I'd like to preface this long tweet by saying that my passion comes from my deepest sympathy and shared sorrow with yesterday's victims and with the utmost respect for the people and the police/fire/medical/political forces of Aurora and all who seek to comfort and aid these victims.
This...
Oh please accept my apology all you poor folk who feel threatened by "people like me". I am soooo sorry for hurting your feelings with my gun disapproval. Poor petals. Aww, what can I do to make you feel better... Sweep it under the carpet?? Please, how can I ever make YOU feel better about the...
July 20, 2012
One More Massacre
Posted by Adam Gopnik
The murders—it dignifies them to call them a “tragedy”—in Aurora, Colorado, have hit us all hard, though the grief of the friends and families of the victims is unimaginable. Still, it hits home, or someplace worse...
Anti-gun people would say the same for the pro-gun types.
You have an answer for everything, to deflect blame, using super smug, hypothesis and political venom. Which is all part of the gun culture.
Nobody in civilian America NEEDS an AR-15.
So what! Lord have mercy on these types of defensive arguments.
America has two times the population of Japan but 1000% more gun deaths.
So, by your reasoning... who's the biased dolt now.
Some of the posts on here are quite frankly.... frightening.
"Cars, Machetes, Rat Poison all kill people too".
I enjoy people's opinions but instead we have people pointing out other ways to kill people, and how No Guns in other countries still results in deaths - all to Win An Argument.
The...
How a civilian can buy a semi automatic legally, and 6000 rounds defies logic.
16000 gun related deaths in USA compared to 20 a year in Japan where guns are banned.
The fewer the guns, the less the violence.
It's not impossible to control guns - but Americans are determined to protect handgun...
You've decided he is guilty for being "too ready to play policeman" and reporting open garage doors? That's desperate, and speculative. I want to see justice as much as anyone else, but based on the evidence, it looks like Zimmerman walks. Cue moral outrage.
The Gadfly is right.
How many people has Zimmerman stopped in his neighborhood before? How many times has he called the police as a neighborhood watchmen? If you can't answer that, why insist racial profiling. Speculate and buy into the media hype at your peril.