Posts Made By: Darian Rachal

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

When you have repetitive mass murders using the same weapons of choice among the murderers, you ought to be able to put two and two together and then realize emotion isn't part of the equation here until after people are dead...
"The following is a partial list of when an AR-15-style weapon was used in a mass shooting":

Feb. 14, 2018: Shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Florida leaves 17 people dead.
Oct. 1, 2017: The Las Vegas slaughter of 58 people.
Nov. 5, 2017: The Sutherland Springs, Texas, church shooting that claimed 26 lives.
June 12, 2016: The Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Fla., that left 49 dead.
Dec. 2, 2015: The San Bernardino, Calif., shooting that killed 14 people.
Dec. 14, 2012: The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut that took 27 lives. 


https://www.npr.org/2022/05/26/1101274322/uvalde-ar-15-style-rifle-history-shooter-mass-shooting

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

Well, those three pics are worth more than 1000 words each. Totally heartbreaking.

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

Man with a rifle walked into a medical building, got up to the second floor, killed three and wounded others, and is now dead himself. What a wonderful country this has become. Maybe the doctors should have been packing, too, just like elementary school teachers so they can confront the shooter?

Originally Posted by Mel Maki

I have thought it is possible there are 300 million guns in the country. For the sake of argument we could say 200 million.
Do we really want to argue a person will decide not to kill 20 people tonight because his favorite gun is not handy?
Most people have more than one gun he can get to. If he has been very poor (some solid, well built used guns are available for as little as $150, even less from a friend) a relative or friend might let him use one they own.
Making certain guns unavailable is not going to make the difference some believe. Killing and butchering people is what is driving these sick people! They are not telling themselves, "I did that with a Colt! The world will see I used a Colt." Or the previous shooter used either a 233 or .556. Well, if he wanted to impress his type of people, semi rifles are commonly sold with a 308 barrel. That would have shown a ball of fire and been heard for most of a mile. Although a common hunting round I can't recall one being used in a multiple shooting.
I gotta think these sickos want to hurt and shock and destroy the lives of as many people as they can. That does not depend on which brand and type of the many guns of similar capability is used. 

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Well, if you believe the results of the 2020 election was "illegitimate" then you believe the Jan 6th committee, an established committee of congress, is illegitimate too. So, in their "logic" there's nothing to see here. But, for the rest of us who don't live in an alternate reality, the shit is going to hit the fan...

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

Darian, what if it was BLM or Antifa who breached the Capital? What if next time it happens it's from the radical far left? Will that warrant a snooze, too?

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

"I simply am not inclined to attribute the significance to it that the media and the Democrat Party are portraying."
Yeah, the insurrectionists plotted and planned and just simply wanted to overturn the results of a presidential election, better known as a coup, and hang the vice president and kill members of congress in the process. 

Originally Posted by James Lacey

Trump is a modern-day Jefferson Davis or Benedict Arnold. History will regard him as a traitor.

Originally Posted by James Lacey

What's even crazier is that you are utterly blind to Trump's failures. As we are learning, Trump was a serial violator of his oath of office. He failed multiple times to put the nation's needs ahead of his own selfish political needs. His response to the pandemic was abysmal and incompetent. He lied to us and downplayed the severity of the original COVID virus. He withheld aid and resources from the west and east coast blue States because of his selfish political desires. Then when the wave of illness inevitably switched to red States, he doubled down on his COVID misinformation. Most importantly, he refused to concede defeat and instead knowingly spread false claims about election fraud and misconduct to weaponize his followers and unleash them on the Capitol on January 6th. There is no doubt that Trump is the worst president the US has ever had.

Originally Posted by James Lacey

Come on! LBJ inherited Vietnam. In hindsight, we never should have gotten into that war, but LBJ's hands were tied in many respects. LBJ's willingness to take up and champion the Northern Democrats' civil rights fight after the assassination of Kennedy will forever seal his legacy as a good one. Probably not a great President, but a good one, and the one we needed at the time. No other politician could have pulled off LBJ's successes with Civil Rights at that time.