Shooting of the Day
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- formed0
"they not only caught up with the suspect, but they started shooting at him."
That's f'in' insane? What if the "victim" was lying? You can't just shoot at someone because some stranger points a finger and says "see that kid running away? He's bad, go get him". Insane.
They should be (and I assume they will be) at least charged with Assault with a Deadly Weapon.
To think that any human has a right to shoot at someone that some stranger says is a bad guy is just crazy!!
If I saw "two guys in a mercedes" start chasing and shooting at some running kid, I'd start shooting at them for Christ's sake!
Yeah, that's a good example.
- monkeyshine0
That is true about gun shows...but we can't have a reasoned discussion about any of these outrageous loopholes because, you know, this is all a ploy by Hitlerbama to take our freedom away.
And another thing about this babbling redneck...it strikes me as ironic that he has the freedom to spew his nonsense (and threaten people, the govt., etc) yet he's so paranoid that the govt are trying to take his freedom. Ask Ai Weiwei what happened to him when he tried to publicly criticize his government.
Stupidity seems to be a profound abyss that just engulfs people like this.
- ukit20
You have to ask yourself, if these right wing idiots a) think they need guns to defend themselves from a tyrannical government b) believe Obama and the Democratic party is socialist/communist/worse than Hitler...why haven't they already risen up and formed some sort of armed resistance? Put up or shut up I say...:)
- moldero1
^ crazy^
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. ...In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons...who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”
― Edward L. Bernays, Propagandabest book i ever read/own
- yurimon0
this one is quazy. havent checked out the top vid yet.
- rocky@rocky.nugabriel2
- ? I'm confused. recommendation? for?yurimon
- 8978gabriel2
- lol I don't know. I give up what is it?yurimon
- New York
NY 10011gabriel2 - yeah that link is talked about in the vid abovemoldero
- ? I have no clue. sorry nutty buddy. no more time spending on you.yurimon
- cool moldero. going to check it out later.yurimon
- izrok@hotmail.comgabriel2
- BusterBoy0
fucken nuff nuffs some of you twats...
- youngdesigner0
- I am still waiting for Michael Savage and the state of Texas to secede from the Republic, fingers crossed!utopian
- lowimpakt0
the key benefit of freedom is that you can have any stupid freak run a radio show.
- rylamar0
Guy at the mall near my parents house in Dallas just shot himself in the head about an hour ago as security was escorting him out after arguing with his girlfriend who was working at the mall.
At least he didn't shoot random people or her.
- moldero0
NRA’s New First-Person Shooter For Ages 4+
- ian0
^
That poster was produced during World War II, when there was an actual threat of soldiers invading Britain.
- GeorgesII0
(site is down) http://blogs.forward.com/forward…
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This post originally appeared on the web site of the Dart Society, an independent association of journalists who cover violence and tragedy.Nine days after Veronique Pozner’s son, Noah, was killed in the Newtown schools shootings, I interviewed her and other members of the family about their grieving process. The family had just finished observing the official Jewish mourning period.
I spent over an hour with Veronique; she talked me through her experience on December 14 and the days that followed. Her story was filled with moving and harrowing details: her dream of wandering an abandoned building calling out for Noah, her meeting with President Obama at a vigil at the local high school and her decision to get a tattoo of angel wings and Noah’s name the day after his death. The details that stuck with me the most — and the details which I felt most conflicted about putting in print — were Veronique’s descriptions of the damage to her son’s body. He was shot 11 times; she told me that his jaw and his left hand were mostly gone.
There were certain things Veronique wanted for Noah’s funeral. She felt that his body had suffered too many indignities already; she was adamant that he not be autopsied. She wanted him to be buried with a Jewish prayer shawl and with a clear stone with a white angel inside — an “angel stone” — in each of his hands. Veronique was only able to put the stone in his right hand because the left was “not altogether there,” she told me, crying for the first time in our interview. She asked the funeral director to put the other one in the left hand spot. “I made him promise and he did.”
Veronique told me that Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy visited her in the funeral home, and she brought him to see Noah’s open casket. I asked her why it was important for her and for the governor to see Noah’s body. “I needed it to have a face for him,” she said. “If there is ever a piece of legislation that comes across his desk, I needed it to be real for him.”
Veronique continued on in this vein for a few minutes. But I still felt that I didn’t understand why she, asa mother, chose to see Noah’s body, so I asked her again: Why, for her? “I owed it to him as his mother, the good, the bad, the ugly,” she said. “It is not up to me to say I am only going to look at you and deal with you when you are alive, that I am going to block out the reality of what you look like when you are dead. And as a little boy, you have to go in the ground. If I am going to shut my eyes to that I am not his mother. I had to bear it. I had to do it.” Several family members also chose to view Noah’s body.
Then, unprompted by me, Veronique described what she saw: “We all saw how beautiful he was. He had thick, shiny hair, beautiful long eyelashes that rested on his cheeks. He looked like he was sleeping. But the reality of it was under the cloth he had covering his mouth there was no mouth left. His jaw was blown away. I just want people to know the ugliness of it so we don’t talk about it abstractly, like these little angels just went to heaven. No. They were butchered. They were brutalized. And that is what haunts me at night.”
After I left Newtown, I couldn’t stop thinking about this part of my conversation with Veronique and I wondered whether or not I should put it in the story. On the one hand, she had made it clear that she wanted the public — or at least, public officials — to have a picture of the damage inflicted on the children’s bodies. But on the other hand, I worried about sharing what seemed to be the most personal, most painful details. Would I be unnecessarily exposing the family? Were these details gratuitously violent? Would I be shocking readers instead of informing them?
I wrote the story, and included the details about the damage to Noah’s body just the way Veronique had described them, in the context of his funeral preparations, in the second half of the story:
The family placed stuffed animals, a blanket and letters to Noah into the casket. Lastly, Veronique put a clear plastic rock with a white angel inside — an “angel stone” — in his right hand. She asked the funeral director to place an identical one in his left, which was badly mangled.
Just before the ceremony, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy came to the funeral home to pay his respects. Veronique took him by the arm and brought him to the casket. Noah’s famously long eyelashes — which she spoke about in her eulogy — rested lightly on his cheeks and a cloth covered the place where the lower half of his face had been. “I just needed it to be real for [the governor],” she says. “This was a live, warm, energetic little boy whose life was snuffed out in a fraction of a second because our schools are so defenseless.”
Even though the Forward typically eschews quote verification, I offered it to Veronique, thinking she would want to know about this part of the story. I called her brother — my liaison to the family — the day before the story went to print and asked him if she’d like to speak with me about the article. Through him, Veronique declined.
At this point, I felt that we could ethically print the description. But I wanted to double check with my editor, Jane Eisner. I wrote her an email that evening: “Do you think the detail about his jaw being blown away is too much?” She responded: “It’s important to show the true violence.”
One problem remained: we hadn’t verified the fact that Gov. Malloy viewed Noah’s body. Since we were on a tight deadline, we removed that detail when we published the story online, and we added it back in after I had checked it with the Governor’s office.
After the story went to print online, I was surprised that the dozens of people who Tweeted, commented and emailed about the story didn’t mention our inclusion of these horrific details. Then Salon.com published a brief write-up of the story, highlighting the sensitive portion: “in a harrowing description of Noah’s corpse laid to rest, some idea is given of the damage the assault weapon wrought on his young body.”
On Salon’s Facebook page, one person wrote: “I didn’t need to read that. I would not have published it either.”
But many others defended our choice:
“People should read this, as hard as it is to do so, to see the damage these guns inflict – psychologically and physically”
“If nothing else can bring you to tears, the phrase ‘a cloth covered his face where his lower jaw had been’ will.”
“Not publishing allows people to gloss over the horrible details. Like banning photos of coffins coming back from the war. If people want to keep these guns available, the effects shouldn’t be hidden.”
Though I have not spoken with Veronique since the story went to print, I have a feeling that she would agree with these comments. I now believe that she told me about what happened to Noah’s body so that I would use it in the story, and give the public a clear picture of the brutality of the Sandy Hook shooting.*
- i_monk0
"I believe that Gun Appreciation Day honors the legacy of Dr. King. The truth is, I think Martin Luther King would agree with me if he were alive today that if African Americans had been given the right to keep and bear arms from day one of the country’s founding, perhaps slavery might not have been a chapter in our history. And I believe wholeheartedly that’s essential to liberty.”
- utopian0
Student suspected of shooting college employee
A part-time student at a business and arts college in St. Louis shot and wounded a school employee Tuesday before wounding himself at the institute, St. Louis police said.
The suspect, who apparently shot himself, and the Stevens Institute of Business and Arts employee were taken to a hospital, where they were in surgery Tuesday afternoon, St. Louis Metropolitan Police Chief Sam Dotson said.
- gabriel20
It's interesting how paranoid delusionals like yuri are quick to assume that it's the government behind these shootings to push an anti-gun agenda rather than the obvious source being gun manufacturers looking to profit from the fear generated as a result. People see these mass shootings and first reaction of vast numbers is to rush out and buy one or more guns for "protection". I guess that makes yuri the sheep following the wolf, right?
- it is about profit. you dont know much about the industrial military complex. or prison growth industry. commie.yurimon
- Why do you assume I'm a commie? Have you swallowed the GOP brainwashing pill?gabriel2
- What is the profit angle of banning guns?gabriel2
- You don't need a gun ban to fill prisons, sheep. Keep those blinders on.gabriel2
- profit angle of banning guns? Just research the drug trade and who was involved.yurimon
- yurimon0
You havent been right about me yet gabriel. so go fish.
this seems more your style?
http://www.britannica.com/EBchec…how fed gov actually works as opposed to the propaganda of what it supposed to do.
The symbiotic relationship tends to be with corporations these days and not the people. Its called corruption.
Its how the winners of this propped up news campaign profit.
because in actuality crime is down gun are sales up.The corporations own the news. they own the gun manufacturing, they print the money, they write proposals for gov contracts, they write the laws give for vote. they buy campaigns. basically thats it. so they profit. because prohibition is about money. so is prison. so is weapons. so I would like to hear your suggestions on this matter. please.
This how the financiers make money in war. Corporate corruption of gov leads to fascism,here this is an abolitionism. he is on the money about the industry.
his solution is naive, He has a good book on stats..- Seek help, sheep. You've been bamboozled.gabriel2
- Are crimes down or are they up? You manage to ride both jocks, coward.gabriel2
- I have to ad that leading cause of death in the world has been democide by the way.yurimon
- Take a stand, coward. You refuse to fully commit to any point other than your own insanity.gabriel2
- I am making points.here i have a link for you http://www.rif.org/yurimon
- You make no points. You call me a commie, then write a post essentially calling capitalism evil.gabriel2
- You sit there like a petulant child complaining the other kids at the playground not playing by your rules.gabriel2
- Corruption is evil my friend.yurimon
- There you go again, just bullshit from the mouth that says nothing. You are a coward.gabriel2
- ok corruption is good. you win. its going to be ok.yurimon
- So you are for buying guns even though that clearly on feeds money back to the corruption?gabriel2
- You are such a waffling peon. Too cowardly to really commit to a belief, you just sit on the side and complain.gabriel2
- Your response to everything is misdirection and ambiguity because your beliefs have no basis in reality.gabriel2
- comrade stalin sir..
http://www.qbn.com/t…yurimon - Exactly my point, yuri. Misdirection and ambiguity.gabriel2
- You sit there and hide behind what you think is an anonymous forum account, spouting your bullshit.gabriel2
- https://www.ironspri…********
