Oscar Pistorius case shows that guns don't belong at home

[inplainsight]

Ridiculous article. I think the author missed the fact that he tried to bash her head with a cricket bat too! Going by his logic, bats, pieces of rope, hammers and knives do not belong in houses!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/fe ... n-shooting

[inplainsight]

Oh and we should campaign to remove ceiling fans from houses and seal up windows and balconies too, god only knows how many suicides that will prevent!

[Hammerhead]

Coming out of the UK, what else you expect.

There are fresh signs of how ID!0T some people could be .......

But animal rights groups called for details.

"Squirrels, gray and red, feel pain," said Ross Minett of Advocates for Animals. "The prince has a duty to publish exactly what methods are used to cull gray squirrels on his estate."
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/06/06/ ... 1325188446

[Sakobav]

Kd

you beat to me this article its crazy..fact is SA has one of the highest crime rates and majority have guns for safety one can read posts by a member from Durban here. I personally met two guys from both the diaspora who had horror stories and close escapes - one of them was mugged and whipped in his own driveway!! Oscar probably had issues, they also found a cricket bat with blood and even a sports writer mentioned that he was an adrenaline junkie driving cars at 140 mpg plus speed. Add to this he has a past history of domestic violence. Let the facts come out but there seems to be a sustained effort to bail this guy out la OJ Simpson style even deceased girl's father mentioned who knows what mental issues he had..last safety valve could be blame it on performance enhancement drugs..for now lay it on Guns great

[inplainsight]

Coming out of the UK, what else you expect.

There are fresh signs of how ID!0T some people could be .......

But animal rights groups called for details.

"Squirrels, gray and red, feel pain," said Ross Minett of Advocates for Animals. "The prince has a duty to publish exactly what methods are used to cull gray squirrels on his estate."
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/06/06/ ... 1325188446

Can you imagine the $#!t storm if they are using guns!

[inplainsight]

Kd

you beat to me this article its crazy..fact is SA has one of the highest crime rates and majority have guns for safety one can read posts by a member from Durban here. I personally met two guys from both the diaspora who had horror stories and close escapes - one of them was mugged and whipped in his own driveway!! Oscar probably had issues, they also found a cricket bat with blood and even a sports writer mentioned that he was an adrenaline junkie driving cars at 140 mpg plus speed. Add to this he has a past history of domestic violence. Let the facts come out but there seems to be a sustained effort to bail this guy out la OJ Simpson style even deceased girl's father mentioned who knows what mental issues he had..last safety valve could be blame it on performance enhancement drugs..for now lay it on Guns great

There will be other articles !

I agree, what the media fails to consider is the fact that most of these murderers or spree killers just happened to commit these crimes with a gun. If they didn't have access to guns, then they would have used some other weapon or tool (a hammer, a stone, a knife, a car, hell people have been bludgeoned with bottles and strangled with lacy underwear). The problem isn't the guns, but certain individuals who will stop at nothing to harm another person. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that there were murders being committed well before the invention of firearms.

[timmy]

Guns are a convenient thing to blame when society doesn't want to face itself. Why in the world people are glued to the TV to watch TV "heroes" like this guy, I have no idea. Then the media hops on and tries to capitalize on it. Look at the recent Carnival Triumph cruise ship debacle: all that one saw on cable news was this story, as if the whole world suspended activity while a bunch of vacationers in the Gulf of Mexico drifted around in a disabled ship. When Michael Jackson died, these same losers were broadcasting for weeks about Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson tributes, Michael Jackson remembered, ad infinitum ad nauseam.

How pathetic that the public gobbles this stuff up like a deer at the petting zoo gobbles up treats! As if these same somber, sober, serious "journalists" who broadcast this tripe with a straight face to dig advertising dollars out of company budgets can be trusted to give real news? Rubbish!

I'm sure that the executives at CNN, MSNBC, and Fox wring their hands in glee whenever a disaster or death occurs! They sure dive into it was great gusto.

What does this tell us about a society? It is as if people have all become TV junkies, looking to swoon over the vicarious experience -- just like so many who go to the racetrack to see drivers crash and burn, or gawkers on the highway have to slow down at a crash, hoping for a glimpse of some poor unfortunate's liver hanging out of their abdomen.

No, gentlemen, the ordinary gun owner is a long way from being the sick person in this picture, but it is convenient to portray us so, in order that people can rationalize what they see in the mirror.

[fantumfan2003]

Guns are a convenient thing to blame when society doesn't want to face itself. Why in the world people are glued to the TV to watch TV "heroes" like this guy, I have no idea. Then the media hops on and tries to capitalize on it. Look at the recent Carnival Triumph cruise ship debacle: all that one saw on cable news was this story, as if the whole world suspended activity while a bunch of vacationers in the Gulf of Mexico drifted around in a disabled ship. When Michael Jackson died, these same losers were broadcasting for weeks about Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson tributes, Michael Jackson remembered, ad infinitum ad nauseam.

How pathetic that the public gobbles this stuff up like a deer at the petting zoo gobbles up treats! As if these same somber, sober, serious "journalists" who broadcast this tripe with a straight face to dig advertising dollars out of company budgets can be trusted to give real news? Rubbish!

I'm sure that the executives at CNN, MSNBC, and Fox wring their hands in glee whenever a disaster or death occurs! They sure dive into it was great gusto.

What does this tell us about a society? It is as if people have all become TV junkies, looking to swoon over the vicarious experience -- just like so many who go to the racetrack to see drivers crash and burn, or gawkers on the highway have to slow down at a crash, hoping for a glimpse of some poor unfortunate's liver hanging out of their abdomen.

No, gentlemen, the ordinary gun owner is a long way from being the sick person in this picture, but it is convenient to portray us so, in order that people can rationalize what they see in the mirror.