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Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 07:48 PM Jun 2014

Las Vegas Mayor: We Must Be on Alert for ‘Sick, Cowardly’ People Hoarding Guns

Excoriating the “random act of hate” she said led to the fatal shooting of two police officers and one bystander by a pair of shooters on Sunday, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman told CNN communities needed to be on the lookout for sick or angry individuals who spoke of hoarding guns.

“We’ve got these sick, sick cowardly people out there that just decide to express themselves all the time with bullets,” Goodman said. “We see it repeatedly across this country.”

“For all of us who are part of communities, we need to be alert and aware, and we need to make some contact if somebody is really strange and doing something and hoarding guns and we know it,” Goodman continued. “It is just a consistent anger by people, and it’s intolerable.”

Goodman told CNN that at this point the investigation had not widened to include anybody beyond the two suspects who took their own lives.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/vegas-mayor-we-must-be-on-alert-for-sick-cowardly-people-hoarding-guns/

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JimDandy

(7,318 posts)
2. Pushing the (mentally) 'sick' meme
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 08:08 PM
Jun 2014

instead of the more accurate 'political ideology' explanation for the shooting is pretty cowardly of Mayor Goodman.

0rganism

(23,945 posts)
4. it's quite possible the killers were mentally ill and/or on drugs
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 08:20 PM
Jun 2014

that doesn't mean they weren't also political ideologues. It's very hard to predict what effect propaganda promoting violent revolution will have on an already-struggling mind. The RW shock-jocks and faux opinionators are playing with gasoline around a bonfire, and i'm pretty sure some of them know it.

Shades of The Fisher King, maybe...

rustydog

(9,186 posts)
5. woah, Mayor, are you expecting Ted Nugent in town?
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 09:23 PM
Jun 2014

Just serve him with a draft notice and "tough-guy" will suddenly shit his pants and disappear.

 

kelliekat44

(7,759 posts)
6. We can't watch them all. It is more simple. Just elect the right people to office and get a SCOTUS
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 09:32 PM
Jun 2014

that will help bring the Constitution into real time and interpret the 2nd Amendment as it was originally intended.

 

InfoWingerWatch

(78 posts)
7. Well they sat with their arms folded when these nuts were setting up checkpoints, harassing media...
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 09:35 PM
Jun 2014

For cryin' out loud they pointed weapons at Federal Agents and Police Officers while these people in office either didnt say anything or didnt do anything. It takes two cops getting their heads blown off for them to mumble about it!


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