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onehandle

(51,122 posts)
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 10:04 PM Jun 2014

13-Year-Old Boy Shot, Gunmen on the Loose

Source: NBC

Police say the 13-year-old boy was sitting in the passenger side of a vehicle as his father was driving on the 2000 block of South Hemberger Street around 4:40 p.m. on Monday.

As he was inside, police say two gunmen walked over to the car and fired eight shots total.

The boy was struck once in the left arm and once in the buttocks. He was taken to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia where he is currently in stable condition.

Read more: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Teen-Shot-in-South-Philly-Gunman-Possibly-Barricaded-263349751.html

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valerief

(53,235 posts)
2. Maybe the shooters were "GOOD GUYS" with guns who felt threatened by the kid.
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 10:14 PM
Jun 2014

This is America, after all, not a sane society.

 

pipoman

(16,038 posts)
7. Far, far, far...what is it? Like 99.7 something more likely to be
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 11:53 PM
Jun 2014

A gang, drug, or other outlaw on outlaw crime...maybe the kid was innocent maybe the dad wasn't. .or vic versa. .

ManiacJoe

(10,136 posts)
10. That comment should have come with a drink warning!
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 05:29 PM
Jun 2014
Maybe the shooters were "GOOD GUYS" with guns who felt threatened by the kid.


 

Hulk

(6,699 posts)
5. Lars larson is all worried you're going to count this with the "school shootings"...
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 11:38 PM
Jun 2014

I've been listening to a little reich-wing, talk-nonsense this past week; and they really have their panties in a bind over the claims of "74 school shootings since SandyHook.." My God, you'd think it really matter that the news media swallows a number and claims that "74" of the shooting occurred on school grounds...like that is a magic number, or magic place. Forget that we are talking about YOUTH being gunned down by accident or otherwise; it just matters that the "librul media claims there are 74 school shootings on school grounds".....doh.

Honestly, we have lost the battle for rational thinking in this country. We get off on the tangents...."did they really occur on school grounds, during school hours?"....was he a "deserter, and cost other soldiers their lives?".....and so much other minutia BS that doesn't really matter.

The focus is lost for the details. Forget that an ambassador was murdered by hostile Libyan factions. Were they reacting to a video, as somebody claimed on all the Sunday shows? Did a Secretary of State get frustrated with the childish behaviors of the cry-baby repuKKKes, and ask "what difference does it make"?... that's the real story now??

So quick to divert attention to the negative. Forget OBL was taken out..."did the President say 'I got 'em'", or did he try to take credit for OBL getting justice?? No longer matters that he met his match. Doesn't matter that W took his eye off the ball, repeatedly. It matters that this black man in the White House took credit for killing him or not...?? How absurd!

lars larson is just another cog in the big wheel of slime and sedition in the wing-nut radio/media smoke-machine. Don't give credit where credit is due; divert attention for what is important to what doesn't really matter at all. We are a lost nation. Our own fookin' fault. I seriously hold little hope for us ever pulling our heads out of our asses in my lifetime. Maybe another World War will pull us back together again and knock some sense into our foolish, easily-distracted heads.

 

maindawg

(1,151 posts)
8. Another world war is what they want.
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 07:51 AM
Jun 2014

The corporate take over of our culture has been going on since the last world war. They want us to think they are us. That they are a meer reflection of us. That we cannot live without them. That we cannot live without coke, without tylenol, without dupont and wallmart. They are terrified that we will discover that we can.
Thats why it was so important to deregulate everything ,thank you Ron Reagon. The media is the mouthpiece of the corporate fascist machine. People like Lars work for the monster.They think the monster wont eat them too. People like limbau , Hannity etc take comfort that they are comfortable in the monsters den. They will eventually be sacrificed.They know this too.
Its the same monster that both Roosevent presidents fought and defeated. You can cut out its heart, you can cut off its head, you can stomp it into the dirt ,but you cannot kill it.
There will always be evil men.
The only way we will ever win back our culture from the merchants of death is to re enact the fairness doctrine. To enforce civility and make our local media serve the local populace free from corporate hate propaganda.
There was a judge in a Cinncinnatti porn trial who said 'I cant what porn is, but I know it when I see it'. I know what propaganda is when I see/hear it too. Outlaw corporate propaganda. Take back out public airwaves and make law to force the corporations who now own every media outlet to use them to all of our benefit. Its our property being used as a weapon against us. We have a right to demand they cease.

Aristus

(66,328 posts)
12. Well, who can blame two grown men for being afraid of, and requiring protection from
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 06:37 PM
Jun 2014

an unarmed 13 year-old boy?

See? Guns are an absolute necessity!

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