’t find any so we started to sell them some back in 2005. It does make you wonder how many US casualties resulted from weapons we sold them.
Decade after decade we ask our young men and women to sacrifice their lives on behalf of peace and freedom. Or, perhaps more appropriately, the very lucrative military industrial complex that will provide both sides of the conflict with exactly as much expensive military hardware as is necessary to maintain equal strength and ongoing conflict among the foes.
Remember when the goal was to end wars as quickly as possible?
Being ever at war affects a nations psyche. Teenagers have never known a time when we weren’t at war. Warrior becomes a “career choice” for which they train on high tech video games. They are what we made them. Detached, indifferent, conditioned to violence and sometimes lusting for blood. Actual blood, not virtual blood.
We justify drone strikes as necessary and send a message that, yeah, killing is okay, sometimes.
Then it’s only a matter of deciding when it is okay, and when it isn’t. Liquor, testosterone, and mental illness obscure the bounds that normally hold us in check.
With our economy decimated, the troops come home to no jobs and no safety net, and kill their families. How the hell can we be surprised by that?
Our priorities are all screwed up. We have the funds for unlimited warfare but not for universal health care.
Poverty is growing in the US not because of a lack of money. Look how much we could find to give the banks so bankstas had something from which to pay themselves obscene bonuses.
Poverty is growing because of a vast criminal conspiracy.
In the meantime, the global game of Ponzi continues because of our leader’s unwillingness to stop it.
Doing the same thing over and over again and hoping for a different result is the very definition of insanity.
Watch now to see if someone doesn’t step forward with the idea that maybe our problems could be solved if we gave the banks more money.
Things are getting worse, not better. There will be more mass murders and horrific acts of violence, and they will not be fueled by guns but by the untreated mental illness produced by the stress of economic and social collapse.
Where I come from, everybody had guns, lots of guns, but we didn’t shoot each other with them. Obviously, we, and not the guns, are the problem.
Less lethal ammunition and smaller magazines can reduce the scope of gun violence without gun owners losing their rights.
Since both sides have a stake in the outcome, both sides should devote substantial energy and resources advocating for universal healthcare and sufficient funding to effectively treat the small percentage of the population who suffer from this largely treatable yet little understood human frailty.
Further debating the issue of gun ownership prevents us from coming to grips with the real problem and reducing deaths attributed to acts of insane violence.
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As a Canuck, I have had to live next to you good ol' boys down der in da good ol' U.S.A. and ya know what? I luvs ya. Lived in yer country fer eight wunnerful years and banged all yer women and drank with all yer mums and dads and never ONCE did I get accosted by a gun-totin maniac. Of course, I lived next to the second most violent ghetto in the U.S. (St. Louis) in the 70's and maybe - just maybe - the reason was that I never broke the law and I never stole fuck all and I never tried to rape any young girls and when I got into fights with the black dudes, I never used a knife and never kicked them after I knocked them on their boney asses. God bless the National ROFL Association.
If you're from Canada, you were NOT getting laid in the USA.
The author of this piece should write about things they understand.
:)
Fuck the government and the people that bought it.
My solemn hope is the next crazy that goes off does so at the Fed, or Goldman Sachs, or a DHS HQ... somewhere infinitely more deserving than some folks at a movie.
Great point! This has been a question I have pondered for quite a while now. Not enough Joe Stacks in the world. Maybe he was unhinged, but at least he had the presence of mind torealize who his enemis were.
Russia.. Afghanistan. Now what? huh? now what?
Bite Me:
WORLD'S LARGEST ARMY
I copied and pasted this story from another forum I frequent but I thought it was interesting. I don't agree with the OP that Japan could have hit the west coast as well but Much of this post is true. Obama needs to understand that. We will not go down without a fight.
True Story.
Here's an interesting side bar. After the Japanese ravaged the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor Dec 7, 1941, they could have sent their troop ships And carriers directly into California to finish what they started. The prediction from our Chief of Staff was that we wouldn't be able to stop them until they reached the Mississippi River. Remember, we had a 2 million man army and the bulk of our Navy ... fighting the Nazis in Europe; So, why did they not invade?
After the war, this question was poised to what was left of the Japanese Army's General Staff and their Naval
Admiralty. In response, their consistent Answer was astounding:
They knew that almost every home in America had guns and that the Americans knew how to use them .......
The world's largest army... America 's hunters! I had never thought about this....
A blogger added up the deer license sales in just a handful of states and arrived at a striking conclusion:
There were over 600,000 hunters this season in the state of Wisconsin .
Over the last several months, Wisconsin 's hunters became the eighth largest army in the world. More men under arms than in Iran. More than in France and Germany combined.
These men deployed to the woods of a single American state to hunt with firearms, and no one was killed.
AND That number pales in comparison to the 750,000 who hunted the woods of Pennsylvania and Michigan 's 700,000 hunters, All of whom have now returned home.
Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia and it literally establishes the fact that the hunters of those four states alone would comprise the largest army in the world.
And the point is?
To me people who wander are not lost.
Beyond a well trained gun, you're everyday American Hunter is ... Hearty, ... Very Good with Maps and Orienteering ... A Skilled Woodsman ... Well Equipped ... And Very Capable of Surviving the Extremes at Length if Necessary!
America will forever be safe from foreign invasion with that kind of home-grown firepower.
Hunting -- it's not just a way to fill the freezer.
Hunting is a matter of national security.
Reminds me of this:
"In World War II, the Swiss had defenses no other country had. Let's begin with the rifle in every home combined with the Alpine terrain. When the German Kaiser asked in 1912 what the quarter of a million Swiss militiamen would do if invaded by a half million German soldiers, a Swiss replied: shoot twice and go home.
Forgive me for a moment.. but it appears that you actually agree with me that a force that is much less powerfully equipped could defend against a force that is by far, more technologically prepared. So why the "Bite me" ?
You have to ask yourself::
Would MILLIONS of Chinese have died in the Commie Cultural Revolution if those people were heavily armed?
Would the Russians been able to avoid the soviet commie regime (and tons sent to siberia) if they were all armed ?
Would the Germans, during WW2, have changed their leadership (i.e. get rid of Hitler) if they were armed?
I could go on and on with situations from Uganda, southest asia, etc, but you get the idea.
Now I know you might be saying "Oh, this is America, it can't happen here" - and that is exactly what all those Chinese, Russians, Germans (plus other Euro countries), Ugandans thought about their leadership. It's not about hunting, it's about preventing wicked regimes from coming to power & abusing the people.
The author of this article, 4closureFraud, is a D*MN FOOL.
Ill say it once ill say it again.Until i walk down the street and walk into a cafe,a bar,a workplace,or where ever, and have someone present critical thinking or communication is the day i keel over.Until then,it's meaningless shit of sports,Gerry Sandusky(Penn State),idiot box boob tube.Here's a tip.go long high cap mags,ammo and learn to roll your own bullets.
Whomever you are who penned this bullshit....Have you noticed that there is always one person we rely on to end the carnage at a school or a public gathering or at a theater? We rely on the perp to blow his brains out, that's who we rely on. Can't remember the last time a cop took out a mass shooter. Has it happened Ever?? When seconds count, police are just minutes away. There is NOT ONE EXAMPLE of a mass shooting that would NOT have ended with fewer casualties and less horrible results if every citizen, or even a percentage, was armed. Not Va Tech, Not Aurora, not Columbine -- none of them. Meanwhile, there are numerous examples of public shootings that were stopped by an armed citizen. Want to take guns away from law abiding citizens? That's the easy part. Now go get the guns from every whack job in society, and away from the gangs running the streets of democrat party strongholds like Chicago, you effing Hero. Not so easy, is it? Less lethal bullets? What comic book did you pop out of? You want a compromise? Here's one for you. Come get my guns, but first bring armor. That's the only compromise you'll get. But you won't come for them, personally, will you, you coward.
Mosr people don't remember or the media kept it pretty quiet that at Columbine - the cops waited outside for the shooting to stop. Kids and teachers were on cell phones begging for help.
fuck you forever
mental illness is a real issue
yes it needs to be dealt with
there is no compromise to be made here EVER!!!!
yes help those who need the mental help
what the fuck does that have to do with me and my guns?
you disgust me
Do the math. Count up all the dead from mass killing loonies and compare it to the holocaust, the holomdor, the extermination of the Armenians or the extermination of native Americans. It's not close. If you do not know the real reason Americans should be armed, then you should STFU.
Agreed, 170 MILLION were murdered by their own loving governments in the last century. That's 170,000 per year averaged. Governments are inherently dangerous. Best to have a safety belt.
What's this? You can hunt with guns? News to me. Mine only work on the practice range.
Dupe
Um, whos this assbag writing?
Its about tyranny NOT hunting clown. You got no recourse once the guns are gone pal. Better wake up to the police state. Your government is simply trying to legislate genocide against gunowners. Yeah, there will be more death alright once they criminalize folks that want to keep their individual right to bear arms agains tyranny.
pull your head out
Right On. I stumped for Ron Paul at gun shows all summer and I got news for some of these asses Americans are not buying hunting rifles now. More like 7mm.
Huh? 7 mm? Mosin Nagants? They are 6.5 mm. Mausers?
7mm-08 Remington rifles. Deer guns.
Prolly hard to walk in a theatre with....
How interesting. Everyone commenting on guns guns guns. But hardly anyone on the OP's most important point - that the mental health of the citizenry is going up against the wall (and that once there, guns are proving less than helpful).
Even if we identified the wierdos it would be against his "civil rights" to subject him to testing/incarceration/evaluation.
Mental health, or societal paradigm? Unfortunately, gun violence should not even be on the radar. We have FAR LARGER ISSUES! We in the US are at extreme danger of Nemesis ruining our fucking day. Nemesis, the mythic goddess of retribution and vengeance, the punisher of pride and hubris. We lose dozens of soldiers daily in our wars on foreign lands, but that's just the beginning, there's blowback (Chalmers Johnson):
I think Fermi said that anything that has the likelihood other than zero from happening, will. We've pissed off lots of people, and eventually they will get nukes or something else, and they will come. We need to stop pissing in everyone's cheerios. If you want a flag to wave, wave that one.
Are you advocating everyone pay a tax for the government to embark on some mind reading device?
Maybe the professor who had James Holmes in his class should have said something. Has the media asked the professor if James Holmes showed up in class with orange hair?...I highly doubt it. And if so, did they ask him if he reported him to the Gestap...er, DHS, errr uhmm local gendarmes?
The little pukes who think they can notch their place in history books would be sorted out of the gene pool in short order if everyone were armed.
No one BESIDES James Holmes was armed inside that theater that night...its as simple as that. If half or even a quarter in the audience were armed he wouldn't have lasted ten seconds...he shoots his first one...then the second...eveyone notices this isn't "part of the program" and ducks.
He then doesn't get to nonchalantly stroll down the aisle shooting people cowering behind seats in fear for their lives...he dies.
Just one. One armed person. One.
Would have saved many lives.
Thats correct.
To Socrates point below...reports suggest John Holmes' AR jammed and he didn't or couldn't clear it, so most of the death & injury was from his shotgun & Glock.
Also, Holmes was not trained.
I don't have a problem with training, I do myself. I have a problem with a training requirement...for a right.
If we're gonna go down that road I want the author of this post to get some training on the topic at hand before exercising his right to freedom of speech and the press.
Why, that's HATE SPEACH! ;-)
- Ned
{OT-notch up Cruz on your belt.}
I saw that...teabaggers...AGAIN!!!...ROTFL!!!
Deh be freakin out fo sho now my brudah ;-)
Lets see.
The government declared war on poverty. Result: more poverty. More bureaucrats.
The government declared war on illiteracy. Result: more illiteracy. More bureaucrats.
The government declared war on drugs. Result: more and cheaper drugs. More bureaucrats.
The government declared war on crime. Result: the criminals took over the government. More bureaucrats.
The government declared war on bigotry. Result: the government has instituionalized racism, sexism,... More bureaucrats.
The government declared war on Al Qaeda. Result: Al Qaeda is now spreading everywhere in MENA. More bureaucrats.
Now, what happens when the government declares war on gun owners?
"...who needs a 1000 rounds?" Indeed. Who needs a 1000 calorie hamburger? Who needs $1000 / day paycheck? Who needs {you name it}?
I need a 1000 rounds. Don't bother yourself pondering why / if; I'll manage my life if you don't mind.
i started reading this bullshit
Perspective:
In 2008, over 616,000 people died of heart disease. Heart disease caused almost 25% of deaths—almost one in every four—in the United States.
http://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.htm/
Motor vehicle crashes in the United States result in more than 40,000 deaths per year http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,146212,00.html
In 2010 - the latest year for which detailed statistics are available - there were 12,996 murders in the US. Of those, 8,775 were caused by firearms. http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jan/10/gun-crime-us-state
Forget about stats regarding death,your numbers up it's up.
That's right, the US is ahead of even Brazil and Mexico in gun deaths per population. Not just "murders" (as you narrowly used) but all firearms deaths, including accidents.
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=6166
Murders are the more important statistic. That's why your gun deaths stat is a dead letter. People bent on killing others will chose from the variety of options. Nailguns are very effective, you can even make one full auto and be legal. Hook it up to a scuba tank and you're in business to kill lots of people, but that's getting too creative. Try a molotov cocktail in a building, then bar the doors. Any human being, bent on killing others has a large variety of ways to do it. Guns are just intellectually easy. Start asking the question "why" 5 times to your ideas, and be intellectually honest.
Then move to those places.You got options.
"Lunchbox"
[Kid:] Next motherfucker's gonna get my metal
On we plow
The big banker try to stick his finger in my chest
Try to tell me, tell me he's the best
But I don't really give a good goddamn cause
I got my lunchbox and I'm armed real well
I got my lunchbox and I'm armed real well
I got my lunchbox and I'm armed real well
I wanna grow up
I wanna be a big rock and roll star
I wanna grow up
I wanna be
So no one fucks with me
I got the pencils in my pocket, try to put me down
Wanna go out, gotta get out
To the playground, gonna throw down at the playground
I wanna go out
Next motherfucker gonna get my metal
Next motherfucker gonna get my metal
Next motherfucker gonna get my metal
Next motherfucker
Pow pow pow, pow pow pow, pow pow pow, pow pow pow
I wanna grow up
I wanna be a big rock and roll star
I wanna grow up
So no one fucks with me
The U.S. government is looking to ban the arms that it is afraid of by making people afraid of assault rifles. If it were about protecting people from gun the government would go after semi-auto hand-guns not rifles. Rifles not hand-guns are a threat during an insurrection.
As a species, we have difficulty in assessing the risk. When the potential risk is something out of our experience we expend a tremendous amount of time trying to assess that risk. The more novel it is to our personal experience, the more out of balance our assessment. Perform an experiment. Next time you go out to dinner ask your group of friends, how many people they know personally that have been injured or killed in a gun incident. Then ask them how many people they know who were killed or injured in an automobile accident.
You already know the answer. So consider this: we have absolutely no qualms at all in risking our lives by getting into our automobiles to go rent a movie or buy a pack of cigarettes. Yet, when some idiot shoots a bunch of people we don’t know, we turn inside out.
Read James Waller’s Becoming Evil. Do a little research and you will discover that the most successful mass murders have at best killed thousands. Government sanctioned genocides the world over have killed millions. Governments unchecked are far more dangerous than any lone gunman or hand full of gunmen can ever be. A state with the stroke of a pen can make the ownership of food illegal. Stalin did it and he killed millions.
No tool has ever been created without its use being envisioned. The statists have stripped the fourth, fifth, sixth and eighth Amendments from the Constitution. They did it with a stroke of a pen at midnight while we were out partying. Right now the loss of those rights means nothing because large swaths of unbelievers are not being rounded up and disappeared. But now that the power exists, at some point, some administration will execute that power.
Your assertion that a few million lightly armed individuals cannot successfully resist a tyrannical government is patently false. In my little county alone, there are easily 15,000 armed individuals. There are only a few hundred police. Do you really think that the New York Police Department could survive, if the people of New York declared war on it? They would have no food, fuel or medical care. Their homes would be in danger.
The only reason government has any authority at all is because we allow it. We willingly submit to the laws because we believe it is the right thing to do. Many have lost faith in members of our government, but the majority has not lost faith in the American system. The majority still believes in the Constitution and the sanctity of the Bill of Rights.
Begin your midnight raids to confiscate guns and ammunition in these United States. There are almost as many guns in this country as there are people. Just for conjecture let’s suppose that one quarter of the population owns a firearm. Now, let’s suppose that one out of a thousand of those gun owners resisted with deadly force and killed or wounded at least one of the members of the confiscation squads that came to take his or her firearms. Almost always these events result in fiery standoffs with the death of those resisting the raids. Often time’s innocents are killed or wounded. Sometimes these fires get out of control and raze neighborhoods. Every dead gun owner would have brothers, fathers, and sons. Every raider would have to kiss his wife and children goodbye before he went on a raid not knowing whether or not he would return to his family alive and whole.
Oath Keepers in both the military and police departments would refuse to carry out these raids. Units would fragment and turn on themselves. You would ignite a civil war.
The second amendment is the paladin of our civil rights. One out of a thousand gun owners knows this, maybe more. Do the math!
Well said. Thanks.
You Sir have written very well and are absolutely correct. However, I believe there are many more Patriots than you indicate that will never give up their weapons without a deadly fight. By the way, that's a picture of Audie Murphy's weapon. AM was a great shot - and there are still quite a few American riflemen out there who can shoot like he did.
King George made the mistake of thinking he was facing a small group of radicals in Massachusetts when his central planners decided to disarm the American population. Simultaneous efforts in Massachusetts and Virginia produced similar reactions north and south. Before all was said and done, roughly one third of the population actively joined the revolution either by physically joining the fight or openly supporting the fight. Today that would place about 100 million people on the side of the patriots.
It is readily apparent that the central planners are gearing up for some kind of domestic fight as evidenced by their acquisition of millions of rounds of ammunition that can only be used against civilian populations and the militarization of local police forces.
What is also apparent is that the civilian population is gearing up to resist that fight. The virtual disappearance of ammunition from store shelves due to demand during the first year of this administration attest to that fact. At one point only four boxes of 45 apc existed in one Wal-Mart in all of Hardee, Highlands, Polk and Pinellas counties. I personally witnessed middle aged women buying crates of ammunition at the Tampa gun show in the months following President Obama’s election. Small arms manufacturers like Ruger cannot keep up with the demand. Even Wal-Mart is selling assault rifles.
Efforts to demonize gun owners this go round will be much less successful than they were in the Clinton era because average people are arming themselves, women in particular. The black preacher that lives next door to me approached me about getting a gun and asked me to take him to the range.
The frantic efforts of the central planners to micromanage every aspect of our lives will in fact have the opposite effect. George lost the colonies the day he decided to try and disarm the American people. Push this and the globalist bankers and their political hacks will wind up on the docket facing a Nuremburg trial.
Ex-miltary here, Oath Keeper. So is my son, active duty cavelry. Great essay!
Plus a hundred. The Second is there to protect the other Nine.
You would think with gun grabbers self promoted intellect they would know it instinctively.
Idiots and statists.
An interesting take on the subject:
DHS, FBI, State Dept. Have Warned of Potential for a Theater Style Attack for Nearly 10 Years
Threat Journal, July 23, 2012
Insights and Perspective from AlertsUSA:
The events in Aurora, Colorado were tragic on many levels and our prayers go up for all of those impacted by this terrible incident.
As the Nation struggles to understand what has happened, and why, we felt it was important to step back and point out that multiple arms of the USGOV have been warning of this type attack for over a decade. Not just once or twice, but multiple times yearly in a variety of different types of widely distributed alerts, warnings, advisories and intelligence bulletins, not to mention the innumerable conferences, trade shows, training courses, trade rags and all of the other normal methods of professional information exchange.
Not only do law enforcement agencies large and small receive these intelligence products and train for such eventualities, but often the information is shared directly with private sector businesses of all sizes. This includes movie theaters, sporting venues, restaurants, schools, etc.. And there is good reason.
In 2002 a Moscow theater was raided by a group of approximately 50 armed Chechens. They took 850 hostages and demanded the withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya. The siege lasted 2.5 days. Approximately 170 people died with hundreds more injured. This got everyone's attention.
Then there was the school hostage crisis in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia in 2004. This one involved the capture of 1,100 people, 380 of which died in the end.
More recently, the Mumbai terror attack of 2008 was a series of 11 coordinated shooting and bombing strikes across India's second largest city, including at the iconic Taj Mahal hotel, a Jewish community center and, you guessed it, a movie theater. In total, the attacks lasted 3 days, killed 164 and wounded more than 300.
Sometimes USGOV government warnings specifically call out the potential threat posed to movie / performance theaters (the most recent of which was in May, 2012), sometimes not, though they are easily be understood to be included in a category known as 'soft targets'. For example, take these two boilerplate paragraphs from the most recent Worldwide Caution issued by the State Department (they have appeared in publicly available State Dept cautionary and warning statements for years):
The simple fact is that we live in a troubled, dangerous world crawling with equally troubled, dangerous people. Some will blame guns for the violence, which is about as stupid as blaming pencils for spelling errors. Guns may be a tool or weapon used to commit a crime, but so can a box cutter, butter knife, pencil or rolled up issue of Oprah Magazine.
Nope. The problem is far more complex. America is now a culture that celebrates violence and the lack of personal responsibility. From the degrading, violent lyrics of rap music to the celebration and elevation of thug culture (even by our elected officials), from incredibly violent video games widely available for sale or rent to the many broken homes without a stable, disciplining hand of a father, what the hell should we expect? This culture of violence in entertainment and media was many years in the making and is now firmly entrenched in our society. No sane adult should be surprised we are experiencing a national surge in serious violence.
Read the remainder of the article: http://threatjournal.com/archive/ic07232012.html
I enjoyed reading your very interesting piece. I am of an age where such violence as described in your last paragraph is so totally out of place in a society and would have never been tolerated. We have truly lost our way and the penalty phase has not been paid --yet. Milestones
I am right there with you, brother.
Can't call the Chinese protesters sheeple:
http://cryptome.org/2012-info/qidong/qidong-protest.htm
Ever since a friend up in Canada tipped me off to their special on MKULTRA (banned in the USA, 'natch, just like that special a few years back on the nefarious, treasonous and criminal multi-generational Bush family), and further research into the matter --- whenever there's a creepy and psychotic mass murder like this, we would endeaver to look deeper to be sure there's not a DoD connection (where that program was moved to and name-changed, of course)?
Since Holmes' father worked at a previous company involved with a DoD contract involving neural interfaces, and given Holmes' major and grad study category, it would be interested to see if he's ever been a test subject?
(I wonder how much help an assault rifle will be once they have all those "surveillance" drones overflying Amerika?)