Shootings are insane, but so is response - (Cynthia Tucker Barf Alert)

AJC ^ | April 12, 2009 | Cynthia Tucker

[re_tail20]

Today, modern Americans look back on ancestors who burned witches at the stake and who enslaved their brethren and shake their heads, unable to fully understand a culture that condoned such cruelty and harbored such lunacy.

A hundred years from now, historians and social scientists will look back on our own crazed obsession with guns and wonder why the madness lasted so long. They’ll shake their heads over a time in which a church or nursing home or community center could suddenly fall prey to a gunman armed with a determination to murder indiscriminately.

Yes, these mass shootings are a form of madness, but what’s even more insane is our passive reaction. We shrug our shoulders, then turn the conversation to Octomom Nadya Suleman or North Carolina’s triumph over Michigan State in college basketball’s biggest game.

[George Smiley]

“Cynthia Tucker Barf Alert” is redundant.

[superjc]

So violent murderers who don’t have access to guns are just fine. everything is OK in this society, it’s only access to guns. Move along, nothing to see here.

[liberty or death]

“Today, modern Americans look back on ancestors who burned witches at the stake and who enslaved their brethren and shake their heads, unable to fully understand a culture that condoned such cruelty and harbored such lunacy.”

No we shake our heads at a “culture and political party” (the party of slavery by the way) that is the leader in killing babies and especially the babies of the minorities who are the ancestors of “their slaves”. These are the same type of people who would burn conservatives at the stake for their beliefs.

[umgud]

Taking firearms away from law abiding citizens will never stop crime.

Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars.

[kcvl]

Hey, Cynthia, can explain how this happened then? Maybe we should blame it on ‘your ancetors’!

NO GUN, Cynthia!!!

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“Six weeks ago this morning, I found my daughter beyond recognition with every bone in her face broken, her nose broken, her jaw pulverized so badly that the bone had come out of it; I actually thought that her throat had been cut,” she told Lauer. “Her entire skull had numerous fractures from which she suffered a massive stroke.”

Last Wednesday, Little Rock police arrested Curtis L. Vance, 28, and charged him with the murder. Vance was arrested at his home in Marianna, Ark., a town about 100 miles east of Little Rock. Police say DNA evidence convinces them that Vance committed the murder and sexual assault. Vance has also been charged in connection with the rape of a schoolteacher in Marianna last April.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27995920/

[SpaceBar]

A hundred years from now, historians and social scientists will look back on our own crazed obsession with guns and wonder why the madness lasted so long.

A hundred years from now they will wonder how we tolerated the liberals which infest our society like a cancer.

[SkipW]

What a jerk.

[freekitty]

The Romans already did that and wondered why the hell women like this author still exist.

[VeniVidiVici]

The gun lobby will dismiss my complaints as the overwrought hectoring of an anti-gun fanatic, but I’m no such thing. I grew up in the hunting culture of south Alabama, with a father who was a combat veteran and who loved nothing more than to get up before dawn on a cold November morning to sit in a deer stand and wait for a buck to amble by.

I was born a poor, Black child.

[RobbyS]

What a fool! Doesn’t know that such killings have taken place in Britain and Germany, which virtually outlaw guns? Wanr to kill someone? Hands do nicely. Want to kill lots of people? A bomb is easy to make.

[RJL]

Today, modern Americans look back on ancestors who burned witches at the stake and who enslaved their brethren and shake their heads, unable to fully understand a culture that condoned such cruelty and harbored such lunacy.

I have little doubt how people will look back at those like Cynthia Tucker advocating for the killing of 50 million babies, so far, by abortion since 1973.

[blam]

There are laws on the books that say newspapers must publish bull-shit like this just because this person is a Black woman.

What is happening to us?

[count-your-change]

Automobiles scare me far more than guns of any kind.
First, They're bigger and harder to protect yourself against.
Second, There's lots more of them being used around me. And by people who seem to have little user ability.
Third, A single shot, one ton auto can take out more people than a full clip in the typical hand cannon.

My fears are well justified by the tens of thousands of deaths from automobiles each year.
So I'll worry about guns when my chances of death or injury from them come closer to the likelihood of my being the victim of an automobile.
And yes, I've owned more guns of various types than autos.

[blam]

More BS coming too!!

UPDATE: FCC Acting Chairman To Act Boldly On Media Diversity

[TigersEye]

"Crazed obsession with guns"

That statement is just plain old garden variety stupid.

[Eagles6]

"But her parents feel that the sheer brutality of the murder suggests additional motivation."

Uhh...she was White. Can't believe the father of this girl called the perp "the gentleman". Prayers for the victim and her loved ones.

[csense]

modern Americans look back on ancestors who burned witches at the stake

We never burned witches at the stake here. Not sure if that's what she meant, but given the idiots in journalism these days....

[Nateman]

In Switzerland every able bodied man MUST have a machine gun and a years worth of ammunition on hand. You don't hear about gun violence there do you?