Columbine, Safeway, AMC, Temple Sikh, Empire State Building. They need to be renamed: Columbine Shooting Range, Safeway Shooting Range, AMC Shooting Range, Temple Sikh Shooting Range, Empire State Shooting Range on 34th Street and open daily to sitting ducks.
If we’re not going to ban guns and bullets, can we at least ban thoughts and prayers? I want a constitutional ban on all politicians bowing their heads after a shooting and saying the victims are “in my thoughts and prayers.”
It’s obnoxious.
I don’t want your thoughts and prayers. I want your actions and laws or I want to treat these shootings like it’s my “God Given Right” to treat them, as if they’re not really happening.
Incidentally, there are no “God Given Rights.” Your rights were given to you by men who wrote with quills on parchment while wearing powdered wigs. In other words, your rights were given to you by Drag Queens, not God.
One last thing, I would ask The Chicago Tribune, The Huffington Post, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The Daily Beast, CNN, MSNBC and FOX to do the right thing, as long as you’re not going to hold either candidate’s feet to the fire with forceful questions which push them outside of their comfort zone on gun control, please take “Shooting at Empire State Building” off the masthead.
It’s not a ratings bonanza. It’s a tragedy. I’m not talking about the shooting. I’m talking about the silence.
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In March 2012 there were 162 shootings!!!
Seems like an amazing amount of bullets flying around.
http://chicagowarrior.blogspot.com/2012/04/chicago-crime-march-2012-shootings-were.html
162 shootings in March 2012 in CHICAGO alone that is. I forgot to put the most important part of the stat, in just Chicago.
There isn’t 1 most important part of the stat, Vince. There are so many important parts, all of which have gone pretty much unsaid, it’s heartbreaking.
People are poor, jobless, hungry, angry and well armed. Add some booze and it’s the wild west.
I’m all of the above, besides drunk on booze. Mostly, I’m drunk on my irrelevance. It’s overwhelming. But the only person I’m taking it out on is me.
The south and west sides of Chicago were hit with a rash of shootings Thursday night, with 19 people hit and 13 wounded in seven separate incidents, including eight in one 30-minute period.
According to The Chicago Tribune, the eight people, many of them teenagers, were shot at 79th and Essex around 9:30 p.m.
It’s been going on in Chicago all summer. Funny thing, I remember last October, when I went to Brazil, some in my family were worried about the violence. Truth is, more people die every month in Chicago, at the hand of a gunman.
I’m sorry. Are we talking about this? Shhhhh…
They’ll amend the 1st Amendment with the Honoring America’s Veterans Act. But never amend the 2nd Amendment, no matter how many die on the corner of 79th and Essex, around 9:30pm.
Here it is. Why do you think we are talking about abortion, again? Obama and Romney agree on almost everything. They like wars, they like oil, they like the stock market, they like the banks, they think tax cuts are good, they don’t mind insiders and payback, they like guns, they don’t like education. They disagree on … Meaningless shit. Pure emotion.
Unfortunatly, we are watching a debate about the wrong things. These women issues were over decades ago. The distraction is huge. Sure, we have to stand up for women. But this is a distraction from issues.
Todd Akin should absolutely stay in the race. I don’t agree with anything he has to say. But I know his party does. So Paul Ryan should get off the phone and stop pretending to be appalled.
Truth is, Todd Akin will most likely beat Claire McCaskill. That’s how disorganized and easily wupped the democrats have become.
Pathetic.
As for the other distractions, I don’t think they’re distractions. I think the ugliness is percolating up, the way the ugliness always percolates up, especially in an election year, when pussy-men are being over-advised by other pussy-men based on pussy-ass advice manufactured in focus groups.
My biggest relief is how little traction the shooting at Empire State Building is getting. To me, the lack of traction more accurately reflects the truth. Someone I know tonight actually said this, “I’m glad the shooter died. I don’t want to hear about the shooter.”
Exactly.
Don’t hear. Don’t deal. Don’t reflect. Don’t discuss. Don’t change. Just keep eating and drinking and swallowing Lipitor. And shopping. And pretending it won’t happen to you, or someone you love. When it does, and it will, believe me, it will, sooner than you think, don’t come running to me.
Sorry.
I went to the vigil for Gabby Giffords. And cried. I left behind my ability to be shook by the epidemic of gun violence currently gripping our nation.
It’s going to take a nursery school shooting, simulcast on youtube, in real time, with children begging for their lives, as the shooter mocks the crying children, to get the attention of our fat, lazy, ignorant, spoiled, Lipitor swallowing country.
Until then, arm your children. You’ve been warned.
I WANT TO TALK ABOUT war.
Maybe, Romney is a sleeper great President. Maybe he is doing what he needs to get in. He will use his talents and middle row thinking to get things done.
Oooooooorrrrr they want you to fool for it niggas
The whole republican convention last night (Tuesday) seemed very angry to me. Gov. Christie said that he is not affraid to say it; that the Democrats have bad ideas and the Republicans have great ideas to fix our country. Wow, that was brave. So where are the ideas?
They can’t tell us their real ideas because that would scare us to death and certainly lose Romney the election. The better idea is to distort the truth and continue to lie about Obama.
“We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers,” says Neil Newhouse, a Romney pollster.
A half dozen fact-checking organizations and websites have refuted Romney’s claims that Obama removed the work requirement from the welfare law and will cut Medicare benefits by $216 billion.
Last Sunday’s New York Times even reported on its front page that Romney has been “falsely charging” President Obama with removing the work requirement. Those are strong words from the venerable Times. Yet Romney is still making the false charge. Ads containing it continue to be aired.
Presumably the Romney campaign continues its false claims because they’re effective. But this raises a more basic question: How can they remain effective when they’ve been so overwhelmingly discredited by the media?
The answer is the Republican Party has developed three means of bypassing the mainstream media and its fact-checkers.
The first is by repeating big lies so often in TV spots — financed by a mountain of campaign money — that the public can no longer recall (if it ever knew) that the mainstream media and its fact-checkers have found them to be lies.
The second is by discrediting the mainstream media — asserting it’s run by “liberal elites” that can’t be trusted to tell the truth. “I am tired of the elite media protecting Barack Obama by attacking Republicans,” Newt Gingrich charged at a Republican debate last January, in what’s become a standard GOP attack line.
The third is by using its own misinformation outlets — led by Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and his yell-radio imitators, book publisher Regnery, and the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, along with a right-wing blogosphere — to spread the lies, or at least spread doubt about what’s true.
Together, these three mechanisms are creating a parallel Republican universe of Orwellian dimension — where anything can be asserted, where pollsters and political advisers are free to create whatever concoction of lies will help elect their candidate, and where “fact-checkers” are as irrelevant and intrusive as is the truth.
Democracy cannot thrive in such a place. To the contrary, history teaches that this is where demagogues take root.
The Romney campaign has decided it won’t be dictated by fact-checkers. But a society without trusted arbiters of what is true and what is false is vulnerable to every lie imaginable.
Romney/Ryan are already creating jobs. It is really amazing. Thousands are being employed as fact checkers and they can barely keep up with the lies and misstatments.
Even Fox News had a negative respolnse to Ryans speech. Go to http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/08/30/paul-ryans-speech-in-3-words/
Wow, Babs. The link has been killed. They are fast. Got to give it toi them. Dissention is punishable by death.
Did you go to university? Where and how do you report an adverse event?