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ChisolmTrailDem

(9,463 posts) Fri Oct 2, 2015, 11:09 AM Oct 2015

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All mass shootings are hoaxes staged to take guns away...

At least that what the commenters on Youtube are saying on videos posted there. Check out some of this insanity in the comments of this video...

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All mass shootings are hoaxes staged to take guns away... (Original Post) ChisolmTrailDem Oct 2015 OP

Those hoaxes seem to be quite realistic, what with all those dead bodies and such. -none Oct 2015 #1

Indeed, the violence in the theater audience rivals LuvNewcastle Oct 2015 #2

Is that a quote? DetlefK Oct 2015 #7

Someone else has probably said something LuvNewcastle Oct 2015 #11

At least the violence on the screen, you know the dead victims can get up & walk off by themselves. -none Oct 2015 #8

I've had several RW republicans, who never owned a gun in their lives, Zorra Oct 2015 #3

They are pretty much all dangerous, deluded lunatics. etherealtruth Oct 2015 #4

What is truly scary about those comments is rbrnmw Oct 2015 #5

If you can believe cigarettes/booze won't really hurt you, war is necessary to protect you, valerief Oct 2015 #6

Why actual photographs SheilaT Oct 2015 #9

Youtube video comments are a good example of minimal moderated discussion on the internet. stevenleser Oct 2015 #10

A few months... Cobalt Indigo Oct 2015 #12

-none

(1,884 posts)

1. Those hoaxes seem to be quite realistic, what with all those dead bodies and such.

Reply to ChisolmTrailDem (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 11:12 AM

Oct 2015

LuvNewcastle

(16,834 posts)

2. Indeed, the violence in the theater audience rivals

Reply to -none (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 11:15 AM

Oct 2015

the violence on the screen.

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)

7. Is that a quote?

Reply to LuvNewcastle (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 11:25 AM

Oct 2015

It has some poetic ring to it.

LuvNewcastle

(16,834 posts)

11. Someone else has probably said something

Reply to DetlefK (Reply #7)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 12:05 PM

Oct 2015

similar, but I don't know who it was or when.

-none

(1,884 posts)

8. At least the violence on the screen, you know the dead victims can get up & walk off by themselves.

Reply to LuvNewcastle (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 11:43 AM

Oct 2015

Unlike real life.

Zorra

(27,670 posts)

3. I've had several RW republicans, who never owned a gun in their lives,

Reply to ChisolmTrailDem (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 11:17 AM

Oct 2015

say that same thing to me.

They are pretty much all dangerous, deluded lunatics.

etherealtruth

(22,165 posts)

4. They are pretty much all dangerous, deluded lunatics.

Reply to Zorra (Reply #3)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 11:18 AM

Oct 2015

Yep!

rbrnmw

(7,160 posts)

5. What is truly scary about those comments is

Reply to ChisolmTrailDem (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 11:22 AM

Oct 2015

These people live amongst us.

valerief

(53,235 posts)

6. If you can believe cigarettes/booze won't really hurt you, war is necessary to protect you,

Reply to ChisolmTrailDem (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 11:24 AM

Oct 2015

and there's an invisible man in the sky, you can believe anything.

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)

9. Why actual photographs

Reply to ChisolmTrailDem (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 11:47 AM

Oct 2015

or videos of the victims, both living and dead, need to be shown.

When the violence is off screen or when it is sanitized, people just don't understand how dreadful it truly is.

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)

10. Youtube video comments are a good example of minimal moderated discussion on the internet.

Reply to ChisolmTrailDem (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 11:51 AM

Oct 2015

Some folks would like DU turned into that. The group that refuses to vote to hide just about anything.

Cobalt Indigo

(36 posts)

12. A few months...

Reply to ChisolmTrailDem (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 12:17 PM

Oct 2015

...after Sandy Hook I remember the "conspiracy" videos going around my FB feed (sigh). I had a friend I've known since high school share one and she told her friend that "I think these are fixed by the government to take guns away," pretty much verbatim of the subject line. Her husband is in the military, and he apparently showed her these videos and since her all-knowing husband [sarcasm] said they were right then she just believed it! I lost a ton of respect for her after that. It was so

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