Re: The Official Shoutbox Thread
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Cam, I really don't appreciate you using this horrific event to take a political poke at my country.
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Just for interest sake, that's the 16th mass shooting of 2012, leaving a combined total of 88 people dead.
Timeline -
February 22, 2012—Five people were killed in at a Korean health spa in Norcross, Georgia, when a man got into an argument and opened fire inside the facility.
February 26, 2012—Multiple gunmen began firing into a nightclub crown in Jackson, Tennessee, killing one person and injuring 20 others.
February 27, 2012—Three students at Chardon High School in rural Ohio were killed when a classmate opened fire.
March 8, 2012—Two people were killed and seven wounded at a psychiatric hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, when a gunman entered the hospital with two semiautomatic handguns and began firing.
March 31, 2012—A gunman opened fire on a crowd of mourners at a North Miami, Florida, funeral home, killing two people and injuring 12 others.
April 2, 2012—A 43-year-old former student at Oikos University in Oakland, California, walked into his former school and killed seven people, “execution-style.” Three people were wounded.
April 6, 2012—Two men went on a deadly shooting spree in Tulsa, Oklahoma, shooting black men at random in an apparently racially motivated attack. Three men died and two were wounded.
May 29, 2012—A man in Seattle, Washington, opened fire in a coffee shop and killed five people and then himself.
July 9, 2012—At a soccer tournament in Wilmington, Delaware, three people were killed, including a 16-year-old player and the event organizer, when multiple gunmen began firing shots, apparently targeting the organizer.
July 20, 2012—James Holmes enters a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises and opens fire with a semi-automatic weapon; twelve people are killed and fifty-eight are wounded.
August 5, 2012—A white supremacist and former Army veteran shot six people to death inside a Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee, Wisconsin, before killing himself.
August 14, 2012—Three people were killed at Texas A&M University when a 35-year-old man went on a shooting rampage; one of the dead was a police officer.
September 27, 2012—A 36-year-old man who had just been laid off from Accent Signage Systems in Minneapolis, Minnesota, entered his former workplace and shot five people to death, and wounded three others before killing himself.
October 21, 2012—45-year-old Radcliffe Frankin Haughton shot three women to death, including his wife, Zina Haughton, and injured four others at a spa in Brookfield, Wisconsin, before killing himself.
December 11, 2012—A 22-year-old began shooting at random at a mall near Portland, Oregon, killing two people and then himself.
December 14, 2012—One man, and possibly more, murders a reported twenty-six people at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, including twenty children, before killing himself.
The only reasonable argument for owning a gun is to protect yourself from the police.
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Cam, I really don't appreciate you using this horrific event to take a political poke at my country. It's not a political poke. It's an illustration of how problems aren't dealt with (anywhere). Your attempt to silence is exactly my point. This is a big problem. The media is now doing the same thing i.e. silence in respect for the deceased.....don't question things....it's disrespectful....we need a cool down period....
The only reasonable argument for owning a gun is to protect yourself from the police.
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I see no solution to this problem. Mental illness runs amok everywhere. It's probably impossible to fix. It's a fact we have to live with regardless of societal and freedom changes from now on.
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Cam, "just another gun day in the u.s. of a." and your references to Saudi women are not even credible ways to start yet another divisive debate.
If you want to honestly talk about causes of violence, or mass shootings or gun rights, fine. Just don't expect anyone to take you seriously when your opening salvo is so utterly lacking in compassion and context.
I think we need gun reform in my country. And I am horrified and, yes, surprised by today's events. Your only references thus far are pretty blatantly anti-American. I want to heal and make things better. Your incessant penchant for bashing America is tired, and counterproductive to civil and respectful discourse.
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This is so terrible. I can't imagine what the families must be going through, just awfull.
Half of communication is listening. You can't listen with your mouth.
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Thank you for handling that with your typical restraint, Tom. I could not have done the same in this case.
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bibere usque ad hilaritatem
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Now the whole damn forum has gone to sleep.
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This could bring a whole new meaning to the phrase "piss on you"
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