rowe33
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No GOP gun lover is going to see that video and feel shitty or bad for the kid. They’re going to think “Holy crap, what a stud! Glad he’s on our side.” Or get the kid a gun, like Stepsongrapes says.
CAN WE PLEASE STOP POLITICIZING THIS TRAGEDY???!!??!!?
rowe33
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Ah crap, that’s right - too soon, as always! THOUGHTS&PRAYERS&THOUGHTS&PRAYERS!
I respectfully submit that their anger is misdirected, but anyway…
Students at the STEM School Highlands Ranch in Colorado stormed out of a vigil honoring their slain classmate on Wednesday evening in anger over what they saw as a “political stunt” using their tragedy to push for gun control.
“We are people, not a statement,” the students shouted as they marched out of the gymnasium at the nearby Highlands Ranch High School. Hundreds of students, teachers, and activists had attended the vigil, which was billed as honoring Kendrick Castillo, a teenager fatally shot when he tried to tackle one of the shooters in a spree on Tuesday that left eight others injured at a charter school in a Denver suburb. Two students, 18 and 16, have been arrested.
The event was organized by a gun control group called the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. According to USA Today, many students appeared to have been unaware that the event was organized by an advocacy group. A half-hour in, after Sen. Michael F. Bennett and Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado spoke about gun regulations, the students became furious at what they saw as the politicization of their trauma.
Wake up kids. Otherwise your tragedy will have been for nothing… again.
I agree with the students, and I’m 100% for more gun control (I assume some of the students are, too).
A political advocacy group (from either side of the issue) shouldn’t organize a vigil in a situation like this. They should hold an information session or something like that, pay their respect to the slain student, and focus on providing information and advocating their position, but not bill it as primarily a vigil.
I do disagree with the students that the whole thing shouldn’t be politicized, at all. It should be—because it’s clearly a policy issue at this point. This was just a distasteful way of doing it.
At this point, bad-faith appeals to decorum are getting people killed, so I understand if the Brady folks erred on the side of aggression.
CraigM
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I’m beginning to think that someone at the Onion has access to a time machine.
Either that or the Matrix has truly glitched out.
That strikes me as a really super-over-expensive solution over which I have serious doubts of its effectiveness … but I guess that’s what the military hardware business is all about, lol.
rowe33
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It feels like something the President drew in crayon while he was supposed to be listening to something important. Then he immediately ordered the military to develop it, post-haste.
Next up, an orbitally deployed cluster-bomb full of tiny ceramic aerodynamic blade-stars capable of resisting the heat of reentry and still killing everyone out in the open over a wide area without damaging infrastructure… Like a neutron bomb that actually does leave structures alone, and yet not a nuke at all for all the pearlclutchers out there.
Keep in mind that this came about from an Obama directive to cut down on civilian casualties.
Menzo
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It makes sense to me. If you know a target is in a car, or in a particular room in a building, you don’t need a huge explosion to kill him. Just drop an anvil on his head from 60k feet.
Doing it with grand pianos is more stylish, though.
Hey, I know an easier and cheaper solution: Stop bombing the civilians.
How will poor Wayne afford the hyper expensive wardrobe, the boats, the high life, if he’s not getting cash funneled to him by the rubes?
