muskrat89 said:I wrote a column for my Outdoor Site indicating that evil was the enemy here: http://www.fishcamphunthike.com/guns-again/blog-70/
estoguy said:Fantastic article and articulates exactly what I've been saying to people - we need to understand WHY these things happen and how we can prevent them. Knee-jerk reactions aren't the solution.
And I'm glad the NRA is taking to the time to respond to this and didn't come out, to use a pun, "all guns blazing". The people who are trying to take political advantage of this situation are sickening.
Well, that's an interesting take on the silence, I must admit. Not one based in reality, but an interesting take nonetheless. The NRA went incommunicado because anything they could have said in the time immediate following the events would have illicited a backlash. That politicians who had previously been given an "A" in the NRA's pro-gun vote marking scheme suddenly started saying things like 'nothing's off the table' is evidence of that.recceguy said:Almost strange that they are the only organization that has given time to mourn and proper thought to a reasoned response amongst all the knee jerk reaction politicians and special interest groups. :
jpjohnsn said:Well, that's an interesting take on the silence, I must admit. Not one based in reality, but an interesting take nonetheless. The NRA went incommunicado because anything they could have said in the time immediate following the events would have illicited a backlash. That politicians who had previously been given an "A" in the NRA's pro-gun vote marking scheme suddenly started saying things like 'nothing's off the table' is evidence of that.
The difference between their response here and their response to Columbine shows that they learned an important lesson and here it is:
One of their best talking points to cut off debate has always been that the immediate aftermath of a tragedy is a time for mourning and not the time to discuss gun control. It's been a successful strategy - and, I'm sorry, the lefties are continually accused of this when the subect comes up but the conservatives always seem to get a pass when they have rushed in, gums flapping, spouting 2nd Amendment talking points. This time, someone at the NRA finally clued in that issuing any kind of statement right away when emotions are running that high would hurt them.
Their eventual statement comes as the wave of grief has crested and has begun to subside and was well thought out and subdued. Don't get me wrong, I despise the NRA, but they have been handling this right so far.
I despise the NRA
Easily discounted, eh? Fair's fair; your assertion is no more provable than mine and clearly indicated an equal level of bias so sauce for the goose I guess.recceguy said:Thanks for your opinion, which is what it is, 'your opinion'. Not much provable fact there.
And an extremely biased one at that, so highly suspect at best and easily discounted.
jpjohnsn said:Easily discounted, eh? Fair's fair; your assertion is no more provable than mine and clearly indicated an equal level of bias so sauce for the goose I guess.
I'm not any kind of anti-gun bleeding heart. As a gun owner and a hunter myself, I still believe groups like the NRA and individuals like Ted Nugent do more harm to the perception of people like me than anything. And in Canada, the fact that the majority of the people in the country aren't gun owners - or even seen one up close, and have been successfully brainwashed to think guys like me are one bad day from being Kimveer Gill, I don't need those the NRA doing to the firearm debate what Todd Akin did to the birth control debate. Why they are playing to their base in the USA, they are undermining mine, here in Canada.
Like THIS made the difference .... :facepalm:Adam Lanza aspired to be a Marine, one of "the few, the proud."
Failing that, he planned to join another branch of the military.
That is what he told his mother Nancy Lanza, his biggest cheerleader, and that is what she relayed to one of her closest friends, Ellen Adriani of Sandy Hook.
At first, Nancy Lanza supported her youngest son's dream. She liked the idea that the military would give him purpose, a career path and structure to his life. But the more she thought about it, the more she saw a downside.
"It became overwhelmingly clear to her that it [military service] wasn't right for him," Adriani said. "She squashed" any notion of Adam joining the Marines or any branch of the armed services by reminding him "that he didn't like to be touched," said Adriani, and that if he were injured "doctors and medics would have to handle him to treat him." ....
milnews.ca said:Well, this angle didn't take long to pop up ....Like THIS made the difference .... :facepalm:
PMedMoe said:According to this article (and a live blog on The Newtown Patch), the protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church didn't show up.
First intelligent thing they've accomplished that I've heard of.PMedMoe said:According to this article (and a live blog on The Newtown Patch), the protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church didn't show up.
maikeru333 said:There is evidence of a coverup in the sandyhooks shooting.
Container said:You are so far out of your lane it isnt even funny.