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In reply to the discussion: Michael Moore's FB comment on the UCSB shootings, [View all]valerief
(53,235 posts)86. I think he'd like us to have guns implanted in our foreheads, so we'd
be ready at all times to murder. God help us if we sneeze the things go off, though.
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"..that tells young men that killing people (add "with guns") is the answer to their problems."
AlinPA
May 2014
#143
Yep, basically collective wishful thinking across the nation. It seems is just gets worse and worse,
RKP5637
May 2014
#118
I know. When that happened in Ct, I thought maybe we had finally reached a tipping point.
Chemisse
May 2014
#164
Yep Chris Martinez who was shot in the back could have responded if he had a gun
malaise
May 2014
#7
Whenever they hear about an horrid trajedy like this, their first thought is...
tofuandbeer
May 2014
#100
More---He's suggesting we all walk around our HOMES while armed! These men were roommates!
WinkyDink
May 2014
#50
They were his roommates. A knife in the back is pretty silent. Anyway, Google: "Richard Speck."
WinkyDink
May 2014
#190
How stupid. AS IF his stabbing victims had time to reach into their, what? Pockets? for a gun, aim,
WinkyDink
May 2014
#48
I have faced a crazy drug addicted ex-husband who put a sawwed off between my eyes....
VanillaRhapsody
May 2014
#56
I know it's a Catch-22, but I think if one is attracted to that kind of stuff, they should be
Hoyt
May 2014
#167
We have to face that we ourselves want the 2nd Amendment. But we must change it. We must.
ancianita
May 2014
#19
You know, if the gun control side (led by Mayor Bloomberg) would just STFU for awhile and quit...
LAGC
May 2014
#68
most anyone who has dared say anything, has called for very reasonable, common sense gun regulations
G_j
May 2014
#125
Well said. "--what the f--- do we expect in this country?" Indeed. In this gun culture, people seem
AlinPA
May 2014
#153
It's quite telling for a country where 20 first-graders are wantonly slaughtered...
KansDem
May 2014
#24
Well, look at the rote, defend-guns-at-all-costs lemming posts in this very thread
villager
May 2014
#76
"it can't happen to your child until it does" is what Chris Martinez's father said.
mountain grammy
May 2014
#26
Minor correction-- a rare exception to his claim 'none are committed by women'
Gidney N Cloyd
May 2014
#46
I don't care if they're male, female, or intersex. I just want progressives representing us. nt
valerief
May 2014
#199
My comment usually is - "guns don't kill people? People kill people?" Well, yes. People kill people.
calimary
May 2014
#95
For not having anything to say about, this is perhaps his most eloquent description of it
lostincalifornia
May 2014
#55
I'd be curious to know how he/she thinks the younger generation will be better.
AngryOldDem
May 2014
#186
"Nearly all of our mass shootings are by angry or disturbed white males."- whaaat?
LittleBlue
May 2014
#90
+1 Unfortunately, lots of gun fanciers are on those and other meds that can cause aggression.
Hoyt
May 2014
#122
You do get the whole "correlation doesn't equal causation" thing, right?
DeadLetterOffice
May 2014
#126
"Enjoy the rest of your day and rest assured this will all happen again very soon."
Boomerproud
May 2014
#140