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26 reported killed in Newtown [W:72/89]

Just like a car they don't kill people....Do you want to get rid of all cars....Guns don't kill.......people do it.
Really, I thought it was bullets that kill people.
 
You're an example of why they didn't used to let women vote. A government can't make decisions on emotion.

I am a woman who has been active in politics since elementary school (parents were precinct captains). I have voted in every election, including local ones, all my adult life, am a co-founder of a non-partisan PAC, have served as a campaign manager twice, and have NEVER voted on emotion.
 
Good. You're doing it the right way.

I am a woman who has been active in politics since elementary school (parents were precinct captains). I have voted in every election, including local ones, all my adult life, am a co-founder of a non-partisan PAC, have served as a campaign manager twice, and have NEVER voted on emotion.
 
Those dirty, hateful bullets!
 
That doesn't mean gun shows are a safe place to be. That means the crazies are sane enough to realize the gun nuts will put a zillion holes in them if they even try.....lol.

Actually, I never felt threatened at a gun show. But if someone had wanted to commit "suicide by cop," that would have been the place to do it.

Maybe we should start having gun shows in our schools to keep our kids safe. SOmehow, that seems to be an odd solution.

That's your solution, not mine. But it's funny that when we had shooting clubs and gun ranges in high schools across the country we didn't have this problem. Life seemed simpler back then. People went to church and we locked up the crazies.
 
This is beyond heartbreaking, there are no words to express how i feel.

RIP to all the victims and my thoughts are with their families.
 
Not a leap at all. Children in Israel ARE safe, despite the fact that they have a lot to worry about. I will leave it at that. My apologies for bringing this up. This is not something I wanted to do, but I strongly felt that the person who was pushing this politically deserved a comeuppance. I will shut the **** up now, and say a prayer for the victims.

I once met and trained with a Krav Maga Israelite military trainer who said it best that when you live in Israel everyday you wake up you never know if you will have to fight.

It is sad that our country has left the days when you could leave house doors unlocked and keys left in your rigs. But that is what it is.

The real difference from the picture you posted and here in the US is that the Isarael teacher is on the defense of possible terrorist from their Arab neighbors. Here in the US we have to be on the defense from one of our own even including that teacher.
 
Instead of claiming the shooter was evil, lets take a look at the shooters mental state. Perhaps if we had already had health care implemented, the sick individual who took these inocent lives would have gotten the mental health care he obviously needed and that would have prevented such a horrible situation. We have to address these problems. We can't just claim people like the shooter are evil and we can't do anything to prevent this sort of thing. These things will continue to happen over and over agian until we address the problems and come up with common sense solutions.
The GOP are against health care for all and gun control. I would like to know why.

What would you call it.....would like to say it is some disorder or mental disease. Look it is real simple. ANY individuals that Intentionally seeks to Kill Children are evil. Or they got possessed by something evil. We are talking lil kids ages 5 and 6 here. When one goes after the Humanity of Mankind. What else do you call it? Because that is exactly what took place. Killing the Future!

The GOP isn't against healthcare for all. Nor due to ones Right's being protected over the issue of Arms. Nor are Republicans against logical, sensible, and Common sense Gun Laws.

Naturally when a tragic incident like this occurs. People want to take some action, want to get to the bottom of what caused it and why. Most want to find a way to strike back. These are all normal responses.

Right now we should be looking at how the media is going to play this out. Days of coverage. Horrifying pictures and all the littlest details all brought forth. We need to consider the trauma that is caused upon not only Adults. But that of children everywhere. Also that which is brought on by the Media. Is such good for society. Kids need to be helped with this. Shut the TV off during the day. Lil ones don't need to be seeing all of this. Older kids will be the ones that want to talk about such and this should be done but not with lil kids around.

Moreover we do not want to project to kids out there that going to school isn't safe. Nor let our kids hear the politicians politicize these moments in time. Get their free Air Time when none of this has to do with any of them. IMO, yeah the President can say something if he wants to. The Governor of Conn. Their Reps and their Senators. The Mayor of that town. Those are the only politicians that should be saying anything. The rest of them all around the Country.....should do the Country a Major favor and STFU!


They want to send Condolences.....send flowers, Card and or a Letter. But don't get on TV talking about how Something needs to be done Right now. (i.e. Bloomberg and couple of other Democratic Politicians.)
 
"When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping,'" he once said. "To this day, especially in times of 'disaster,' I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers - so many caring people in this world."

The central American narrative casts us as a nation of individualists, a people rugged and intrepid enough to go it alone. We love that imagery. Yet the republic's most fundamental tagline - e pluribus unum - means "from many, one."

That includes a one, yes, but also a many. And when death and tears and scenes of fallen children come calling upon America 11 days before Christmas, the many try to become the one, if only for a moment.....snip~

Essay: Americans, united in horror for a moment - Yahoo! News

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Hi, Americans, your GOP or Democrats administration will never take actions in gun controlling. because they got donations from gun makers.
Being a Communist state, like my country China, will solve the problem.
 
Hi, Americans, your GOP or Democrats administration will never take actions in gun controlling. because they got donations from gun makers.
Being a Communist state, like my country China, will solve the problem.

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Hi, Americans, your GOP or Democrats administration will never take actions in gun controlling. because they got donations from gun makers.
Being a Communist state, like my country China, will solve the problem.

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Greetings MrWu.....Welcome to the Forums of Debate Politics.
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Did China stop violence with weapons being committed within and or around their schools? What about those that have attacked with knives, daggers, and swords. In China!
 
I am not talking about an all out ban on guns. I am talking about gun control. I am not dillusional in thinking that it will prevent all gun crimes, but when a man can order thousands of rounds of amo on line and multiple simi atuo riffles and enter a movie theater and kill in mass in just a few seconds, something is obviously wrong here. That should have raised a few red flags. However, we have no laws preventing someone from stock pilling weapons and amo that are designed to kill mass amounts of people. If those laws were in place, we act on situations when these red flags come up. I believe in the right of citizens to own guns, but it is time to start the conversation.

The conversation started years ago.

And the results are in: gun control, like drug control, like alcohol control, like "illegal" immigrant control, like abortion control, are all silly ideas. Ban something, and a black market starts to supply the banned thing, making it more expensive but still accessible to anyone who really wants it. In other words, banning the sale/exchange of items are a silly idea.

And that's how the conversation ended.
 
Hi, Americans, your GOP or Democrats administration will never take actions in gun controlling. because they got donations from gun makers.
Being a Communist state, like my country China, will solve the problem.

Why? Is it not possible to funnel lobby money into the Chinese government?

FYI, thanks to post-9/11 legislation, for all practical purposes, the USA is pretty much just like China in terms of freedoms available to ordinary citizens.
 
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Greetings MrWu.....Welcome to the Forums of Debate Politics.
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Did China stop violence with weapons being committed within and or around their schools? What about those that have attacked with knives, daggers, and swords. In China!

I don't know the meaning of this sentence"Did China stop violence with weapons being committed within and or around their schools? What about those that have attacked with knives, daggers, and swords. In China"

Some kind of knives are prohibited, which are called "Controlled knives", carrying these knives is illeagal.

The most severe crime in China is battles between gangsters with broadswords, Crime without gun will cause less death or wound.
 
Why? Is it not possible to funnel lobby money into the Chinese government?

FYI, thanks to post-9/11 legislation, for all practical purposes, the USA is pretty much just like China in terms of freedoms available to ordinary citizens.

FYI, we are blocked away from Youtube, Facebook and Twitter.
 
Hi, Americans, your GOP or Democrats administration will never take actions in gun controlling. because they got donations from gun makers.
Being a Communist state, like my country China, will solve the problem.

Yeah..they can send ''execution vans'' round to naughty boy's houses!!
 
FYI, we are blocked away from Youtube, Facebook and Twitter.

Yep, and our search engines are routinely blocked from displaying various search results, with the US government leading the way. . .

U.S. leads Google censorship requests #thecircuit - Post Tech - The Washington Post

Of course, just about any Internet "block", including the ones in China, can easily be circumvented w/proxy tunnels, and they routinely are.

Still, it's the inconvenience that's the problem, the US is falling fast in the world freedom rankings, making us wonder when we'll get a chance to move to a free country (i. e. Iceland).
 
I don't know the meaning of this sentence"Did China stop violence with weapons being committed within and or around their schools? What about those that have attacked with knives, daggers, and swords. In China"

Some kind of knives are prohibited, which are called "Controlled knives", carrying these knives is illeagal.

The most severe crime in China is battles between gangsters with broadswords, Crime without gun will cause less death or wound.


Well with this issue the guy that did the shooting. His mother was a teacher for that school. So he killed his mother and then went to the school and did this. Evidently he snapped. Or something else got a hold of him. As he does have a brother and that was his mother too.

Although the police are saying that his girlfriend and one of her friends are missing in New Jersey too.
 
Being a Communist state, like my country China, will solve the problem.

But then we'd be a communist state with an authoritarian government which would shoot us and run us over with tanks. No thanks. You can keep it.
 
But then we'd be a communist state with an authoritarian government which would shoot us and run us over with tanks. No thanks. You can keep it.

Actually, we already ARE a state with an authoritarian government which can shoot us and run us over with tanks.
 
I'm so sorry and heartbroken over this. This just sucks. If there is any way we can help and console the families of these victims, I think we should. The hard part about living is knowing that innocent can be taken at any moment.
 
Sadly, the gunnies are unwilling to see the problem. The only time they will realize the futility of their position is if or when their own children are killed in gun violence.

I am afraid it will be far worse than that before the dawn breaks again on our country. Far Far worse.
 
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