Of Course Tamerlan Tsarnaev Is on Slate’s List of People Killed With Guns (Victims?)

Slate ^ | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 | Dan Kois

[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 Tsarnaev’s name be on that interactive?

[bigheadfred]

i thought he was killed in a traffic accident

[a fool in paradise]

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.

[a fool in paradise]

ALLEGEDLY killed by gunfire. He was tired.

[babble-on]

lol, yes, I do believe it was a traffic accident

[Ken522]

Yeah - I heard his little brother ran him over in the parking lot ...

[DanielRedfoot]

That’s like putting the Manendez brothers on a list of kids who lost their parents to violence.

[bunkerhill7]

He shoulda wished he was in Philadelphia

[ladyjane]

i thought he was killed in a traffic accident

ROTFL - you are so bad!!!

[ConorMacNessa]

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)

[Slings and Arrows]

Adult-Onset Truck Bumper.

[publius911]

Racist!
Why does a white killer get on the victim list but no African-Americans?

[freeandfreezing]

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.

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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.

[Standing Wolf]

I wonder how many suicides were on that list.

[43north]

“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.

[Slings and Arrows]

“Adult-Onset Truck Bumper.” That’s a good one!

I only steal the best.

"Speedbump and Joker - this fall only on AL-JAZEERA!"

[Jabba the Nutt]

Wasn’t terrorist #1 a victim of car violence? He was killed by being run over in a stolen car driven by his brother.

[iopscusa]

Tamerlan Tsarnaev a double agent for FBI?
http://whowhatwhy.com/2013/06/23/was-tamerlan-tsarnaev-a-double-agent-recruited-by-the-fbi/