Important Stuff -- Or Not: Guns may be have killed 32 but A BOMB would be worse

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Guns may be have killed 32 but A BOMB would be worse

While the debate of over gun control heats up again with nothing new to add...there was a great article to remind us that, yes guns can kill a lot of people...BUT take away the guns and we are going to enter into the world of suicide bombers. BOMBS are cheaper and easier and can kill A LOT MORE, and as we can see from the Virginia Tech shooter, so as long as the perpetrator is motivated...he will forego the line at the post office to mail a package and use the time to figure out how to make a bomb. Mass killings will not be going out of style, even if they attempt to make the gun go the way of the dinosaur.

4 comments:

J.M. Rob said...: Amen to that article.; 7:31 PM
Lone Ranger said...: This brings up something I've hesitated to talk about. I haven't felt the horror and grief and sadness and other emotions that bloggers across the country have been emoting. I've been looking at the "massacre" unemotionally, talking about how it might have been prevented. That isn't because I'm an uncaring person. But every single night at work, I write about far worse tragedies than this. A ferry capsizes in the Philippines, a bus runs off a mountain in China, a bomb goes off in a marketplace in Iraq. In some places violence is so commonplace it isn't even reported by the media. I get an incident report from Iraq every day and it always has something that doesn't appear on the wire services. The VT killings are at the top of the news right now and will be for another week. But most of these other things -- far worse things -- aren't even reported. Is it because this was so close? Is it because Americans are smug about their security? Is it because it was Americans who were killed and not some people on the other side of the world? Whatever it is, if I allowed myself to be affected by every story of murder and mayhem I wrote about every day, I'd be a basket case in no time at all.; 7:54 PM
J.M. Rob said...: I don't think any of us that visit here on a regular basis would think for a second that you are uncaring. I completely understand your point of view - it's your job. My wife used to work in a funeral home and her ability to see deceased people in various disturbing states are much greater than mine. Toughening up comes with the territory.

I believe the collective reaction IS because it was so close and we Americans ARE smug about our security. We also tend to live in a bubble. It's easier to imagine these kids, who are in a more familiar situation, as our own than victims abroad in situations that are rare to occure on our own soil. The majority of American people aren't bombarded with info like you are daily. If things get uncomfortable, most of us can turn the channel. You don't have that luxury.; 8:48 PM
J.M. Rob said...: Uncaring? Bah! You have kitty-cats and like Sponge Bob. You 'ol softie!; 9:00 PM

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3. A stupid person is not someone who can't learn, but someone who refuses to learn.

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16. If you always stand in opposition to liberalism, you will never be wrong.

18. Life is simple. People who make it complicated usually have an agenda.

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20. Liberals' emotional development stops at the age of 16.

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22. Idealism seldom matches up with reality.

23. Those who don't hate communism have never lived it.

24. This was a much more civil country when men walked about heavily armed.

25. This economy will never heal as long as Obama keeps picking at the scab.

26. Liberals don't think outside the box; they ARE the box.

27. You cannot change the hearts and minds of liberals, because they possess neither.

28. There is no such thing as a kind liberal.

29. Reading Democratic Party platforms is like reading the history of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in this country.

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Over the years I've been writing this blog, I've been throwing out little self-evident truths that seem to have no exceptions that prove the rule. I've made a list of some of them and will add to it as I remember them or make up more. Most of this list I've come up with myself. A few I've borrowed from others.

1. Always expect the worst from a liberal and you will never be surprised.

2. Never try to reason with a liberal. They disregard any evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.

3. You can always tell what liberals are up to by what they accuse conservatives of doing.

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7. Whenever you don't understand a liberal's motives, just look for the money.

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11. There are no honest liberals. If they were honest -- especially to themselves -- they would be conservatives.

12. A liberal's business is nobody's business, but everyone's business is a liberal's business.

13. Liberals have an inflated sense of self-worth. They are like house flies that criticize the air-worthiness of a Stealth fighter. (Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, ad infinitum are morons.)

14. Liberals lack a sixth sense that conservatives have in abundance -- common sense.

15. Liberals never stop hating.

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17. Every time liberals get on their high horse, they get bucked off.

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19. Liberals always choke on their own medicine.

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22. Liberals not only refuse to learn from their mistakes, they refuse to admit them.

23. Liberals have only two political positions -- blind devotion and blind hatred.

24. Liberals are incapable of attacking the message, so they always attack the messenger.

25. Liberal diversity is only skin deep.