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"We had fed the heart on

EmmaZahn — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 05:50:00 +0000

"We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare."

~ William Butler Yeats

I do have a rifle for

ocean-kat — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 18:47:48 +0000

In reply to Cheeeese-suz. I forgot the

I do have a rifle for hunting, mostly jack rabbits and an occasion deer. It has a 10 round clip and its bolt action. So I have to manually load each round from the clip. That's fast enough and more than sufficient ammo. I never needed anything more to get a bit of extra meat for my table.

Cheeeese-suz. I forgot the

NCD — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 18:03:30 +0000

In reply to A hand gun wouldn't have been

Cheeeese-suz. I forgot the night vision goggles. Will also have to re-load my mail order 100 round drum with the armor piercing stuff. Thanks.

On a serious not HuffPost says Frank Lautenberg plans to introduce federal legislation on the massacre magazines. A Huff poster suggested, in the usual dumbed down 'get the best spin' from the moronic uninformative corporate shills we call news people, to call it the Heroes Creation Bill, as with only 10 rounds per clip, the chance somebody can stop the next guy will increase.

A hand gun wouldn't have been

ocean-kat — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 17:10:08 +0000

In reply to Holmes had a 100, yes one -

A hand gun wouldn't have been any use with the body armor Holmes was wearing.

If only someone had been there with a high powered rifle, armor piercing bullets and night vision goggles to see in that dark movie theater he could have saved the day.

We don't need gun control legislation, we need more freedom. Everybody should be allowed to sling a machine gun over their shoulder with a hundred rounds of ammo and carry it wherever they go.

Sure I have a rifle in my car, but I never feel safe going into a super market to get a gallon of milk without a rifle hanging off my shoulder.

Sometimes a picture is worth

Bwakkie — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 16:23:29 +0000

In reply to The Batman Movie Shooting

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. This was drawn by Nick Anderson for the Houston Chronicle in January 2011.

Unfortunately, the "bumper

stillidealistic — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 16:21:39 +0000

In reply to Yes Morgan talked about that

Unfortunately, the "bumper sticker mentality" folks go for the "When we outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns" and "guns don't kill people, people kill people" philosophy. Until enough people have had someone they love die from this senseless violence, they will stick with their belief we should ALL be packin'. When we're all packin' I'm staying home. It's getting to be a scary world out there.

I pray for that day, Aunt

MrSmith1 — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 15:33:09 +0000

In reply to Only when We,The People come

I pray for that day, Aunt Sam. Unfortunately, there is a huge segment of the population that agrees with the NRA talking point that if we only had MORE guns, someone would have stopped him by shooting and killing him. The delusion of movie violence has distorted our rational thoughts on the use of firearms in real life.

Yes Morgan talked about that

tmccarthy0 — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 15:06:15 +0000

In reply to Did Piers mention the 100

Yes Morgan talked about that magazine and about the 6000 rounds of ammunition the dude obtained. This lawyer told Piers Morgan it was too early to be discussing this issue, and Morgan says to the guy, no, it's too late, 12 more people are dead, you American's should have been having this discussion much earlier! That is a paraphrase not exact words, but that lawyer looked stunned, and Morgan is completely correct. We've failed to have this discussion at all, and here is where we are now because of it. It was a pretty spectacular discussion really.

Did Piers mention the 100

NCD — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 14:53:59 +0000

In reply to I watched Piers Morgan last

Did Piers mention the 100 round magazine?

Last night I got pissed off at a report in the NYT, still up on their front page. I emailed reporter John Schwarz, the author, and a Mr. Volokh, an 'expert' lawyer at UCLA who told Schwartz 'the guy had basically normal guns'. I pointed out that the 100 round magazine was banned in California, was outlawed from 1994-2004, and is by no means 'normal' for any gun owner.

These two clowns may not have noticed, but another article in the Times had the info on the magazine, although it didn't mention they are banned in a number of states (not Colorado, perhaps a very unfortunate fact for that young woman, who had just escaped the Quebec shooting, who was shot twice, first the leg, then a second time, fatally in the head).

I would presume Volokh would know what is legal in California, unless he is a guy who doesn't know all the facts before he pontificates, or, just a another libertarian shill for the NRA which seems possible.

And these are the 'smart' guys who are supposed to be informing the public.

I watched Piers Morgan last

tmccarthy0 — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 12:34:44 +0000

In reply to The Batman Movie Shooting

I watched Piers Morgan last night, I don't usually, but I have to say, he really took it to the gun rights folks. If you haven't seen the clip Mediaite has it, I wasn't with it enough last night to record it and upload it on my youtube channel.

All of your points about the Batman are correct, and I think you are correct about the kid too, he is at the correct age for the onset of a severe mental illness, and it seems his family wasn't shocked about what happened, which is also concerning isn't it. Being unable to help an adult child has to be the worst thing a parent can go through.

It's hard to watch this stuff though, all I can see are my kids, because we are big fans of this kind of stuff, we often hit the midnight opening of a comic based movie and those films are always jammed packed.

I wonder when we as a nation are going to quit being held hostage by the NRA nutcases? I mean does a well-regulated militia really mean guns and 6000 rounds of ammo for anyone who wants that? Oh man, I just don't get this stuff. It's awful.