School Shooting Newtown CT

[PiKA2001]

Originally Posted by AGDee

Haven't been reading the hometown papers lately, eh?

No I don't what you are trying to get at.

Originally Posted by Psi U MC Vito

So I was reading something about a second shooting that just happened in CO and somebody posted this as their anti-gun control argument



I wonder if they really believe some guy with a AR-15 is going to stop a Abrams MBT.

Really? Have you been living in a cave this last decade (War in Iraq)? Are you not familiar with the concept of Guerrilla warfare and insurgencies and the extreme damages that they've done to standing armies (with tanks) throughout history?

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by PiKA2001

No I don't what you are trying to get at.

Tongue in cheek... there are probably 1000 shootings a day in the D.

[PiKA2001]

Originally Posted by AGDee

Tongue in cheek... there are probably 1000 shootings a day in the D.

LOL...oh you... You sound like one of the not from Detroit haters out there. Detroit had 350 homicides (not all were gun related) in 2012 and 344 in 2011. Clearly not great but nowhere near having 1000 shootings a day.

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by PiKA2001

LOL...oh you... You sound like one of the not from Detroit haters out there. Detroit had 350 homicides (not all were gun related) in 2012 and 344 in 2011. Clearly not great but nowhere near having 1000 shootings a day.

Not everybody who gets shot actually dies... I thought 2012 was at 414 as of early December though.

[ASTalumna06]

And it starts...

There are now articles and an official website (which I refuse to link to here) which claim that the whole shooting was a hoax set up by our government in order to pass new gun legislation.

So sad. What's even more upsetting to me is that some of my Facebook friends are buying into some of it and questioning certain accounts of what happened. Ugh.

[WCsweet<3]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

And it starts...

There are now articles and an official website (which I refuse to link to here) which claim that the whole shooting was a hoax set up by our government in order to pass new gun legislation.

So sad. What's even more upsetting to me is that some of my Facebook friends are buying into some of it and questioning certain accounts of what happened. Ugh.

I feel like I heard about a professor somewhere in Florida was saying this. It was on the news a week or two ago.

As much as I normally support fact checking the media, I find this pathetic. Those poor parents would do anything to not have this be real and instead some of the people who took in the children during the shooting are getting harassed.

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

And it starts...

There are now articles and an official website (which I refuse to link to here) which claim that the whole shooting was a hoax set up by our government in order to pass new gun legislation.

So sad. What's even more upsetting to me is that some of my Facebook friends are buying into some of it and questioning certain accounts of what happened. Ugh.

The "hoax" crowd is getting a lot of attention here in CT; they apparently have been harrassing one of the residents who took in some children who escaped the shooting.

A woman who is a former candidate for AG posted something on her Facebook page that sounded as if she was buying into the hoax theory. That went over really well here in CT, as you can imagine.

[ree-Xi]

Family members of victims and survivors of the Newtown shooting and other violent crimes were offered the opportunity to attend the President's State of the Union address tonight.

------------------------------------------------------------Gun victims' relatives emerge as advocates

"WASHINGTON (AP) — Several people whose lives have been shattered by gun violence will be watching from the packed House gallery as President Barack Obama gives his State of the Union speech."
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Read more: http://www.ctpost.com/news/politics/...#ixzz2KiigvzeP

[Psi U MC Vito]

Originally Posted by PiKA2001

Really? Have you been living in a cave this last decade (War in Iraq)? Are you not familiar with the concept of Guerrilla warfare and insurgencies and the extreme damages that they've done to standing armies (with tanks) throughout history?

I am familiar with the concept of Guerrilla warfare. It is a very effective technique, but it relies on a political victory, not a military one. The point of Asymmetrical Warfare is to make the other guys decide that the benefit of conquering the territory doesn't outweigh all the damage they take in doing so. So for a invading army it is one thing. For a government that is tyrannical and willing to do anything to stay in power? Also said tyrannical government wouldn't hesitate because of something like collateral damage, which is one of the big issues in the war in the Middle East right now. Also I actually am not aware of any examples when a force without specialized weaponry did significant damage to a superior force. Iraq and Afghanistan we are dealing with anti-armor weapons. Which I remind you was given to them by an outside force.