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another rampage; seems like they are happening every other day lately:

March 10, 2009 - 6:00 PM
Jessica Gresko
Associated Press writer

A gunman on a terrifying rampage across two southern Alabama counties killed at least nine people Tuesday, including members of his own family and apparent strangers, and burned down his mother's home before shooting himself at a metals plant, authorities said.

Police were investigating shootings in at least four different locations in several communities, all of which were believed to be the work of a single gunman who had not yet been identified by investigators.

The afternoon of bloodshed began in Kinston, near the Alabama-Florida border, where the shooter burned down his mother's house, according to the Coffee County coroner, Robert Preachers. Officials located the woman's body inside the house, but they had not been able to get inside the still-burning house to determine if he shot her first.

"He started in his mother's house,'' Preachers said. "Then he went to Samson and he killed his granny and granddaddy and aunt and uncle.''


http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/shot_15794___article.html/four_geneva.html

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I hope some already have...but lets pray for everyone that is effected by this tradegy!

This is an ugly world we live in today!!!!

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quote:
Originally posted by Ace of Spades:
I hope some already have...but lets pray for everyone that is effected by this tradegy!

This is an ugly world we live in today!!!!

yes, it seems like hate-mongering has become a national pas-time...

apparently this kid had a history of mental disturbance... or is that the kid that killed the minister in front of the congregation in Illinois over the weekned? too many to try to keep track of that's for sure.

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More liberal style gun control which does nothing to deter crime. The problem with anti-gun nuts is they do not realize if you get rid of the guns you still have the REAL PROBLEM. DUH!


After attacks, Europe hurries to tighten gun laws
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Delicious Digg Facebook Fark Newsvine Reddit StumbleUpon Technorati Yahoo! Bookmarks Print By MATTI HUUHTANEN, Associated Press Writer Matti Huuhtanen, Associated Press Writer – Wed Mar 11, 9:36 am ETHELSINKI – Several European countries have restricted gun laws in the wake of school massacres, gang violence and other gun-related crimes:

_Finland announced plans Wednesday to impose stricter restrictions on firearms, including raising the minimum age for handgun ownership from 15 to 20. The proposal was prompted by two school massacres within a year in which lone gunmen opened fire on classmates and teachers.

_Germany, where a gunman killed at least 11 people Wednesday, raised the legal age for owning recreational firearms from 18 to 21 following a 2002 shooting in Erfurt that killed 16 people, including 12 teachers.

_Belgian lawmakers passed strict new gun control laws in 2006 in reaction to the racially motivated shooting deaths of a toddler and her black baby sitter in Antwerp.

_Swiss citizens are demanding a referendum aimed at confining army weapons to military compounds and banning private purchases of pump-action rifles and automatic weapons — following a spate of suicides and homicides.

_The Portuguese Parliament is currently discussing a government proposal to tighten gun laws, including denying bail to anyone suspected of a gun crime.

_Denmark's government said last week it will raise the penalty for illegal gun possession as part of a crackdown on gang violence that has killed three people and injured 25 in recent months.

_European Union lawmakers proposed tighter gun control across the bloc last year, including guidelines saying that only people over 18 not deemed a threat to public safety could buy and keep guns. EU members have until 2010 to adopt the measures.

In addition, some U.S. states have recently tightened gun laws as well:

• Colorado, a year after the 1999 Columbine High School shootings, made it a felony to buy a firearm for another person who should know the transaction is illegal, barred anyone from giving a firearm to a juvenile without the consent of the parents; made it illegal for a person not to try to prevent a juvenile from committing a gun crime; and increased the penalty for possession of a weapon by a felon.

But three years later, the state expanded gun rights instead, by requiring sheriffs to issue gun permits to people who pass a criminal background check, prohibiting local governments from making gun laws more restrictive than the state's, and abolishing local registries of gun owners.

• In Virginia, where a student killed 32 people at Virginia Tech in 2007 before committing suicide April 16, 2007, the governor signed an executive order requiring that anyone ordered by a court to get mental health treatment be added to a database of people barred from buying guns.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090311/ap_on_re_eu/eu_europe_gun_laws_1

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none of those laws look repressive to me, except the Swiss, they are inbred to hilt anyway...

the Fins should make owning a handgun whatever the age of adult repsonsibilty is.

tougher penalties for reasonable gun laws should be a conservative issue anyway.

what's bad about this:
Denmark's government said last week it will raise the penalty for illegal gun possession as part of a crackdown on gang violence that has killed three people and injured 25 in recent months.

illegal gun possessors should be punished, they are the ones that screw it up for us law abiders.

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Awe, shucks, glass. Either cow is really so stupid as to imagine that the Supreme court is in league with the anti-gun nuts or he is once again just posting his normal line of slanderous BS to scare his own sort that can't or won't think about things.

In either case, he's banking on you and me and everyone else being like him and buying into Limbaughs's direction of the hate machine that has the republicans in such disfavor. He cant count or he might recognize that that nastiness and discordant refusal to place the welfare of the Country above the party line crap is what has resulted in the landslid losses in the last two national elections. People are fed up with the whole show they present.

I have a bunch of guns and haven't even a whisper of fear that the government even wants to be told I do. And the Supreme Court is backing me up! I knew they would. You knew they would. almost everyone knew that. Why is cow out there expecting us to be skeeeered with him?

There are things I think this court would like to find a chance to change, but me and my guns are not among them .... so long, that is as I act responsibly. And should I fail in that duty, intentionally or not, then someone should be checking into what I am or am not up to. That's their duty.

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quote:
In Virginia, where a student killed 32 people at Virginia Tech in 2007 before committing suicide April 16, 2007, the governor signed an executive order requiring that anyone ordered by a court to get mental health treatment be added to a database of people barred from buying guns.
I might be mistaken here, but this law doesn't seem to fix the "loop-hole" that allowed the VA Tech shooter to acquire a gun. I believe the shooter was receiving "voluntary" mental health treatment, and that is why it didn't show up on a background check when he purchased the gun used in the shooting...

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