20 kids were killed today.... so was the NRA

[flabbybody]

I'm trying to deal with this tragedy today, as we all are.
As Gov Malloy addresses the citizens of Connecticut and the rest of our nation I grieve knowing that this deranged scumbag who murdered these kids had 3 guns. How did he get them ? It's as easy to buy these things as to buy a flat screen TV.

NRA. You are dead. You no longer have a political base.
Fuck you and die

[flabbybody]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rifle_Association

NRA. You are done

[robertlouis]

Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker today.

Newtown and the Madness of Guns
Posted by Adam Gopnik

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After the mass gun murders at Virginia Tech, I wrote about the unfathomable image of cell phones ringing in the pockets of the dead kids, and of the parents trying desperately to reach them. And I said (as did many others), This will go on, if no one stops it, in this manner and to this degree in this country alone—alone among all the industrialized, wealthy, and so-called civilized countries in the world. There would be another, for certain.

Then there were—many more, in fact—and when the latest and worst one happened, in Aurora, I (and many others) said, this time in a tone of despair, that nothing had changed. And I (and many others) predicted that it would happen again, soon. And that once again, the same twisted voices would say, Oh, this had nothing to do with gun laws or the misuse of the Second Amendment or anything except some singular madman, of whom America for some reason seems to have a particularly dense sample.

And now it has happened again, bang, like clockwork, one might say: Twenty dead children—babies, really—in a kindergarten in a prosperous town in Connecticut. And a mother screaming. And twenty families told that their grade-schooler had died. After the Aurora killings, I did a few debates with advocates for the child-killing lobby—sorry, the gun lobby—and, without exception and with a mad vehemence, they told the same old lies: it doesn’t happen here more often than elsewhere (yes, it does); more people are protected by guns than killed by them (no, they aren’t—that’s a flat-out fabrication); guns don’t kill people, people do; and all the other perverted lies that people who can only be called knowing accessories to murder continue to repeat, people who are in their own way every bit as twisted and crazy as the killers whom they defend. (That they are often the same people who pretend outrage at the loss of a single embryo only makes the craziness still crazier.)

So let’s state the plain facts one more time, so that they can’t be mistaken: Gun massacres have happened many times in many countries, and in every other country, gun laws have been tightened to reflect the tragedy and the tragic knowledge of its citizens afterward. In every other country, gun massacres have subsequently become rare. In America alone, gun massacres, most often of children, happen with hideous regularity, and they happen with hideous regularity because guns are hideously and regularly available.

The people who fight and lobby and legislate to make guns regularly available are complicit in the murder of those children. They have made a clear moral choice: that the comfort and emotional reassurance they take from the possession of guns, placed in the balance even against the routine murder of innocent children, is of supreme value. Whatever satisfaction gun owners take from their guns—we know for certain that there is no prudential value in them—is more important than children’s lives. Give them credit: life is making moral choices, and that’s a moral choice, clearly made.

All of that is a truth, plain and simple, and recognized throughout the world. At some point, this truth may become so bloody obvious that we will know it, too. Meanwhile, congratulate yourself on living in the child-gun-massacre capital of the known universe.

[top4bigbutt]

when this shit is gonna stop, 20 kids...I have 3 on my own, it is so fucked up
I actually was fired from my job a while ago because I speak loud about some asshole coworker, the motherfucker own guns and even my stupid ex boss is affraid of him When we are going to take the matter seriously, this is the only country in the world that has shit like this '
We are so fucked up
God bless those kids and their families

[beandip]

"when this shit is gonna stop,"?

As soon as the legal drug pushers stop drugging the kids. Not a moment sooner.

[beandip]

All of that is a truth, plain and simple, and recognized throughout the world. At some point, this truth may become so bloody obvious that we will know it, too. Meanwhile, congratulate yourself on living in the child-gun-massacre capital of the known universe.

It's not the truth. There are many more countries where many more children are killed by firearms than in the US.

[559alphadog]

Its sad but truth is this is an everyday thing in many countrys. Hati, somalia, burma, take ur pic, and taking our right to arms will not help. If evil wants to be seen it will be seen .

[beandip]

How did he get them? His mother, the school teacher purchased them legally. Can't you read?

[beandip]

..Brazil, Guatamala, El Salvador, Viet Nam....most of Africa....

Looky here....

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news...n-north-denver

Time to ban Black people....er......lighter fluid.....or....ummmmm, matches.

Sheeeeeesh. Can't government do anything ? (asks the statist assholes).

[trish]

How did he get them? His mother, the school teacher purchased them legally. Can't you read?

Time to make them illegal then.