Denver's "Dark Knight massacre"

It's probably just as well that I couldn't have foreseen Thursday's "Dark Knight massacre" in Denver, Colorado( much as I might like to be, I am NOT clairvoyant or psychic!-just prescient) when I wrote "Pavlov, the ATT and the NRA". Rather predictably we got a lot of blather from the National Rifle Association, the GOP/Tea Party/FOX TV pundits- one wonders if there are any effective difference between any of the above- about not "politicizing the tragedy"( as if using sensational crimes for party political benefit is unheard of amongst conservatives- remember Jerry Falwell blaming 9/11 on "feminists. socialists and liberals" rather than Al Qaeda or Newt Gingrich blithely asserting that the murders of her children by North Carolina woman Susan Smith- she had falsely claimed that a black man was responsible -was due to the "1960s liberalism"- when it emerged that Smith's stepfather a leader in the local branch of the "Christian coalition" had repeatedly molested her as a child, Gingrich-who next to Rush Limbaugh -must rank as one of the stupidest commentators on the Right_ hastily changed the subject). it is of course true as all of the above note, that like the poor, we shall ALWAYS have crazies with us( pace Anders Breivik in Norway, Michael Ryan and Derick Bird in my own country- UK), but the real difference is that practically EVERY country except the US has tight controls on gun ownership( contrary to the NRA's self serving propaganda that guns are needed for protection against marauding criminals, tyrannical governments and now terrorists, upwards of sixty children are admitted to US hospital after shooting themselves. The "Velvet Revolution " in Eastern Europe and the US Civil Rights movement all showed that injustice and tyranny can be defeated without recourse to the almighty gun!)

I remember how surprised I was to once enter a Philadelphia sporting goods store some years back and see of all things an AK-47 assault rifle for sale( I of course had seen armed Immigration and Customs personnel at the air port and was fully aware due to my watching US TV programmes and Hollywood films that state and federal- of course Philadelphia Police Department officers were "packing heat")- which of course had no hunting or sporting reasons, and went home thanking God on bended knee that my own country had much tighter gun controls than the "Land of the Free and the Home Of The Brave"!

Terry

Been done twice

yes dude,they are idiots,but no damn use bringing religion into the topic,i hate when they do that....but that guy was a psycho and i hope he suffers a slow and extremely painful death

I'm a bit annoyed that you choose to slap gun politics on this matter (though, really, you slap some form of politics on almost everything, from what I've seen). In essence, it makes you just as bad as the people you're denouncing. You're using this tragedy to prove a point, and you go off on several different tangents (I fail to see how child molestation, or religion, have anything to do with this).

I could say that I'm disappointed in you for doing this, but then again, I got past my disappointment in people using tragedies to push agendas ages ago. It's unsurprising at this point, and could probably be considered an eventuality when a tragedy occurs.

@YourNeighborhoodComicGeek said:

Been done twice

Closer to around 3-5 times, actually.

I didn't bother reading, I saw how much political mess was blamed on this event. It wasn't politics, the man was insane.

what a terrible tragedy...guns need to be banned period...the youngest victim was only 6 yrs old...i would like to get my hands on this nuts tbh...

Guns will never be banned. 

@ nefarious is right guns will never be banned, plus the shooter got all his legal.

@ZombieBigfoot said:

I'm a bit annoyed that you choose to slap gun politics on this matter (though, really, you slap some form of politics on almost everything, from what I've seen). In essence, it makes you just as bad as the people you're denouncing. You're using this tragedy to prove a point, and you go off on several different tangents (I fail to see how child molestation, or religion, have anything to do with this).

I could say that I'm disappointed in you for doing this, but then again, I got past my disappointment in people using tragedies to push agendas ages ago. It's unsurprising at this point, and could probably be considered an eventuality when a tragedy occurs.

@YourNeighborhoodComicGeek said:

Been done twice

Closer to around 3-5 times, actually.

this,exactly this

@ZombieBigfoot said:

I'm a bit annoyed that you choose to slap gun politics on this matter (though, really, you slap some form of politics on almost everything, from what I've seen). In essence, it makes you just as bad as the people you're denouncing. You're using this tragedy to prove a point, and you go off on several different tangents (I fail to see how child molestation, or religion, have anything to do with this).

I could say that I'm disappointed in you for doing this, but then again, I got past my disappointment in people using tragedies to push agendas ages ago. It's unsurprising at this point, and could probably be considered an eventuality when a tragedy occurs.

I agree!

@Nefarious said:

Guns will never be banned.

I love that you have a pissed off Deathstroke for your profile pic with that post.

@Nefarious said:

Guns will never be banned.

I love that you have a pissed off Deathstroke for your profile pic with that post.

@capall2 said:

what a terrible tragedy...guns need to be banned period...the youngest victim was only 6 yrs old...i would like to get my hands on this nuts tbh...

Guns were illegal, I believe. Banning them wouldn't do a thing.

@JediXMan said:

@capall2 said:

what a terrible tragedy...guns need to be banned period...the youngest victim was only 6 yrs old...i would like to get my hands on this nuts tbh...

Guns were illegal, I believe. Banning them wouldn't do a thing.

banning would siginificantly reduce the sheer amount of violence outthere believe it not, it does make ppl second guess their thoughts and actions...it's not right that any donkey can just go out and purchase massive amount of guns and ammos...any action is better than no action at all...it's so sad that ppl can not just go out and have fun with their familes and peers without worrying about violence...I live in TO the mega city of CANADA...the shootings are also going crazy here as well...I gave up mine once I had kids...i don't know what kind of sh!t kidz are into these days but it's getting really sad everywhere...my heart goes out to all the victims familes...

@capall2:

Also sad that a family can get hit by a reckless driver, but cars are legal. Yearly, more people are killed by cars than guns. Don't see nearly as many people getting upset over vehicles, and certainly more people own those and have access to those than firearms.

Also, this is the worst time to change laws, because changing laws in times like this lead to brash decisions which, in turn, lead to consequences that are usually not taken into consideration at the time. Things like this should be considered during more stable times, where clear heads prevail.