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Message 1538254 - Posted: 9 Jul 2014, 5:11:55 UTC - in response to Message 1538184.  

It seems that Chicago celebrated their Independence Day weekend in quite a violent way this year.

http://www.news.com.au/world/at-least-84-shot-14-killed-in-chicago-over-violent-4th-of-july-weekend/story-fndir2ev-1226982369979

CHICAGO was like a war zone over the American 4th of July weekend, with at least 84 people shot and 14 killed in a spate of shocking violence.

Chicago has become a hotspot of urban violence, and the weekend shooting spree is the worst case of gun violence in the city so far this year, reports The Chicago Tribune.

Sixteen-year-old Warren Robinson was shot dead by police while hiding under a car, while 44-year-old Tonya Gunn was killed in crossfire at an Independence Day BBQ.

Other victims were fired on in drive-by shootings – one victim shot while riding a bike, and others shot while hanging out in pharmacy parking lots.

Wiggo,

You have to understand. Obama is a Chicago Politician .... unfortunately only someone from Illinois will really understand.
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Message 1538263 - Posted: 9 Jul 2014, 5:20:41 UTC - in response to Message 1538254.  

It seems that Chicago celebrated their Independence Day weekend in quite a violent way this year.

http://www.news.com.au/world/at-least-84-shot-14-killed-in-chicago-over-violent-4th-of-july-weekend/story-fndir2ev-1226982369979

CHICAGO was like a war zone over the American 4th of July weekend, with at least 84 people shot and 14 killed in a spate of shocking violence.

Chicago has become a hotspot of urban violence, and the weekend shooting spree is the worst case of gun violence in the city so far this year, reports The Chicago Tribune.

Sixteen-year-old Warren Robinson was shot dead by police while hiding under a car, while 44-year-old Tonya Gunn was killed in crossfire at an Independence Day BBQ.

Other victims were fired on in drive-by shootings – one victim shot while riding a bike, and others shot while hanging out in pharmacy parking lots.

Wiggo,

You have to understand. Obama is a Chicago Politician .... unfortunately only someone from Illinois will really understand.


To add, Chicago will never have to file for Bankruptcy, because of Obama!
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Message 1538392 - Posted: 9 Jul 2014, 9:04:47 UTC

I just find it very sad that this sort of thing happens. :-(

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Message 1538598 - Posted: 9 Jul 2014, 16:49:07 UTC

Colorado doesn't have many shootings. I wonder why? That whack job who shot women because he felt slighted should have gone to Shooters Grill. Plenty of targets there.

As she takes your order at Shooters Grill in the town of Rifle - yes, Rifle - waitress Ashlee Saenz carries a pad, pen and a loaded Ruger .357 Blackhawk revolver holstered on her leg, Old West style.

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Message 1538601 - Posted: 9 Jul 2014, 16:54:17 UTC - in response to Message 1538598.  
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Colorado doesn't have many shootings. I wonder why? That whack job who shot women because he felt slighted should have gone to Shooters Grill. Plenty of targets there.

As she takes your order at Shooters Grill in the town of Rifle - yes, Rifle - waitress Ashlee Saenz carries a pad, pen and a loaded Ruger .357 Blackhawk revolver holstered on her leg, Old West style.


Link didn't work as you had a ] in front of the http. Hope it works now.

Edit - It works.
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Message 1538628 - Posted: 9 Jul 2014, 17:56:15 UTC - in response to Message 1538601.  
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Link didn't work as you had a ] in front of the http. Hope it works now.

Edit - It works.
Thanks; my edit time has expired on that post.
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Message 1538853 - Posted: 10 Jul 2014, 2:01:24 UTC

The scene changes to Houston now.

http://www.news.com.au/world/six-shot-dead-in-houston-as-police-corner-suspected-gunman/story-fndir2ev-1226983954565

FOUR children are reportedly among six people killed in a shooting in suburban Houston.

The shooting happened on Wednesday afternoon at a house in Spring, north of Houston.

The fourth child is believed to have died in hospital.

Another child was injured in the rampage and also flown to hospital.

According to a KHOU source, the victims were aged five to 40.

How many more will be killed before people wake up?
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Message 1539071 - Posted: 10 Jul 2014, 10:32:34 UTC

How many more will be killed before people wake up?


Lots of them, I'm afraid:( If we ever wake up...
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Message 1539149 - Posted: 10 Jul 2014, 15:36:38 UTC - in response to Message 1539097.  

How many more will be killed before people wake up?


Lots of them, I'm afraid:( If we ever wake up...

Just a different Cultural reaction.

In The US: It appears the reaction, to this gun violence, is for the Individual to obtain MORE guns. Not Government confiscation of guns.

I believe the reaction will be to say American's are (...), and (...), and (...), and (...). Fill in the blanks.

All the negatives will make no difference.

That is the reaction by the gun lobby and all the ammosexuals.

Again, you do not speak for the American people, the majority of whom want stricter gun control.
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Message 1539563 - Posted: 11 Jul 2014, 5:54:50 UTC

Today's update on yesterday's shooting in Houston. :-(

http://www.news.com.au/world/ronald-lee-haskell-disguised-himself-as-a-fedex-delivery-man-before-slaughtering-his-exwifes-family/story-fndir2ev-1226985515380

A MAN accused of killing six members of his ex-wife’s family, including four kids, deliberately disguised himself as a FedEx delivery man before he shot them in the back of the head execution-style....

...He demanded to see his ex-wife, Melannie Haskell but she wasn’t there so Haskell reportedly tied up the family’s five children — two boys aged four and 13 and three girls aged seven, nine and 15 — while waiting for their parents to return home.

Once husband and wife Stephen Stay, 39, and Katie Stay, 33, returned, they were also tied up.

Haskell then shot each member of the family in the back of the head execution-style.
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Message 1539568 - Posted: 11 Jul 2014, 6:01:18 UTC

Ammosexuals so that is what I am, before it was veggisexual and my only means of

reproduction was by pollination what a relief.
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Message 1539608 - Posted: 11 Jul 2014, 7:31:28 UTC - in response to Message 1538853.  

The scene changes to Houston now.

http://www.news.com.au/world/six-shot-dead-in-houston-as-police-corner-suspected-gunman/story-fndir2ev-1226983954565

FOUR children are reportedly among six people killed in a shooting in suburban Houston.

The shooting happened on Wednesday afternoon at a house in Spring, north of Houston.

The fourth child is believed to have died in hospital.

Another child was injured in the rampage and also flown to hospital.

According to a KHOU source, the victims were aged five to 40.

How many more will be killed before people wake up?

Id like to know his mental and crimimal history. Im betting he has serious issues with both.
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Message 1539631 - Posted: 11 Jul 2014, 7:58:46 UTC - in response to Message 1539608.  

The scene changes to Houston now.

http://www.news.com.au/world/six-shot-dead-in-houston-as-police-corner-suspected-gunman/story-fndir2ev-1226983954565

FOUR children are reportedly among six people killed in a shooting in suburban Houston.

The shooting happened on Wednesday afternoon at a house in Spring, north of Houston.

The fourth child is believed to have died in hospital.

Another child was injured in the rampage and also flown to hospital.

According to a KHOU source, the victims were aged five to 40.

How many more will be killed before people wake up?

Id like to know his mental and crimimal history. Im betting he has serious issues with both.

Today's update post James. ;-)

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Message 1540072 - Posted: 11 Jul 2014, 23:28:55 UTC - in response to Message 1539777.  

Wiggo...

What is YOUR definition of Gun Control?

You might want to read about gun laws down here Clyde,

Gun politics in Australia.

Particularly the part about,

The Port Arthur massacre and its consequences,

where we woke up.

The only problem we really have here now are the illegal guns being brought into the country by outlaw motorcycle clubs and ethnic crime gangs, but if you get any news over there about these then you'll also know that these groups are being actively hunted down and dismantled by law enforcement agencies under tough new laws targeting these groups.

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Message 1540117 - Posted: 12 Jul 2014, 4:26:53 UTC - in response to Message 1540111.  

Wiggo...

What is YOUR definition of Gun Control?


... Restricted weapons: machine guns, rocket launchers, assault rifles, anti-tank guns, Howitzers, artillery, etc.
Flame-throwers are quite legal.

Red Dragon BP 2512 SVC 400,000 BTU Weed Dragon Backpack Propane Vapor Torch Kit with Squeeze Valve


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Message 1540141 - Posted: 12 Jul 2014, 5:19:58 UTC
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We in the US 'woke up' many years ago.

Obviously you havn't because otherwise we wouldn't keep reading about these things here happening over there every week now would we?
Try getting a firearm license over here just for the 1st category. ;-)

Flame-throwers are quite legal.

Red Dragon BP 2512 SVC 400,000 BTU Weed Dragon Backpack Propane Vapor Torch Kit with Squeeze Valve

That's a torch you idiot, not a flame thrower. :-(
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Message 1540165 - Posted: 12 Jul 2014, 5:59:27 UTC - in response to Message 1540117.  

Propane is not napalm.
Ask Phan Thi Kim Phuc what napalm is.
Perhaps you want a personal demonstration of the difference.
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Message 1540184 - Posted: 12 Jul 2014, 6:42:01 UTC - in response to Message 1540165.  

Perhaps you want a personal demonstration of the difference.

Are you threatening me?
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Message 1540196 - Posted: 12 Jul 2014, 7:25:15 UTC - in response to Message 1540184.  

Links to graphic violence aren't permitted here, so I can't link you a clip of a flamethrower in action, so how else to demonstrate it except personally?
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Message 1540200 - Posted: 12 Jul 2014, 7:45:42 UTC

There is a hell of a big difference in a propane torch and a flame thrower. Propane is just a damn flame. A flame thrower uses napalm. When you get hit with that the fuel sticks to you. And anybody who has seen WW2 flim footage of the war in the Pacific knows the two are not the same.
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