Breaking active shooter at Washington navy yard. >>>MOD ALERT<<<<

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  1. Toefoot

    Toefoot Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    OUCH, your wisdom is bleeding......MEDIC. To blame a individual action on a organized law abiding group is dishonest. You need to provide proof......please. Is this a theory of yours?

    I will throw the bull(*)(*)(*)(*) flag.

     
  2. godisnotreal

    godisnotreal Well-Known Member

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    you're right in a sense--i am probably the least depressed person in the world, and have no clue as to why someone would not want to value their own life. But even if you dont value your life, there's no guarantee that things will turn out the way you envision. You may be shot by police and be permanently disabled or suffer permanent pain. So the shooter takes on significant risk when he chooses to do what he does.
     
  3. Rapunzel

    Rapunzel New Member Past Donor

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    Gottcha...thanks for clarifying. Poor dear man...horrible.
     
  4. Eighty Deuce

    Eighty Deuce New Member Past Donor

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    I did not claim such. But perhaps an added sentence would have prevented this tangent on all PTSD claims. In this thread, its about this murderer. PTSD had nothing to do with what happened today.

    Yes, but I believe that you do not grasp bravery. By your definitions, being "reckless" would be the same as being "brave". Yes they have overlaps, but one is not the other. FYI, we have had Medal-of-Honor winners whose actions for which they were awarded were nothing but The actions of a crazed man. Perhaps where his buddies just got blown up next to him, so he flipped out, and survived to be commended for dodging bullets and killing a half-dozen enemy. Read "Medal of Honor" if you doubt me. Many winners of this award are the first to tell you that they were "not brave". They are correct.

    And we've had winners who were not crazed. Who fully appreciated the risk, but went into Hell's fire for a calculated cause.

    There was nothing brave by the shooter today. The bravery was by those who risked all to take him down.
     
  5. Foolardi

    Foolardi Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Plus don't forget that Joe Biden earlier this year on a supposed skiing trip to
    Colorado had a secret meeting with certain Democrats in the state to Push real
    hard for an anti-gun measure.Thereby setting the stage for a national move to
    outlaw many current gun rights.The meeting was reported and noted.
    Then lo & behold Colorado did just that.The democrat controlled Colorado state
    senate under cover of night did just what Biden secretly called for.They just up
    and legislated new,tighter gun control laws and never bothered with announcing
    publically.The democrat Governor,on board,all along,willingly signed off.
    Pure Public deception,under the cover of shady Democrat controlled politics.
    However Last week was the real vindication.The 2 State Senate Democrats who
    were most responsible for upturning Colorado's gun rights were Recalled and now
    are History.Those 2 dirty Colorado Pols,tried every dirty trick imaginable to
    connive the public that the recall petitions and even the actual voting was rigged
    against them.The kind of Politics Obama thrives upon.
    However make no mistake.
    Joe Biden said and meant it as a Presidential candidate in 2007 :
    " On Sept. 20th 2007,Joe Biden told onlookers that
    Obama won't take away his guns.I guarantee you Barack Obama ain't taking
    away my shotguns,so don't buy that malarkey.Don't but that malarkey.They're going
    to start peddling that malarkey to you. "
     
  6. justoneman

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    Just wanted to interrupt the post racial discussion. Did they determine if it was a lone gunman or do they suspect an accomplice?
     
  7. Foolardi

    Foolardi Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    This has all the earmarks of a False Flag intended exclusively to extend Obama's
    pathetic governance and possibly reward him another shot at a Sandy Hook Gun
    takeaway victory.
    Obama needs distractions.That is a given.His scandals are not going to be lessoned.
    His Governance is the worst of any modern day President in history.
    His Spending is SO over the top it is retarded.
    His Jobs record is like stagnant pond water.His ability to unite the masses and the races
    is the most divisive and intransigent in our nations history.
    Obama is the worse train wreck this country has ever been faced with.
    The Rich aren't really hurting,as most reality TV shows exemplify.
    But the Middle class is being systemically eliminated and relegated to obscurity.
    Where under Bush,they were never more alive and upgrading.Under Bush the
    Black Middle class was never more vibrant and successful.
    Now the Black populace is in real dire straights.Unemployment and wages for Blacks
    and fatherless homes and high school drop out rates and Illegitimacy and Illiteracy
    are at record levels.Food stamps and welfare are now a livelihood.
    Just what a Marxist needs to implement an agenda to make slaves of an entire
    society.To keep people on the public dole.The better to manage and control their every
    move.Their every vote.
     
  8. Aleksander Ulyanov

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    It's a theory of mine

    For partial support I offer;

    http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000082

    http://www.vpc.org/press/1104blood.htm

    And can offer more, but this is enough to support a theory. The NRA once performed a valuable service in promoting gun safety. I maintain they are now much more interested in selling more guns to more people, no matter what these people have done.

    I welcome your rebuttals, but may not reply right away, this thread is moving too fast.
     
  9. Eighty Deuce

    Eighty Deuce New Member Past Donor

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    The problem is not the NRA trying to promote gun ownership, as per the Constitution. Its liberals trying to restrict gun ownership.

    These atrocities have not always been with us. When did these mass-murders start to become more commonplace ?
     
  10. Levon

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    It will be interesting to see the racial make-up of the victims.........
     
  11. CRUE CAB

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    Its a right, and dont forget it. You obviously dont know jack about the founding fathers.
     
  12. Oldyoungin

    Oldyoungin Well-Known Member

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    These types of things are just going to happen , no way to prevent it.
     
  13. CRUE CAB

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    When the weak got old enough to buy guns.
     
  14. Jack Napier

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    Ace.

    They should appoint you Guardian of All Things!
     
  15. Eighty Deuce

    Eighty Deuce New Member Past Donor

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    Actually it was the mid 70's, when the culture of being able to blame others for one's own failings, and thereby justify their being legitimate targets for punishment, started to take hold.

    Modern day American Liberalism.
     
  16. CRUE CAB

    CRUE CAB New Member

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    Yes, the weak minded frustrated at lashing out like the little children they are.
     
  17. Cdnpoli

    Cdnpoli Banned

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    I don't remember the last time Canada had a mass shooting on a military base.
     
  18. justoneman

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    And if it were a privilege and not a right, this guy being in the military had all the gun training you can imagine and would have been granted the "privilege". So gun control would not have prevented his rampage. What would have prevented it would be a court system that would have put him in jail for shooting a fire arm at a car's tires and for shooting one at a neighbor through the wall in an apartment.

    Maybe we need to pass some laws about being a Judge is not a right its a privilege.
     
  19. CRUE CAB

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    BS, he was accepted in to the Navy reserves in 2007. PTSD my ass.

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    Then move to or stay in Canada.
     
  20. justoneman

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    Does Canada have a military?
     
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    Does location really matter ? Canada has plenty of its own mass shooting / killing attacks .
     
  22. CRUE CAB

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    Yea, everyone is clear that there is real PTSD and then there are the other 99% that are claiming it for one reason or the other. Usually to collect money or use it as an excuse for abhorrent behavior.
     
  23. Cdnpoli

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    I guess our 158 fatalities in Afghanistan don't matter to Americans.

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    How many is plenty? Because there hasn't been a legit mass shooting in Canada yet this year.
     
  24. Texsdrifter

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    According to this article the police pretty sure it was just the one guy. I have heard that it is standard procedure to assume more than one shooter. Never heard it speculated to this degree however.

    Also the names of some of the victims and more info.

    On a personal note my apologies to everyone for letting lack of sleep and TMI get to me, and losing my cool earlier.
    http://m.washingtonpost.com/local/p...d72b9a-1ecb-11e3-b7d1-7153ad47b549_story.html
     
  25. justoneman

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    I guess you do not know a joke when you read one.
     

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