Shooting at CT Elementary School. WTF AMERICA?!

[Pæs]

It would have been just as dangerous if he had pulled a car out of his bag and pointed it at someone.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

It would have been just as dangerous if he had pulled a car out of his bag and pointed it at someone.

Or a swimming pool, for that matter.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Just get it over with... 

[AFK]

Yep, let's fix the gun problem with MORE guns.  Astounding logic!

[Deepthroat Chopra]

I think it's still mandatory to own a firearm in Kenesaw, Georgia, and Virgin, Utah

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1818862/posts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin,_Utah

I'm not surprised the Republicans are promoting the Virginisation of America.

Oh, and Greenleaf, Idaho.

http://www.examiner.com/article/as-american-as-mandatory-gun-ownership

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

I think it's still mandatory to own a firearm in Kenesaw, Georgia, and Virgin, Utah

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1818862/posts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin,_Utah

I'm not surprised the Republicans are promoting the Virginisation of America.

Oh, and Greenleaf, Idaho.

http://www.examiner.com/article/as-american-as-mandatory-gun-ownership

It's true, about Kennesaw. I keep wanting to go there just so I have a reasonable excuse for buying a Springfield XD.

[trippinprincezz13]

Yep, let's fix the gun problem with MORE guns.  Astounding logic!

Just hand everyone a pistol and a vest on their way into the building.

Nothing could go wrong!

[AFK]

It'll be just like Laser Tag, just, less Cheetoh's and more blood.

[Cain]

By the way, the whole gun control issue is being used as a smokescreen while Obama plans to slash Social Security.

While everyone gets up in arms about the gun issue, the Cat Food Committee is convening.  Classic Obama.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

By the way, the whole gun control issue is being used as a smokescreen while Obama plans to slash Social Security.

While everyone gets up in arms about the gun issue, the Cat Food Committee is convening.  Classic Obama.

Of course. 

ASS TO MOUTH, AMERICA!_(TM)

[Pergamos]

Effect on the murder rates with guns or the total figure.

What possible difference does that make?  If you're dead, you're dead, whether you are shot with an illegal gun, stabbed, strangled, whatever.

Because there probably isn't a rate from a time when there are no guns in recent years, which pushes me towards the Lost cause column again.
It's now half one, I have to get up for work in five an a half hours.

There has never been a time in America in which there were no guns.

Except for her entire history pre Columbus.

[Faust]

Effect on the murder rates with guns or the total figure.

What possible difference does that make?  If you're dead, you're dead, whether you are shot with an illegal gun, stabbed, strangled, whatever.

Because there probably isn't a rate from a time when there are no guns in recent years, which pushes me towards the Lost cause column again.
It's now half one, I have to get up for work in five an a half hours.

There has never been a time in America in which there were no guns.

Except for her entire history pre Columbus.

Rolling back the clock that far would be an impressive feat, America could experience the industrial revolution again.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Effect on the murder rates with guns or the total figure.

What possible difference does that make?  If you're dead, you're dead, whether you are shot with an illegal gun, stabbed, strangled, whatever.

Because there probably isn't a rate from a time when there are no guns in recent years, which pushes me towards the Lost cause column again.
It's now half one, I have to get up for work in five an a half hours.

There has never been a time in America in which there were no guns.

Except for her entire history pre Columbus.

Rolling back the clock that far would be an impressive feat, America could experience the industrial revolution again.

Smallpox first.

[Pergamos]

i don't see what the failing of the typical explanation is, i.e. the self-reliance required by a frontier society, and a heritage of mistrust of govt.

Bolded part is utter goo and drivel.  The American public worships the government.  Part of that worship is pretending to despise it, which they do poorly.

Americans worship all manner of things that don't actually exist.  Government is pretty much #2.

The other part is drivel too.  People on the frontier need tight communities.  There's room for hermits and mountain men, but they're dependent on the communities that they trade with and those communities were way more in one another's business than any modern American would be willing to put up with.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

i don't see what the failing of the typical explanation is, i.e. the self-reliance required by a frontier society, and a heritage of mistrust of govt.

Bolded part is utter goo and drivel.  The American public worships the government.  Part of that worship is pretending to despise it, which they do poorly.

Americans worship all manner of things that don't actually exist.  Government is pretty much #2.

The other part is drivel too.  People on the frontier need tight communities.  There's room for hermits and mountain men, but they're dependent on the communities that they trade with and those communities were way more in one another's business than any modern American would be willing to put up with.

Yes, this. So much this.