With the Oregon shooting, how long until LRC is filled with disgusting gun/anti-gun threads?

Obviously the murderer was illiterate. We know this because the school has Gun Free Zone signs all over. No one, especially a crazed murderer, would just ignore these helpful signs and anti-constitutional laws.

There's no other phenomenon in American culture that could result in multiple deaths that would make people feel the need to make snide remarks and jokes in poor taste within an hour of such a tragedy. A normalized human response would be to express sorrow and condolences to the victims, their families and friends, to emergency responders, etc. Do those that react defensively to these indefensible and now commonplace tragedies have any moments of self-awareness in which they reflect on how illogical and loathsome this is? The OP? Howard Dean? People are dead and perhaps dying, do you have nothing positive to contribute? It's not 'our ideological team' vs 'their ideological team'. It's real life. Reactions like yours are abhorrent and need to be called out, even on LRC.

Howard Dean wrote:

Obviously the murderer was illiterate. We know this because the school has Gun Free Zone signs all over. No one, especially a crazed murderer, would just ignore these helpful signs and anti-constitutional laws.

Right. Because what we really need is daily gun violence at schools when you let every kid carry a weapon instead of the occasional mass shooting. It won't be as much of a problem for the gun industry if you just spread out the murders instead of piling them all up at one time and getting the media all bent out of shape.

And the idea that we have to keep quiet about the underlying political issue behind a tragedy until some indeterminate time out of respect for the families affected is just a stupid PR maneuver by the gun industry to try to suppress opposing view points at the time when they would be most effective. Now is the time for the gun lobby to explain why they oppose ever single commonsense gun law. Now is the time to stand up on behalf of the millions of Americans who are tired of seeing guns proliferate across our society so that everyone who wants to go on a shooting spree can get a gun faster than they can get a health insurance card.

And by "common sense gun laws" you mean like those in Chicago?

How is that working out for them? Not so good.

Liberalism is the killer. Making gun free zones were sick libtards can easily waste people is all that will ever happen in "gun free zones."

When society is not hampered by idiotic Libtard policies only then will gun wielding libtards meet their destined fate in hell where all liberals shall reside.

If some sort of gun control couldn't pass in the wake of the slaughter of 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary, it never will.

Lorenzo (Larry) Liberal wrote:

If some sort of gun control couldn't pass in the wake of the slaughter of 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary, it never will.

The libtard who perpetrated that slaughtered broke the law. FYI McFly "murder" is against the law.

Perhaps a few more "gun free zone" signs were needed at Sandy Hook? That's the ticket!

Given sensible countries with sensible enforceable laws don't have these kinds of shootings (eg Australia/NZ) I think no guns would be a great idea

Gunsarebadandamericaisweird wrote:

Given sensible countries with sensible enforceable laws don't have these kinds of shootings (eg Australia/NZ) I think no guns would be a great idea

So why aren't you there? Afraid of losing that welfare check? What is stopping you?

America Cubed wrote:

The libtard who perpetrated that slaughtered broke the law. FYI McFly "murder" is against the law.

Perhaps a few more "gun free zone" signs were needed at Sandy Hook? That's the ticket!

Get help.

You are a sickening puddle of monkey jizz.

Lorenzo (Larry) Liberal wrote:

America Cubed wrote:

The libtard who perpetrated that slaughtered broke the law. FYI McFly "murder" is against the law.

Perhaps a few more "gun free zone" signs were needed at Sandy Hook? That's the ticket!

Get help.

...who thinks "gun free zones" save lives and prevent mass murders.

You are beyond help. Looks like you already had a labotomy because you are fckn BRAIN DEAD!

You're the sick fck... wrote:

...who thinks "gun free zones" save lives and prevent mass murders.

You are beyond help. Looks like you already had a labotomy because you are fckn BRAIN DEAD!

Except I never said anything about gun free zones. Perhaps you lack critical reading comprehension skills. Either way, carry on.

This is more than a gun issue. This is also a problem with 1.) how this country deals with mental illness and 2.) a hesitancy to notify the proper authorities of dangerous people like this. Mass shooters rarely live in such isolation that they don't at least hint that they are planning something. All the clues come out after the fact, and inevitably family and/or close friends knew something. We are so obsessed with individual rights in this country, we are failing to acknowledge in certain circumstances, especially when it comes to safety, that society as a collective also has rights. Seriously, the Aurora theatre shooter had no business walking about society well before he even entered the theatre that night.

Even if you have just an inkling that someone is planning something like this, YOU MUST SPEAK UP AND TELL SOMEONE!!

Sorry, but it's true wrote:

Libtardism kills wrote:

Libtardism killed these people. The law abiding in this instance and every instance like it are denied the right to self defense or life preservation.

Libtardism is a cancer, a cancer that killed in Oregon today.

You are a sickening puddle of monkey jizz.

We don't want to hear about your beverage habits you sick fck. Try your mass murder tactics around me and I will turn your face into a fckn canoe. You sick libtards are a cancer that will be eradicated from this planet.

You sicko "monkey jizz" guzzler.

I am so angry right now wrote:

This is more than a gun issue. This is also a problem with 1.) how this country deals with mental illness and 2.) a hesitancy to notify the proper authorities of dangerous people like this. Mass shooters rarely live in such isolation that they don't at least hint that they are planning something. All the clues come out after the fact, and inevitably family and/or close friends knew something. We are so obsessed with individual rights in this country, we are failing to acknowledge in certain circumstances, especially when it comes to safety, that society as a collective also has rights. Seriously, the Aurora theatre shooter had no business walking about society well before he even entered the theatre that night.

Even if you have just an inkling that someone is planning something like this, YOU MUST SPEAK UP AND TELL SOMEONE!!

Early reports are coming out that the killer asked people their religion before he started shooting. Uh-oh.

What if it turns out to be an Islamo-fascist who did the killing. Will you still stand behind that "speak up and tell someone" if we get an inkling that an Islamo-fascist might kill some people. Wouldn't that be Islamophobic?

Crazy white guy kills a bunch of students with a gun

Crazy black guy kills a bunch of people with gun

White husband kills wife, kids, and then himself with gun

black security officer kills black security officer with gun

Whats the common theme here?

lowest common? wrote:

Crazy white guy kills a bunch of students with a gun

Crazy black guy kills a bunch of people with gun

White husband kills wife, kids, and then himself with gun

black security officer kills black security officer with gun

Whats the common theme here?

Hmmmm. Let's see. Guns! That's it. Guns are the common element that allows all this senseless violence to occur, so we should ban guns from society, right?

OK, let's do it.

But now it's my turn to play the game.

Muslims cut off 21 christian heads.

Muslims burn people to death in cages.

Muslims crucify their enemies.

Muslims mutilate the genitals of girls.

Muslims sell the women and young girls of their slain enemies into sexual slavery.

Muslims throw gays off the tops of buildings.

What's the common theme here? Muslims

Using your logic what should be banned from society? Muslims

Are you sure you want to keep playing this game? No, didn't think so.

What kind of ideology are you accusing me of following? I don't give a damn who is doing the plotting. If I know something, I'm turning them in.

Go ahead, make your off-topic comments, but do me a favor and leave me out of it.

Think about the logic here. If a gun free zone doesn't stop people from carrying guns, and it did not, of course, why does that apply only to the shooter? Doesn't that mean heroes with guns should have been out there as well? And why didn't they stop it? Was it because of the gun free zone or because it is extremely unlikely to be both prepared and able to stop something when someone has the drop on you?

If everyone did carry guns, it would be a blood bath out there like the Wild West. Even police, well-trained and prepared, very often kill numerous civilians in trying to kill a suspect. Gun deaths are higher in conservative states with lax gun laws.