Mass Shooting at Colo. Movie Theater, 14 People Dead

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SamH said:
Isn’t it bombs that tend to kill people in Ireland?
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That was the UK, i.e. Northern Ireland during a civil war when the IRA were fighting the British army. Arms use in a war are entirely different than legalised firearms.

I live in Ireland.
 
pepipop said:
That was the UK, i.e. Northern Ireland during a civil war when the IRA were fighting the British army. Arms use in a war are entirely different than legalised firearms.

I live in Ireland.
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What war?
 
_Abyssinia said:
After Obama speech on Aurora shooting the crowd chanted ‘4 more years,’ do they have no decency considering the tragedy?

youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZ_VcqpoA
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Excuse me, I was at that event. Most people had been in line 4 to 5 hours with temperatures near 100 degrees in order to get a seat. We were only told it would not be a “campaign” event in light of the Colorado tragedy until right before President Obama came out. The President gave a very touching speech , but said there would be other days for politics and campaigns.

There will always be people who act inappropriately, but that was not how the majority of the people of Fort Myers acted.
 
SamH said:
What war?
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Possibly the word ‘troubles’ or ‘conflict’ was more user friendly due to the fact the general public had no access to arms - otherwise, believe me, it would have been and out and out civil war. I was born into it - manned barricades on roads throughout the country, army checkpoints on all the roads, armed forces and police everywhere, security checks of everybody entering any shop or social venues i.e. cinemas, restaurants, pubs etc…

pages.uindy.edu/~woodwelld/2753_06_ch06.pdf

During the period from 1969 until 1994,1 Northern
Ireland became the scene of the worst political violence in Western Europe.The conflict
yielded a death toll of 3,281 deaths (through 1998)2 and tens of thousands were
injured (Hayes and McAllister 2001; Smith 1999). In a region with a population of
slightly over 1.5 million residents, few were left untouched by the violence, instability,
and social polarization that characterized the era.

Thus, the conflict in Northern Ireland represented a long, but for the most
part not particularly intense, conflict relative to most of the civil wars considered by
Collier and Hoeffler (2001). Even though the violence did not rise to the level of most civil wars, it still represents an anomaly in that it occurred within a highly developed society
 
MSGirl said:
Excuse me, I was at that event. Most people had been in line 4 to 5 hours with temperatures near 100 degrees in order to get a seat. We were only told it would not be a “campaign” event in light of the Colorado tragedy until right before President Obama came out. The President gave a very touching speech , but said there would be other days for politics and campaigns.

There will always be people who act inappropriately, but that was not how the majority of the people of Fort Myers acted.
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I am commenting on what I heard in the video, it was inappropriate however many people did it
 
triumphguy said:
telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9413538/Pensioner-shoots-two-teenagers-as-he-foils-attempted-armed-robbery-in-Florida.html

A pensioner with a sidearm foils an armed robbery.
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Yes, I’ve seen this before and although very funny and ‘bravo’ it’s lucky he didn’t kill either of them, I doubt he would wish that on his conscience. Obviously all gun crime is to be abhorred but an ‘eye for an eye’ solves nothing in the long run. If everyone had a gun on them in the store and started shooting at the robbers, you can be assured someone else would have been shot and there would have been deaths.

abcnews.go.com/US/michigan-grandmother-shoots-kills-grandson/story?id=16405638#.UAmp3vXuiZQ

A lot more harrowing is the above story of a grandmother that shoots her grandson an additional 4 times whilst he is already on a 2 minute open recorded phone call to 911, waiting on their arrival - after she’d shot him the first time. She bought the gun because she was ‘scared’ of him and killed him outright.
 
_Abyssinia said:
I am commenting on what I heard in the video, it was inappropriate however many people did it
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I know what you were commenting on. What you heard was the last few minutes of the event. And things sound different on video than they do live. And not everyone in a room of over 4,000 people will act “appropriately”. Not everyone is perfect. Plus how many people get the opportunity to see a president up close and perhaps shake his hand.

The protesters outside were making a lot more noise with bullhorns and signs and calling us nasty name. Not one person inside the event had a sign.
 
SamH said:
I think you are telling the wrong people.
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You are simply being obnoxious. You take this thread on a Catholic forum and drag politics into it. Point that finger back at yourself sir- you can only control your role in this thread.
 
ringil said:
You are simply being obnoxious. You take this thread on a Catholic forum and drag politics into it. Point that finger back at yourself sir- you can only control your role in this thread.
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Aren’t you the one pointing fingers? :rolleyes:

I’m just telling you that you might be missing your target. 🤷
 
_Abyssinia said:
I think it is important to bring up lack of respect shown for the people who died
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Don’t read too much into people who act inappropriately. There is no way to ascertain what motivates their actions. There is a distinct possibility that this small group may actually be hecklers posing as supporters. What better way to disrespect the president and his supporters. Don’t think that either side of the political divide are beyond this type of action.
 
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