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Wake up call for Gun Control
Published on January 10, 2011 By Bahu Virupaksha In Current Events

The shooting at Tucson, Arizona, is shocking and I extend my sorrow to each one of the families of the victims. My hear goes out to the mother and father of the 9 year old child who was killed in that horrific incident. May God give the devastated parents the courage to face what ought not to have happened.

Rep Gabrielle Giffords was targetted twice. Once by Sarah Palin who put her in the cross hairs of a gun sight on her website. I do not mean to suggest that there is a direct cause and effect between Sarah Palin's ill choice of graphics and the incident at Safeway in Tucson. However, the crosshairs do represent, as does the swastka, a symbol of hatred and to that extent one is not wrong to suggest that it contributed to the violence, albeit in an oblique way.

Jared Loughner, the alleged assasin, has had a history of mental and behavioural issues at his Community College and yet he was able to acquire a 9mm pistol with an extended magazine to hold more rounds. The aurhrities need to be more vigilant and the checking of the antecedents of the gun purchaser need to be done more throughly. Now that a Representative has been targetted, I think the US Congress will finally wake up to the need to control the gun culture in the USA.

This is a wake up call and unless the authorities act more such incidents will take palce as political assasinations are a contagious disease.

I condemn the killing of the 6 innocents and the wounding of 20 others. What is sad is that the tragedy could have been avoided.


Comments
on Jan 10, 2011

3 times - the third time by idiots like you.

on Jan 10, 2011

It didn't take long for the gun control libtards to come out. This could have been avoided if someone would have done something about this nut case other than stay out his way.

Now that a Representative has been targetted, I think the US Congress will finally wake up to the need to control the gun culture in the USA.

Not if they know whats' good for them.

on Jan 10, 2011

BONEHEADdb

Not if they know whats' good for them.

Careful - that is hate speech according to the purveyors of hate.

on Jan 10, 2011

It didn't take long for the gun control libtards to come out. This could have been avoided if someone would have done something about this nut case other than stay out his way.
the third time by idiots like you

Thank you. When abuse becomes a substitute for thought I know I am right and this is precisely the kind of rhetoric that led to the Tucson shooting. Sherief Clarence Dupnik seems to have got it right when he stately quite blandly that First Ammendment Rights did not inlude the right to incite to violence.

Gun contol is called for and who can explain how Jared could get a 9mm pistol with 4 magazines of extended clips which are issued only to police personnel.

on Jan 11, 2011

More white conservatives who think they can't live without a gun. But since the NRA owns them, it's not surprising. Get some therapy so you can get over your insecurities about the size of your penis.

on Jan 11, 2011

Thank you. When abuse becomes a substitute for thought

your own words condemn you.  YOU jumped on Palin when there is no evidence or any indication.  You are a hate monger who thrives on hate and the spreading of it.  You are the source of the foul stench that dots the landscape with hatred.  for you are ignorance and stupidity incarnate.

Good enough for you?  My assertion that you were responsible is as stupid - or justifiable - as your own stupid call for Palin to apologize.  The facts - should you ever get your head out of your ass and check them - have nothing to do with Palin.  It has everything to do with a perceived slight by an insane lunatic.  You merely tried to fan the flames of hatred with your stupidity and ignorance.

There is no cure for stupidity.  And you are on thin ground trying to plead ignorance.  Now you can retract your stupidity and we will allow it to go at that. Or you can double down and show everyone you pettiness and vindictiveness - and why violence is begotten not by rhetoric - but by the stupidity of haters.

on Jan 11, 2011

More white conservatives
 

Like most libtards you are a raciest.

who think they can't live without a gun

I can live without a gun, but I'm not going to.

But since the NRA owns them

The NRA! All gun owners belong to the NRA.....what are you smoking?

Get some therapy so you can get over your insecurities about the size of your penis.

Seems like you lefties always get around to talking about dicks.

 

Thank you. When abuse becomes a substitute for thought I know I am right and this is precisely the kind of rhetoric that led to the Tucson shooting.

Bullshit! Loughner was pissed at Gabrielle Gifford because she voted against Nasty pelosi.

Sherief Clarence Dupnik seems to have got it right when he stately quite blandly that First Ammendment Rights did not inlude the right to incite to violence.

Dupnik is an idiot who opened his big fat mouth before he knew the facts.

 

Careful - that is hate speech according to the purveyors of hate.

I will rephrase my comment so the hate mongers can understand: They will be kicking rocks down the road, looking for a job.

on Jan 12, 2011

Dupnik is an idiot who opened his big fat mouth before he knew the facts
The easy availbility of guns and the powerful hold the NRA has is worrisonme. The Glock 19 the weapon of choice of all would be mass mureders including the Virginia Tech shooter was bought without the mandatory check. One of the reposders has said that the shooter was a "lunatic". When does the US law allow lunatics to possess automatic weapons. Or is a lunacy case being propogated so that Palin's poodles can escape death penalth that should be their due. I think REp Giffords clearly dstatred that putting her district in "crosshairs" pf a gun is incitement and she did say that she feared the cionsequence. Of course Giffords hberself owns a Glock 19 and even the ammendment that she tabled will not put effective limits to the over the counter sale of concealed wea[pons. If the First Ammendment Right to bear arms is so vital then whjat about concealed weapons.

I think the Arizona authorities are practicing double standards when they are not pressing terrorism charges.

Dupnk is an upright public official who said clearly that the vitriol from perhaps the "tea party" types is leading to a fall in the standard of public discourse.

The respones the a mild comment has got shows how thick and fast the vitriol is. I say all power to DUPNIK.

 

on Jan 12, 2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/us/11guns.html

This article gives the details from New York Times.

on Jan 12, 2011

When does the US law allow lunatics to possess automatic weapons.

When they are not prosecuted due to either lack of information, or in the case of Dupnik, incompetence.  It seems your 'poster boy" is a bigger menace to his society than Loughner because he failed to do HIS job.

Or is a lunacy case being propogated so that Palin's poodles can escape death penalth that should be their due.

So now you want to kill people because you do not agree with them?  Who is the lunatic now?

I think REp Giffords clearly dstatred that putting her district in "crosshairs" pf a gun is incitement and she did say that she feared the cionsequence.

hey clueless - the DNC did it in 2004, and Moveon.org did it in 2008!  So why are they not to blame?  because you are a lunatic that wants to kill those you do not agree with?

If the First Ammendment Right to bear arms is so vital then whjat about concealed weapons.

2nd Amendment clueless.

Dupnk is an upright public official who said clearly that the vitriol from perhaps the "tea party" types is leading to a fall in the standard of public discourse.

He is a clueless incompetent that only an idiot could call upright.  His favorite commentator is a lunatic named Rachel Madcow, and his office was made aware of Loughner's rantings long before the shootings.  Know what he told the complainers?  buy a gun!  his office could do nothing.  Well, if they had a law officer as sheriff instead of a politician, something would have been done. Since even a conviction on any of the death threats that loughner made would have made him ineligible to buy the gun he used!

So your are not only clueless, a lunatic (wanting to kill your enemies), but also mentally misguided since the facts do not bear any relationship to your demented tirade.  Those are the facts jack.

on Jan 12, 2011

Bahu, you ignorant lunatic.

Dr Guy is a lot more patient than I am. I almost got out the ole Ruger and put it to my own head after reading your insane conglomeration of misspelled words and nonfactual facts.

I'll just say this:

Dupnic is a left wing asshole with an agenda.

Loughner is a left wing mad man who looks like uncle fester.

Gun stores do not sale concealed weapons, it's up the owner to conceal his own weapon.

Have a nice day.

 

 

on Jan 12, 2011

Gun stores do not sale concealed weapons, it's up the owner to conceal his own weapon.

Good point!