All Hail the Second Amendment

[Brakeman]

If you pray hard enough, god will make you bulletproof .. unless of course he wants to see you in person..

[Minimalist]

Expect a barrage of prayer vigils for the victims.

That will do lots of good.

[Brakeman]

Expect a barrage of prayer vigils for the victims.

That will do lots of good.

Yes, but if they really believed in heaven, they'd be fine with the slaughter as he was only handing out tickets to paradise, relieving his victims of their "earthly pain!"

[Doubting Thomas]

The conspiracy theories about the Navy Yard shooting are being made up as we speak, I'm sure. Especially with the early reports of looking for two other suspects (one of whom was located and identified, and ruled out as a suspect) and various erroneous news reports (since news outlets are more concerned with being first with an item than accuracy), then there's all sorts of conflicting information which always gives rise to conspiracy nuts trying to cast doubt on the official story.

Of course, if they do try to claim this as a false flag operation, little good it would do since no new gun control legislation is likely to arise from this, either.

[Captain Colostomy]

No doubt. If mass slayings at a theatre and elementary school can be hand waved aside, this latest tragedy won't even raise eyebrows.

[Crossless2.0]

The conspiracy theories about the Navy Yard shooting are being made up as we speak, I'm sure. Especially with the early reports of looking for two other suspects (one of whom was located and identified, and ruled out as a suspect) and various erroneous news reports (since news outlets are more concerned with being first with an item than accuracy), then there's all sorts of conflicting information which always gives rise to conspiracy nuts trying to cast doubt on the official story.

Of course, if they do try to claim this as a false flag operation, little good it would do since no new gun control legislation is likely to arise from this, either.

Oh yeah, you know the conspiracy nuts are spinning this straw into pure, high quality bullshit even now.

I advocate a healthy distrust of government and think that one should be skeptical of official claims, but these false flag conspiracy theories drive me crazy. I have at least three co-workers who remain convinced that the Sandy Hook shootings were of this nature, and no amount of reasoning will budge them from their belief.

Of course, the conspiracy loons are often the same people who will tell you that government fucks up everything it touches -- yet somehow it manages to repeatedly pull off these improbable operations that would collapse in a second if anyone leaked to the press (which of course never happens in D.C.).

[Doubting Thomas]

That's what always gets me, that out of the hundreds if not thousands of people who'd need to be involved to pull off a massive event, such as 9/11, not one ever has a change of heart or feels guilty about their participation and talks about it to the media, even anonymously. I mean, there are government whistle blowers in comparatively minor incidents, so why not something as huge as a mass killing? All it'd take is one disgruntled employee to leak some information.

[Chas]

That's what always gets me, that out of the hundreds if not thousands of people who'd need to be involved to pull off a massive event, such as 9/11, not one ever has a change of heart or feels guilty about their participation and talks about it to the media, even anonymously. I mean, there are government whistle blowers in comparatively minor incidents, so why not something as huge as a mass killing? All it'd take is one disgruntled employee to leak some information.

Well, who do you think the thousands of murder victims that Min is counting are?

They're being silenced.

[wwjs]

(CNN) -- It has been called the most popular rifle in America, and it briefly returned to the spotlight after Monday's shooting at the Navy Yard: the AR-15.

A U.S. law enforcement official said Monday that gunman Aaron Alexis unleashed a barrage of bullets using an AR-15, a rifle and a semi-automatic handgun. Authorities believed the AR-15 was used for most of the shooting, the official said. The news prompted Sen. Dianne Feinstein, one of the strongest proponents of a ban on assault weapons like the AR-15, to issue a statement the same day asking, "When will enough be enough?"

However, federal law enforcement sources told CNN Tuesday that authorities have recovered three weapons from the scene of the mass shooting, including one -- a shotgun -- that investigators believe Alexis brought in to the compound. The other two weapons, which sources say were handguns, may have been taken from guards at the Navy complex.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/17/us/ar-15-g...?hpt=hp_t1

[Doubting Thomas]

More fodder for the conspiracy theorists.