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Yep… America is a “sick society” alright

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« on: December 03, 2015, 08:25:40 pm »


from the Los Angeles Times....

San Bernardino: The latest site for America's unending gunfight

By DAVID HORSEY | 4:00PM - Wednesday, December 02, 2015



THE casualty count from San Bernardino is 14 people dead and 17 more wounded after heavily armed assailants wearing masks and camouflage stormed into the Inland Regional Center and began shooting. Two suspects — a man and a woman — were killed in a gun battle with police. So far, the motive is unclear, but, as I write this, speculation is homing in on a disgruntled employee, Syed Farook, 28, U.S.-born with a Middle Eastern background.

Reacting to the shooting during a CBS interview, President Obama said, “The one thing we do know is that we have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world.”

Last week, it was the lone shooter at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In October, it was students and teachers being gunned down at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. So far in 2015, there have been more mass shootings — four victims or more — than there have been days. The terrorist attack in Paris that killed 130 innocent people two weeks ago took more lives than any individual incident in this country, but, in addition to the death toll, the shock of the Paris massacre was that it was out of the ordinary for the French. Their reaction was to declare war against Islamic State, the terrorist group that planned the attack. When will the United States declare war against the ceaseless shootings on home soil?

It is possible that a foreign villain will be discovered behind the San Bernardino slaughter, but it seems far more likely that the shooters were driven by personal motivations. One thing that they reportedly have in common with all the shooters in the U.S. is that they easily and, apparently, legally, obtained firearms that, in other advanced countries, are available only to the military and police.

The president may be wrong; there may well be another place in the world — perhaps in the Middle East or among the anarchic, destitute countries in Africa — where mass shootings are just as common as they are here. The difference, though, is that the United States is supposed to be the beacon of the civilized world. Instead, we are a nation under the gun, and we seem incapable of doing anything about it.

Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush and Rand Paul, as well as Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, all issued statements saying their thoughts and prayers were with the victims in San Bernardino, but none of them — and very few of their GOP colleagues — are willing to do anything to put sensible restrictions on the unfettered access to the guns that are used in the daily slaughter of Americans.

There is a long list of suspicious people on federal no-fly lists, but any one of those people is perfectly free to buy an assault rifle at a gun show without a background check. This is not only the definition of insanity, it is also the result of cowardly political pandering on the part of Republicans who care more about pleasing the extremist leaders of the gun lobby than taking even the most modest steps to protect U.S. citizens from angry, disturbed people with easy access to weapons.


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Read more on this topic:

 • Full story: San Bernardino shooting

 • Live updates: Up to 14 dead, police searching for attackers

 • Dramatic video shows police storming Inland Regional Center

 • Shooting was in conference room rented by a healthcare provider


http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-america-unending-gunfight-20151202-story.html
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« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2015, 04:02:20 am »

"Yep… America is a “sick society” alright"

..oh..is that all..

..I thought they must have started neglecting, torturing and murdering babies....but they are a long way behind us in that sickness Tongue
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« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2015, 09:16:09 am »

So they were muslim terrorist quick take all the guns

San Bernardino: Shooter was in contact with terror subjects, officials believe

(CNN)Syed Rizwan Farook -- who along with his wife, Tashfeen Malik, carried out the San Bernardino shooting massacre -- apparently was radicalized and in touch with people being investigated by the FBI for international terrorism, law enforcement officials said Thursday.

Farook's apparent radicalization contributed to his role in the mass shooting of 14 people Wednesday during a holiday party for the San Bernardino County health department, where Farook worked, sources said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/03/us/san-bernardino-shooting/index.html

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« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2015, 11:27:49 am »

stupid idea

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« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2015, 12:02:03 pm »

...and anyway...on the global scale of things...does it really matter...Americans are getting what they want...its democracy..

..there are far more lives being lost in other parts of the world illegally every day....

..I dont see an American life being lost in a shooting any more valuable than a life of a person being killed by boko haram in africa..(which may not get the same level of reporting) Roll Eyes..or whatever

...why are Americans deemed to be so "special"...a life is a life is a life....or am i missing something  Roll Eyes
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« Reply #5 on: December 05, 2015, 08:45:55 pm »


a lot of people are not allowed to carry a defensive weapons in many US states so they will be easy victim zones for any isis terror attacks
and i think we can expect a lot more attacks to come as obama is bringing thousands of syrians into us to which ISIS has warned they have infiltrated in amongst these groups of refugees in the US and all over Europe.

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« Reply #6 on: December 06, 2015, 06:36:00 am »

Yes...they need to change the laws to make weapons available to more people...that will help alot of problems Embarrassed
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« Reply #7 on: December 29, 2015, 05:43:37 pm »

...guess these kiwi's will be proud of their teamwork....quick, get the wet bus tickets ready Roll Eyes


Teenagers arrested following Papakura assault

12:59 PM Tuesday Dec 29, 2015

Mr and Mrs Wang visit their daughter Tian at Middlemore Hospital after she was attacked. Photo / Jason Oxenham

Six teenagers have been arrested over a vicious group attack that left a restaurant worker unrecognisable to her father.

On December 15, Tian Wang, 23, was attacked soon after she got off a train at the Papakura station.

Ms Wang suffered serious facial injuries and concussion. She told the Herald that as she was being beaten, her attackers stole her cellphone and shoes.

READ MORE: Chinese restaurant worker robbed and beaten in South Auckland

Her father, Sam Wang, 52, said he did not recognise her when he found her after the attack.

The Herald can reveal that six teenagers aged between 13 and 16 have been arrested in relation to the assault.


All six have been charged with aggravated robbery and remanded to youth justice custody facilities, a Counties Manukau police spokeswoman said.

They will appear in the Papakura Youth Court on January 8.

"The victim is recovering from her injuries at home but may require further surgery to her face and head," the spokeswoman said.

When Ms Wang's father found her, she was lying on the ground in the train station carpark. "Her face was bruised, swollen and covered in blood. I could not recognise her," he said.

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« Reply #8 on: December 29, 2015, 06:18:35 pm »

only low life scum could do such a thing and its another good reason to be armed and make the attackers the victims
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