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Of Course Tamerlan Tsarnaev Is on Slate’s List of People Killed With Guns (Victims?)
Slate ^
| Wednesday, June 19, 2013
| Dan Kois
Posted on 06/19/2013 7:10:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Yesterday, at an event organized by Mayors Against Illegal Guns in Concord, N.H., a list of names of "victims of gun violence" was read aloud. Today, one name stands out: that of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bombing suspect killed during a shootout with police. The MAIG list came from Slate's interactive, "How Many People Have Been Killed By Guns Since Newtown?" The Atlantic Wire and others are asking: Should Tsarnaevs name be on that interactive?
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bbvictim; bostonbombing; bostonterrorist; guncontrol; gungrabbers; liewithstatistics; pravdamedia; proterrorist; secondamendment; slate; slatebias; tamerlan; tamerlantsarnaev; waronerror
To: nickcarraway
i thought he was killed in a traffic accident
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posted on
06/19/2013 7:11:22 PM PDT
by
bigheadfred
(barry your mouth is writing checks your ass cant cash)
To: nickcarraway; Revolting cat!
These lists are often bogus. When there was a “Bush’s fault - war dead” list running in the Washington Post and elsewhere, it included a young woman who died crossing a highway in Kansas if I recall.
To: nickcarraway; Revolting cat!
ALLEGEDLY killed by gunfire. He was tired.
To: bigheadfred
lol, yes, I do believe it was a traffic accident
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posted on
06/19/2013 7:15:26 PM PDT
by
babble-on
To: bigheadfred
Yeah - I heard his little brother ran him over in the parking lot ...
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posted on
06/19/2013 7:15:46 PM PDT
by
Ken522
To: nickcarraway
That’s like putting the Manendez brothers on a list of kids who lost their parents to violence.
To: nickcarraway
He shoulda wished he was in Philadelphia
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posted on
06/19/2013 7:19:52 PM PDT
by
bunkerhill7
(("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.))
To: bigheadfred
i thought he was killed in a traffic accident ROTFL - you are so bad!!!
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posted on
06/19/2013 7:20:37 PM PDT
by
ladyjane
(For the first time in my life I am not proud of my country.)
To: nickcarraway
Run over by a hi-jacked SUV with his brother at the wheel, wasn't he?
"Riamh nár dhruid ó sbairn lann!"
Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
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posted on
06/19/2013 7:24:11 PM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the A<font size=4><b>rchangel defend us in Battle!)
To: babble-on; bigheadfred; a fool in paradise
Adult-Onset Truck Bumper.
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posted on
06/19/2013 7:30:23 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein)
To: nickcarraway
Racist!
Why does a white killer get on the victim list but no African-Americans?
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posted on
06/19/2013 7:34:38 PM PDT
by
publius911
(Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)
To: nickcarraway
The list includes many people who were killed while committing crimes, or by police. Somehow the gesture of reading the list of names, as if they were all equally victims of "gun violence" seems pretty hollow when you consider that quite a few of the names are killers themselves.
Just one example - the list includes two people from Westfield Pennsylvania. The first died trying to flee a man she had ended a relationship with who broke into her apartment. Police on the scene shot the man after he fired again and refused orders to drop his weapon.
Original source
I can't see how equating the murderer with the victim makes any sense at all, but apparently Bloomberg and his anti-gun zealots think they are equal in some way.
To: nickcarraway
I wonder how many suicides were on that list.
To: Slings and Arrows
“Adult-Onset Truck Bumper.”
That’s a good one!
He was killed when his brother transformed him into a speed bump. The cops may have actually hit him with their bullets a few times but that ain’t what transformed him into a good muzzie.
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posted on
06/19/2013 8:46:27 PM PDT
by
43north
(BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
To: 43north
Adult-Onset Truck Bumper. Thats a good one!I only steal the best.
"Speedbump and Joker - this fall only on AL-JAZEERA!"
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posted on
06/19/2013 8:51:13 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein)
To: nickcarraway
Wasn’t terrorist #1 a victim of car violence? He was killed by being run over in a stolen car driven by his brother.
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posted on
06/20/2013 5:06:42 AM PDT
by
Jabba the Nutt
(The Stupid Party, they've earned it.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
06/25/2013 7:22:48 AM PDT
by
iopscusa
(El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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