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ORIGINAL: Kirata


The pattern of a payback-minded shooter with a history of anti-depressant medication is what stands out for me.

K.

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ORIGINAL: Kirata

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ORIGINAL: meatcleaver

gun porn... fetishism... penis extension... love toy... aphrodisiac... man badge.

If you can't respect the kinks of others, you're in the wrong place. [:)]

K.

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ORIGINAL: BamaD

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

what access am I restricting to legal gun owners by asking them to lock them up?

you don't want to ask them to you want to demand it

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In any case, I can appreciate his reaction. The idea that personal responsibility can be attached to him, simply by virtue of his ownership of his weapon, for "enabling" the deeds of other persons with other weapons is a prescription for holding anybody responsible for anything. Bad bad direction. No cigar.

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

[image]https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/163297_478121982234046_102470032_n.jpg[/image]

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ORIGINAL: meatcleaver

Under the auspice of a mass murder, this thread is really gun porn and reading it really illustrates the poplarity of gun fetishism in America. The gun as penis extension, as love toy, an aphrodisiac, as man badge. Baudrillard would have had such fun deconstructing this, it's quite enlightening.

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ORIGINAL: Focus50

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ORIGINAL: meatcleaver

Under the auspice of a mass murder, this thread is really gun porn and reading it really illustrates the poplarity of gun fetishism in America. The gun as penis extension, as love toy, an aphrodisiac, as man badge. Baudrillard would have had such fun deconstructing this, it's quite enlightening.

Not just porn. You don't see the humour...?

Pretty much the common view of the gun humpers in this thread is that more guns are the solution for America's gun violence. You know, armed guards in the schools now. And when the next massacre happens in a shopping mall, or a railway station, or on a bus...? You just know the magic pill for that, too, right?

My favourite is the pretext of "home defense". Three cheers for the hallowed 2nd amendment n all.

And for the conveniently ignored question; who are they defending their homes against? Blow me down if it isn't other Americans with the same right to bear arms. So then the challenge is to own more guns or "better" guns than some potential home invader...!

The neighbour's idiot dog likes to chase its own tail. Poor mutt, he's a rank amateur to the comedy show of gun logic playing out on these boards. This 2nd amendment is the holy grail of perpetual motion - a self-sustaining entity - that can apparently only grow with each slaughter.

Vintage & classic "only in America" - and thankyou Lord, for that.

Focus.

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ORIGINAL: Focus50

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ORIGINAL: meatcleaver

Under the auspice of a mass murder, this thread is really gun porn and reading it really illustrates the poplarity of gun fetishism in America. The gun as penis extension, as love toy, an aphrodisiac, as man badge. Baudrillard would have had such fun deconstructing this, it's quite enlightening.

Not just porn. You don't see the humour...?

Pretty much the common view of the gun humpers in this thread is that more guns are the solution for America's gun violence. You know, armed guards in the schools now. And when the next massacre happens in a shopping mall, or a railway station, or on a bus...? You just know the magic pill for that, too, right?

My favourite is the pretext of "home defense". Three cheers for the hallowed 2nd amendment n all.

And for the conveniently ignored question; who are they defending their homes against? Blow me down if it isn't other Americans with the same right to bear arms. So then the challenge is to own more guns or "better" guns than some potential home invader...!

The neighbour's idiot dog likes to chase its own tail. Poor mutt, he's a rank amateur to the comedy show of gun logic playing out on these boards. This 2nd amendment is the holy grail of perpetual motion - a self-sustaining entity - that can apparently only grow with each slaughter.

Vintage & classic "only in America" - and thankyou Lord, for that.

Focus.

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ORIGINAL: Focus50

You think here and all other modern, western societies with civilian gun controls in place are more dangerous places to live than gun-hump USA?

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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

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ORIGINAL: Focus50

You think here and all other modern, western societies with civilian gun controls in place are more dangerous places to live than gun-hump USA?

Of course they're not. But I think that this hints at one of the root problems: in the USA it isn't so much about 'society' as such, it's more about the individual. The question is always more one of 'Am *I* safer without a gun?' than 'Are *we* safer without guns?'. Don't forget, the word 'society' has the same commie root as the word 'socialism'. [;)]

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ORIGINAL: BamaD

The U S with more guns than ever has the lowest crime rate in 20 years

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ORIGINAL: Nosathro

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ORIGINAL: BamaD

The U S with more guns than ever has the lowest crime rate in 20 years

And none of it caused by the increase in firearms ownership. Still that is some 30,000 lives lost, more than I care to tolerate...like some others.

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

you are talking out of your ass about the british crime stats....

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

*The number of police officers increased considerably in the 1990s.[8]

*The prison population has been expanded since the mid-1970s.[8]

*Starting in the mid-1980s, the crack cocaine market grew rapidly before declining again a decade later. Some authors have pointed towards the link between violent crimes and crack use.[8]

*One hypothesis suggests a causal link between legalized abortion and the drop in crime during the 1990s.[9]

*Another hypothesis suggests reduced lead exposure as the cause; Scholar Mark A.R. Kleiman writes: "Given the decrease in lead exposure among children since the 1980s and the estimated effects of lead on crime, reduced lead exposure could easily explain a very large proportion—certainly more than half—of the crime decrease of the 1994-2004 period. A careful statistical study relating local changes in lead exposure to local crime rates estimates the fraction of the crime decline due to lead reduction as greater than 90 percent.[10]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States#Crime_over_time

Might wanna give another thought as to why crime dropped.