This is a double page from some South Carolina newspaper today. It features a well placed Christmas sale advertisement.

What is Christmas about if not marketing, buying and giving automated rifles?
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December 15, 2012
Christmas Gun Sale
This is a double page from some South Carolina newspaper today. It features a well placed Christmas sale advertisement.
What is Christmas about if not marketing, buying and giving automated rifles?
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I’m not a person who accepts conspiracy theories, but I am inclined to agree with BOT TAK. There are too many coincidences. There really needs to be an investigation into the background of not only the perpetrators of these heinous acts, but the people that are connected to them. For instance, their doctors or psychiatrists. Do they have any connection with military contracts, intelligence contracts, etc? Who are the people in their lives? For an example, Jared Lee Loughner supposedly met with a man prior to his mass shooting. Who was that man? In every one of these cases, there are probably a lot of dots ready to be connected that could give us a startling view of what’s really happening out there in our society, and, what some interests behind closed doors are really doing to manipulation our perception of our world. Posted by: AEWilliams | Dec 17 2012 19:22 utc | 201 “Bingo, read a report our most recent wacko was on Fanapt.
Impulse control problems (uncommon) Mania (uncommon) Restlessness (uncommon) Other Psychiatric side-effects of Fanapt related to aggressive/violent behavior:
Nervous system side effects including dizziness (up to 20%), somnolence (up to 15%), extrapyramidal disorder (up to 5%), tremor (3%), and lethargy (up to 3%) have been reported. Paraesthesia, psychomotor hyperactivity, restlessness, amnesia, and nystagmus have been reported infrequently. Restless legs syndrome has been reported rarely. Posted by: ONS | Dec 17 2012 20:46 utc | 202 via Penny
Surprise approval of Fanapt makes stock go wild Posted by: ONS | Dec 17 2012 20:49 utc | 203 @178 “where the hell are you gonna find the agents to insinuate themselves into my nightstand?” Posted by: Johnboy | Dec 17 2012 22:44 utc | 204 However, can you cite an example of a “home invasion” occurring to any households affected by Sandy? Posted by: Sean | Dec 18 2012 0:44 utc | 205 “To push the discussion to drugs is nothing but diversion” Posted by: PissedOffAmerican | Dec 18 2012 3:54 utc | 206 from an ex-cop
Jesus. The only thing going on here is an attempt to stop the killing of little kids. Posted by: ess emm | Dec 18 2012 5:23 utc | 208 No problem with stopping kid-killing, but it’s totally impractical to say that the USA should be like Australia. No kangaroos, to begin with. Impractical. Whatever, I dont care. Let’s try it anyway because having all these guns around isnt making anybody safer. You can be an I Told You So later. Posted by: ess emm | Dec 18 2012 5:56 utc | 210 @206 “To so completely dismiss the role that behaviour modifying drugs may play in such violent acts makes absolutely no sense,” Posted by: Johnboy | Dec 18 2012 6:41 utc | 211 Don Bacon 207 Posted by: somebody | Dec 18 2012 7:28 utc | 212 “b” #181 Posted by: вот так | Dec 18 2012 7:46 utc | 213 My editing made some things more confusing: Posted by: вот так | Dec 18 2012 7:59 utc | 214 vot tak, I guess people are in denial. From the article you linked to
Guns are dangerous? No can’t be, they make you safe. Just check the medicine your kid is taking. Posted by: somebody | Dec 18 2012 8:04 utc | 215 “Felt safety has nothing to do with reality – people are safer in a wood than they are on a crowded street and people are safer without a gun than with a gun.” Posted by: Sean | Dec 18 2012 8:12 utc | 216 Following up on the Chinese knife attacker: Posted by: вот так | Dec 18 2012 8:17 utc | 217 sean, 216, the chances you have your gun in your hand at this precise moment and the person slaying your family is not part of your family (possibly using your gun) are very slim.
Posted by: somebody | Dec 18 2012 8:34 utc | 218 The following article isn’t directly related to this particular murder spree, but it is about child abuse, so it’s in the general ball park. It’s about a form of child abuse not usually thought of as child abuse. Posted by: вот так | Dec 18 2012 9:35 utc | 219 agree vot tak, basically the root of the problems of any society lie Posted by: somebody | Dec 18 2012 9:56 utc | 220 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-peter-breggin/antidepressants-cause-sui_b_218465.html
205, sean, in all the violent incidents you describe (except the one involving your sister) owning and using a gun would have made things worse as in every likelyhood you would have been shot by police or arrested for manslaughter. Posted by: somebody | Dec 18 2012 12:27 utc | 222 Reading the anti-gun posters comments above is like reading the fantasies of children. Take the guns away and all the problems go away. Yeah, right. @233 whose head? yours. Americans are kept stupid by design. I didn’t realize this until I moved away. Posted by: ruralito | Dec 18 2012 16:29 utc | 224 When the whole country is saturated in violence,from TV to Movies to government predations,what the hell do people expect the impressionable to act like?Choirboys? Posted by: dahoit | Dec 18 2012 17:39 utc | 226 224, I am talking escalation and deescalation. You describe a situation of permanent war. Let’s assume that is the American condition as you say. And let’s assume Americans need weapons to defend against the governement. Posted by: somebody | Dec 18 2012 17:50 utc | 227 How many posting at this site live in america and are against guns? Those are the folks I’d like to hear from. So far I only see people who are looking in from the outside telling me why guns are bad, and honestly I don’t think they know what the hell they’re talking about. People are bad, not objects. sean, 216, the chances you have your gun in your hand at this precise moment and the person slaying your family is not part of your family (possibly using your gun) are very slim. Posted by: Sean | Dec 18 2012 18:54 utc | 229 sean, in all the violent incidents you describe (except the one involving your sister) owning and using a gun would have made things worse as in every likelyhood you would have been shot by police or arrested for manslaughter. Posted by: Sean | Dec 18 2012 19:18 utc | 230 The source of the following is the FBI – they should know
“Strangers” are ca. 25 percent of the known perpetrators. And most of the homicides by strangers are done during a robbery or during an argument (all this is FBI data) – both cases where having no guns would save lives. Plus – to a lesser degree – to juvenile gang killings where I doubt they would be that good at it with their hands. Posted by: somebody | Dec 18 2012 19:34 utc | 231 “It’s estimated that firearms are used to stop up to 2 million crimes a year. That estimate seems pretty high but not outside of the realm of possibility considering how much crime there is in the US.” Posted by: somebody | Dec 18 2012 19:59 utc | 232 “All the gun control talk has had one immediate effect — a surge in gun sales.”
next step – tanks Posted by: somebody | Dec 18 2012 20:34 utc | 234 definitely – tanks –
Posted by: somebody | Dec 18 2012 20:47 utc | 235 228 Posted by: вот так | Dec 19 2012 0:50 utc | 236 Guns and Glory Posted by: вот так | Dec 19 2012 1:39 utc | 237 “Now who wants to delay or prevent the American sickness?” Posted by: вот так | Dec 19 2012 1:41 utc | 238 I’ve decided the “somebody” is an opinionated jackass that makes blanket stements about things he knows NOTHING about. Posted by: PissedOffAmerican | Dec 19 2012 3:54 utc | 239 This comment from Dave S is worth repeating. So here it is. Penny 240, Posted by: somebody | Dec 19 2012 12:15 utc | 241 somebody: your question is pure nonsense Israeli-American fascism. How long till every American town and city is blessed with this overt display of it? Posted by: вот так | Dec 19 2012 15:27 utc | 243 Forgot the article link: Posted by: вот так | Dec 19 2012 15:29 utc | 244 @ somebody, Posted by: Daniel Rich | Dec 20 2012 1:29 utc | 245 If there’s a phenomenon that can’t be explained away with easily to digest catch phrases, the need to find answers [and not the urge to be right] and come to conclusion prevails [that’s what I read when I read PoA, BT and others’ replies]. Take this for example [off topic, but to make a point]: Posted by: Daniel Rich | Dec 20 2012 1:41 utc | 246 Newtown massacre motives: likely factors behind school-shooting emerge Posted by: вот так | Dec 20 2012 15:30 utc | 247 245, I am not sure what your argument is. I agree that normal people have the ability to kill. I find that fact more frightening though. Posted by: somebody | Dec 20 2012 16:05 utc | 248 @ somebody [#248], Posted by: Daniel Rich | Dec 20 2012 23:14 utc | 249 @ somebody [248], Posted by: Daniel Rich | Dec 20 2012 23:16 utc | 250 250, I did not take it as threat. I assume nature to be a huge food chain. Posted by: somebody | Dec 20 2012 23:39 utc | 251 I am a vegetarian, but will eat you if it comes down to shear survival. Posted by: ahji | Dec 21 2012 0:21 utc | 252 @ Daniel, just saw your 250. I’m arguing against the idea that at bottom we will fight each other to survive. I think evidence is there that at bottom, we work together to survive, but in extremis we will eat those who die. Eating those who have died = OK; killing people to eat them does not = OK. As a philosophical position. If you and I were stranded together, I hope we could make that pact. Posted by: ahji | Dec 21 2012 0:25 utc | 253 @ ahji [#252, #253], Posted by: Daniel Rich | Dec 21 2012 2:53 utc | 254 As long as “profits uber alles” rule the day, nothing can ever change. In America today, any solution to any problem that puts the profits of mega-business at risk will be ignored, no matter how many kids die. Profits for the 1% must continue. Posted by: ben | Dec 21 2012 3:52 utc | 255 SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE! 249 Posted by: вот так | Dec 21 2012 6:24 utc | 257 @ BOT TAK [#257], Posted by: Daniel Rich | Dec 21 2012 8:16 utc | 258 I’ve been left spell-bound by your comments down to the bottom of the first page, POA. But now its time to close down and do something else…I thank you for your continued passionate defence of the American Constitution and America’s traditions. You are a good, intelligent and well informed man challenged by ignorance at every turn. I would have lost my temper with your adversaries, had these arguments been mine, long ago. So I guess that means you’re a saint too…(Should I start a fan club? LOL) Posted by: arthurdecco | Dec 24 2012 5:49 utc | 259 “You have to wonder what makes some people think that school shootings are funny and entertaining. That’s the theme on a new “mod” based on the popular computer game Half Life 2.” Posted by: arthurdecco | Dec 28 2012 2:17 utc | 261 I’m re-posting the following exchange to illustrate a point I will make after you read the exchange. Posted by: arthurdecco | Dec 28 2012 2:37 utc | 262 Here you go arthur….http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Corporation Posted by: dh | Dec 28 2012 2:42 utc | 263 1 in 5 women sexual assault victims – UK. Fortunately only the cops & robbers are armed. Posted by: Daniel Rich | Jan 11 2013 0:32 utc | 264 |
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