Posted on 04/06/2009 6:27:17 AM PDT by Sasparilla
The largest mass murder shooting in the USA was August 1, 1966, when Charles Whitman shot and killed killed 14 people and wounded 32 others from atop a clock tower at the University of Texas.
Is the despair that Barrack Obama is creating a newnationwide shooting spree? Is he causing the loonies to come out of the woodwork? Seven mass shootings in the US since the second week of March?
03/10/09 In the worst mass shooting in Georgia history, ten people were killed at random in murders-suicide in Samson, Alabama.
03/21/09 Four Oakland policemen killed by a parolee in Oakland California. The parolee, carrying guns forbidden to a parolee, did the shootings in what some in San Francisco strangely called rage, frustration, and panic.
03/29/09Six people killed in a Carthage Ga. nursing home by a double barrel shotgun wielding man looking for his wife.
03/30/09 Six people killed in a murder killed in Santa Clara California. Two adults and four children were shot dead in an apparent murder-suicide.
04/03/09 A gunman killed 13 at a Binghamton, NY immigrant center. He had lost his job at IBM, and people made fun of his accent.
04/04/09 An Orting, Washington man shot his 5 children to death, and himself after finding that his wife was leaving him for another man.
04/04/09 Three Pittsburgh policemen were killed in an ambush. The killer was unemployed, and was being evicted from his home because his dog was urinating on the carpet.
Of course, guns are being blamed for these tragedies. The Brady's are having to put on hip boots...
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Whatever the case is, this is another “crisis” for him to take advantage of.
If they had only sworn the Personal Oath Of Fealty To The Messiah in time, their hearts would have turned, a light would have shown down upon them, and the grace of The One (piss be upon him) would have saved all those souls.
I don't know what it is about having a Dem in the White House, but it seems to put people on edge. Or over it.
Huh? The VA Tech death toll was in the high 20's or even 30's I believe.
These people killed because they had killer’s hearts. Yet rather than accept responsibility, a bunch of people will affix blame to a variety of issues: guns, unemployment, bullying, self-esteem issues, Christianity, Obama, Bush, Cheney, Rush, Coulter, and on and on.
I’ll bet if you looked over the past 10 years, the number of these things hasn’t changed much. Just the reporting and the need to find reasons other than an evil heart in the perpetrator.
Absolutely. The gun incidents and corresponding media coverage are intended to create popular support for gun control. The exact mechanism of how people snap may be an individual mystery, but the media coverage certainly has some causal effect.
These guys saying 'I cannot handle being unemployed for two weeks' who have never walked through a Bangladesh slum which still has adults and kids smiling and bearing with life but are 1000x worse than even the most terrible American slum or unemployed rust belt city, are the epitome in my opinion of some pretty insular, fat, pampered, spoiled, secular, selfish Americans who have essentially lost their souls. They are a curse to our nation, and a growing international embarrassment. (Yes, these shootings are carried far and wide and the US, unfairly, is getting a rotten image even though probably less than 1% of Americans would do such a heinous thing).
There will be more of these though. Probably one within the month, maybe 5, 10, 15 killed. This "Me" Generation gives birth to it, more so than Obama as a person in my opinion. America had guns around en masse for decades upon decades, and people had responsibility and generally did not freak out at the slightest adversity in life, i.e. they sucked it up.
I am beginning to think that that (good, responsible, non-crybaby, moral) American culture maybe gone for good--I hope not.
They’ll use it as an excuse t ban both guns and knives for the ‘protection of the citizenry’.
Almost like one big, slow national Cultural Reichstag Fire.
Yes. As I recall, the VA Tech incident aftermath centered around the need for social workers -- the shooter was alienated and unhappy, couldn't someone have helped him? Why didn't someone see? Should college admissions offices change their policies? etc. etc.
Of course, now, all the incidents point to one thing: we need to get rid of guns.
Under President Bush, the Left knew that gun control wasn't going to gain ground -- so they pushed for an increased Social services budget, and the GOP wasn't shy about approving that kind of spending. Now under Obama there is more hope of gun control, so that angle is pursued rather than funding for social work.
The Left is flexible about how they pursue their agenda.
Only cowards kill defenseless civilians or ambush police officers responding to a call. The quickest way to turn the populace against a cause is to allow barbarous acts against the civilian population. All patriots need to speak out vehemently against this type of cowardice and distance ourselves from any acts of domestic terrorism before GovCo brands every dissenter as a terrorist and uses these heinous crimes as an excuse to further revoke our liberty.
Very very perceptive. Good!
Oddly enough after the VA Tech shooting the media allowed a few editorials about how one professor with a gun could have cut short the rampage. There will be no such hypotheticals allowed now.
There were a couple of bad ones during the Bush terms but there were a lot more under Clinton
Yes, it was 32 not including the shooter.
I wouldn’t necessarily blame all of it on Zero.
He’s just one guy, who gets a lot of help from the hill.
There are active groups fighting for allowing “certified” students to carry on campus. I know several students at tech that are on the shooting team, that are of age, have cwp’s and are fighting tooth and nail for this.
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