• Quick note - the problem with Youtube videos not embedding on the forum appears to have been fixed, thanks to ZiprHead. If you do still see problems let me know.

Today's Mass Shooting

Status
Not open for further replies.
Wow, this one is priceless ..

h9AE7122E
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets

“Did George Bush ever condemn President Obama after Sandy Hook. President Obama had 32 mass shootings during his reign. Not many people said Obama is out of Control. Mass shootings were happening before the President even thought about running for Pres.”
@kilmeade @foxandfriends
Click to expand...

He soo doesn't get it. :rolleyes:
 
plague311 said:
I was going to say the same thing. After watching everything from DBZ, Inuyasha up to Death Note and a ton of stuff in between. I'm a bit shocked to hear that they censor the game, but reading from that article it looks like they do it for reasons other than gore. Part of that article makes it sound like they censor the game to make it easier to sell to minors, and part of it is, like Arcade said, due to cultural taboo.

They also blur out weiners in porn but have no issue showing the woman in her entirety. Odd.
Click to expand...
So it has something to do with animation? :confused:

Saw 1-5
Rambo
Kill Bill
WW Z

etc...
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
So it has something to do with animation? :confused:

Saw 1-5
Rambo
Kill Bill
WW Z

etc...
Click to expand...

Well, Anime\Manga is much bigger in Japan than it is in most of the rest of the world (probably). I don't know you very well, but if you're up for an adventure get your hands on Ninja Scroll and try to last the whole time. You'll understand the references made here after a good while.

It's violent, sexual, and awesome (to me at least). It really puts a damper in the "violent stuff causes violence" argument. So it's not so much animation, as much as it is all the things the GOP is blaming this shooting on rolled into one.
 
Oh yeah, i almost forgot. In Germany they censor violence in video-games to the point that, at least in the past (i don't know how the situation is now), they actually replaced humans with robots or androids in certain cases. An example being the German version Half-Life, where the generic American soldier enemy is replaced with a robot.

Even still, there have been cases of mass murders by disturbed young men with the aid of firearms there. Obviously the Germans have not been doing a good enough job to insulated their impressionable youth from gratuitous depictions of violence.
 
Last edited:
Trump Tweets

Will be going to Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas, tomorrow to meet with First Responders, Law Enforcement, and some of the victims of the terrible shootings.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets

Will be going to Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas, tomorrow to meet with First Responders, Law Enforcement, and some of the victims of the terrible shootings.
Click to expand...
In other words in El Paso they will have some little private photo op, well away from the public.
 
The media has chosen to politicize one of these massacres while ignoring highly relevant facts in the other. The Dayton killer supported Elizabeth Warren, Antifa, and preferred pie over cake. This is like Bowling Green all over again.
 
Cain said:
The media has chosen to politicize one of these massacres while ignoring highly relevant facts in the other. The Dayton killer supported Elizabeth Warren, Antifa, and preferred pie over cake. This is like Bowling Green all over again.
Click to expand...
:sdl:
 
Ian Osborne said:
Can you summarise the story for those outside America who can't access the page?
Click to expand...

Sure. It's a story about an occasion that President Bush (II) visited wounded soldiers. This is the part I was talking about:

And that was just the first patient we saw. For the rest of the visit to the hospital that day, almost every family had the same reaction of joy when they saw the president. But there were exceptions. One mom and dad of a dying soldier from the Caribbean were devastated, the mom beside herself with grief. She yelled at the president, wanting to know why it was her child and not his who lay in that hospital bed. Her husband tried to calm her, and I noticed the president wasn't in a hurry to leave — he tried offering comfort but then just stood and took it, like he expected and needed to hear the anguish, to try to soak up some of her suffering if he could.

Later, as we rode back on Marine One to the White House, no one spoke.

But as the helicopter took off, the president looked at me and said, "That mama sure was mad at me." Then he turned to look out the window of the helicopter. "And I don't blame her a bit."
Click to expand...
 
ponderingturtle said:
Why are grenades carried by common soldiers ordinance and not arms? They are not crew served like artillery.
Click to expand...

First, it's "ordnance."

Military explosive ordnance (any type) is not a consumer product. The devices are manufactured exclusively for the contracting branch or agency.

Civilians can legally possess and use explosive materials under state and federal law, and a licensed manufacturer can produce explosive ordnance, but actual (let's say 40mm HEDP M203 rounds) are not legally available even though the various 40mm launchers can be possessed under the N.F.A. Civilians are legally permitted to own all types and vintages of weapons that would normally fire a HE round, they just can't acquire live military HE or WP rounds to fire through them.

As far as the guys that legally own and shoot artillery pieces, they generally cast solid lead projectiles, but I know a guy with a civil war piece that uses frozen bottles of water with glued on "fins" to stabilized the projectile in flight.
 
BStrong said:
First, it's "ordnance."

Military explosive ordnance (any type) is not a consumer product. The devices are manufactured exclusively for the contracting branch or agency.

Civilians can legally possess and use explosive materials under state and federal law, and a licensed manufacturer can produce explosive ordnance, but actual (let's say 40mm HEDP M203 rounds) are not legally available even though the various 40mm launchers can be possessed under the N.F.A. Civilians are legally permitted to own all types and vintages of weapons that would normally fire a HE round, they just can't acquire live military HE or WP rounds to fire through them.

As far as the guys that legally own and shoot artillery pieces, they generally cast solid lead projectiles, but I know a guy with a civil war piece that uses frozen bottles of water with glued on "fins" to stabilized the projectile in flight.
Click to expand...

So why aren't they part of the individual right to wage war on the state? That is what an individual right second amendment is for so why are we restricting it so much? Sure there are costs, with the first amendment you get nazis marching in the streets and the second you get them violently fighting the militia(standing armies being for oppressive monarchies and having not place in america).

If the second amendment is an individual right then it is about political violence and we need to accept these shootings as the side of effect of our constitutional rights.
 
CNN on Dayton shooting said:
Police said Betts fired 41 shots before he was killed by officers who were in the area on patrol.
Click to expand...
It was reported that he was killed 30 seconds after he began firing. Though the number of shots fired is almost certainly accurate, it may be an estimation that it all took only 30 seconds.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Back
Top Bottom