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- I don't really get this. Lanza seems from all reports to be apolitical and his suicide shows he had no opinions he wished to share with the world. The guy in Norway had well thought out political reasons (as sick as they are) for what he did. He wanted a forum to share his reasoning. If all Lanza was looking for was body count I don't think that makes him like the guy in Norway. He saw a high score and wanted a higher one which is even more sick than the guy in Norway.
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- Newtown shooter motivated by Norway massacre, sources say OH, AND VIDEO GAMES....HA
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- Speculations YES SIRS. No one will ever know the true.Really??? a game or a violent movie can create a mindless terror to start killing? I've watched countless shoot-em up movies as a child and played violent games and haven't felt an urge to kill!!! These PHD's Masterees so called I know about killings because of books I read and years of schooling have the answers. Bull-S*T. No one will ever know the answer. I guess, I feel like, I believe, are all speculations.
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- Look up the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) anywhere and you will
find that Adam Lanza died a day before the shooting?
http://theintelhub.com/2013/01/21/ssdi-death-index-sandy-hook-shooter-adam-lanza-died-one-day-before-school-massacre/
You have to question either why is this possible and if this is true (which I'm not saying either way), then who is the culprit(s) and why are they using a Special Needs child as an escape goat? Could this be "THE tragic event" needed to take away our 2nd ammendment rights?
There's nothing wrong with asking questions as long as you are open to objectively answer them. On the flip side if I am wrong I am also objective to accept my potentially wrongful questioning.
For Peace... - Reply to this comment
- I'm getting really tired of pseudo conservatives and the second amendment. The first amendment in is constant direct peril..Would it be too much to suggest the US press be allowed to cover the wars independently?
Is anyone concerned about the first amendment?
The 4th amendment has been repealed by the Patriot Act... AND NOBODY SAID ANYTHING! They don't need warrants..they're the government!
The fifth amendment says you don't have to testify against yourself... unless a judge says you do, you get immunity, or it's the IRS... or unless you're driving...then it's "implied" consent"
WHY DOES NO ONE CARE?
The 6th amendment is a joke... If we had speedy trials we could not keep our prisons overflowing.
The 8th is a joke. If we had reasonable bail, bail bondsmen would have nothing to do.
The 10th amendment is the biggest joke of all... How could the US government possibly declare marijuana to be illegal under the 10th?
Now, I actually support the 2nd amendment... but holy cow!
The federal government has declared war on the entire concept of "the rule of law" and they get away with it because nobody really cares about the Bill of Rights.
Except one dumb amendment.. in special circumstances. Can blacks in Los Angeles and Baltimore slums arm themselves?
Heck no...they would kill policemen. Nobody cared when they took guns away from blacks...
There's quite a difference between someone who believes in the rule of law and a pseudo conservative.
US citizens generally dislike freedom... we LIKE over crowded prisons, an unfettered government and powerful police forces without any legislated limits.
I like guns, I'm a gun owner. But you people are sitting quietly while 7 out of 10 amendments are being trashed.
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- So where are all the new laws to restrict the sensationalism in the news media to prevent this as well since the Norway case was well documented in the media, we need to stop the media from broadcast this, just like prevent law abiding citizens from legally purchasing guns and violate the second amendment will stop mass killings! This is sarcasm. Nothing is going to stop a person who is fixated on killing. If it is not guns, it will be homemade bombs. But maybe the news media should better limit the information on mass killings to just the plain facts and not opinion.
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- didn't get anywhere near setting a new record so he is a loser among losers.
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- 26 is no where near Anders high score so this seems an implausible motive.
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- Lets whip law abiding gun owners. They ususlly don't support or contribute to Democrat candidates, so that's okay, isn't it? The first gun restrictions, New York's Sullivan Act, "According to Richard F. Welch who wrote a 2009 biography of Sullivan, "If there were political benefits from doing the right thing, what was the problem? But all the available evidence indicates that Tim's fight to bring firearms under control sprang from heartfelt conviction."[1]Walsh, Michael. Ordinary citizens, on the other hand, were disarmed, which solved another problem: Gangsters had been bitterly complaining to Tammany that their victims sometimes shot back at them."
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- While Lanza might have been inspired by Breivik, their motives are completely different. Breivik was a nationalistic, to some degree christian fundamentalist and anti-muslim right-wing extremist who wanted to punish the (currently) governing Norwegian Labour Party's youth organization, as a first step to fight what he calls "cultural marxism" and "cleanse Europe for islam". Lanza, on the other hand, a psychopath.
As a Norwegian I could just as well say "remove the guns, then you avoid these shootings", but I wont. Partly because that gun violence is a result of many factors (among them crime, poverty, psychiatry and mental health, mentality related to guns etc.), and partly because I like weapons myself. As a historian I would have loved to collect historic weapons, for example.
Banning weapons might be tempting, as the idea of blaming video games and movies, but they are both ridiculous. Most people who play video games and watch action/war movies (like me) are normal people who can see the differences between fiction and reality. Also, while gun violence seems to be out of control in the U.S., countries like Switzerland, Finland and Canada have a high weapons to people ratio, without that resulting in deaths. Many Americans with guns are also able to use their guns rationally. What I don't like is extreme organisations like the NRA that not only puts responsible gun owners in a bad light, but actially is damaging for these before-mentioned responsible gun owners.
Also, video games have never been, nor will ever be, the reason that mass shootings like those in the U.S., Germany and Finland occur. The idea of banning video games (which happened in some Norwegian shops and is what some people in the U.S. want) is ludicrous - what would help, however, are closing the loopholes related to weapon sales (gun shows etc. where you don't need background checks), some restrictions related to assault weapons and improved psychiatric help. - Reply to this comment
