American Tragedy

[Dave (imported)]

I have a serious question...

Why does Holmes' right to carry a rifle with 100 rounds in it outweigh 12 people's right to life?

Is that the meaning of the Second Amendment -- anyone may carry a weapon so powerful they can kill dozens at a time?

Does a bystander then give up their rights not to be shot and killed?

And if the answer is yes they do, then isn't that barbaric and uncivilized?

[Riverwind (imported)]

Yes it is Dave, you are right on the money however the law will not change.

River

[moi621 (imported)]

If i understand what I saw on tv this morning ....the supreme court ruled on this issue a few years ago....gun control laws are now a dead issue...it can no longer be legislatively dealt with and nobody in congress will ever touch it ever again.The biggest problem we have is very smart people with .... PHD degrees ... building a bombs with the most common bomb ingredient which is ....................granulated sugar.....can we ban granulated sugar...i dont think so

Lonely ..unhappy nerds have become very dangerous ...people need to concentrate on the unhappy person that lives next door to you...they are more dangerous than any gun.

sduyck.

I am an unhappy nerd.

The government should grant me a subsidized prostitute

like the Dutch government does under some circumstances.

No skanks!

Moi

Percolate Up Problem Solver

[moi621 (imported)]

Obama spoke. I was not impressed.

One recurring feeling, "it was not his place".

Some family had asked him not to use the

shooters name.

I wholeheartedly agree.

The shooters name should be lost

except to those who look it up. We can hear it

again at trial time, but give such individuals reference

of a small case pronoun.

And -

Maybe, just maybe - easily inspired sickos will lose

some interest at the lack of personal, momentary fame.

Solutions anyone?

Moi

Solution Seeker

[Riverwind (imported)]

Maybe that's why I have not watched TV in several days, it not that I don't care, it that I don't need to be jack up.

I notice how close this is to the other post running about Penn State, they are related.

River

[Dave (imported)]

I'm not sure how to say this but in the face of a tragedy like this some people need solitude and others need to tell the world about their sorrow. So if the news services go on for days, certain people need that release. There is a benefit to that very public storytelling about what happened.

[moi621 (imported)]

News Black Out while this tragedy takes up air time.

Maybe CNN could set up a 24/7 tragedy regurgitation and analysis channel

and the other channels could give it a break.

Every time I see the smirk of this or the Giffords perp,

I can't help but wish a police persons gun would misfire

and put an "End" to the story.

I would settle for a bystander taking him down.

The manner this nation carries on with tabloid coverage is disgusting.

The story should start moving to the back pages by now but, hasn't.

Moi :realpisse

[Mac (imported)]

News Black Out while this tragedy takes up air time.

Maybe CNN could set up a 24/7 tragedy regurgitation and analysis channel

and the other channels could give it a break.

Every time I see the smirk of this or the Giffords perp,

I can't help but wish a police persons gun would misfire

and put an "End" to the story.

I would settle for a bystander taking him down.

The manner this nation carries on with tabloid coverage is disgusting.

The story should start moving to the back pages by now but, hasn't.

Moi :realpisse

Our media sources, all of them, thrive on anything like this to keep them going.

Shame on Them

[Slammr (imported)]

Our media sources, all o

them, thrive on anything like this to keep them going.

Shame on Them

It's not the fault of the media. We the public want to hear about it. If we didn't, the media wouldn't waste their time on it. Possibly, because they are guaranteed publicity, through 24 hour cable news coverage and the Internet, more nuts do things like this thinking they will become famous, but that's because of technology. Media is just doing their job, reporting the news.

These nuts, thinking to become famous - infamous - do these things, but they are failures at even that. Who will remember this guy's name (I refuse to so much as list it) five years from now. Who knows the name of the Virginia Tech shooter without looking it up? I don't. I had to look up the name of the killer of John Lennon even. If one of these nuts doesn't kill someone like John Kennedy or Martin Luther King, no one is going to remember him, and we only remember someone like Harvey Lee Oswald because he's linked forever in our memories with John F. Kennedy.

Certainly, his victims and the families of those victims will never forget this guy, but five years from now, few of us will remember his name.

[moi621 (imported)]

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, but five years from now, few of us will remember his name.

Let's make it a point NOT to remember his name.

Like the Giffords shooter.

If just one brave network or news outlet would publicly state,

this story is back page. Look there for updates.

Limit comments, editorials, analysis to once a week.

Then people would have a "choice" to support it or

the Media, Inc. that would repeatedly would report

FDR falling as news worthy in that day.

Moi