Post #420,576
10/2/17 11:23:38 AM
10/2/17 11:23:38 AM
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Is 50 the magic number?
I mean, there were only 20-odd at Sandy Hook (but they were just kids and left-wing teachers), and 49 in Pulse (but they were mostly feelthy hermerseckshuals, not right-thinking god-fearin' folk, so they also don't count, prolly).
But this was 50 actual people.
Is it time? Time for that conversation?
Heh, just kidding. America long ago decided that tens of thousands* of gun fatalities a year is a price worth paying for whatever it is that Americans get from guns.
*33,000 last year, give or take
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Post #420,577
10/2/17 11:42:23 AM
10/2/17 11:42:23 AM
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Don't forget, the ones at Pulse were also mostly brown
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Post #420,578
10/2/17 11:59:25 AM
10/2/17 11:59:25 AM
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OT: Loved Oxfordshire England and Moffat, Scotland of course.
So much of your country is to be envied, but this was the first time I'd ever set foot there. I hope it won't be the last. bcnu,
Mikem
It's mourning in America again.
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Post #420,580
10/2/17 2:06:44 PM
10/2/17 2:06:44 PM
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Envy your distance from this charnel house
..as the Rate-of-descent of "all-things-Bright-and-Beautiful" is daily accelerated by that Effect ... to be covered in an Opus, sure to be released in near future..
A Drumpfwork-Orange
..because this toxic-from-birth child/man, now as deadly as any of those colorful Alkaloids which poison so gleefully,
is behind every such occurrence these days: of anything execrable within the dis-US and in any elsewhere on which he affixes his dead-eyed gaze.
And, beside a handful: No Minion of this rump-"government" (in any of its hallow'ed Estates) has yet summoned the GUTS to get this lethal-Apparition Far-away-from all the levers
of the pewling, disgraced dis-US's obscene-Power-to-Maim any living thing around.
Carrion.
Its scent grows best in a carefully-tended Bed-of-Shit, like... well, you Know.
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Post #420,583
10/2/17 3:13:53 PM
10/2/17 3:13:53 PM
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But wait! Let's let the good guys with guns save us!
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Post #420,599
10/2/17 9:01:55 PM
10/2/17 9:01:55 PM
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Only 280K dead in the New-New Millennium?
Can the gunners keep up with the death-by-broiling rates? (now just simmering.. on the Agenda.)
Drumpf likes only Winners, so ... ...
U.S.A. dis-
U.S.A.
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U.S.A.
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... or maybe they'll all be too stoned to notice the ones not moving?
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Post #420,591
10/2/17 4:03:29 PM
10/2/17 4:03:29 PM
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Re: "But this was 50 actual people."
Latest count is 58. 'Tis a small price so that the owners of the NRA can maximize profit.  And, the NRA owns the majority of the US Congress. Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov
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Post #420,600
10/2/17 9:41:41 PM
10/2/17 9:41:41 PM
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yes we did
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
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Post #420,659
10/6/17 11:31:36 AM
10/6/17 11:31:36 AM
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Re: Is 50 the magic number?
Naw, Chicago averages more than that per month "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
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Post #420,713
10/9/17 7:04:16 AM
10/9/17 7:04:16 AM
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Yeah, let's keep pretending we're not getting the point.
That's how one gets and maintains such a stalwart reputation for intellectual probity. --
Christian R. Conrad
Same old username (as above), but now on iki.fi(Yeah, yeah, it redirects to the same old GMail... But just in case I ever want to change.)
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Post #420,721
10/9/17 9:05:16 AM
10/9/17 9:05:16 AM
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oh I get the point, in chicago the folks are not listening to country music so doesnt matter
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
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Post #420,729
10/9/17 2:30:30 PM
10/9/17 2:30:30 PM
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LA Times had an article on Sunday . . .
. . (8 Oct 17) on Country Music artists suddenly realizing with some horror that it is they who have been promoting this culture of guns and outlaws through many of their songs.
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