Time for yet another "Mass Shooting" thread

A national registry for gun owners will never happen. Haven't you seen Red Dawn?

 

I would say "Wolverines!" but that means something different when you say it to a guy in Colimbus.

 

A national registry is unlikely because the gun lobby doesn't want people to know how small the gun owning populace really are.

 

Jeez - remember the firestorm this caused a few years ago?

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/2362530

 

Id like to see: Careful demographic analysis identifies the rebel flag wavingist, bump stock lovingist, full auto feteshingist, Glockaphilic, red state NRA branch anywhere. then, get a few busses and flood them with multiple branches of the "Huey Newton Gun Club" all clamoring for enrollment forms. Put op "H.N.G.C Coming soon" real estate signs on vacant siters all over Whitelandia. Make Jesusland shudder. Season to taste.

 

Also Heart is most likely your own fault (at least partially), while Cancer often seems to come out of nowhere. It's much more scary. So you give money.

With Heart you think you can minimize your risk by living healthy, exercising etc. With cancer? No such luck (although that's not true for all cancers).

Coincidentally the same trick works with guns. The big scary boogey man is out to get you, he can come any time out of nowhere without warning, you better have a gun to defend yourself!

Car accident on the other hand? Well I'm the one driving so I have control! Obviously not entirely true, but that's the way it works out psychologically. The illusion of control is important. Paradoxically buying a gun gives you that.

The Gun lobbyists have a really easy sell.

I hate the ********ing Eagles, man.

 

Yeah, but who among that demographic, even knows who Huey Newton is? Maybe a more contemporary Negro Whose Very Name Induces Fear. Kanye West? Wesley Snipes, LeBron James, PK Subban?

 

fyp

 

No fair!

 

Gotta hand it to wingnuts like Steve Scalise. Motherfer's walking around with crutches after barely surviving a shooting and he says "Nancy Pelosi already has a bill ready to ban bump stocks. It's a slippery slope (eroding 2nd Amend) if you start with bump stocks."

 

Foo--he probably believes he should have "made himself smaller..."

 

I blame him for the Nats Game 1 loss to the Cubs in addition to being a horrible politician.

 

Pretty surprising new development in the LV shooting timeline. The security guard on the 32nd was shot in the leg a good 6 minutes before the gunman opened fire on the crowd. The previous timeline stated he was shot after. The question is that did he call the police or 911 then? if so why it took that long to locate him and the shooter?

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/10/las...rd-before-mass-shooting.html?__source=Twitter

 

We can track who's buying the ingredients for meth but...

 

There is two kinds of music, country and western. The Eagles is western. But I don't blame you, they draw from the same audience. It's a distinction without much difference.

 

What kind of music do you usually have here, "We got both kinds, we got country and western.

 

One of the things I read/heard about the response was that a lot of people where phoning in reports that were less than accurate, sending several units to the wrong places. When you consider that many of the people in the crowd and thereabouts were visitors and thus didn't know exactly where they were, that's understandable.

The new timeline adds a few questions, though.

 

That was indeed the reference. Even now, after so many viewings, I can't watch that scene without laughing.

 

I have no idea who the actress is but I can't imagine that line delivered any better.

 

Rule of thumb-- Western is the one with pedal steel, country is the one with banjo.

The Eagles had a lot of country-- "Take it Easy," "21," "Journey of the Sorcerer," "Midnight Flyer"-- until they began to replace Bernie Leadon-- "Ol' '55," "New Kid In Town." But really, they were both...