Possible Motive Emerges In The Connecticut Shooting

[A Theist]

Quote them saying that, Min. Both sides of this debate interpret the Constitution like the freaking Christians interpret the Bible. I'm pretty sure we can just take it as it stands. It's one thing to advocate change and another to just interpret things so they suit you. Both sides do it. It's annoying.

I hope your argument isn't "both sides disagree and use tactics to gain an advantage, so we shouldn't do anything".

I really hope that isn't your argument because 26 people who are dead, if alive, I am sure would say "fuck it, what can you do". And that also isn't including the 32 people who will die in the next 24 hours due to gun use.

Life sucks, life is hard so "fuck it" lets not try.

"I really hope that isn't your argument because 26 people who are dead, if alive, I am sure would say "fuck it, what can you do". And that also isn't including the 32 people who will die in the next 24 hours due to gun use."....and the number of people who die by gun related incidences each year pale in comparison to the number of deaths linked to alcohol usage each year....Alcohol related deaths, (including homicides, domestic violence, suicides, traffic accidents...etc.), kill far more people every year than all the deaths attributed to drugs and gun violence combined...yet nobody's jumping on their political soap box to regulate the selling and purchasing of alcohol which is a far greater killer of people....

"Alcohol is also closely associated with homicides, suicides, workplace injuries, domestic violence, assault, and complications and death resulting from alcohol related disease like cirrhosis of the liver. Understanding the potentially injurious or fatal risks that people take when they drink is essential to creating an educated public that is more cognizant of the need for self-control over alcohol.
The most common source of injuries and deaths related to alcohol is drunk-driving automobile accidents. While total drunk driving fatalities have decreased by nearly 50% since 1982, in 2008 there were still 13,846 fatal alcohol related crashes. This accounted for 37% of all traffic fatalities in the United States for the same year. During 2008 Texas, California and Florida reported more than double the amount of alcohol related fatalities than all other states. However, South Carolina and North Dakota ranked highest in the ratio of alcohol related fatalities to total number of vehicular fatalities, each with 50%.(1)
While most adults in the country are probably aware that alcohol related car accidents are a serious problem, few are aware that the physical risks taken just by drinking are severe enough that thousands of people die from conditions related to alcoholism every year. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are more than 23,000 deaths related to alcohol each year that are not traffic fatalities or homicides, and 14,406 of those are caused by alcoholic liver disease.(2) Adding these totals to just the total number of drunk driving fatalities alone and we can see that nearly 47,000 deaths occur as a result of these alcohol related causes alone."

http://recoveryfirst.org/alcohol-related...e-us.html/