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12 Dead, 50 Injured at The Dark Knight Rises Showing In Colorado
beaverdownunder sends the sad news that a gunman opened fire on an audience watching the new Batman movie early this morning, killing 12 and wounding 50 others. The shooting took place in Aurora, Colorado, and the suspect was arrested by police.
"Witnesses told KUSA that the gunman kicked in an emergency exit door and threw a smoke bomb into the darkened theater before opening fire. One movie-goer, who was not identified, told KUSA the gunman was wearing a gas mask. Some people in the audience thought the thick smoke and gunfire was a special effect accompanying the movie, police and witnesses said."
Wow, that didn't take long. Has to be a RWNJ, because only Fox News and Rush say things that get people riled up. ONLY them, the rest of the MSM does NOT do this at ALL...PERIOD. Now, let's ban guns because it's the gun's fault.
Bet they all were talking during the movie.
It caused violence even before it was shown.
Amerikans ask why other countries look down on them as savages, well here you go fatties. Instead of doing the sensible thing and banning firearms there will be a vigil with candles and some hurumphing from white people and then it will be forgotten about just like every other self inflicted tragedy. Why? The constitution is why. A document written when over half the citizens of the country still spent most of the day focused on food (either hunting or farming) that most put on some religious level, which if intelligent people have let religion go since it's outdated maybe amerikans can let go of their out dated constitution and get a new one.
Guns are not needed in a modern western society. Only the fucked up places like the US, Czechs, and the Swiss seem to need them to masturbate or something.
So much stupid in one post, bravo.
If you think someone isn't free to have a different definition of "freedom" you may be a tyrant.
Bla Bla Bla... Take your NRA crap somewhere else.
You people always tag your non-sense to articles about death by guns.
Please just STFU.
Because Fox News is a significant mainstream proponent of the brand of conservatism that sees anyone not bought in to the Fox news mindset as being flag burning pedophiles, out to kill Jesus, murder babies and destroy America. Whether this shooter is part of the that club of idiocy is another matter.
In theory, if everyone was armed, a single armed person would have little chance to have a long killing streak.
In theory. Theory doesn't do well in reality.
Then again, neither does the theory of gun control. To ban guns follows the theory that if nobody has a gun, nobody can go on a killing spree. It works, to a certain degree. It is certainly true that countries with tighter gun control have FEWER incidents like this. Fewer. Not none. Because so far, it has been proven anything but impossible for those who are even slightly determined, to get hold of firearms. Even love boys who never did anything wrong and are totally innocent can somehow magically get hold of a complete arsenal without their mommy and daddy finding out. See every single youth criminal and their parents claim.
In for instance the shooting of Pim Fortuyn or the French attacks on Jews, it is not considered of any interest how these non-professional terrorists managed to get a gun so easily.
American anti-gun control advocates are however happy to point this out with "if you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns". They seem to have a point.
BUT America does allow a lot of personal gun ownership. So are victims of gun crime in the US more likely to defend themselves? You certainly don't hear much about it. Has any shooting like this been ended by a civilian carrying a gun? Any? Ever? I don't know. Not saying because I don't know it has never happened, just that I would expect gun nuts to never stop talking about such cases.
In Israel however several terrorists have been stopped by armed civilians. But then again, most Israeli's have done military service and military service in Israel really does mean something. So, it can work. If you give everyone a two year combat training and keep the religious wacko's out. (Excused from service).
BUT there are only a tiny number of circumstances. How come?
In India, there was an attack a few years ago by Muslim terrorists and during that fully trained and higly experienced armed police were slaughtered as they ran into a Muslim. The reason is that normal people have hesitations, compulsions and morals. Muslims do not, so in the split second it would have taken these officers to determine they had run into an animal, they had already died. The evil can always act faster and quicker because they don't have to think.
You are in a crowded theater, the lights are out, an action movie is playing with flashes, loud noises and gunshots and lots of screaming both on screen and in the audience. Suddenly shit happens. Before you have even realized what has happened, let alone identified the attacker, grasped your gun, unlocked the safety, aimed and made a shot that would not put others in danger... you are already dead on the floor.
It is why terrorists can attack on army bases, because normal people are not, cannot be, constantly ready for instant action all the time. The attacker ALWAYS has first mover advantage.
Some of the victims in this shooting were hit by bullets coming through the walls. How do you defend against this? You would need a superhero to be able to dodge a bullet in a split second and start returning fire through a wall without ending up killing innocents on the other side.
I remember an old TV movie that explored the idea of gunowner ship and in it, it is allowed in one town for everyone to carry a gun. A couple of outside robbers come into a supermarket, try to rob it and find dozens of guns aimed at them. They surrender.
Proof? No... The robbers weren't insane or had a death wish. If they were real people, they wouldn't want to kill anyone, just go in, get money, get out. That kind of crime CAN be prevented with gun owner ship. HOWEVER, in Belgium there was a case http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nijvel_gang which showed a different kind of criminal, someone who wants to kill, not use threats to steal.
The gun man in this theater started shooting without warning. Ho
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And if it's a left-wing nutjob, it's swept under the rug by the mainstream news media (who will have been speculating that it was a right-wing nutjob for the 24 hours before that).
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First blame it on a political motive. Must be a right-wing nut. Couldn't just be a plain old garden-variety nut, gotta be some way to blame your political opponents for this. Don't wait for the facts to come out, get the idea out there circulating that it's all part of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy. If you can't blame politics, then blame race. That old race card must still have SOME credit left on it.
Roll out the blood libels. Same old, same old. Blame Rush Limbaugh. Or is it Sarah Palin? Or has the Left found another opponent they want to demonize? Bush isn't president any more, so he's out. Has Romney said anything that can be spun as a call for violence? Get on that right away.
And of course reflexively call for gun control. Because the places with the toughest gun control in the USA have the lowest crime rates. Right Chicago? Detroit? Anybody?
Because any single incident is a good reason to impose more totalitarian control over society. Always.