The left swoops in on Las Vegas massacre

[TalkRadio]

The dead weren’t even finished dying in Las Vegas before the left swooped down to feed on gun control politics. So rather than allow even one day to reflect and mourn, rather than allow us to consider the heroism of the survivors and first responders in that Las Vegas nightmare, politics saw an opportunity and took it immediately.

Should we have more debate? Certainly. Let’s have it. There are more guns and more gun crimes in America than any other place in the world. But let’s not forget that most killings aren’t committed by some lone sniper without apparent motive. The killings happen on the streets of big cities like Chicago, a city of strict gun control, where street gangs continue their slaughter and City Hall is powerless to stop them.

Even so, when the shooting began in the Mandalay Bay massacre, as the country music crowd stampeded in fear, as people died, Americans selflessly helped each other, comforted each other, risking and giving their own lives to save each other. If only we’d been allowed a day or two to mourn, to reflect on the goodness even in the midst of the horror, before the politics swooped in.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/

 

[Hypoxia]

This opinion piece implies that people should wait awhile before demanding that massacres stop. Sure. After you've been hit by a drunk driver and your family killed, don't complain right away. When someone blows up your school, wait before seeking action. Yeah, sure.

We see the NRA-Gup-Trompsky line: Hold off on gun debates for now. Wait till the next massacre. Then wait till the next one. And the next. Hey, we never need debate at all! And if we do debate, big deal. Nothing will happen. Hey, we all have the right to shoot or be shot!

A quick question for those wanting to delay debate: Would you mind being shot?

 

[Carnal_Flower]

"The dead weren’t even finished dying in Las Vegas before the left swooped down to feed on gun control politics."

That's not "swooping in." They died from a mass shooting. The question of guns is inextricable with the deaths.

As if "the dead" don't have anything to do with "gun control politics." Sorry, but they do.

Imagine all those AIDS activists politicizing HIV!!!

 

[sr71plt]

Of course sensible people who don't want to get shot up by gun nuts when they go to school, church, the movies, or a concert swoop in to point out the idiocy of U.S. laws on gun control each and every time a massacre happens. There's always hope that it's the gun nuts' loved ones who have been murdered this time and the gun nuts will begin to see and exercise reason. No, they don't wait until the next day, week, month, or year to point out the idiocy of the gun nuts again. Duh.

 

[DMBFFF]

If only we’d been allowed a day or two to mourn, to reflect on the goodness even in the midst of the horror, before the politics swooped in.

Would you have said that about 911?

 

[Wrmfd]

There's always hope that it's the gun nuts' loved ones who have been murdered this time...

Wow..

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny

Of course after all decent law abiding people turn in their guns we'll be safe from criminals and nutjobs like Paddock.

Wait until I put up this sign................ THERE ARE NO GUNS IN THIS HOUSE.

I feel better already.

 

[sr71plt]

Wow..

Think about it. Gun nuts seem not to care as long as it's happening to someone else other than them or their loved ones. I can think of no other reason they can be this wooden headed on the part of the issue that's about rapid-fire, at-a-distance weapons. Are you one of the ones incapable of thinking about this issue (who hasn't had a loved one dangered or murdered by it)? I'm think that yes you are.

You think this can't happen to you or your loved ones if you're living in the gun-mad United States, Wrmfd? If so, you're dumber than a rock and living in lalalalala land. Wake the fuck up. Wow indeed.

 

[sr71plt]

Of course after all decent law abiding people turn in their guns we'll be safe from criminals and nutjobs like Paddock.

Wait until I put up this sign................ THERE ARE NO GUNS IN THIS HOUSE.

I feel better already.

Distracting from the discussion of rapid-fire, at-a-distance killing machines. You just can't face giving any thought to the issue, right? You find you don't have to think if you just go with the NRA stonewalling and brinkmanship memos. What is wrong with your brain? Yet another one who hasn't had a loved one killed with an assault weapon just because they went to school, church, a movie, or a concert, right?

Disgusting.

 

[Rightguide]

Think about it. Gun nuts seem not to care as long as it's happening to someone else other than them or their loved ones. I can think of no other reason they can be this wooden headed on the part of the issue that's about rapid-fire, at-a-distance weapons. Are you one of the ones incapable of thinking about this issue (who hasn't had a loved one dangered or murdered by it)? I'm think that yes you are.

You think this can't happen to you or your loved ones if you're living in the gun-mad United States, Wrmfd? If so, you're dumber than a rock and living in lalalalala land. Wake the fuck up. Wow indeed.

Distracting from the discussion of rapid-fire, at-a-distance killing machines. You just can't face giving any thought to the issue, right? You find you don't have to think if you just go with the NRA stonewalling and brinkmanship memos. What is wrong with your brain? Yet another one who hasn't had a loved one killed with an assault weapon just because they went to school, church, a movie, or a concert, right?

Disgusting.

^^^
Friggin idiocy.

 

[Wrmfd]

Think about it.

Nope, can't do it. "Wow" was the absolute most I can possibly care to afford.

Like an AIDS-riddled butthole, that's all you, homey.

 

[coachdb18]

Of course after all decent law abiding people turn in their guns we'll be safe from criminals and nutjobs like Paddock.

Wait until I put up this sign................ THERE ARE NO GUNS IN THIS HOUSE.

I feel better already.

https://i.imgur.com/B8jcrwN.jpg

 

[Hypoxia]

[shooped sign]

What does this have to do with a dedicated, well-setup, heavily-armed, wealthy man raining death down on a concert scene from his elevated location? Why are you deflecting?

 

[sr71plt]

Like an AIDS-riddled butthole, that's all you, homey.

What a surprise that you went there. You do despicable quite believably.

Doesn't surprise me that you won't bother to think about it either.

 

[about_average]

The dead weren’t even finished dying in Las Vegas before the left swooped down to feed on gun control politics.

June 12, 2016, Orlando FL nightclub shooting, 49 people killed.

Appreciate the congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism, I don't want congrats, I want toughness & vigilance. We must be smart!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 12, 2016

It's obvious some shootings shouldn't be politicized and others should be.

edit to fix quote tags from OP

 

[Lancecastor]

As long as there is country music, there will be people with guns who want to kill the listeners.

It’s just nature’s way.

 

[TalkRadio]

Democrats play politics in immediate aftermath of Las Vegas shooting

At 10:03 a.m., while bodies were still lying where they fell and victims were in hospitals fighting for their lives, Hillary Clinton decided to go on the attack. “The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots. Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get,” she tweeted. This was not only inappropriate, it was also inane. Her tweet had nothing to do with the events in Las Vegas. There is no such thing as a “silencer” like you see in a James Bond movie. There are “suppressors,” which reduce gunshot noise but do not eliminate it. Even if the shooter had used one in Las Vegas, The Washington Post reported, the effect “probably would have been negligible.”

Undeterred by ignorance, Clinton tweeted again a minute later, at 10:04 a.m., urging Americans to “put politics aside [and] stand up to the NRA.” Of course, she was doing the opposite of putting politics aside. And she was not alone Monday morning. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., criticized “my colleagues in Congress [who] are so afraid of the gun industry” and declared that “the thoughts and prayers of politicians are cruelly hollow if they are paired with continued legislative indifference.” Rep. Jared Huffman, DCalif., tweeted, “More blood on hands of heartless NRA and soulless gun industry.”

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/10/0...in-immediate-aftermath-of-las-vegas-shooting/

 

[Freudian_Slit]

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/10/0...in-immediate-aftermath-of-las-vegas-shooting/

STFU, TalkConnie.

 

[TalkRadio]

Dem rep says he won't participate in moment of silence for Las Vegas victims

Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) said Monday that he won’t participate in a moment of silence on the House floor for victims of Sunday night's deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas.

“As after #Orlando, I will NOT be joining my colleagues in a moment of silence on the House Floor that just becomes an excuse for inaction,” Moulton tweeted Monday.

“Now is not a moment for silence; it's a time for action.”

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/3...e-in-moment-of-silence-on-house-floor-for-las

 

[TalkRadio]

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[TalkRadio]

Dem blasts moments of silence after mass shootings as 'grisly House ritual'

Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) on Tuesday expressed frustration with lawmakers observing a moment of silence in response to the mass shooting in Las Vegas, calling it a “grisly House ritual.”

The House held a brief moment of silence Monday evening for the victims of the massacre in Las Vegas the night before, which killed 59 people and injured more than 500 others.

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-acti...sts-moments-of-silence-as-grisly-house-ritual

 

[about_average]

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/10/0...in-immediate-aftermath-of-las-vegas-shooting/

June 12, 2016, Orlando FL nightclub shooting, 49 people killed.

Appreciate the congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism, I don't want congrats, I want toughness & vigilance. We must be smart!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 12, 2016

 

[about_average]

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[phrodeau]

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-acti...sts-moments-of-silence-as-grisly-house-ritual

A brief moment of silence is the exception in Congress lately. They've been known to go for months without producing a peep.

 

[ToucheAmore]

STFU, TalkConnie.

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