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It could have been worse...without the guns.

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Thursday, December 20, 2012 11:55 AM

CHRISISALL


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Originally posted by MAL4PREZ:

Moron.

Now that's a unfair, M4P... don't you think?

I mean, he's an idiot; there is a difference.

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Thursday, December 20, 2012 2:13 PM

MAL4PREZ


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Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA:
Quote:

Originally posted by MAL4PREZ:
WTF is with the right wing? Reps have spent the last several years hating on teachers as lazy leeches who make way too much money and don't do a good enough job, and suddenly they want to give teachers guns? They don't want to pay teachers a wildly outrageous salary of maybe 40-50K/year to teach addition and grammar, but have no problem arming them in the presence of children?

right wing = insane


*applause*

From a psych aspect though, and mind I initially said this in May 1999...
If it gets to the point where the kid is LOOKING for a weapon, it's gone further than we should have ever allowed it to get.

What I don't think the short-sighted instant gratification crowd on both sides of the aisle quite gets is that every penny spent on education, health care, aid to families, whatever - EVERY penny spent on humanity now, pays off in dollars later when we do NOT have to clean up after something like this, do NOT have to throw another kid who coulda-mighta-been-okay in prison - but nobody seems willing to invest in things with a generational payoff.
Well, nobody else, anyways.

-Frem


Hey. I'm all with you. I find it beyond belief how righties argue about CEOs needing higher pay and bigger bonuses, because how else can you attract good CEOs? But teachers - no way! Paying them more than a bare minimum only attracts deadbeat losers! It's ridiculous. I had a roommate who worked with mentally disabled adults, and I cannot believe what she went through. With barely any pay for it. WTF?

Back to the point of the thread: if only there'd been more guns, it would have been so much better, right Hero? Further proof of the insanity of the NRA RWA GOTP crowd. If only this shooting had involved a gun owner from the start, then it wouldn't have happened... except it did involve a gun owner, and that gun owner died, and her guns were used to do all the rest of the killing. What is wrong with these *idiots* (I can think of plenty more words, Chris) that they manage to block this simple, basic fact out?

BTW, kudos to whatever clever liberal invented this "Rappy" character to continually illustrate the wrongness of the Faux news way. The Rap continues to serve his purpose brilliantly.

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Thursday, December 20, 2012 2:49 PM

CHRISISALL


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Originally posted by MAL4PREZ:
What is wrong with these *idiots* (I can think of plenty more words, Chris) that they manage to block this simple, basic fact out?


Dumasses, hyper-focused losers, dorks, intellectual charletons, Punisher-wannabes, fantasy-indentured fools, swimmers in de Nile, etc.

Look, no one loves a good Bond movie more than I do, but I'd have to practically LIVE at a target range for the preponderance of my life to be a good enough killer with a gun to take out bad guys like *some* here wish they could.

Welcome to Fantasy Island!

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Saturday, December 22, 2012 9:36 AM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht


We had a ban on asault weapons for a while and that worked fine. I'd be fine with that being renewed, I've always felt that way and I still do. Maybe this is a sign that its time to renew that ban.

I wouldn't mind if teachers at my lil' bro's school had concealed guns (with permit and proper instruction of course). It seems weird that the most important people to protect are in a place where no one is allowed to have any means of equal application to that of the destruction-intent intruder.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Saturday, December 22, 2012 10:04 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Mal4:
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I find it beyond belief how righties argue about CEOs needing higher pay and bigger bonuses,
because how else can you attract good CEOs? But teachers - no way! Paying them more than a bare minimum only attracts deadbeat losers! It's ridiculous.


Amen.



Tit for tat got us where we are today. If we want to be grownups, we need to resist the ugliness. If we each did, this would be a better reflection on Firefly and a more welcome place. I will try.

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Saturday, December 22, 2012 3:40 PM

FREMDFIRMA



Okay, I shouldn't, really shouldn't, but I did laugh at that cartoon...
Presenting weapons to mistreated, exploited, underpaid folk with good reason to not like you a whole lot - what could POSSIBLY go wrong there ?
Err....

-F

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