Did this even get reported in the US?

it made news in all the gun/gun rights forums. i'm guessing that since it was just a shotgun and not an assault rifle or high powered semi automatic handgun with armor piercing rounds, it just wasn't that important.
 
tom prendergast said:
I really don't see how you will ever make a good lawyer, you are just too emotional.
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is that it? you're now going to obsessively continue to make this false claim of emtional? can't discuss anything rationally, so whine about emotions....you're the whiny baby who started this thread....

tissue?
 
Yurt said:
is that it? you're now going to obsessively continue to make this false claim of emtional? can't discuss anything rationally, so whine about emotions....you're the whiny baby who started this thread....

tissue?
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I just asked a reasonable question, you are the one who responded with the overblown rhetoric.
 
tom prendergast said:
I just asked a reasonable question, you are the one who responded with the overblown rhetoric.
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:crybaby::crybaby::crybaby:

aw, mr. america hater got his feelings hurt

you're just ticked because i did read about it, you hoped with all your heart that no one here had read about it so you could go on yet another anti america rant
 
I think it ought to have been reported......I expect the reason it wasn't is that it was a mass murder involving guns in a place that prohibited ownership of guns......not something liberals want us to hear about......
 
tom prendergast said:
I just asked a reasonable question, you are the one who responded with the overblown rhetoric.
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Yeah, because saying *gasp* is the ultimate in emotionality and is clearly "rhetoric"...

It's either that or saying you saw it in the news is somehow "emotional"...

I'm not sure where you are going with this, so here's some nice pictures of kittens doing funny things to entertain you:

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Damocles said:
Yeah, because saying *gasp* is the ultimate in emotionality and is clearly "rhetoric"...

It's either that or saying you saw it in the news is somehow "emotional"...

I'm not sure where you are going with this, so here's some nice pictures of kittens doing funny things to entertain you:

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This gave me a good morning chuckle!
 
Damocles said:
Yeah, because saying *gasp* is the ultimate in emotionality and is clearly "rhetoric"...

It's either that or saying you saw it in the news is somehow "emotional"...

I'm not sure where you are going with this, so here's some nice pictures of kittens doing funny things to entertain you:

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Nothing like a GOOD GIGGLE to get you going! :cof1:
 
tom prendergast said:
Derrick Bird killed 12 people in the Lake District, one of the most beautiful places on earth yet I have seen no mention of it on this forum. Was it even reported in the USA?

http://www.murderuk.com/mass_Derrick_Bird.html

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view...killer-How-Derrick-Bird-turned-serial-killer-

YouTube- Derrick Bird - Cumbria Massacre - News 3rd June 2010
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It was reported in my paper and also editorialized.

Tale of two terrors: Britain's gun massacre has a moral for Americans
Saturday, June 05, 2010
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

What's to be made of the news from Great Britain, where gun control is tight and yet a taxi driver Wednesday shot up a rural English county, killing 12 people and wounding 11 others? That efforts to curb guns are always doomed?

That reaction can be expected on this side of the Atlantic, where murderous shooting sprees occur with depressing regularity and are predictably followed by gun enthusiasts arguing that the remedy is more armed citizens prepared to defend themselves.

By this reasoning, the British are vulnerable to rampages by disturbed individuals such as Derrick Bird, 52, who after a three-hour tour of mayhem shot himself dead in woods in the picturesque Lake District. After gun massacres in 1987 and 1996, Britain put tight restrictions on gun ownership.

Private individuals in Britain can't own handguns, they can't have semi-automatic and pump action rifles and those who get licenses to own shotguns or other sorts of rifles must undergo police and medical records checks. As it happens, the killer in this case was licensed to possess the shotgun and .22 caliber rifle (fitted with a telescopic sight) found at the scene.

Prime Minister David Cameron rejected any quick review of Britain's gun laws and spoke a truth that ought to give Americans pause: "You can't legislate to stop a switch flicking in someone's head and this kind of dreadful event taking place," he said.

But that is not an argument for the failure of gun control. Mr. Cameron was speaking common sense in the context of a nation that has taken strong and reasonable steps to do something to confront gun violence. By contrast, governments in the United States dare not confront the obvious problem, cowed by a gun lobby that believes the Second Amendment is an absolute constitutional right like no other. Too often, when the switch flicks in a disturbed American's head, a gun is readily at hand.

Despite this outrage, the seeming vulnerability of Britons is actually an illusion -- after all, the country hasn't had a massacre like this in 14 years. In most years, Britain has fewer than 100 gun murders. Pittsburgh alone had 39 homicides last year; Detroit had 361. While these FBI statistics don't break out gun deaths, guns are a huge part of the murder rate in America.

What is to be made of the news of gun violence from Britain? Its tragedy was a fluke. Ours are routine.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10156/1063279-192.stm#ixzz0rahDgMOu
 
Tom is so distraught about Brit Petro's fuckup and the pensioners loss he is now attackign our media for not reporting Brit's murders. Ahh, Tom we have 17,000 murders annually which is exponentially more than you guy's. There I gave you something to be proud of since your still smarting your kickball team couldn't beat our 3rd rate athletes.
 
Damocles said:
Yeah, because saying *gasp* is the ultimate in emotionality and is clearly "rhetoric"...

It's either that or saying you saw it in the news is somehow "emotional"...

I'm not sure where you are going with this, so here's some nice pictures of kittens doing funny things to entertain you:

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37cae5b4d6cceea4
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I am not going anywhere, just surprised that nobody else mentioned it.
 
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