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Interesting to see the reaction in the US to the shootings in the cinema in Colorado.
A nutcase is able to buy four guns and 6,000 rounds of ammunition over the internet, perfectly legally and above board. Any right minded person would immediately ask why, and how do we prevent it from happening again. But apparently not the American public. They are satisfied with the current gun laws, and the Presidential candidates would run a mile before calling for reform. Fair enough. The victims and their families may get our sympathy, but lets not waste any sympathy whatsoever on such a sick country. Seems like they get the leaders they deserve. We have had our gun tragedies over here, but at least we have reacted by tightening the gun laws, and apart from on a few thoroughly dodgy Council estates in Manchester and Liverpool, we are gun free. Lets be grateful for that! |
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We have been here before on Accyweb... posts 43, 58 and onwards.
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...s-60943-4.html Tightening gun laws does very little to prevent crime, it merely puts a lot of hassle in the way of those who use guns legally for sporting or business purposes. |
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The yanks are reluctant to surrender their guns because they have too many trigger happy policemen.
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Plus as they have No real history, Cowboys are the nearest thing.:rolleyes:
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Thats fine, but I ask only one thing. Where does a crackpot booby trapping his apartment and going to a cinema and shooting 70 people with legally obtained firearms and ammunition fit into the discussion? |
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So you believe what the media have reported:eek:
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http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...ies-48617.html Nothing surprises me anymore. If I need to chuckle I watch the news. |
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When different 'eye witnesses' give widely varying versions you cannot believe any.
If you weren't there, you can't ever know. |
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There was an incident like this which resulted in gun control laws in Australia.
Many of the 'facts' presented at the time were later proved false scientifically. THE PORT ARTHUR MASSACRE CONSPIRACY by Joe Vialls |
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It's possible that some folks, through lack of understanding how anyone could want to have such a thing, thinks that everyone who owns a gun has a screw loose and should be locked up. You could equally well say that someone with a murderous intent could fill their car full of explosives and drive it into a crowded shopping centre. But we don't stop people owning cars. |
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Fact is why does anyone who lives in a USA Town or City need an assault rifle? They don't! So simply why are they freely available with very little back ground checks! I would accept that one handgun is alright for self defence which is one main reason these pro-gun people claim is why they have a gun. It really as a Massive problem to change the law as there are thousands of yanks with weapons more than legally allowed and so on! It's a minefield basically. |
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Concerning this Aurora shooter - James Holmes, the Sun newspaper claims he sat in the cinema for 20 mins before starting his attack. How do you sit in a cinema with a shotgun and an assault rifle and not get confronted by security? Doesn't make sense! :confused: |
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Whether you believe any of it is up to you. |
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Coincidently this attack took place 1 year after Breivik's to the day. Both these people were heavily into playing violent video games - perhaps the were living out violent video games fantasies. |
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Did you know either of them personally? |
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You can't disbelieve everything. This is what the news said last night about it... News program on Colorado Shooting - YouTube |
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Filthy Actors EXPOSED! Code Pink, Loughner, Unabomber, Olimpic Park Bomber - YouTube |
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The Case For Conspiracy EXPOSED! - YouTube |
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I agree that some of his claims are outlandish and 'way over the top' (even for me:D), but his method of mapping ears has convinced me that SOME of what he reveals is true.
You believe what you feel comfortable with - that is your right. |
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Of course the Colorado shootings will happen again, but that shouldn't stop us from looking for ways to make it as hard as possible for these idiots to build up an arsenal of arms. |
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Your nuts if you want to relax gun laws in the UK.
I live in Oakland. CA, and we had 105 gun homicides last year... just in our city! 9000 Murders by Gun in US; 39 in UK It is WAY out of control in the US, and the gun lobby are a powerful lever on politicians. The second amendment was written 250 years ago and strangles any progress on this tragic mess. |
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1987 Hungerford 16 deaths
1996 Dunblane 17 deaths, 16 of them children, making this a more emotional subject 2010 Cumbria 12 deaths In all three cases the gunman committed suicide. These crimes span a period of 25 years. Dr Harold Shipman killed over 200 people over his working life of 20 odd years and killed himself in prison. Has anyone any good ideas as to how we could prevent or legislate for such occurrences?? Breivik in Norway shot and killed 69 people where gun laws appear to be very stringent. Sensible article here about gun laws, especially the part about teaching children to shoot. Shotguns aren't the problem – criminals are - Telegraph |
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Now unless the Americans change their constitution & then face down the NRA, which I very much doubt because of the weight & influence that they can bring to bear. No politico if he/she intends to stay in the game for any length of time would even contemplate these changes & challenges. The UK has got some of the toughest gun laws & punishments possible & it still can't control the criminal gun users. So instead, Plod & the powers that be have relentlessly pursued the legal possessors, then having been raked over the coals & stultified by over regulation most tend to lose interest & give up. |
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[quote=MargaretR;1004316 but his method of mapping ears has convinced me that SOME of what he reveals is true.[/quote]That has given me the best laugh I've had all day...
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There are just too many of us living on this planet. And in the large cities in the West, they are living too close together .... with too much poverty and too little opportunity. And, esp. in the land of the Glock, with too many guns readily available. It amuses me that in a country with a problem with road rage, many folks can legally have a hand gun in the glove compartment. No wonder they have bumper stickers in California saying: "Cover me, I'm changing lanes":rolleyes: Obviously, we have problems facing us which can't easily be solved. But, some attempt at controling the sale of firearms can't hurt. But nothing will stop nut bars from showing up in places like Aurora and Dunblane, armed to the teeth, just looking for folks to kill. Just crossed my mind that the US is only marginally safer than Syria right now:eek:;) |
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Sign in to read: Ear recognition may beat face biometrics - tech - 23 July 2005 - New Scientist " Ear recognition may beat face biometrics EAR-shape analysis could be better than face recognition at automatically identifying people. Mark Nixon, a biometrics expert at the University of Southampton, UK, has developed a technique to capture the shape of an ear and represent it in code. Unlike faces, ears do not change shape over time. In an initial study using pictures of the ears of 63 people, Nixon and his colleague David Hurley found their method to be 99.2 per cent accurate. Nixon thinks this could be improved. The technique could be used to identify people from CCTV footage, or incorporated into mobile phones to identify the caller, says Nixon. The study is due to be published in the journal Computer Vision and Image Understanding". http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...67865511003400 Ears have rich structural features that are almost invariant with increasing age and facial expression variations. Therefore ear recognition has become an effective and appealing approach to non-contact biometric recognition. |
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I hope I spelt that right:rolleyes: |
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If you look at more of his videos, the convincing ones are where he shows the same actors appearing at different media news events across USA. Which verifies the theory that many news events are 'staged'. |
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Some conspiracy people of extreme nature are saying that this latest shooting never actually happened! To say that in my view is total bonkers... |
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Some news is staged and, in that video you posted, the senate enquiry interrogation showed that to be an admitted fact.
It is called 'propaganda'. You don't recognise it to be so if you cannot think of the reason for them doing it. Just because you don't know a reason, doesn't mean that one wont eventually dawn on you. |
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If hand guns are so bad they have been made illegal we should not be holding shooting competitions in this country. |
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So all these people had guns legally for legit use and blew a fuse and turned them on people. The GP Harold Shipman was an exception to the rule, he didn't use guns he used medicine - there has only been one of them in the time there have been 4 using guns! |
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I am so I wont :rolleyes: |
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Since 1987 4 mad men killed with legally owned guns! Only 1 GP killed patients as the post I replied to mentioned Shipmen. There have also been several killings with illegal weapons by criminals - namely Rauol Moat who shot a policeman and two thugs in a shop in London who shot and maimed a school girl. In 1988 after Hungerford law was changed banning semi auto handguns and pump action shotguns holding more than 3 rounds ( I said 2) bla Bla! So why the insults? You talk at your backside sir! |
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Course they have to bend the rules and the chances of something going wrong are virtually nil! |
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And this is how Americans respond to Aurora:
Gun control losing support in U.S. despite mass shootings - World - CBC News :rofl38::rofl38::rofl38: I think there are more than a few yanks who think killing people is ok, and a great way to solve problems (and get access to oil:rolleyes:). It's not only the nutbars, it's much of Middle America and lotsa places south of the Mason-Dixon line. There's definitely a gun culture down there. Guns are great for solving problems. Even personal and mental problems. Get fired? No problem. Grab a gun. If you don't have one call in at the local gun store (usually next to the liquor store:D), buy one and drop into your old workplace. Waste a bunch of people.:uzi::uzi::uzi: Then you can either kill yourself, or get arrested and watch yourself on tv for a week or two. |
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Also since the Aurora shooting gun sales in Colorado have gone up - 25%! :confused::rolleyes: Texoma Gun Sales Up After Colorado Shootings - KTEN.com - No One Gets You Closer |
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I suppose they may well be thinking "If a person in that audience had been armed, he would have been 'downed' after the first shot".
When people feel threatened and are placed in fear mode, they decide to provide themselves with some sort of defence. |
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Eye witness accounts contradict official version that there was only one person involved in this attack! :confused:
Batman Massacre: Eyewitness Testimony CONTRADICTS Official Story - YouTube |
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Yeh never know, many want the 5 mins of fame, but would imagine a phone record check aint beyond em.
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This guy in this clip says there was only one guy shooting but he seems to have missed the phone call bit at the beginning. He also says it only last 2 mins... Colorado 'Dark Knight' Shooting Witness: 'I Saw A Guy Right Next To Me Getting Shot' - YouTube |
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Latest news about this Colorado shooting is that the guy who allegedly did it, sent a notebook to a psychiatrist describing that he wanted to kill people - the letter/package wasn't opened till after the incident! http://news.yahoo.com/report-colorad...99.html?_esi=1 |
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Looks like my neighbours are going to have even more gnus (Jaysayism;)):
U.S. gun sales surge after Colorado theatre massacre - World - CBC News Those guys are unbelievable, eh. Can't wait for the next one. If those fun loving guys in Syria don't crank it up a notch, Damascus will be a safer holiday destination than Detroit.:eek: |
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Following that Blair rode into power on the promise to band all hand guns. Guess what gun crime has increased out of all proportion to its previous levels. Who can the police & the home office blame now, what did the ban on pistol shooting achieve. The only thing it did was brainwash every one into the thinking that guns are evil, even kids can no longer play cowboys & indians, without some brainwashed clown reporting them to the plod, who turn out like a septic swat team, acting like they are up against John Wayne & the Commanchero's. You'd be surprised how many time the cops have lost their side arm, and the number of accidental discharges is disgraceful. |
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It was a complete waste of tax payers money banning hand guns and has done nothing to reduce gun crime which was the excuse for the ban. In reality it was all about politicians jumping on the band wagon to gain support for themselves by those stupid enough to think it would reduce gun crime. I take it you are one of those that think it has reduced gun crime? |
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Take airguns - they were used by many "idiots" in our society and it's the actions of those idiots that got the stricter airgun laws brought in - in which one can be imprisoned and or fined for using air-guns in away that breaks the law. |
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Gun laws won't stop a thug like this character getting a gun and blowing someone away in the street off a whim!
'Psycho' gets at least 30 years - UK News - MSN News UK Thing is this guy will live of his vicious actions in prison and be respected by criminals. This is why he should be kept in solitary confinement which will stop him from bragging about his crime and being some kind of hero. |
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