Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder A guy walks into the Long Beach City Hall this afternoon, drops a suspicious package, then sets himself on fire. City Hall has been evacuated, and the L.A. County Bomb Squad has been called in. <a href="http://www.presstelegram.com/ci_5706392" target="_blank">http://www.presstelegram.com/c i_5706392</a>
Originally Posted By peeaanuut it was probably because the grand prix was won by a frenchman. Its looney toons time.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder It just gets better. A Southern California high school closed down today after one of its students turned up missing. So are the family guns. <a href="http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/state/article_1664590.php" target="_blank">http://www.ocregister.com/ocre gister/news/state/article_1664590.php</a> AND............... A stupid kid at Cypress High School, about ten miles from where I live, was arrested yesterday for making threats of physical violence at school that coincide with the Columbine anniversary. <a href="http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1663784.php" target="_blank">http://www.ocregister.com/ocre gister/homepage/abox/article_1663784.php</a>
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Originally Posted By wahooskipper 54 year old w/gun is holed up in a NASA building at Johnson Space Center. Tune in to CNN for idiot of the day/hour.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad So you guys think that a complete ban on guns in the US would prevent the above circumstances?
Originally Posted By DVC_dad 20/20 is going to be doing a show on people who have defended themselves with their personal gun. <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=3015150" target="_blank">http://abcnews.go.com/2020/sto ry?id=3015150</a> I hope that this will be good stuff to show that it isn't just BAD that happens from gun ownership. But you know 20/20... you just never know with that show.
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka <<So you guys think that a complete ban on guns in the US would prevent the above circumstances?>> Why do you keep arguing against something that no one has said?
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder The question assumes a strawman, since no one has argued against guns on the home.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder On the home, in the home, whatever. Reminds of a George Carlin joke. "Let the daredevils get ON the plane, I'm getting IN.
Originally Posted By xrayvision Adding to the list of this week's crazies, two school districts in Northern California shut down after a 24 year old man threatened to start a on-campus shooting spree much larger than the one at Virginia Tech. After all the schools in two neighboring districts closed down and a manhunt insued, the guy turned himself in and said he didn't mean it. He still in jail at this time. Also in Nor Calif, a Vallejo junior high school girl was just brutally beaten on campus by a new male student who had just been trasferred from Texas after being released from juvie hall in time for Easter. Somehow, I think he missed the meaning of Easter. And, he's back in jail again.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy <a 24 year old man> I refuse to acknowledge any one like these sick criminals as a "man". That's not a man. In my news reports I say "male", that is when I don't say killer/murderer.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder From Dictionary.com: strawman noun 1. a person used as a cover for some questionable activity [syn: front man] 2. a weak or sham argument set up to be easily refuted
Originally Posted By Mr X Blame gun control all you want, but in this case I firmly believe the rash of insanity is totally the fault of the media...who have been portraying the original murderer as nothing short of a cool martyr all week! They should be held accountable for their shock journalism.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 Well Schaumburg ( suburban Chicago) HS shut down here after 16 year old who started making threats caught with wires, wire clippers and assorted other bomb making pieces in school. So much for gun control stopping violence.... Again, I do not own a gun ( my parents did) - by choice - but the rush to tighten gun controls needs to be thought thru - not knee jerk so that anything enacted would actually help. Someone who is going to go on a killing rampage will use any means necessary even if they can't get a gun....
Originally Posted By Mr X True VBDad. The terrorists on 9/11 didn't have guns, after all. And besides, tougher laws would not prevent an insane person from finding whatever they need on the black market...
