VABills Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/23/world/meast/syria-civil-war/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 Oh wait it was a bomb. I guess if people don't have guns they'll find another way to kill people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Those are some real hot cross buns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VABills Posted December 23, 2012 Author Share Posted December 23, 2012 Those are some real hot cross buns So just curious with all of these "murders" in the US, a country with so many guns and over 300,000,000 we sure have plenty of murders daily. But Syria with all of maybe 5,000,000 people have had something like 60,000 people killed this year. Plenty of children were in that group. Where is the outrage? Maybe I am missing something the order of magnitude just seems so much worse there, contrary to what the idiot media says here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 So just curious with all of these "murders" in the US, a country with so many guns and over 300,000,000 we sure have plenty of murders daily. But Syria with all of maybe 5,000,000 people have had something like 60,000 people killed this year. Plenty of children were in that group. Where is the outrage? Maybe I am missing something the order of magnitude just seems so much worse there, contrary to what the idiot media says here. Easy, we hate brown people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meazza Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 So just curious with all of these "murders" in the US, a country with so many guns and over 300,000,000 we sure have plenty of murders daily. But Syria with all of maybe 5,000,000 people have had something like 60,000 people killed this year. Plenty of children were in that group. Where is the outrage? Maybe I am missing something the order of magnitude just seems so much worse there, contrary to what the idiot media says here. In all seriousness, I highly doubt anyone is using Syria as a benchmark of human rights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdog1960 Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 by your and lapierre's logic we should now make bombs legal since laws against them didn't work in this instance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdnlng Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 Bombs are illegal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdog1960 Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 Bombs are illegal? yup. that's what your argument is reduced to by logic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VABills Posted December 24, 2012 Author Share Posted December 24, 2012 by your and lapierre's logic we should now make bombs legal since laws against them didn't work in this instance. No the point is, if bad people want to kill people, then only they will have weapons. If it was legal to carry in schools or this school had an armed officer, this event likely doesn't happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CosmicBills Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 So just curious with all of these "murders" in the US, a country with so many guns and over 300,000,000 we sure have plenty of murders daily. But Syria with all of maybe 5,000,000 people have had something like 60,000 people killed this year. Plenty of children were in that group. Where is the outrage? Maybe I am missing something the order of magnitude just seems so much worse there, contrary to what the idiot media says here. Idiotic post of the year goes to.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdog1960 Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 No the point is, if bad people want to kill people, then only they will have weapons. If it was legal to carry in schools or this school had an armed officer, this event likely doesn't happen. ya think maybe a few people on both sides carry guns in syria? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinga Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 ya think maybe a few people on both sides carry guns in syria? pause...... think about what you just said..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CosmicBills Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 pause...... think about what you just said..... Think about the OP. Comparing a nation that's in the midst of a bloody civil war to what happened in Newtown is beyond the pale. It's worse to claim that there is no outrage over the loss of life in Syria. Clearly VA hasn't been paying attention to anything outside his bubble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 ya think maybe a few people on both sides carry guns in syria? No it's just the slack jawed yokel Redstate Syrians that cling to their guns. The enlightened Bluestate Syrians have accepted the magnanimous authority of the central power Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VABills Posted December 24, 2012 Author Share Posted December 24, 2012 Think about the OP. Comparing a nation that's in the midst of a bloody civil war to what happened in Newtown is beyond the pale. It's worse to claim that there is no outrage over the loss of life in Syria. Clearly VA hasn't been paying attention to anything outside his bubble. No, what I am comparing is the media coverage and general outrage from the people here is the US pales in comparison to the 26 people killed in Newtown. Tragedy yes, but we are just a small part of this world. Here is one news story with 92 people killed, 32 children from this year and this never made the headline not the front page news. Guns are not the issue and never will be. People are the issue. Those that want to kill will kill regardless of the mechanism to do so. And just as guilty are people like you who think it's any more or less tragc to have something like this happen in your backyard but could give a **** about the people in Syria. Let me ask, did you hear about the person who died the other day in that huge collision in Iowa (I believe) when about 30 cars crashed into each other? Bet you did. Did you know 14 people were killed yesterday in Mozambique in a bus accident? Probably not. You so want to blame the republicans and the NRA for everything. DId you know that Roosevelt wouldn't allow numerous Jewish people into this country prior to WWII and had the ships they were on escorted back to Germany, where most were then imprisoned and killed during the holocaust? Everyone has blood on their hands. My point is, people die. People want to kill other people. You do what you can. But when people want to kill people, they will find a way. Whether it be guns, bombs, knives, Jimmy Jones Juice, bats. My other point is why not do something about it. Protect the children here and there by putting armed guards in the school. Police officers make half of what teachers do. Get rid of one home econ class or one shop class. Hire a couple of county police officers to be resource officers in the schools. Let people buy weapons to protect themselves. Instead the talk is to disarm everyone. All that does it make us easy prey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdog1960 Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 small arms in the hands of either side in the syrian war are not going to decide who wins. the superpower leaders will decide if and when assad goes. and the guns won't bring back any of the dead in the bakery or soildiers forced at gunpoint to enlist in and later kia'ed killing their own kin in assads army. they're all pawns as are nongun dealer nra members and/or people that believe they can protect themselves from the perceived threat of the gov't by a guncase full of ar-15's. you're being played and you don't even know it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meathead Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 i agree that banning non-assault style guns is not the answer but using this incident to make that point is insulting to the intelligence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaska Darin Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 you're being played and you don't even know it. /irony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keepthefaith Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 My other point is why not do something about it. Protect the children here and there by putting armed guards in the school. Police officers make half of what teachers do. Get rid of one home econ class or one shop class. Hire a couple of county police officers to be resource officers in the schools. Let people buy weapons to protect themselves. Instead the talk is to disarm everyone. All that does it make us easy prey. Both the middle school and high school that my kids attended (in a nice low crime Chicago suburb) have had armed police officers in the schools every day for more than a decade. Anyone else out there have armed police in their schools? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unbillievable Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 Spoons make people fat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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