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2015-09-01 -Land of the Free

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Posted by badanov 2015-09-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 Sanctimonious drivel from the ignorant.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2015-09-01 01:12|| 2015-09-01 01:12|| Front Page Top

#2 There's a corollary of more cars and multi-car accidents. BTW autos kill more people than guns. I blame the auto obsessed American public who insist on living in the burbs and rural areas who refuse to pack themselves into the urban utopian paradises that preclude the necessity of owning this dangerous instrument. (Do I need to put a /sarc on that?)

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-09-01 09:46|| 2015-09-01 09:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Another lefty journo who should join the following list of Don Lemon, Piers Morgan and such: List.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-09-01 11:05|| 2015-09-01 11:05|| Front Page Top

#4 ...guns, for many Americans, are a sort of secondary, symbolic car: another powerful symbol of autonomy and independence.

I thought guns = pinus substitute?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-09-01 13:00|| 2015-09-01 13:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Of interest is Wikipedia's list of countries by intentional homicide rate here. It should be noted that the US, at 4.7, is below the world average of 6.2 and the Americas average of 16.3.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-09-01 13:14|| 2015-09-01 13:14|| Front Page Top

#6 ...and if you further divide by self identified communities, you'll find the predominate community to have an even lower level. However, that is racist, given that truth is now racist.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-09-01 13:29|| 2015-09-01 13:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Many First World countries have sub-populations considerably more violent and criminal than the rest. Procopius2k. In Britain the same problems are seen in the economic underclass, regardless of genetic origin.

Separately, The Daily Mail has more on the Roanoke killer. It seems he had more going on than just imagining racism all around:

TV gunman complained about his lack of sex and lamented how age had ended his 'glory days' as a $2,000-a-night gay prostitute in suicide letter

Posted by trailing wife 2015-09-01 14:48|| 2015-09-01 14:48|| Front Page Top

#8 This person would have failed both my English and Logic/Critical Thinking classes.

Seriously, this is a paid professional wordsmither raht here:

The incident last week on the French train is good evidence of this point: unarmed defenders disarmed a terrorist with a military-style weapon

If I knew nothing about it, I would not know from this sentence who had the military-style weapon. So s/he sucks at his job.

we look out for and punish drunken or reckless users. If we only achieved, in the next few years, a regulation of guns equal to that of cars,

Drunk drivers are punished after using a tool irresponsibly. S/he is suggesting we do the same with firearms....we already do, unless s/he is suggesting we ban cars in order to prevent drunk driving. S/he sucks at thinking.

So Bickerus learned to drive, and discovered there is a world outside of the pithy shelter life. This person has some serious issues, as failures often do.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-09-01 15:15|| 2015-09-01 15:15|| Front Page Top

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