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Mass shooting in Fresno, 8 shot. (Original Post) WilliamPitt Nov 2012 OP
4 hospitalized after central Fresno workplace shooting; gunman reportedly dead **edit** Ptah Nov 2012 #1
Ain't Guns Grand! Dirty Socialist Nov 2012 #2
Yeah - if only we'd do like the NRA wants Plucketeer Nov 2012 #10
Guns are grand it's the Berserker Nov 2012 #12
Yeah.. "mass stabbing" :facepalm: progressivebydesign Nov 2012 #13
Bookmarking for this comment and the lack of comeback. I guess the NRA propagandis training handbook Dark n Stormy Knight Nov 2012 #20
How many mass stabbings have there been in the past decade? Hugabear Nov 2012 #19
With or without the NRA... -..__... Nov 2012 #18
So sad. I'm so sick of this shit. nt SunSeeker Nov 2012 #3
But, but, but we cannot talk nadinbrzezinski Nov 2012 #4
the politicians will soon be asking us to pray about this Enrique Nov 2012 #5
I'd pray! Plucketeer Nov 2012 #11
I think this country is averaging about 2 mass shootings a month. MoonRiver Nov 2012 #6
I am a gun owner Berserker Nov 2012 #15
Yeah, more guns are the answer, all right. Make them easier to get, too. RC Nov 2012 #7
Little rural Fresno is the site of a notorious mass shooting - maybe 20 years ago Liberal_in_LA Nov 2012 #8
I'm so sick of this. And I'm so sick of nothing tangible being done about it. Chorophyll Nov 2012 #9
Fresno is my home town, was my home town... this makes my heart hurt Melinda Nov 2012 #14
people on other sites doing the usual "Obama economy caused this" progressivebydesign Nov 2012 #16
Did this have anything to do with the election ... Eddie Haskell Nov 2012 #17
 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
10. Yeah - if only we'd do like the NRA wants
Tue Nov 6, 2012, 02:11 PM
Nov 2012

and ALL carry a loaded firearm! For SURE, the shooter would never have dared to pull this off if everyone wore a gun! And just THINK how dead he'd be if he DID start shooting and everyone around him opened up in return! Of course, they'd ALL be crack shots and none of the fusillade of lead would find anything BUT it's intended mark.

 

Berserker

(3,419 posts)
12. Guns are grand it's the
Tue Nov 6, 2012, 02:24 PM
Nov 2012

lunatic behind that gun. If this was a mass stabbing would you have posted "Ain't Knives Grand"

progressivebydesign

(19,458 posts)
13. Yeah.. "mass stabbing" :facepalm:
Tue Nov 6, 2012, 02:26 PM
Nov 2012

Guns are for cowards. They can stand there and with a little movement of the finger, can drop dozens of people in a few minutes. Takes no effort, not even beak a sweat. You don't have to look in their eyes, don't have to risk anything.

Mass stabbing in a giant building? uh huh... let's see, you stab one guy and while you're doing that the other seven tackle you. Done. Over.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,760 posts)
20. Bookmarking for this comment and the lack of comeback. I guess the NRA propagandis training handbook
Tue Nov 20, 2012, 04:35 AM
Nov 2012

doesn't cover this one yet.

Hugabear

(10,340 posts)
19. How many mass stabbings have there been in the past decade?
Tue Nov 6, 2012, 02:49 PM
Nov 2012

Hell, I'll even let you go back TWO DECADES. You still won't find as many mass-shootings as there have been in ONE YEAR alone.

 

-..__...

(7,776 posts)
18. With or without the NRA...
Tue Nov 6, 2012, 02:39 PM
Nov 2012

there are more than enough gun owners out there to ensure gun control will remain off the table for the next 4 years and beyond (much to the chagrin of the buzzing flies that are the Brady Campaign).

One needn't be an NRA member to keep the gun controllers agenda from becoming law.

MoonRiver

(36,926 posts)
6. I think this country is averaging about 2 mass shootings a month.
Tue Nov 6, 2012, 02:06 PM
Nov 2012

But let's NOT talk about sensible gun control. Cause that might make the tiny minority of fanatic gun owners in the NRA mad.

 

Berserker

(3,419 posts)
15. I am a gun owner
Tue Nov 6, 2012, 02:30 PM
Nov 2012

and I hate the NRA. I carry everyday and it has never jumped out of my holster and hurt anyone. It's the mentally unstable you need to watch out for a gun is just a tool like a knife.

 

RC

(25,592 posts)
7. Yeah, more guns are the answer, all right. Make them easier to get, too.
Tue Nov 6, 2012, 02:07 PM
Nov 2012

Sell them off the rack like dolls, at Toys R Us, that's the ticket. sarcasm:

Chorophyll

(5,179 posts)
9. I'm so sick of this. And I'm so sick of nothing tangible being done about it.
Tue Nov 6, 2012, 02:10 PM
Nov 2012

Cue the candlelight vigil, I guess.

progressivebydesign

(19,458 posts)
16. people on other sites doing the usual "Obama economy caused this"
Tue Nov 6, 2012, 02:30 PM
Nov 2012

when in fact, most of the time the person was fired for being the kind of person who would do this. when they look into the situation, the person was most often fired or reprimanded for being angry or creepy or weird. And with the easy access to guns, they take it out on everyone else.. because they're "blameless" in their mind. And many of these are domestic issues, as well.. and the same thing. They are angry and paranoid and "blameless" in their heads.

This is just heartbreaking for the people involved and their families. Glad the gunman is dead hope he rots in hell. Why the fuck can't people like that kill themselves first?

And those that are whining that if everyone had a gun this wouldn't happen? and that an "armed society is a polite society" I would refer them to Japan. Which is polite and unarmed.

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