Can't even go to sleep because there's always a sick fuck shooting someone somewhere in these United Snakes.
What the hell: Is Colorado the massacre capital of the U.S.?
And, very sorry to hear of the death of Tom Davis. Not quite a yr. older than we are. We'll type up the story of Tom & this reporter almost being arrested on the Santa Monica freeway in 1974 or '75 (not too long before he & that Senator guy were hired by Saturday Night Live) & share it later.
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If only more people in that movie theater had been armed...
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I can't help but wonder if it was some right-wing loony who was influenced by the insane Bain/Bane talk in the wingnut-o-sphere.
The spree shooting is an almost unique example of American culture. As children, we are brought up to believe that problems are best solved by decisive action, that negotiation and compromise are for wimps and Europeans and that the best form of conflict resolution is violence. Then we go even farther, and raise a relatively obscure provision in our founding documents protecting the right to own firearms into the central organizing principle of our very existence, creating a society characterized by racial and sectarian hatred that is simultaneously the most heavily armed population in history.
The important thing is, unlike the steady night-by-night drumbeat of murder in the US, these sorts of events are not so much the result of the ready availability of firearms - these sorts of crazies can always accumulate the means to take lives - but more the intersection of mental illness and the worst forms of American exceptionalism.
Guns & Ammo Editor:
VS, we vaguely suspected (Ha. Accidental initial pun.) as much, but probably not. This must've been planned farther in advance than Limbaugh.
Thunder notes another form of Yankee mental illness/exceptionalism.
Decisive action, & rugged individualism. Only fairies/Euros get help for their brains.
And here we go:
Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert appeared on The Heritage Foundation’s “Istook Live!” radio show this morning, where he said the shooting in Aurora, Colo., was an attack on Judeo-Christian beliefs and queried why no one in the theater had a gun with which to stop the shooter.
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VS, we vaguely suspected (Ha. Accidental initial pun.) as much, but probably not. This must've been planned farther in advance than Limbaugh.
That's a good point.
Still wouldn't be surprised if it were some anti-libtard gun nut, thought.
Nothing Clever Editor:
Horrifyngly enough, there is Internet chatter that the murderer had something to do w/ Occupy in San Diego. Doesn't seem to have reached the telebision yet.
an attack on Judeo-Christian beliefs
What?
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