Deadly Shooting Puts School on Lockdown (Pittsburgh)

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[Eastbound]

[Diddle E. Squat]

Oh really, although you call someone else an idiot

Because their response to a post where I talked about possible limits on military-grade weapons and had previously indicated my support for most gun rights, was to immediately accuse me of being a total gun-grabbing nut like Sarah Brady and Al Gore. Completely ridiculous. Like when someone calls a long-time conservative a commie socialist RINO just because they disagree on a single pet issue. Get a grip.

[Diddle E. Squat]

In one of my previous responses I stated that obviously a 6-shooter (yes, I did use that exact term) was not adequate for self-defense in all situations.

[Eastbound]

Good selection, Spktyr.

Here's another double-take:

My kind of ugly gun. Yes, it's an AK-47, but a 22-cal trainer.

[cmotormac44]

look at the date this one 'came aboard'--another stupid liberal trying to sneak his/her 2 cents into Free Republic--down with trolls/back to DU

[Spktyr]

Yup. It's a plinker, not real suitable for any other use.

Now let's see if he can figure out which one's which.

[brazzaville]

Good evening.

If a musket is all the statists have left me it will have to do until I can get something more appropriate.

In the novel "Unintended Consequences" John Ross describes how Jews in Warsaw used an old revolver to kill Nazi soldiers. They would take the dead soldier's weapon and pass the revolver on to someone else to repeat the process.

That might not have been necessary had the citizens owned and been competent in the use of modern military arms. That is what the Second Amendment is all about.

Michael Frazier

[PennsylvaniaMom]

RayBob, I grew up in Oakland. South Oakland to be exact...my neighborhood consisted of 16 foot wide, shotgun houses (no pun with this being a 'shooting thread'--a shotgun is a narrow row house where the back door aligns with the front so you could fire straight thru.) Today, in Shadyside, they would be considered 'townhouses' but I digress...there were two kinds of homeowners there...the 'natives' who lived there since their grandparents got off the boat...and real estate 'developers' who would buy one of these little houses and subdivide the he## out of it (6 small rooms = 4 minuscule apartments) stuff four or five foreign students into each apartment and recoup their original investment in about an hour and half. Home values plummeted, and my dad would just pray that Pitt would expand south of the Boulevard of the Allies for any reason...just to take that house off his hands...Oakland!!!

[PennsylvaniaMom]

LOL...I know where Indianola is too...okay, how about Star Junction?

[Badray]

IE; The Hill District, Northside, East McKeesport, etc etc etc.....

The Hill is black, by choice. Are you suggesting that whites should be forced to move in or a few Asians and Hispanics?

The Northside is the largest section of the City of Pittsburgh. Geographically, it covers more area than any other and more than many combined. Within that area, there are numerous all white, all black, and mixed race neighborhoods. How would you change that and why?

East McKeesport is a mostly white middle class neighborhood. It's not a part of Pittsburgh and is actually quite far away. Why would you include them in 'Pittsburgh'?

Are you from the 'burgh? Are you familiar with the layout? Do you know why almost every neighborhood name ends in 'Hill'? Pittsburgh self segregated since the beginning as immigrants for the same part of the old world moved close to others who spoke the same language and shared the same values and culture?

Are you suggesting that there is something wrong with that, then or now.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

And I'll add, many of the neighborhoods are geographically defined by rivers, streams, hills, mountains, hollows, bridges, railroad tracks. The topography more than anything dictated the design (or lack of) for the Burgh and Allegheny County.

[Badray]

(Needs residential downtown aka Center City)

No. The city needs a fiscally sound manager to draw people and business back anywhere within the city limits. In the last 30 years, Democrat 'leadership' has cut the population in half. Pittsburgh was also a leader in Corporate HQs being located in Pittsburgh.

Now, where exactly downtown do you want people to live? And why is that a necessity?

[Nowhere Man]

There is NO good reason for AK-47's to be "on the streets".

Yeah, they can be a bit ornery and skittish, so you must keep 'em on a leash. B-)

[Nowhere Man]

We also had a house blow up in a gas explosion as well, it was a mile away from where I live. I even felt the shockwave hit my house.

[Nowhere Man]

Would you feel better if these people got shot with a 9mm?

Good one but I like my hero Archie Bunker's reply much better, "would you feel better if they fell out of buildings?"

[GingisK]

But then again, the Brown Bess had that nasty evil ugly bayonet lug.

Best chuckle I've had all day!

[Nowhere Man]

You deserve to get flamed considering the "AK-47" sold in America isn't anything more dangerous than what was sold 50 or 75 years ago to anyone over 18.

A little futher than that, I saw a Winchester SLR (Self Loading Rifle) of 1907 in a 1908 Sears Catalog. It was in a .351 caliber IIRC, sort of looks a little like an M-14 from the drawing. I think Denmark was the first to use semi-auto rifles in their army back in the 1890's

[Lazamataz]

There is NO good reason for AK-47's to be "on the streets".

Correct.

They should be in *every* home's closet, not in the streets.

[Lazamataz]

The police were THERE when this went down. And they still haven't caught the shooters?

Right. And they cannot even identify the firearm.

MIGHT have been an EEEEEvil "assault weapon".

[Badray]

I could count on one hand the number of times I've ventured to the North Hills - strictly a "Sahth Hills" girl here!

But I know that you've been dahntahn more than once. ;-)