Standing in front of a gaggle o’ police, President Obama renewed his pitch for civilian disarmament. The Prez took a more conciliatory tone than his previous attempt, where waving the bloody shirt got his condescension on. Although Mr. Obama made a stab at calling for a federal high cap mag and modern sporting rifle ban (weapons from the theater of war don’t belong in a movie theater), he focused his rhetorical energy on universal background checks. Even then there was a distinct whiff of defeatism (combined with the usual petulance); the CIC said expanding the background check system wouldn’t be a magic bullet solution to crime and plaintively declared Americans “just want to see some progress.” Obama also poo-pooed the black helicopter crowd. Gun owners have nothing to fear from the government because “the government are us.” Speak for yourself boyo. Oh wait. Anyway, not gonna move the needle.
TRANSLATION: “Wait until I’m PRESIDENT-FOR-LIFE Barack Obama!”
When people tell me that the government would never seize our guns, I just remind them of Katrina, when the government did exactly that.
If they only need 7200 signatures it should be cake. Colorado springs is home to the entire 4th infantry division at fort carson. Get it onto post and 90% of the 20+k Soldiers will sign it alone.
Serial killers prey on both fear(which is often how they perceive your refusal to use their name) and on notoriety(the decision to use their name)… take your pick… it makes no difference to them.
The bigger injustice is not that Nikon makes Rifle Scopes, but rather that Cannon Cameras do not!
I don’t know, I can see both sides of the argument. The side that says not to use their names and pictures don’t want to encourage copy cats, the other side doesn’t want to turn them into “He-Who-Should-Not-Be-Named.”
Personally I don’t think using names and pictures is the root problem, the root problem is the media glorifying these guys as anti-heroes. Knowing their names wouldn’t matter if the media would treat them as pathetic messed up people. Someone not deserving to be feared but to be pitied. These guys don’t want to be pitied, if the result of mass shootings was that the shooter was looked down on as a sad excuse for a human being there probably wouldn’t be copy cats.
But that’s just my speculation and my opinion.
Even right now, over at the Huffington Post, authors and readers insist that no one has been in the recent or distant past or current time trying to take our gun rights away. Trying to dialogue with those people is like trying to have a discussion with the insane.
i know, right?
You’re right. We want to see a repeal of the NFA in its entirety.
TAKE THAT FU–TARDS PICTURE DOWN. I CANT STAND TO LOOK AT IT
Not a chance. The murderers should be the focus of our outrage. Their names should be burned into our memory. The gungrabbers would be thrilled beyond belief if we never spoke of them, because then there would only be the guns to talk about. How can we make our argument if we won’t talk about the perpetrators?
Adam Lanza killed those innocent boys and girls. Keep the discussion focused on the slimy b@stards, not the guns.
Obama is exactly right. Americans do just want to see some progress.
For instance, right now I’d like to see some progress that involves Obama leaving office (or at least keeping his mouth shut) and the prohibitionists leaving us alone. And while we’re wishing for things that will never happen, I’d like to win the lottery and have a viable third party to vote for. Is that so much to ask?
If you can’t handle the truth, don’t read TTAG.
I have no issue with posting facts, or their names and photos.
Use them, but try not to glorify them, which I don’t think this site does. Shame I can’t say the same about network media.
Yeah, I don’t want the mainstream press to keep parading these evil little bastards on the evening news and giving them the infamy they crave, but if someone’s trying to extend the “it’ll inspire the next school shooter” logic to the readership of TTAG, well… that argument is a little insulting to us, is my point.
I don’t care, it’s not going to change anything and I doubt they read TTAG. . Just look at that little mongoloid. His mother should have smothered him long ago. On balance, I think there is probably a conspiracy in both Ct and Co. The last two spree killers look like they’re made for TV.
When their names become a part of every Americans’ vocabulary, the killers have gotten what they wanted. So while I’m not totally opposed to their pictures I definitely say no to their names, at least after the initial reporting.
So is he spending time in CO in front of all the cops to hang on to the coat tails of the successful anti-gunners there since he is a failure on the Federal level? Or is he taking the Nations attention away from all the real problems we have? It is interesting to contemplate because every thing he does is planned and has a purpose. I guess we will find out sooner or later but I have a feeling whatever it is it will not make us happy.
.50 BMG round might be considered an anti drone device.
I don’t consider myself a conspiracy theorists, or part of the black helicopter crowd, but I defiantly think there’s a fishy smell resonating from DHS HQ, and nothing BHO or any other government official says is going to make me feel comfortable with whatever they’re up to.
New England sure does have some pretty little towns. It’s a shame that it’s become such a bastion of the statists.
One note about Texas: Not sure if you guys down there are aware, but one of Obama’s former campaign strategists has been sent to Texas by the Democrats to launch a “Turn Texas Blue” project, with the main target being Latinos. I hope it’s a cold day in hell before Texas falls to a platform supporting gun control and higher taxes, but y’all remain vigilant down there and stay active politically just to be safe.
Am I the only one bothered by the fact that their hinting at that putting “prefer not to answer” on a form for gender or self description is indicatory of homicidal tendencies?
Most reputable psychologists agree that spree killers are in it for notoriety/infamy. They see news stories about incidents, the president will have a press conference and talk about them, there will be a push for a “national discussion.” And central to it all is these psychopaths’ pictures and names.
Call them things like “the psychopath from Newtown,” consistently, across all media outlets (besides local papers and stations) and these kind of things would become less common.
But their eyes are unsettling so we better post pictures!
Apparently, they are. It’ll be very interesting to see if he goes through with it. There is nothing to keep the Sheriffs from arresting SS agents if they try it.
I am thinking that if state LEOs can’t enforce federal laws (a la AZ immigration) then feds shouldn’t be enforcing state law. There is a reason for federalism dividing power at different levels.
Growing up in West Los Angeles we lived across the street from the “Brentwood Country Mart.” It was a collection of stores with a small food court in the center. My sister and I used to walk over there after school to walk through the shops and split some french fries. It was not uncommon to see many of Hollywood’s greats there shopping or having coffee and reading the newspaper. One regular we would see often was Charlton Heston, among other.
We knew who he was and would on occasion say hello to him. I remember him being polite and never seeming bothered by the two young kids that would stop and say hello. Old Hollywood, as I like to call them, were easy to talk, very friendly, and had more class than Carrey could ever hope to achieve!
i think that the notoriety angle is completely overblown. it really doesn’t make much sense.
Adam Lanza, every gun owner in this country knows this pathetic psychopaths name. He has made life hell for those of us who live in less than common sense states. He has commanded the attention of our President and most of our elected representatives. He has caused economic turmoil for anyone that wants to purchase anything to do with guns, and a windfall for those who sell or manufacture those products.
He has set the bar very high for the next cretin that wants to be remembered for something horrific. This kind of carnage will happen again, and it will have to be worse, so that we will all know the name of the offender.
We can all pretend that repeating the offenders name wont perpetuate the cycle of mass homicides, but we are only kidding ourselves
Yeah, he’s really listening to both sides. Turns out we’re all ginning up fears. Who knew? I thought not wanting the Federal Government to put an entire class of extremely desirable firearms and the OEM standard capacity magazines they come with off limits, not to mention letting the feds keep records of every single gun transfer in America were valid concerns. Guess I’m just unreasonable.
Oh good. I’d watch it, but I have to go stick my dick in a meat grinder.
Yes, show them. It does humanity no favors to turn our head away from the evil among us. Thinking that these types do it for publicity, is no different than blaming it on video games, or guns, or anything else for that matter. It all seems to me, to be an unwillingness to accept the fact that there is such a thing as good and evil. People scramble to find a reason…. any reason why someone would do such a thing, but there is to rationality for those who just want to watch the world burn. Publicity is only an afterthought in their plans.
Granted, don’t plaster it all over the front page of everything… but one must know ones enemy.
Maya Angelou, crazed gun nut. She must have taught Uncle Joe to shoot: http://nation.foxnews.com/maya-angelou/2013/04/03/poet-maya-angelou-blasts-gun-home-intruder
Now that’s a video.
Absolutely use the term. And don’t worry about offending others.
The anti-right crowd finds everyone here at TTAG offensive
simply because we speak up, speak out and are willing to defend
our freedoms.
Slavery is a condition enforced on a people, it does NOT have to
be based on race. If some people cannot accept this they need to
grow up and read a history book or two. Like RF, I too had family
rendered slaves by the Germans. They weren’t Jewish, just Polish
and in the way. My relatives were forced into labor camps to toil
for no recompense except their lives. There was no question that
the German machine considered them nothing more than chattel.