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The gun control argument stops now. I know it's fun to argue about it in the heat of the tragedy when you can get all worked up about it but it's pretty disrespectful and if you don't care enough about the issue to make a separate topic for gun control then you don't care enough to shit on the tragedy by exploiting it. A gun control topic can be found here http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=313472 Also stop posting links to his facebook. TL will be no part of an unconfirmed witch hunt. | ||
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TheSwedishFan
Sweden608 Posts
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Hypemeup
Sweden2783 Posts
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Slaughter
United States20254 Posts
On December 15 2012 05:48 Ohyra wrote: This tires me to no end.. Come to ANY country in Scandinavia, and then you try - i mean REALLY(!) try, to get a simple handgun. I promise you this would not be an easy task at all. Banning guns doesn't mean that "you can obtain them just as easily illegally". Fucking morons. Laws and regulations are HEAVILY needed. They won't work the same way in the US because we have had them for so long. But anyways stop replying to older posts as gun control stuff should be kept out of this thread and go to the gun control thread, which is now active again. On topic I cannot believe the screw ups by the media when they are reporting on such a horrible situation. I know they want news asap to get it out first but seriously does it actually matter if you take that extra time to GET IT RIGHT? No one cares "who has it first" anymore. People are constantly switching back between news sources anyway so STOP BEING LAZY. User was temp banned for this post. | ||
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WTFZerg
United States704 Posts
On December 15 2012 03:24 McBengt wrote: I see. Not too familiar with firearms I'm afraid. Is it common for people to be armed with heavier weapons in the US, as in weapons typically used by the military? Well, if by weapons used by the military you mean rifles capable of burst fire or automatic then it is extremely rare. Basically, fully automatic weaponry used to be legal in the US until it was banned, but all the fully automatic rifles that were registered before the ban got grandfathered in, meaning there is a pretty finite amount of them floating around, meaning they go for a hell of a lot. If you mean just a rifle that LOOKS like their military counterparts then it's pretty common. I can buy a well made AR-15 for about $650 off the internet, but that weapon is not capable of anything but single-shot (semi-automatic) unless I make (very, very illegal) modifications to it. | ||
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CrimsonLotus
Colombia1123 Posts
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thragar
Canada450 Posts
On December 15 2012 05:49 KalWarkov wrote: as terrible as this incident is, i hate that the media talks topics like this to death and the whole world is (or pretends to be) totally mad about this. If the exact same thing happened in Kenia, no1 would give a damn shit about it. oh, i guess things like that happen there every week. sometimes, i just hate society for how naive they are. If being naive means that I need to care about none of the tragedies instead of some of them, then I'd rather be naive. What's the point of saying, "since you don't care about this thing happening over here, you shouldn't care about that thing over there"? Caring about some things is better than nothing. | ||
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Caihead
Canada8550 Posts
On December 15 2012 05:48 Ohyra wrote: This tires me to no end.. Come to ANY country in Scandinavia, and then you try - i mean REALLY(!) try, to get a simple handgun. I promise you this would not be an easy task at all. Banning guns doesn't mean that "you can obtain them just as easily illegally". Fucking morons. Laws and regulations are HEAVILY needed. This really isn't the issue though sigh. User was temp banned for the previous post, he must have edited it during the writing of the ban, I'll deal with it. | ||
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Deleuze
United Kingdom2102 Posts
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CrazyBirdman
Germany3509 Posts
On December 15 2012 05:49 KalWarkov wrote: as terrible as this incident is, i hate that the media talks topics like this to death and the whole world is (or pretends to be) totally mad about this. If the exact same thing happened in Kenia, no1 would give a damn shit about it. oh, i guess things like that happen there every week. sometimes, i just hate society for how naive they are. Feelings aren't really rational. You can't really control what affects you and what not, at least I can't. Sadly enough horrific news from other parts of the world have become somewhat of a "standard". We are at a point where we cannot take it anymore and just suppress those. This incident however we cannot flee of everyone knows some children at that age, knows their smiling, their laughter etc and subsequently can relate to this. And this happenend in a to us familiar environment so we can understand it naturally. | ||
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Erasme
Bahamas15899 Posts
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LongBow
United States265 Posts
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Cylluus
United States153 Posts
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EmperorKira
United Kingdom107 Posts
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Alltomata
United States66 Posts
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tMomiji
United States1115 Posts
On December 15 2012 05:59 EmperorKira wrote: Such a tragedy. When 9/11 happened, the US said "never again", but when it comes to guns its just "here we go again". When will something be done?! Very few countries in the world have this problem. There's something wrong when a guy can carry 4 guns, walk into a school and kill a classroom. Seriously...enough is enough... It is. Enough already... | ||
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MethodSC
United States928 Posts
On December 15 2012 05:44 [X]Ken_D wrote: It makes people into things. Another statistics, instead of seeing people as.. well.. human beings. People can relate to this tragedy, even I can relate to this without having children of my own. So if human beings matter to you then why does it matter to you more when less human beings are dying than when more are dying? It leads me to assume that you think all human life isn't equal. Statistics will exist regardless, but when life is being taken, the more life that is being taken is obviously more tragic. Just a thought. | ||
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sharkie
Austria18512 Posts
On December 15 2012 05:59 EmperorKira wrote: So tragic RIP User was temp banned for this post. RIPs are ban worthy? How can expressing your condolences be ban worthy... | ||
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LaSt)ChAnCe
United States2179 Posts
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ELA
Denmark4608 Posts
On December 15 2012 06:02 sharkie wrote: RIPs are ban worthy? How can expressing your condolences be ban worthy... He edited his post | ||
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Deleuze
United Kingdom2102 Posts
On December 15 2012 06:02 MethodSC wrote: So if human beings matter to you then why does it matter to you more when less human beings are dying than when more are dying? It leads me to assume that you think all human life isn't equal. Statistics will exist regardless, but when life is being taken, the more life that is being taken is obviously more tragic. Just a thought. Human suffering matters whether it is one or a million people. | ||
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