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[Mr. Roboto]

Yea, another shooting in NE Las Vegas today, ending in Walmart. Yea guns ! 

[Zimbochick]

We need  new handy-dandy guide: How to tell the good guy with a gun from the bad guy with a gun.

[wedjat]

If only there were more guns on the streets, these every day shootings wouldn't happen. Oh wait....

[wedjat]

Shocker.

http://www.huffingto..._n_5473662.html

[Mr. Roboto]

We need  new handy-dandy guide: How to tell the good guy with a gun from the bad guy with a gun.

 

Everybody is a good guy with a gun. Until they are not. 

[Mr. Roboto]

Shocker.

http://www.huffingto..._n_5473662.html

 

 

After killing the officers, the couple covered the bodies with a cloth displaying the Gadsen, or "Don't Tread On Me" flag -- a Revolutionary War-era symbol that has since been adopted by the tea party. Investigators also found swastikas at the suspects' apartment.

[Mr. Roboto]

Take a look at his Facebook page. He's a chemtrail conspiracy theorist who posts the usual insane shit on his wall every day. Benghazi, global warming hoax, anti Muslim, rants against illegal aliens....the usual bat shit crazy.  The creepy thing is his post on the 7th, I'm guessing in regards to what they are about to do. 

 

You know what else is on his page? Fucking memes about the Second Amendment, the right to arm yourself blah blah blah. Complaining that we don't need stricter guns laws etc. Another about liberals who go on shooting sprees. 

 

Second photo from her page...

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[Mr. Roboto]

[freedom78]

After killing the officers, the couple covered the bodies with a cloth displaying the Gadsen, or "Don't Tread On Me" flag -- a Revolutionary War-era symbol that has since been adopted by the tea party. Investigators also found swastikas at the suspects' apartment.

 

I can't begin to tell you how much it annoys me that the Gadsden flag has been appropriated by the Tea Party.  I suppose "don't tread on me" largely means "don't tax me too much" to them, all the while they support bans on gay rights, etc.  Fucking despicable.  Tea Party usage of the Gadsden flag should carry the addendum "...but I'm gonna tread on you."

[Zimbochick]

Today's school shooting in Oregon is the 74th school shooting since Sandy Hook.

[wedjat]

Cool, maybe we can get it to 100 by New Years.

[Mr. Roboto]

[Mr. Roboto]

Today's school shooting in Oregon is the 74th school shooting since Sandy Hook.

 

Think how  much worse it would be without our legislators thoughts and prayers. 

 

 

 

Cool, maybe we can get it to 100 by New Years.

 

That should be easy. Seems like we have one every couple of days. 

[Mr. Roboto]

President Barack Obama riffed on the increasing prevalence of mass shootings in America on Tuesday, lamenting Congress' inability to pass new laws aimed at reducing gun violence in the wake of numerous tragedies. 

 

"Our levels of gun violence are off the charts," Obama said. " There is no advanced developed country on Earth that would put up with this."

 

Obama's extended remarks on gun violence came in response to a question at an event moderated by Tumblr founder David Karp. One questioner was from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where a shooter had killed seven people in a shooting spree just more than two weeks ago. On Tuesday, a shooting at a Portland, Oregon-area high school left two people dead, including a shooter.

 

Obama said the country should be "ashamed," and called the failure to pass new laws the "biggest frustration" of his presidency thus far. He reflected on the December 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., that killed 26 people, which he has repeatedly called the "worst day" of his presidency."

 

" The fact that 20 6-year-olds were gunned down in the most violent fashion possible and this town couldn't do anything about it was stunning to me,"  Obama said, referring to Congress shooting down multiple gun measures last year.

 

"We're the only country in the world where this happens," he added, "and it happens once a week."

 

Obama cited favorably Australia's enactment of gun-control laws after a single mass shooting. Australia's laws, and the drop in gun violence that followed them, have often been cited as an argument by gun-control supporters in the U.S. as a model.

Obama also rejected arguments that the root cause of the violence is mental health, saying the U.S. doesn't "have a monopoly on crazy people."

 

"It's not the only country that has psychosis, and yet we kill each other in these mass shootings at rates that are exponentially higher than anyplace else," Obama said. " What’s the difference? The difference is these guys can stack up a bunch of ammunition in their houses."

 

Although Obama called again for measures like an expansion of background checks, which failed to pass the Senate last year, he lamented the reality — the votes for it in Congress are not there. He blamed the lack of votes on members of both parties being "terrified" of the National Rifle Association. To change gun laws, he said, a "fundamental shift in public opinion" would need to occur — one in which Americans vote out their members of Congress because of opposition to gun-control laws.

 

"This country has to do a lot of soul searching," Obama said. "This is becoming the norm. And we take it for granted in ways that, as a parent, are terrifying to me."  

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