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Obama's comments on the Oregon shooting are worth watching.
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Bite me
As I said in in GH thread:
Meanwhile, nobody outside of Chicago reported this.
Through midday Tuesday (Sept 29), at least 250 shootings resulted in 55 people getting killed and 288 other people getting shot, according to data compiled by DNAinfo
WGN reports there were 60 dead in September.
14 shot in 15 hours.
Captain Rustleboots
Sweet commentary broOriginally Posted by october_midnight
FATUM NOS IUNGET
....Uhh, yep. I know.
Captain Rustleboots
Seriously though, you live in Americas hat. This could happen in your country just as quickly as in America.
http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/canada/brit...hool-1.3229997
FATUM NOS IUNGET
And it does, but there's no way anyone can compare. And I guess we'll just do the internet thing and start posting links to prove points: http://www.humanosphere.org/science/...-of-the-world/
Someone kinda uhh...stands out.
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@Obama: "This is a political choice that we make to allow this to happen every few months in America. We collectively are answerable to those families who lose their loves ones because of our inaction. When Americans are killed in mine disasters, we work to make mines safer. When Americans are killed in floods and hurricanes, we make communities safer. When roads are unsafe, we fix them to reduce auto fatalities. We have seatbelt laws because we know it safes lives. The notion that gun violence is somehow different—that our freedom and our Constitution prohibits any modest regulation of how we use a deadly weapon, when there are law-abiding gun owners all across the country who could hunt, and protect their families, and do everything they do under such regulations—doesn't make sense."
Captain Rustleboots
I'm not saying America doesn't have a problem, my issue is with you saying "lots of innocent people died in another country inundated with gun violence lol that country is garbage let's not contribute anything to the conversation"
FATUM NOS IUNGET
I'm sorry you had issue with the random post on the internet forum.
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Blog post from a friend of my brother.
http://metrodad.typepad.com/index/20...y-college.html
Bite me
G and I know the Professor who was shot in this shooting:
http://content.time.com/time/nation/...714069,00.html
Captain Rustleboots
You were literally laughing at the fact that 10 families have to bury their children and tauting it as some sort of win because you don't like the countries gun laws.
forever yr girl
Yes, we US citizens are all laughing at how hard we're "winning" right now.
Captain Rustleboots
Am I really that off base to be ticked off that people are literally laughing at our tragedies and dead children? I'm not passionate enough about guns in either fashion to have to defend either side that much, but laughing at the fact that people were murdered is fucked and shows a sign of mental instability.
Last edited by tony.parente; 10-02-2015 at 06:26 PM.
forever yr girl
I'll say it doesn't take a master of reading the tone of the written word and context to understand that october_midnight was laughing sardonically at the state of things in the US, and not specifically at victims of a violent mass shooting.
Captain Rustleboots
This thread is stuck in some bizarro ets universe right now.
forever yr girl
To further answer your question, apart from 4chan trolls, of which the shooter may have been himself, I'm really not generally seeing *anyone* laughing at the shooting itself. I think that you are indeed "off based".
The general national conversation, which includes an exasperated Obama at this point, seems to be leaning towards frustration, anger, and abject cynicism.
tempus est umbra in mente
I think the problem is the more the "lol" than anything else. If you lived here, you might be a little more upset. It's a real problem, and people just really died in a horrifying pointless way. It sucks that this discussion is being allocated to this shitty thread.
If you lived here, you'd have to deal with the fact that every time this happens (all the fucking time), all of the discussion turns into smug defensive NRA bullshit smacking down the possibility for any kind of a rational conversation. It's actually really fucking awful. It isn't something to even facetiously "lol" about.
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Just a suggestion: instead of coming here to discuss the sadly latest mass shooting, create an individual thread. I don't care if it fills the entire front page of this sub-forum.
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"lol black people. call me when white people get shot so I can argue about gun control" - everyone
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I also like Obama asking that we compare gun deaths against domestic deaths due to terrorist attacks. Sure, only one of those is highly scoped in (making it a shit comparison), but I thought we might talk about the stupidity of the War on Terror instead of using it as a sane reference point.
It's also highly topical being that we just bombed a MSF (doctors without boarders) facility. So far, 16 are dead and 37 injured.
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Yeah like that shooting in a black church in one of the Carolinas?
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Look. It's the "I have a black friend" response.
Throbbing Member
i didn't get that one
forever yr girl
There are over 9,000 firearm deaths in the US this year alone. Maybe we can get some sort of common sense federal gun control done and sort out who is least racist after that. They can get a gold star.
Last edited by emptydesk; 10-05-2015 at 07:48 PM.
Captain Rustleboots
There is nothing left to say, which is why some folks have resorted to seeing death as a punchline.
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Such as?
Nobody, including the president, has been capable of proposing legislation that would have prevented the vast majority of "mass shootings" that people get all excited about.
but hey, go ahead and talk about "gun deaths" without ever giving a shit about the one area you could truly impact one of the largest portions of that statistic. Just use their dead bodies to promote your unrelated bullshit.
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https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015...hooting-oregon
Yes, absolutely. Notice the completely vacuous commentary he feeds everyone. Completely devoid of any policy suggestions that are remotely specific. Feed on the pure emotion he instructs you to feel, for there is nothing more offered. Enjoy the empty #hope. Long for the non existent #change. What a leader!
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