Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords shot in head

[meesterperfect]

Really good article about America and it's gun problem
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/10/us-gun-crime-gabrielle-giffords-jared-lee-loughner

oh here we go again.
its the gun laws fault for crimes with a gun.

did you ever think maybe 99.9% of people today who purchase guns legally do so because of the rise in violent crimes and robberies?
And not to shoot a congressperson?

terrible when crime is always on the rise, the police can't protect and so many people including politicians want to deny people from protecting themselves.

 

[Facetious]

Really good article about America and it's gun problem
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/10/us-gun-crime-gabrielle-giffords-jared-lee-loughner

Consider the source, young man, consider the source. (Guardian)

Never mind the thousands upon thousands of unreported incidents where law abiding citizens draw their own personal firearm as a means of self defense against violent, non law abiding thugs . . . Surely we can't give credit where credit is due.

 

[YMIHERE]

No I'm not. What the hell do you need an assault weapon for?

Hunters will tell you that sometimes those deer just keep coming at you.

 

[TheOrangeCat]

Consider the source, young man, consider the source. (Guardian)

Otherwise known as The Grauniad ..... accuracy never was their strongpoint

 

[Straight Shooter]

Consider the source, young man, consider the source. (Guardian)

What's wrong with the Guardian, just because it's a center-left newspaper?

 

[meesterperfect]

the guardian is not the issue here man.

its another article with a twisted, false, ignorant point of view.

there are already tons of gun laws, tons of criminal laws.
anyone who thinks making it harder for ALL citizens to obtain a gun legally by making more laws will reduce crime is a fucking idiot.

that article is just some people using the death of others to promote their ignorant solution.
just like vultures using the dead for food, no different.

 

[pete rose]

Seriously, bullet control is actually not a bad idea.

No I'm not. What the hell do you need an assault weapon for?

Agreed. I'm all for the right to bear arms, but you don't need an assault weapon for PUR'TECTIN' MAH HOME N FAMLY

 

[Straight Shooter]

the guardian is not the issue here man.

its another article with a twisted, false, ignorant point of view.

there are already tons of gun laws, tons of criminal laws.
anyone who thinks making it harder for ALL citizens to obtain a gun legally by making more laws will reduce crime is a fucking idiot.

that article is just some people using the death of others to promote their ignorant solution.
just like vultures using the dead for food, no different.

I'm not an expert on gun control but seriously something needs to be done about this issue. How much more of this shit are we going to have to tolerate before something gets done?

 

[ApolloBalboa]

I'm not an expert on gun control but seriously something needs to be done about this issue. How much more of this shit are we going to have to tolerate before something gets done?

Too much. People seem to be content these days sitting on their asses discussing things rather than trying to actively solve them.

 

[Facetious]

What's wrong with the Guardian, just because it's a center-left newspaper?

Just that and the fact that they're biased . . . very biased.

the guardian is not the issue here man.

its another article with a twisted, false, ignorant point of view.

That's kinda splittin hairs! :dunno::[
Who circulates these twisted, false and ignorant points of view? The Guardian, that's who.

there are already tons of gun laws, tons of criminal laws.
anyone who thinks making it harder for ALL citizens to obtain a gun legally by making more laws will reduce crime is a fucking idiot.

agree

that article is just some people using the death of others to promote their ignorant solution.
just like vultures using the dead for food, no different.

Better than that . . . just like the new mayor of Chi town, or Hillary for that matter, the other political hack from the same general geographic area.

 

[zdenka]

how would they know he has one eye!? if a town of blind people can function without knowing there's a one eyed man, they'd probably just think the guy was an asshole. plus they'd mock him for his lack of symmetry.

It's a Metaphor Besides the one-eye man can take all the hot chicks and the blind wouldn't know it haha

 

[pete rose]

You do realize I was just fucking around, right?

 

[Mr. Daystar]

Seriously, bullet control is actually not a bad idea.
Agreed. I'm all for the right to bear arms, but you don't need an assault weapon for PUR'TECTIN' MAH HOME N FAMLY

No I'm not. What the hell do you need an assault weapon for?

Need has nothing to do with it. It's not called the Bill of Needs. It's called The Bill of Rights! There's supposed to be this little thing in America, where you're innocent, until proven guilty...but for some reason it seems to be acceptable to assume all serious gun enthusiasts have some sort of genetic predisposition to be able to snap, and run amok. It's acceptable to deny the rights of everyone, in a pathetic misguided attempt to keep the country safe. This is the only course they can take, because it would be wrong to stop giving big, soft, fuzzy hugs to the poor criminals, that just didn't get enough love from their mommies...instead of putting the burden where it belongs, which is squarely on their own shoulders...then taking them straight to the gallows after their convicted, as opposed to letting them sit in a country club environment, on our dime, while they get a collage degree.

Fuckin sickens me.

 

[Red Spyder]

I've been watching the news for the last few days about this. Being a conservative, I am very concerned that this tragedy was going to be used by liberals to advance their own agenda of banning private gun ownership and pinning the blame for this tragedy on conservative minded individuals like myself, and that this psychopath was going to be considered to be a "conservative", that listening to Rush Limbaugh or Glen Beck or Sarah Palin was what caused him to go on a rampage. Now, after looking around at some of the facts that have come up, I think his use of drugs is a more likely cause than any political affiliation anyway.

Do you remember the movie The Dark Knight when Alfred is telling Bruce Wayne about some robber he and his SAS buddies were chasing around Burma and how he would rob precious stones just to throw them away? That his motivation wasn't the money, that some people just want to see the world burn? Seeing the guy's mugshot and reading about him and his state of mind, he reminds me of the Joker, just wants to see the world burn. The guy has no idea the damage he could cause to our democracy if now our representatives decide it's too dangerous to let us get close to them in an event like that. But it doesn't matter what "boat you're on" I think we should find a way to get this tragedy to strenghten our society. Maybe we should take some time to, instead of blaming one side of causing this or the other side of taking advantage of this, to look at our own beliefs and ask ourselves, do my beliefs really help my country and how, and at what cost, and to whom?

Now, about the owneship of "assault weapons", read the following story. The guy had to defend himself with old hunting rifles against a gang armed with full automatic assault weapons. Maybe you feel you don't need one up in the huge metropolis of New York City as they can be very unwieldy in close quarters urban terrain, but here in the wide open ranges of Texas, they can be very useful.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/11/mexican-marines-reconstruct-death-of.html

Now think the damage this brave man could have caused to the criminals if he had had similar weaponry available to him instead of being forbidden by the government from owning it.

 

[Trident1]

This whole thing is being used by the left to finish off Palin and right wing talk radio. Me thinks it will fail.

 

[Dman25]

Almost as sickening as the tragedy itself, is the knee jerk reaction to politicize it. Hillary called it an assassination attempt by an extremist. At least Obama hasn't joined the chorus of laying blame (yet). The killer, displayed all the signs of psychosis for quite a while, yet he was walking the streets, instead of if not in a mental hospital, at least in therapy and on medication. It's a societal problem, with no easy answer, but the worst thing to do is start blaming people or groups whose actions had no correlation to this disturbed, ticking time bomb, that was going to blow sooner, or later.

 

[TheOrangeCat]

Hillary called it an assassination attempt by an extremist.

Bad, bad Hillary

[/URL]Adult Image Hosting[/IMG]




Sorry, couldn't resist.

 

[xfire]

How many teabag asshat candidates used inflammatory gun rhetoric during the last election cycle? i,.e.- "Second Amendment remedies", "don't retreat, RELOAD!", Crosshairs on congressional districts et al. Hate in, violence out. Why should douchebags like Sarah Palin and Sharon Angle be absolved of their culpability? Just like Bill O'Reilly and his continual use of "Tiller the baby killer". Fucking ridiculous and indefensible!

 

[Ulysses31]

How Gabrielle Giffords survived a shot in the head

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12148446

 

[StanScratch]

Right wingers have been bitching like little cunts for decades about how instances like this are going to take away their guns.
Yet, they still have their guns.
Stop acting like little cunts, stop acting like little crying bitches every time the boogie man says "boo" and start teaching responsibility and respect, instead of painting targets on everything you disagree with.
Buncha little cowardly pussies.