*sighs, turns over "DAYS SINCE LAST MASS SHOOTING IN AMERICA" sign to 0*
- Thread starter Charlie Don't Surf
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3 police dead and two wounded so far. Jesus.
I have some very close friends and family that live within the lockdown area. My aunt, for example, and her two sons and 8 grandchildren all live within the same area. And some close friends. So I'm extra worried and hopeful they get this guy soon.
Necronic
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Man we weren't even finished talking about the last shooting.
Doesn't change the value of the graphs, but it does hurt your positions as a salesman, which is what politics really is about.
I liked the graphs, they were actually pretty convincing. But then you go and say this and I go into eye-roll overdrive. This is so insulting to people who actually live in a police state, like 90% of the rest of the world and 99% of history. You have no idea what a police state is. Also the fact that you agree with Charlie on this point should tell you something.
Doesn't change the value of the graphs, but it does hurt your positions as a salesman, which is what politics really is about.
GasBandit
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It was poorly worded. I didn't mean to imply that New York currently is a police state, but that there's a tradeoff between security and liberty when it comes to crackdowns. What I had started to type was crime experienced a huge drop in germany when the nazis came to power, but that'd have been invoking godwin.
Is it just me or are these incidents occurring more and more often?
It's slightly been a higher-profile issue since Newtown, even though it's a lost cause at this point. Someone could mow down 30 newborns in a maternity ward tomorrow, and gun sales will triple over the weekend and the NRA will set a fundraising record.
The moment I saw you had posted, I thought "please be telling us they got him". Fuck yeah.
And I'm with you. Too many of these shits don't have to face what they've done and the people whose lives they've hurt or destroyed.
Awesome. I was hoping he'd be taken alive. Now let him face justice and then we can psychologically analyse him for the rest of his life so we can try preventing it from happening with someone else.
I think I heard on NPR this morning he turned himself in, saying "I'm done".
Aaaaaaand three more people shot at a college in Seattle: http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/06/justice/seattle-campus-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Aaaaaaand three more people shot at a college in Seattle: http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/06/justice/seattle-campus-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
By turned himself in, he gave up when cornered in a backyard.
No we won't.
This.
Though husband was convinced that this guy was not going to come in alive. He predicted 'police justice'.
I told him we aren't Americans.
That was a joke.
Dave
Staff member
Yet Frank's buddies all wanted to mete out said justice. So...human nature.This.
Though husband was convinced that this guy was not going to come in alive. He predicted 'police justice'.
I told him we aren't Americans.
That was a joke.
And yes, I know you were joking. I'm sorry.
Oh I know.
I just think that the desire to be professional and find out 'why' tends to trump the urge to pass sentence.
...I did think this guy would get knee capped though.
GasBandit
Staff member
So it turns out the Seattle shooter had been picked up 4 times for mental health evaluations, and pretty much is the perfect mass-shooting obsessed copycat the media has been laboring to create for the last 20 years.
Yes but it doesn't allow them to do stories about themselves. If the news media has a fetish it's stories about the news media.
To be fair, most of them are saying that as guys (and gals) who are thousands of miles from where this happened. It's easy to say things like that in the heat of the moment when you aren't a part of what's going on.
This happened in Moncton today at the RCMP station to show support for the fallen officers. Unbelievable show of support.
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