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WHAT DID WE THINK WAS GOING TO HAPPEN?
Men Of The West ^ | 2-19-18 | El Borak

Posted on 02/19/2018 3:57:37 PM PST by skimbell

"...I have bad news for you. No one is going to end school shootings because schools shootings are not the real problem. So be prepared for them to get worse and to not be limited to schools. When your culture falls apart, the people in it fall apart. Some of them turn into TrigglyPuff. Some turn into Nikolas Cruz.

But what did we expect was going to happen? That’s not a rhetorical question, except in the sense that no one really thought to ask it...

We built a culture in which celebrity is our highest aspiration..."

(Excerpt) Read more at menofthewest.net ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 201802; bloggers; education; menofthewest; virtue
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To: ifinnegan

Being concerned about vaccines and GMO’s isn’t just for Leftists.


21 posted on 02/19/2018 5:13:52 PM PST by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("Thanking the Lord Jesus every day for President Donald J. Trump!")
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To: skimbell

The problem is the penalty for the crime.Life in prison for killing 17 people?That is not a deterrant.They should let the SOB starve to death in a cage hoisted in the air and let the birds,eat the decaying flesh as it falls off his bones.Then leave it up there,for all to see ,forever.


22 posted on 02/19/2018 5:16:40 PM PST by Renegade
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
More than that, or perhaps as the aggregate of ALL that, it's an inchoate anger chasing a desire to find something -- anything -- more than anonymity.

There's no way the Parkland idiot could tell you why he did what he did. He doesn't know. In fact, it's doubtful there IS a reason, at least one that anyone would recognize.

He was just full of hate. Anger. Resentment. Brainless, conscienceless, amoral rage. Like a rabid dog that bites without really knowing why it bites.

But like that rabid dog, the solution isn't to try to reason with it, or to figure out some unanswerable "why." It's to put it down, throw it over the fence, and get on with life.

23 posted on 02/19/2018 5:29:50 PM PST by IronJack (A)
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth

Leftists and loonies.


24 posted on 02/19/2018 5:36:56 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: skimbell

Murderers get their pix on the cover of rolling stone and become famous. The Boston marathon killer was glorified on the cover.
It has to stop. No pictures. Name one time. No interviews in prison.
Execution should be public, but grave unmarked.


25 posted on 02/19/2018 5:46:12 PM PST by I want the USA back (Free Republic keeps me from going insane in a world that has chosen insanity over reason.)
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To: ifinnegan

I read the same post and i came away with less of an opinion of you than him.

To equate his statements on irresponsible overmedication and reckless chemical exposure to liberals is the epitome of bias & ignorance.

Especially considering that with your words you label ME a lib.

Them’s fightin words.


26 posted on 02/19/2018 6:06:35 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: Larry Lucido

Ping. This take is Spot On


27 posted on 02/19/2018 6:07:22 PM PST by The FIGHTIN Illini (Wake up fellow Patriots before it's too late)
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To: logi_cal869

Where do your beliefs here come from?


28 posted on 02/19/2018 6:13:54 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: IronJack

Good point about hate. I would add that to my list: 15. Democrats divide Americans and pit them against each other. They generate hate in groups so they can run on imagined grievances.

I agree that there is no single reason or motive that he could articulate or anybody could ever find. It is an amalgam of all of the reasons I listed, stewed together in seriously ill minds and antagonized by many of the factors I listed.


29 posted on 02/19/2018 6:31:32 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: skimbell

Swift trial and execution will send strong message to would be murderers.


30 posted on 02/19/2018 6:37:53 PM PST by northislander
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To: ifinnegan

Ironically, there are 2 responses I would expect from a liberal posed a similar riposte to blind ignorance.

That was one of them. That or it’s the lamest apology ever.

When push comes to shove, you & I appear on the same side. But your comments rub me so wrong on the non-political I’m not playing. When you get your issues sorted out, you know how to find me. Until then, you & I have nothing to chat about.

To be clear, you have broken new ground: Given all the time I’ve spent talking to others about health matters and the concepts I outline in my books, I have NEVER been labeled a liberal. Anti-vaxxer: Yes. Flat-earther: Yes. But NEVER a lib.

Tossing broad insults is akin to spray & pray; I caught one in the but-tocks and I’m not pleased.


31 posted on 02/19/2018 6:55:38 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: logi_cal869

Anti-Vaxxers to my mind are liberals or have been taken in by liberal retrogressive mindset.

I’m always surprised when conservatives fall for it.

Eradication of diseases by vaccines is among the greatest accomplishments of western Christian society, if not the greatest.


32 posted on 02/19/2018 7:05:17 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

From my perspective your mind is diseased. Assumption is the mother of all fkcups. It takes a very belligerent person of poor character to so broadly deride others in this forum from a position of personal bias, a very liberal trait.

My first perception of you on the basis of your earlier comments were spot-on; I suspect you’re a raving hypocrite as well, but I really don’t give a damn.

You may now go away or continue to expose yourself as a POS.


33 posted on 02/19/2018 10:12:18 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: skimbell

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Trump needs to hire a special prosecutor to investigate his FBI and CIA for staging mass shootings.

A certain sheriff from Arizona would be a good choice.
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34 posted on 02/19/2018 10:24:21 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: ifinnegan

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Vaccines spread disease, they certainly cannot erradicate them.
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35 posted on 02/19/2018 10:26:19 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: roadcat

I know it’s a shame to consider such actions as rushing a shooter, even for we adults. I gave that some thought as well, concerning those kids, because there was no other hope but to try.

If only those teachers had been carrying.

Lots of girls have Mace on their key ring, but that’s about it for inside a class room. Read recently that Wasp Spray is a sure deterrent. Desk Ducking as you said makes sitting ducks.


36 posted on 02/20/2018 12:01:42 AM PST by RitaOK
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To: roadcat

I know it’s a shame to consider such actions as rushing a shooter, even for we adults. I gave that some thought as well, concerning those kids, because there was no other hope but to try.

If only those teachers had been carrying.

Lots of girls have Mace on their key ring, but that’s about it for inside a class room. Read recently that Wasp Spray is a sure deterrent. Desk Ducking as you said makes sitting ducks.


37 posted on 02/20/2018 12:01:53 AM PST by RitaOK
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To: skimbell

Just reading the excerpt made me think it was gonna be a bunch of hooey - reading the whole article made it make a lot of sense.


38 posted on 02/20/2018 2:55:36 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: ifinnegan

Plenty of conservatives, too.


39 posted on 02/20/2018 3:52:04 PM PST by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("Thanking the Lord Jesus every day for President Donald J. Trump!")
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