If you would like to discuss another topic, look for a relevant article. But these are the shootings that force people to notice, as they did right here in Colorado, at least before the recalls.
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On Friday afternoon, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced the shooting will be investigated as an act of terrorism.
We’re now getting reports that Syed Farook, one of the shooters in San Bernardino, may have been in touch with an global terrorism suspect, and so this shooting may have been politically motivated (even though he chose to target his co-workers).
Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein of California sponsored a proposal for preventing known or suspected terrorists from buying firearms at federally licensed dealers.
Our prayers are with the families of those who were murdered and those who were shot. “It’s also possible this was work related”.
But also what underscores all of this is that the Americans are a violent people.
“It’s a partnership between the government and the people, it is not the government over the people and that’s what’s important here”, Williams said. The influential National Rifle Association has also advanced that argument.
But this standpoint is inconsistent.
“It was unspeakable the carnage that we were seeing, the people injured or already dead and the pure panic on the faces of individuals”, said Officer Mike Madden, First Responder.
Of course these are the same neocons who are following the terrorist lead in denying refugees from the middle east. The terrorists want countries to shut their borders and turn people away so that they can tell these refugees that the West won’t help them because they are Muslims.
Nobody should be talking about taking away all guns….But we need leaders who are willing to take steps toward making things tougher on people who would do harm.
American teenagers and young adults, ages 15 through 24, were 43 times more likely to be killed by a gun than their counterparts in other wealthy, developed countries.
Agree or disagree, it’s clear that Lake is offering an interesting perspective on a debate that sometimes seems exclusively focused on gun control. Data gathered by Harvard researchers from a forthcoming study estimate roughly 40 percent of guns change hands without a background check. So what are you waiting for?
[Republicans] are more anxious about the possibility that someone might be turned away from a gun shop than shielding the public against violent criminals. Heidi Heitkamp, blocked the bill on the grounds that it might impinge on some gun buyers’ Second Amendment rights.
What makes the United States situation so sad is the number of Americans killing each other in a steady stream of slaughter.
To put this into perspective, America makes up around five percent of the world’s population but possesses around 42 percent of all the world’s privately owned firearms. So what was the response of our media and political elites when this happened on Wednesday: hysteria over gun laws. CDC dollars are used to research auto accidents, natural disasters, ventilation systems – hardly considered diseases by even the most expansive definition.
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“They will come to where we worship”, LaPierre warns as ominous music waves over blurred images of American everyday life, “where we educate and where we live”.
