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Another day another American gun rampage.

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Another day another American gun rampage.
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Another day another American gun rampage.
June 8, 2013 at 3:27 am
Is it me or are they getting more regular?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22823290



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RE: Another day another American gun rampage.
June 8, 2013 at 4:00 am
I notice he was taken out by cops and not armed citizens.

You would think that all these people with guns would've been able to protect themselves.
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RE: Another day another American gun rampage.
June 8, 2013 at 4:17 am
(June 8, 2013 at 4:00 am)Zen Badger Wrote: You would think that all these people with guns would've been able to protect themselves.

Indeed, especially since gun sales increase every time there is a gun related death reported by the media. Imagine if science books worked the same way by the government hinting that it might ban those.
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RE: Another day another American gun rampage.
June 8, 2013 at 4:20 am
(June 8, 2013 at 4:00 am)Zen Badger Wrote: I notice he was taken out by cops and not armed citizens.

You would think that all these people with guns would've been able to protect themselves.

I had the same thought.



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Re: Another day another American gun rampage.
June 8, 2013 at 5:00 pm
More reported, not more regular.
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RE: Another day another American gun rampage.
June 8, 2013 at 5:05 pm
(June 8, 2013 at 4:00 am)Zen Badger Wrote: I notice he was taken out by cops and not armed citizens.

You would think that all these people with guns would've been able to protect themselves.

Santa Monica... Suburb of L.A.... Where your chances of getting a permit to lawfully carry roughly correspond to the volume of your campaign donations.

I'm not suggesting that it would have made a difference at all, but it's not any wonder why no armed citizens came to aid in a jurisdiction where it's illegal to carry.
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RE: Another day another American gun rampage.
June 8, 2013 at 5:07 pm (This post was last modified: June 8, 2013 at 5:08 pm by Rahul.)
(June 8, 2013 at 5:00 pm)NoraBrimstone Wrote: More reported, not more regular.

My maternal grandfather was one of six brothers.

They all died kind of young. One fell off an oil derrick. One went down in a bomber over Germany during WWII. Two died from Lou Gehrigs disease. My grandfather died from stomach cancer. By the time I was born only one was still alive.

He was gunned down in a small church in a small town in East Texas. Some crazy bastard came in shooting with an M-16. Shot my grandad's brother first. Also killed several other guys and a little girl before they took him down.

First funeral I ever went to.

I was around 7 or so.

I read somewhere once that it was the first mass shooting that ever occurred in a church in North America.
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RE: Another day another American gun rampage.
June 8, 2013 at 5:16 pm
(June 8, 2013 at 4:17 am)Maelstrom Wrote:
(June 8, 2013 at 4:00 am)Zen Badger Wrote: You would think that all these people with guns would've been able to protect themselves.

Indeed, especially since gun sales increase every time there is a gun related death reported by the media. Imagine if science books worked the same way by the government hinting that it might ban those.

It would mean the rednecks in the bible belt would have to learn how to read.

Never happen.
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RE: Another day another American gun rampage.
June 8, 2013 at 5:19 pm
I'm surprised the gun nutters don't object to our calling them "gun rampages". Isn't every shooting just one more example of a person exercising their 2nd amendment rights?
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RE: Another day another American gun rampage.
June 8, 2013 at 5:30 pm (This post was last modified: June 8, 2013 at 5:30 pm by little_monkey.)
Guns don't kill, but people do kill, and people with guns kill with efficiency.
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