I suspect that journalists being murdered on live TV will always be newsworthy, twit.
Reporter and cameraman shot dead during live TV interview in Virginia
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I suspect that journalists being murdered on live TV will always be newsworthy, twit.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
twat.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
go forth and multiply.
hot air baboon
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.....they're all at it....nice big spreads of the "action shots".......they look like screen-shots from some video-game first-person shoot 'em up with the hand & gun poking from the side of the screen with that CGI looking muzzle flash ( which I guess may just be the way the picture came out ) and carefully selected to capture the horrified expression of the victim as they're being murdered....
....I can see absolutley no justification for pandering to the murderer's twisted desire to turn a private act of madness and violence into some voyeuristic snuff-footage media extravaganza.....horrible toxic videodrome stuff.....
...whilst they seem equally quite happy to act as publicity agents for ISIS latest atrocity exhibition at least there's arguably some sort of justification if it helps solidify or guide public opinion behind those who are actually fighting to stop it happening....
DotCommunist
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I'm pretty sure to get guns out of american society would require a profound cultural shift of the kind that takes generations to come about. And I'm not even sure its the ease of access to weaponry that is the problem tbh.
weltweit
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Britain had a mass killing and banned guns, we haven't had one since!
The logic seems simple.
DotCommunist
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so derek bird just passed you by then?
Yuwipi Woman
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I suspect if the culture shifted, you wouldn't need to ban guns. People just wouldn't feel the same need to buy them. Here's an article that suggests that the roots go deeper than simple gun ownership. Its seems to be better than MSN's standard fare.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/american-exceptionalism-and-the-‘exceptionally-american’-problem-of-mass-shootings/ar-BBm9m4V?ocid=iehp
weltweit
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I might have the timeline wrong, but Britain did ban handguns largely from public ownership at some point.
Piers Morgan has been tweeting today, things like:
Britain banned guns after Dunblane - no school shootings since. America did nothing after Newton - 100+ school shootings since.
Over 100,000 people in America will be hit by gunfire in 2015. Fact.
and
England has bad people. We have 32 gun deaths a year. You have 80 a day. Do the math.
DotCommunist
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eurgh I just had to look up american exceptionalism. Thats absolutely rank. They teach this to kids? Like english imperial Providence. How is it not just a refined form of manifest destiny? just what the fuck is that.
DotCommunist
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cfy
It's not a fucking competition
DotCommunist
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yebbut if it was, we are winning.
Thing with Derek Bird's spree kill is that he had some vile hunting rounds that prevent a through-and-through so will put you in the ground for his rifle and a shotgun. And he bimbled about in his car just merrily offing people. Handguns were banned total under blair after the dunblane massacre, but that didn't stop the custard killer did it? If you were quiet, sly and careful about it you could do a spree kill with a stanley knife..
Automatic rifles, carbines etc is slightly different. Thats just not supposed to be in the hands of anyone other than a soldier and even then I don't have to like it.
Thing with Derek Bird's spree kill is that he had some vile hunting rounds that prevent a through-and-through so will put you in the ground for his rifle and a shotgun. And he bimbled about in his car just merrily offing people. Handguns were banned total under blair after the dunblane massacre, but that didn't stop the custard killer did it? If you were quiet, sly and careful about it you could do a spree kill with a stanley knife..
Automatic rifles, carbines etc is slightly different. Thats just not supposed to be in the hands of anyone other than a soldier and even then I don't have to like it.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
until 1921 there were no gun laws in this country. i don't thinkthe change came because of a mass killing on this island.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
I've actually heard preachers from the pulpit preach that the US is really the land promised in the bible. It goes back to the rise of that weird right-wing cult that calls itself Christianity but really worships the flag, money and guns. I'm not certain Jesus makes the list, other than as a framework to hang their prejudices on.
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gosub
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still managed to annoy me by saying math.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
two people seperated by a common tongue etc- it sort of reminds me, when you speak of a money and guns religion, of some dusty town in nowhersville which is just a strip of shops and houses. White houses on one side, black houses down the other end of the town. Everyones got a winchester or a cheap shotgun (are remmingtons cheap? over here they just sell shaving equipment for men). I'll have to come see one day.
Manter
Lunch Mob
He lives there now doesn't he?still managed to annoy me by saying math.
weltweit
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He lived there for a while but I think he is back in the UK now.
Yuwipi Woman
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Wrong again. In reality the first British gun law was passed in 1903.
gosub
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US Editor at large Daily Mail. Tweeted this week about missing Loiuse Mensch at a club so would guess New york
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
strictly speaking, yes. but it was a minor, inconsequential act only a pedant would pick up on. the first proper legislation 1920, pardon my earlier typo.
elbows
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Oh thats where the misunderstanding happened - a typo from God - it was supposed to be God Hates Flags.
Yuwipi Woman
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