Gunman Opens Fire During "The Dark Knight Rises"

[Kevin]

[PiKA2001]

Originally Posted by Kevin

[aephi alum]

Setting the gun control debate aside for the moment...

Guess what?

Those attention whores at the Westboro Baptist Church are at it again. They are planning to "super picket" a prayer vigil for the shooting victims. They are tweeting away about it, with such lovely hashtags as "#ThankGodForTheShooter".

Story from Huffington Post

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by sigmagirl2000

Interesting chart:



Interesting to see how this translates to red and blue states. I also had to idea that Michigan was so populated..... (or if it isn't, there are just a lot of gun and motor vehicle deaths there).


ETA: Since I'm a number/ math nerd, this was interesting to me. DC is high up there with the guns, as are the Virgin Islands (whoa!)

This makes me think that being in Massachusetts I have a good chance of not being killed by vehicle or gun. Now I just need to avoid the coyotes that hang out by my car early in the morning when I'm going to work....

Michigan is the 8th largest state in terms of population. It was higher before the "depression" here. We've lost almost about a half million people since 2005.

[lovespink88]

Originally Posted by aephi alum

Setting the gun control debate aside for the moment...

Guess what?

Those attention whores at the Westboro Baptist Church are at it again. They are planning to "super picket" a prayer vigil for the shooting victims. They are tweeting away about it, with such lovely hashtags as "#ThankGodForTheShooter".

Story from Huffington Post

Not laughing at the horribleness if the tradegy but LOL at "super picket". WTF does that mean?

"Let's put 'super' in front of it...that'll show everyone we REALLY mean it!"

ETA: Also, I love buzzfeed.com: http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-3...urch-protest-s

[sarajean94]

Originally Posted by Kevin

I love this. Very true!

[Jeff OTMG]

I thought that I might need to come back for this. I have not been around in awhile and it looks as though Kevin is keeping things up. For those of you who don't know me or don't remember, I was active in this thread many years ago.

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...highlight=otmg

My immediate concern is that many of you seem to believe what the media tells you without question. The shooter was not wearing body armor. He was not a tea party member. The media, in its quest for ratings, will broadcast anything and everything that they have heard without trying to verify the accuracy just so they can have exclusive information.

It amazes me the number of people who are dancing in celebration that they have an excuse to trumpet the gun control cause. You hear me Bloomberg? I see some of you calling for police and military to be allowed firearms, yet the last mass shooting was by an Army Major in 2009 at Ft Hood, TX. He killed 13 people. More than in the theater. If that is going to happen, why exempt members of the military? This shooting was an anomoly. With gun control becoming more lax over the last 18 years and concealed carry permits now available in 49 states, violent crime, including murder, is down to record lows. If you put these deaths and the situation in perspective, 14 innocent people were killed today, more than in Colorado, when a pickup truck had an accident in Texas. Those people were doing nothing more than riding down the highway, yet they died. There is no call to ban pickup trucks, but using gun control logic the tool is to blame. The deaths of innocent people at the hands of others is going to happen. You can't stop it. Death, horrible death, is a fact of life, look at the drug wars in Mexico, and we all just hope and pray that it doesn't strike to close to our friends and family.

My prayers go out to everyone touched by the tragedy in Colorado.

[KSig RC]

Originally Posted by Jeff OTMG

It amazes me the number of people who are dancing in celebration that they have an excuse to trumpet the gun control cause. You hear me Bloomberg? I see some of you calling for police and military to be allowed firearms, yet the last mass shooting was by an Army Major in 2009 at Ft Hood, TX. He killed 13 people. More than in the theater. If that is going to happen, why exempt members of the military? This shooting was an anomoly. With gun control becoming more lax over the last 18 years and concealed carry permits now available in 49 states, violent crime, including murder, is down to record lows. If you put these deaths and the situation in perspective, 14 innocent people were killed today, more than in Colorado, when a pickup truck had an accident in Texas. Those people were doing nothing more than riding down the highway, yet they died. There is no call to ban pickup trucks, but using gun control logic the tool is to blame. The deaths of innocent people at the hands of others is going to happen. You can't stop it. Death, horrible death, is a fact of life, look at the drug wars in Mexico, and we all just hope and pray that it doesn't strike to close to our friends and family.

My prayers go out to everyone touched by the tragedy in Colorado.

Yeaaahhh ... let's not fight fire with fire here, duder.

Or I guess more correctly, let's not fight post hoc/causation fallacies with one of the most incredible series of post hoc fallacies I've ever seen. Correlation is certainly not causation (and you haven't even really proven correlation), and unrelated deaths have little to no bearing on the relative merits of gun control, one way or another.

Also, stop using suicide in Japan as an example of anything - the unique cultural phenomena existent in Japan (particularly w/re: suicide) make the analogy look borderline ignorant.