The good thing about Newtown

[RWE]

----Former Democratic Governor Ed Rendell said on MSNBC Friday, "The good thing about Newtown is, it was so horrific that I think it galvanized Americans to a point where the intensity on our side is going to match the intensity on their side. "----

The horrific murder of children is a good thing to Democrats who want to strip us of our freedoms. The more horrific, the better.

[donni]

yes, their candidate is in and that seems to make all ok. he can break all kinda law and iz ok! amazing -i am amazed because i really bought the act of those dems oer lincs place.

i wish the repugs could truly raise their intellectual level and lose their fear of 'others' and realize 'good' people come in all kinda color and culture. i wish they could see that that is also true for the 'bad' ones. we need to recognize that state terrorism is no different from any othe and put a stop to this.

r-e-s-p-e-c-t find out what it means to me-it is actually the same for everyone. we need honest education. we need Love. we need to stop this empire.

[RWE]

i wish the repugs could truly raise their intellectual level and lose their fear of 'others' and realize 'good' people come in all kinda color and culture. i wish they could see that that is also true for the 'bad' ones.

Perhaps you've fallen for the Dems tactic of demonizing repugs with false accusations of racism.

[donni]

no, i don't think so. i find in my own personal experience, that most who are at least outwardly prejudice are repugs. there are many shall we say 'closet' bigots in both parties, and then there are many who don't even realize their own bigotry tho they might recognize it in others-they are also in both parties. let's face it-we've come a long way on this issue but we are still far from true equality in this country for minorities of any kind-including women. (mmmmn, ARE women in the minority in this country? i'll have to look that one up.)

[donni]

so i just did a bit of quick research-hard to get straight answers but it appears there are more females than men by a slight margin according to census.

there are quite a bit more females voting than males, however, so i'm wondering how it is that things remain so skewed negatively for women in this country.


mmmn.

4 women are murdered every day in america by a husband or boyfriend. maybe they voted wrong? jk

45 people total are murdered every day. wtf?

definitely waaay too much stress. the weak of mind are prone to cracking and the physically weak-women, the elderly, and children, pay the price.

24 or about half of the people killed each day are killed with a gun. the others are killed in various ways ranging from poison, strangulation, fire, tampering with car, drowning, knifing or arrows. i wonder, if u take away guns outright, how many would u actually save out of this number-let's say it is half-12. 12x365=4,250 ea. year. that is impressive. but i wonder if u, instead, repealed laws against personal behavior, ie: ****, drugs, and reinstated mental health institutions, how many would be saved? i'll bet waaaaaay more. so instead of being made into defenseless sheep, maybe we ought to try teaching being responsible, kind, civilized human beings?

[wbcoleman]

Never let an atrocity go to waste!

[clistensprechen]

Never let an atrocity go to waste!

That's the Republican mantra which gave rise to Truthers. Trust Republicans to lend a modicum of credibility to nutjobs--that's one thing they do really well.

And Democrat/Republican has nothing to do with why there's a good thing here: because people, both Dems and Reps, are finally putting the NRA in its place. It's not an elected entity and it has no business dictating to those we elect as it has done. The good thing about it is that the people have spoken AND no longer consider the NRA awesome.

The people have spoken: none of those children will have died in vain, and nobody's child should be the next whose gun death we should tolerate.  Ever.

[Ted S]

And Democrat/Republican has nothing to do with why there's a good thing here: because people, both Dems and Reps, are finally putting the NRA in its place. It's not an elected entity and it has no business dictating to those we elect as it has done.

The NRA is an organization of like-minded individuals who pool their resources to lobby congress to make laws that favor their interests or prevent laws that harm their membership. The NRA has as much right to court lawmakers as does any other interest group.

[RWE]

Trust Republicans to lend a modicum of credibility to nutjobs--that's one thing they do really well.

I lend a modicum of credibility to you.
On the other hand... Democrats lend an enormous amount of credibility to nutjobs.

[wbcoleman]

Never let an atrocity go to waste!

That's the Republican mantra which gave rise to Truthers. Trust Republicans to lend a modicum of credibility to nutjobs--that's one thing they do really well.

Where do you come up with this nonsense sloganeering?  It's a riff on the Obaman mantra which gave rise to Mayor Rahmbo.

[clistensprechen]

And Democrat/Republican has nothing to do with why there's a good thing here: because people, both Dems and Reps, are finally putting the NRA in its place. It's not an elected entity and it has no business dictating to those we elect as it has done.

The NRA is an organization of like-minded individuals who pool their resources to lobby congress to make laws that favor their interests or prevent laws that harm their membership. The NRA has as much right to court lawmakers as does any other interest group.

Except a recent Wall St. Journal poll discovered that they're not like-minded, and you do toss in Michael Moore as being like-minded with management. Once again, conservatives fall into the land of unreality about things.  The NRA leadership does NOT represent its members.

[Ted S]

Oh I think the NRA represents the views of its membership about as well as any group supports their members.  Of course their agenda doesn't perfectly match the views of 100% of the members, none ever does, but all of the NRA's members are there by choice.  That can't be said for union membership for instance.

[Don Houston]

Ted you speak the Truth on the union VS NRA.  The NRA speaks for the majority of it's members which anyone who is a member of the NRA would tell you that