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December 24, 2012
AR-15 Bushmaster assault rifle
Customers are buying Bushmasters so fast that stores have trouble stocking it. We sold 14 yesterday. That’s way up. All of our suppliers are out of them. — Ross Meyer of Gunworld & Archery in Elko, Nev
We don’t really have a lot in stock, because it’s been so popular. They’ve been selling faster than manufacturers can produce them. — Daniel, an assistant manager at Discount Shooters Supply in Roseville, California
Naturally, when something’s a lot in the news, it has increased sales. I doubt there’s much inventory left at this point. There are no discounts, that’s for sure. — Andrew Molchan, director of the National Association of Federally Licensed Firearms Dealers (NAFLFD)
A little over a week ago we saw the massacre of the innocents. This was followed by eloquent but meaningless words from Barack Obama, but public pressure does finally seem to have spurred him into some some of action.
A couple of days ago, a week on from the massacre of the innocents, the mouthpiece on behalf of the NRA finally broke their silence and spoke at a press conference called by the NRA. It was to be bushiness as usual. His solution to the massacre of the innocents, was to pour more guns into a violent, screwed up society. Arm the good guys against the bad guys. But who determines who are the good guys, who are the bad guys?
Drugs wars are taking place on the streets of Mexico, in the favelas of Rio. They are are using military hardware. When the Mexican dug cartels and traffickers want weapons, they pop across the border to Good Ol’ USA. A classic two way trade, drugs flow across the border one way, money and guns flow the other.
- Breaking The Taboo
- Mexico’s drug war: Made in the US
- Over the border: US firearms in Mexican drug war
- On the road in Houston with a US firearms agent
- Gunshop owner on fight against cartels
There is no Federal Law in the USA that prohibits gun trafficking.
In Ireland, IRA and their various terrorist and paramilitary counterparts were asked to disarm. In Iraq, in Libya, there has been attempts to disarm society.
Why therefore does America think itself unique, a 2nd Amendment carved in stone, the right to bear arms?
England is a violent society, drunken scum on the streets at night, on slum estates but they are not armed, though guns can be obtained.
You do not flood a violent society with guns. A violent society where fear is ratcheted up. A society where teachers carry concealed weapons just in case.
I have a couple of classes that have potential shooters. I’m going to utilize my concealed weapons permit and carry for the rest of the year. Scary, but I would rather seriously wound an assailant than have a massacre like last Friday. I’m going to protect the “kids” in my school. The other teachers could not stop the continued slaughter. I can and will.
You also need to know that a few years ago, there was a kid in one of my classes who I knew, if the time was right would go on a shooting rampage. I went to the principal, counselor, etc. Their hands were tied until he made a move… It’s nuts here in the US sometimes. Thank heavens this kid decided to go nuts by threatening his brother. — shooting but missing him — during spring vacation and was sent off to detention in a jail north of us. Imagine if this boy went off at school and not missed. This boy came from a broken home.. from what I have seen here, the greater come from.horrible home atmospheres. Home and decent parenting plays a huge factor. In the US, our gun laws, and there are many, need to be enforced. The laws are not totally being enforced.
We have lock down training. I have found ways to sneek my mid.out through the under school cement duct system. This US not on lock down, but will get the life safely out. I’m not staying in a building that is being shot up. Only if I have to will I ever seriously wound a shooter.
We do not need more gun laws, what Mr Moore needs to realize is that we need to put teeth into the laws that we already have. There would be a huge difference in the U.S. if we did. Moore needs to push for that. We are going to get more crap that isn’t policed anyway. It’s stupid to go that route until policing what we have.
Adding more laws..definitely not the answer.. it just adds more burecratic shit to wade through.
Trust me on this one. I see so many misuses of the gun laws. I guess I needs to squack snirt then…Mr. Moore should do that instead of pushing for more waste of government and our fav dollars.
That’s tax dollars….
I am and will be refreshing my target and response skills with a small concealed pistol on Saturday. My father, a marine, taught me how to handle myself, quite well with a gun. I can, if I have to kill, but I also have the skills to wound an assailant where he/she cannot fire back.
It looks like a concealed gun will be part of me. However, I will not carry until after Saturday’s workout.
Checked district policy on gun carry. Teachers cannot carry guns. However state law says schools are open gun. Since it’s concealed, I will be packing.
Tomorrow is our last day of school before Christmas break. Hoping the district will cancel school for tomorrow. Gun threats in city schools north of us. I think the kids want to get out and are playing the system.
Teaching with an edge to it…. Interesting.
I am, even though I have a concealed weapon, teaching with all the love that I have inside me. A juxtaposition.
In the 1999 Columbine school shootings in Colorado, an armed school resource officer exchanged gunfire with one of the teenage gunmen. An after-action report ordered by the Colorado governor said that the exchange forced the two gunmen into the school library, where they then killed 10 students.
Yes, Michael Moore is calling for tighter gun control, but he is also calling for the ills of US society to be addressed.
Canada, Norway, Switzerland, have more guns per capita, but they do not have the killings. The massacre in Norway last year was an aberration. England is a violent society, but is not flooded with guns.
What you do not do is flood a violent society with guns, stoke up fear, then not expect mass killings.
The crazed killer in Newtown used a Bushmaster assault riffle. The publicity for the weapon caused sales to shoot up.
Bushmaster is only one version of a generic rifle called the AR-15, a civilian cousin of the M-16 developed for the U.S. Army in the 1960s. Other manufacturers produce versions of their own, most at a lower price than the Bushmaster, which retails around $700 to $900.
Gunworld’s Ross Meyer describes the AR-15 as “the Barbie Doll of rifles.” “You can add scopes, flashlights, lasers,” he says. “You can really tech it out. And being semi-automatic, it’s fun to go out and shoot.”
You can inflict a lot of damage to the head of a seven year old with .223 calibre ammunition. The victims at Newtown were shot several times at point blank range.
Maybe the debate would be different if pictures of the victims were shown on national TV before and after the shooting.
Arm the good guys against the bad guys. The mother of Adam Lanzer had her own private arsenal, she knew her guns. She was his first victim.
Today, two fire fighters shot dead, two seriously injured, the gunman found dead. Ther fire fighters appear to have been lured to the scene of a house fire.
- Two firefighters dead after being shot while responding to house fire; suspect dead
- US firefighters shot dead at blaze in Webster, New York
- [UPDATES] Two Firefighters Fatally Shot While Fighting Blaze Near Rochester
What answer the NRA? Fire fighters attend a fire with armed escort?
Poor Man’s Acid
June 24, 2010
Venus and Mars - Botticelli
To the art world it’s a moment similar to when you first realised the Magic Roundabout was all about a bunch of stoner hippies (just what was in those sugar cubes, Dougal?). Art historian David Bellingham has claimed that one of history’s most revered masterpieces, Botticelli’s Venus and Mars may not really have been a scene of uplifting godly piety and pure Christian-compatible romantic love – but more the scene of a comedown after an all out mind-bending blowout on drugs.
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It seems that all previous scholars who have studied the painting have ignored a small plant depicted in one corner, probably more interested in the devilish imp figure pictured resting his hand on it. New research suggests that the plant in question is likely datura stramonium – a narcotic known for centuries and more recently called ‘poor man’s acid’.
Bellingham claims it has effects similar to ‘opium mixed with alcohol’, causing hallucinations, thirst and and even ‘speedy chattering’. As a datura high is wearing off, the user eventually ‘swoons and falls asleep’ – much like Botticelli’s Mars. Other minor details also point to the psychedelic interpretation. Far out.
Critics trying to deny this will line up alongside those who still believe that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was about a child’s painting …
Originally posted by SchNEWS.
Is this what is meant by ‘high culture’?
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