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07-22-2012, 09:34 PM
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I love this. Very true!
Last edited by sarajean94; 07-22-2012 at 09:55 PM.
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07-23-2012, 10:08 PM
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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.
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07-24-2012, 09:35 AM
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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.
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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.
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07-22-2012, 03:41 PM
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Saw the movie last night with a group of people. The theater was maybe half to two thirds full. After the movie finished we went out and talked. All of us said that whenever anyone stood up and walked out of the theater we noticed. It wasn't just us either. We were sitting near the back and could see almost everyone else watching the person leaving/returning. 
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07-22-2012, 06:55 PM
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Saw the movie last night with a group of people. The theater was maybe half to two thirds full. After the movie finished we went out and talked. All of us said that whenever anyone stood up and walked out of the theater we noticed. It wasn't just us either. We were sitting near the back and could see almost everyone else watching the person leaving/returning. |
Me too. Saw it today, and couldn't help scanning for the exit doors as I sat down.
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07-24-2012, 09:10 AM
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The Today show is on in the background, and I'm pretty sure I heard Savannah say that Warner Bros. is donating a substantial amount of money to the shooting victims/victims' families. I think that's unnecessary, but admirable, and I hope it's true.
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07-24-2012, 09:18 AM
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The Today show is on in the background, and I'm pretty sure I heard Savannah say that Warner Bros. is donating a substantial amount of money to the shooting victims/victims' families. I think that's unnecessary, but admirable, and I hope it's true.
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...onation-353175
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07-24-2012, 11:27 AM
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 This is as ridiculous as the gun control debate.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1692859.html
I will not get into issues with the institution of religion and religious texts as literature. I will just say that Christians need to stop believing that someone being good means that they identify as Christian and someone being bad means that they did not identify as Christian. Also, Christians are not the only people who believe in a god so some Christians need to stop ranting about "God this and God that" as though that is unique to Christianity. I get into arguments with fellow Christians all of the time because many Christians have some extremist views that they would not tolerate from other religions/faith base.
/If my comments do not apply to you, do not take offense.
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07-25-2012, 10:19 AM
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07-25-2012, 11:24 AM
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07-25-2012, 11:35 AM
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I saw where people were petitioning for him to do this IN COSTUME.
I'm glad he went, but I think the costume would have been freaky and a bad idea after what these people went through. I know I would have lost my shit had someone dressed as Batman walked info my hospital room, even with the guy in custody.
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07-25-2012, 11:32 AM
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DrPhil, sour or soar? Freudian slip?
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07-25-2012, 11:40 AM
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DrPhil, sour or soar? Freudian slip?
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Oh snap!
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07-25-2012, 07:14 PM
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One of my friends (fortunately, not a very close one) just posted this as a Facebook status:
"Saw the batman movie and survived, then stopped to get gas at country fair and dropped my keys in the garbage!! Thank goodness there was hardly any trash in the basket."
I am INCREDIBLY tempted to reply to her post.........
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