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"Shootings always surprise ... People never expect eruption of violence..."

A huge warehouse store filled with hundreds of customers, all reduced to targets by Massachusetts' most punative gun laws in the country.

What a foul nest Liberals make.

1 posted on 12/16/2003 7:39:23 AM PST by pabianice
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Can't view the source without registering, but I'm guessing here. You changed the title, right?

2 posted on 12/16/2003 7:42:34 AM PST by .38sw
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To: pabianice

Gun control - the criminal thug's and crazed shooter's best friend.

3 posted on 12/16/2003 7:43:22 AM PST by Eris
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Someone snaps and everyone is shocked.

It doesn't surprise me that the shooting was at Lowes. These stores have the most ignorant, incompetent and indifferent employees of any major home improvement chain I have ever seen. They make up for what they don't know with a blank stare or rude rebuke. Not that this justifies shooting, it doesn't. But the management of Lowes is one of the best examples of how not to run a store that deals with the construction trade. As a contractor, I only send my people there as a last resort.

4 posted on 12/16/2003 7:55:36 AM PST by elbucko
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To: pabianice
Wallng's reaction to being shot in the shoulder may be an interesting illustration of what Massad Ayoob says about shooting injuries in situations like this - unless you concentrate, your mind falls into the patterns its seen on TV of how people react to being shot, and follows them to the letter.

He mentions the story of a cop who negligently discharged his firearm while drawing from his holster during a training exercise, and shot himself in the thigh - the cop collapsed in a theatrical heap, and it turned out that he'd only nicked the tissue of his thigh, and there was no physiological reason for him to react in that way.
5 posted on 12/16/2003 8:03:40 AM PST by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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Gee I don't know. Yes the laws are strict, but you canget a CCW . I know, Ilive in Mass (unfortunately) and I have a CCW. Just because none of those 300 or so customers chose not to carry a gun, doesn't mean they weren't allowed to. Even though I have a CCW, I rarely carry.
6 posted on 12/16/2003 8:07:44 AM PST by cpst12 (Tax and spend democrats versus borrown and spend republicans...which is worse?)
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Inre Lowes: ..in a store that sells faucet washers and lightbulbs and two-by-fours.

That is the same as saying Saddam was evil because he kicked his dog, a little understatement. (Yes, I work at Lowes)

7 posted on 12/16/2003 8:09:57 AM PST by zip
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Click the Gadsden flag for pro-gun resources!
9 posted on 12/16/2003 8:26:19 AM PST by Joe Brower ("If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever." - G. Orwell)
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Where were the police? So much for their police state protecting them. Stupid liberals will never get it.
14 posted on 12/16/2003 8:54:47 AM PST by m1-lightning ("You sure got a talent for trivializing the momentous and complicating the obvious. ")
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I've lived in Mass. They've passed so many gun laws and been subjected to so much propaganda that the majority of people react with horror to guns. They've developed an exaggerated fear and awe of firearms. Mass is more like England than a part of the US.
24 posted on 12/16/2003 10:34:24 AM PST by claudiustg (Go Sharon! Go Israel!)
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You've heard the cliche, "It's always in the last place you look." If you found it the first place you looked, ou will have found it in the last place you looked, as there is no reason to continue searching for something that you have already found.

You need to look at the cliche, "It's always the quiet ones that snap" in the same manner. It's always the quiet ones!

The ones that are loud, foul mouthed, drunk, disorderly, anti-social, and make a habit of waving a weapon around, are already in jail.

The average person is, well, average, like the vast majority of us. We know that we wouldn't go out and start shooting people so it shocks us when someone so similar to us does.

Prayers go out to all involved.

Sergio
28 posted on 12/16/2003 11:03:56 AM PST by Sergio (...but mine goes to 11.)
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If the story is accurate, by the way, there's not a damned thing an ARMED citizen could have done unless they happened to be standing right next to the action.

The guy shot 2 people and left.

So if YOU were at the cash register, armed, exactly what would you have done? Shot the perp in the back? In his truck?

This kind of thing happens all the time, and will continue to happen regardless of CCW in any State.
34 posted on 12/16/2003 12:21:09 PM PST by ninenot (So many cats, so few recipes)
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And there's nothing we can do but count on it.

Nothing we can do?!! Arm yourselves!!

40 posted on 12/16/2003 2:28:01 PM PST by Saundra Duffy (For victory & freedom!!!)
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People never expect eruption of violence…

I think it is safe to say there are more eruptions of violence than fatal cases of the flu – but people seem to be running scared of the flu and the vaccines are being snapped up as fast as they become available. We’ve had possibly three fatal cases of flu in Virginia this season, and that many people were shot yesterday alone here in Hampton Roads. Why should the random nut case surprise them, and why aren’t they rushing to be prepared for it?

55 posted on 12/16/2003 5:29:33 PM PST by R. Scott (It is seldom that any liberty is lost all at once.)
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