Tucson shooting

[Speedbag]

Yeah, just saw a book in pic of him on my Yahoo email home page news section and he might as well be holding up a 2x4 foot sign that says "make the beast with two backsing nutcase" on it! Shaved his head and has this crazy shit eating grin on his face like he's having fun. Poster child for the American Association of Crazy Mother make the beast with two backsers.

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No way in hell I would have sold that guy a gun or ammo.....

[Le Pirate]

Apparently the people from Westboro Baptist Church (the crazies from Kansas that protest soldier's funerals) are planning on protesting the funeral of Christina Taylor Green--the 9 year old girl who was killed--because her family is Roman Catholic. 

Sick people are coming out of the woodwork these days.


Here's an article about some people that plan to build baracades around the protestors so the families can't see them. Great Idea! 

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/01/11/arizona.funeral.westboro/?hpt=C2

I'm tempted to drive out to Tucson, and wear some 8 ft angel wings myself

[duccarlos]

Whack jobs are everywhere and we can't shield the world from them.

[Monster Dave]

I just found out about that. That's awful. Where's the Kool Aid??

Things are getting hectic here. Security is very tight especially since the President will be arriving here tomorrow. I've never seen so much security and screening of people. In a strange way, it's sort of neat - certainly a change of pace.

[sbrguy]

i have to agree the guy does have that nutty crazy look on his face, but then again, just because you "look a certain way" if you are a law abiding citizen you are allowed to buy guns in some places without any background check and that is the way that many people want it.

if you thought this thread wouldn't get political, then i have a bridge to sell you.

Seriously, this thread is just too ripe for it NOT to go into politics.

It has a perfect storm of elements to go nowhere but a political conversation,  

ie, politician gets shot (you get all the political spin)
guy used a legally store bought gun (you get the whole gun debate going on, with who can/should/how to buy a gun)
location is in arizona (you get the whole political climate in arizona thing going on there for the past few months)
then to top it off you have civilians including kids getting killed (so now you have the whole what punishment for the crime and differing views on how the criminal justice system should work, going on)

[Monster Dave]

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