Negative Space: mass murder
- Adam Gopnik: The simple truth about gun control
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According to Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker, those who support gun control are equivalent to a faith-healing cult, continually applying faulty laws even though they’ve never worked in the past.
- April fools came early at the Washington Post
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The left-wing media have been omitting the truth for so long, they no longer remember the omissions.
- Brady activists: abstinence, not prevention, answer to violence
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What message does it send our children when they see men and women use firearms as tools to protect them? Violence is never the answer, especially when it comes to protecting children. A child protected by a handgun might as well be killed for all the mental anguish it causes his parents. Abstinence from self-defense is more important than prevention of murders.
- Civil rights vs. showboat killers
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If we want to take away people’s civil rights to stop the showboat killers that seem to have proliferated since Columbine, is it worth it?
- Democrats “oppress” black voters… by killing them en masse
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Over more than a century, Democrats throughout the United States have sought to glorify the Confederacy, from the battle flag to erecting monuments to the political leaders of the Confederacy. They have killed to do it. Republicans should work to tear down those monuments to slavery.
- Every tragedy its own government program
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The Department of Defense internal review of the Washington Navy Yard shooting recommends a new government program meeting the standards already set up by the White House and other government agencies before the review started.
- Flying blind in Broward County
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The problem with not reporting when people commit crimes, is that it makes everyone else blind to the potential threat. And the federalization of law enforcement also means no one cares about how blind they are.
- Hero stops local mass shooting
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Nation has no need to grieve, goes on watching sports and talking about election trivialities. Social media finger nannies hardest hit.
- How do we keep this from happening again?
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Whenever there’s a tragedy, there is a small cadre of people who frantically push solutions that never worked in the past and wouldn’t have stopped the current tragedy. They’re in a hurry to act before the facts come out that would let us craft a real response. Real prevention means solving real problems. That means waiting for the facts.
- The media’s Trump hatred causes mass murder
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The media’s desperate need to link Trump to all crimes may be encouraging mass murder.
- The Vicious Cycle of Mass Murders
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We now know what went wrong. Let’s ignore the ghouls on Facebook and fix it.
- Waiting Periods & Public Safety (215.0 KB)
- Re: Brady Bill; from Fri, 10 Dec 1993 15:40:43 GMT
- Who wants the United States to lead?
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After Paris, can we still wonder whether it’s a better idea for the United States to leave world peace to bickering tyrants?
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- Law and Order in the Fallen World
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“It is a natural tendency on the part of most human beings, when confronted with great evil, to want to do something about it. We want to stop the horror of death and violence and disease. It speaks to what is good within us that we desire this—it speaks to a recognition on our part, innate and abiding, that there is something terribly broken in this world—a great mistake which has been made along the way, a gear missed in the works, a gaping hole where something should be. The feeling is all the stronger when we face the destruction of innocent life—the life of a child. The Mishnah tells us that the act of murder destroys a whole…”
