Shooting at Elementary school, 27 confirmed dead. ._____.

[bob]

Can we please change the title of the thread to 26 victims out of respect to them?

As for the NRA, they blamed everything under the sun except the guns themselves which isn't too surprising.

[indianasmith]

I just read LaPierre's entire statement.  There is a great deal of truth there. 
We have an abundance of gun laws in this country.  So far as I can tell, the
stricter the gun laws, the more handgun violence a city has. Look at Chicago -
some of the toughest gun laws in the country, and also the highest rate of gun-
related violence.

There is a serious cultural problem, and a lot of it derives from bad parenting.
If you think it is OK to let your 10 year old play a game whose object is to
kill cops, steal cars, and screw prostitutes, you are part of the problem!!

[Leah]

I just read LaPierre's entire statement.  There is a great deal of truth there. 
We have an abundance of gun laws in this country.  So far as I can tell, the
stricter the gun laws, the more handgun violence a city has. Look at Chicago -
some of the toughest gun laws in the country, and also the highest rate of gun-
related violence.

There is a serious cultural problem, and a lot of it derives from bad parenting.
If you think it is OK to let your 10 year old play a game whose object is to
kill cops, steal cars, and screw prostitutes, you are part of the problem!!

You got to take into account gangs and gang wars there.

[Allhallowsday]

Westboro Baptist Church might be annoying but they didn't shoot and kill those children.

Nobody said they did.

Lester makes a good point.  
I have a friend that often says "I didn't say that!" or "I never said that!"  
I'm in the habit of replying: "You never have to tell me what you didn't say."  

[lester1/2jr]

It's shooting fish in a barrel to condemn the Westboro Baptist Church. It doesn't take any wisdom or courage to do it.  dealing with issues like this does.

[bob]

Westboro Baptist Church might be annoying but they didn't shoot and kill those children.

Nobody said they did.

Lester makes a good point.  
I have a friend that often says "I didn't say that!" or "I never said that!"  
I'm in the habit of replying: "You never have to tell me what you didn't say."  

But you're implying that someone did. No one blamed those ass hats for what that nut did, go back and check the entire thread.

No one even suggested that at all.

and I'm very offended that you seemt o be impyling that I did. Infact I mgiht be done here.

[lester1/2jr]

I wasn't saying anyone said that either. I was saying they were a meaningless distraction.

[Allhallowsday]

Westboro Baptist Church might be annoying but they didn't shoot and kill those children.

Nobody said they did.

Lester makes a good point.  
I have a friend that often says "I didn't say that!" or "I never said that!"  
I'm in the habit of replying: "You never have to tell me what you didn't say."  

But you're implying that someone did. No one blamed those ass hats for what that nut did, go back and check the entire thread.
No one even suggested that at all.
and I'm very offended that you seemt o be impyling that I did. Infact I mgiht be done here.

I merely see Lester's point.  I don't know what you're talking about and I'm implying nothing.  I know this thread well. 

[Leah]

What do you think?

Citizens Form Human Block To Keep Westboro Church From Protesting At Sandy Hook Funerals

Members of police and fire departments from as far away as New York City traveled to Newtown and Woodbury, Connecticut to stop a promised picket of today's Sandy Hook funerals by the Westboro Baptist Church. The "Church," certified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, had promised to picket the funerals of the 20 children and six adults from the Sandy Hook Elementary School who died Friday at the hand of a lone gunman.

Westboro Baptist Church had posted to their picket schedule that they would be on hand for the funeral of Sandy hook Elementary School Principal Dawn Hochsprung. Reports stated that the Westboro Baptist Church members were in town but apparently didn't venture out of their hotel because of what they saw.

"Hundreds of Motorcylists lined up on Wednesday to block and protest the possible protesters," the Huffington Post reports:
"All these guys saw us and thought we were bad. We're not. It's solidarity, is what it is," New York native Jim Hannigan told Newtown Patch. "I just felt I had to be here."

More than 1000 riders from New York and Massachusetts, organized by the anti-Westboro group Patriot Guard Riders, were also in Connecticut on Wednesday to show their support, Patch reported. The lined the streets arm in arm to block any protesters that tried to cross the line.

On FDNY website, The Bravest, a posting asked firefighters and police officers to go to Newtown in plain clothes and block the protesters from the victims' families and friends during the funeral processions.

The group Angel Action, which were ready to counter any Westboro Baptist Church protests at the funerals of the Tucson, Ariz., shooting victims in 2011, created a Facebook event to gather others to protect the Newtown funerals.

The hacktivist group Anonymous, which targeted Westboro after their threats to protest, revealed that members of Westboro were staying in Hartford, Conn., in a Motel 6 on Wednesday, according to the Examiner.

[indianasmith]

Those guys are awesome!  Hats off to them!

[Allhallowsday]

Those guys are awesome!  Hats off to them!

I agree.

[Leah]

Hard core thugs? I think not!

[Umaril Has Returned]

I just read LaPierre's entire statement.  There is a great deal of truth there. 
We have an abundance of gun laws in this country.  So far as I can tell, the
stricter the gun laws, the more handgun violence a city has. Look at Chicago -
some of the toughest gun laws in the country, and also the highest rate of gun-
related violence.

There is a serious cultural problem, and a lot of it derives from bad parenting.
If you think it is OK to let your 10 year old play a game whose object is to
kill cops, steal cars, and screw prostitutes, you are part of the problem!!

Meet me at The Bannered Mare in Whiterun, Indy, this one is on me 

This is not to say I'm against age-appropriate material, but for the love of Pete, parents have to step up and be the parent.  You would be suprised how many young parents I've seen at Gamestop, instinctively take a copy of the latest GTA or Call Of Duty or Dead Island, W\O reading the ESRB advisory on the case.  It's like it's a 60 dollar babysitter.

What gets me even more is how some of them come back and yell at the guys who sold them the game, because of the content. And then it's the store's fault that the game was sold to them.  Ain't life great?