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Fox is saying that it was a preplanned vacation with her kids.
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billy.pilgrim wrote:
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Fox is saying that it was a preplanned vacation with her kids.
Their lips are moving.
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I know this was posted by someone somewhere, but I couldn't find it. So, just doing it again for future reference.

The amount of fan mail the Parkland shooter is receiving is unreal
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Did you know that:

In 2014, for every self-defense gun homicide in the U.S., there were 34 criminal gun homicides.
Only 4% of violence against others is caused by the symptoms of serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Since 1968, 1,516,863 Americans have been killed by guns, which is more than the combined death toll for all American wars since the Revolutionary War.
The Black male gun-death rate for people ages 20-29 is about 89 per 100,000, quadruple the rate for white males.

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Could have gone in Can't make this (stuff) up:

Parkland teacher who volunteered to carry gun in school left loaded weapon in public restroom and it was fired

The ammosexual wingnuts are saying that it's a setup, one that bizarrely includes a drunk and the Broward County Sheriff.
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The scary part is that everything listed has been a republicon position. They said that seat belts would destroy the car industry, nutrition info on good would cause good prices to soar, DDT is good on cereal - or at least on all the ingredients and packaging
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Join an action on April 20 and get involved in the effort to end gun violence in your schools and communities.

April 20 will be the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre.

Unrelated: It's also Adolf Hitler's birthday and 4/20 is code for pot smoking.
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America’s Police Chiefs Call BS on Arming Teachers
On questions of gun regulation, the brass can sound almost—gasp—liberal.


... Arming more civilians, they agreed, almost certainly will not help matters. What would help, they say—something Congress could do now—is a new assault weapons ban, laws requiring universal background checks, and a repeal of the Dickey Amendment, which prohibits the federal government from funding research on gun violence....
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Laura Ingraham announces vacation after apologizing for David Hogg comment

My "thoughts and prayers" are with Laura Ingraham, lol.
Splinter: Laura Ingraham Kicks Guest Off Her Show After He Mentions All the Advertisers Boycotting Her

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:lol: :thumbup:

I am already a Border Angels supporter.
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"Hero" customer wrestled rifle away from Waffle House shooter

As the lily white NRA never says - The only thing that will stop a bad white guy with a gun is a good black guy without a gun.

Thank you, James Shaw Jr.!

Felony Charges For Father Of Toddler Who Shot Pregnant Mom

Ohio Police: 2-Year-Old Girl Accidentally Shot Dead By Mom
“She’s gone. My baby’s gone.”


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The brave black guy in the Waffle House actually makes a clear point on something else the gun nuts should consider - being armed to the teeth with war-styled weapons is no guarantee of personal safety and could and often does result in your getting shot with your own gun.

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Turns out the shooter was known to police after a trespassing incident at the White House last year. Police seized four of Reinking’s guns, including the AR-15 used in the shooting. Reinking’s father later gave the guns back to his son.

But he claimed to be a sovereign citizen, so it would have been difficult to keep his guns away based on mental illness. The two conditions are virtually indistinguishable.

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The brave black guy in the Waffle House actually makes a clear point on something else the gun nuts should consider - being armed to the teeth with war-styled weapons is no guarantee of personal safety and could and often does result in your getting shot with your own gun.
After the Parkland shooting, one of the memes making rounds in the social media world was "a good guy with a gun can stop a mass shooting". If you point out that people would still likely have gotten murdered before the good guy stopped the shooter in this hypothetical scenario, they'd retort with an argument of semantics indicating that despite there being a shooting, a mass shooting was prevented.

The same semantical argument is often used in regards to keeping rifles designed primarily for killing legal. They'll say "law-abiding citizens should be allowed to own AR-15s, because no law abiding citizen partakes in mass shootings". This is true, because once a person crosses that rubicon and partakes in a shooting, they are by definition no longer 'law-abiding".

I guess what I'm getting at is a lot of these arguments that come after these shootings that make national headlines are pretty inane and employ the same old formula.

What other solution is there than to put some heavy restrictions on these types of weapons?
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