Dear Connecticut...

[westen44]

That naked bum was a pun on the gun everyone. It meant no disrespect to the slaughtered children and adults who weren't killed by a shapely bare female ass IIRC. BTW, if young Adam L. would have had access to more female bums and less manly guns, maybe, just maybe he wouldn't have gone on his shooting spree. People with an intact sex life  generally don't murder children. And if a pic of a female tanga clad (or unclad!) butt is porn than the beaches of Catholic Brazil are full of porn stars and prostitutes (go tell that to their brothers, gringos!) since the eighties, meine lieben amerikanischen puritanischen und englischen sex-denying Freunde, fall to your knees and repent if you pleeze!!! Thank God, the Pilgrims didn't land everywhere, one savage sex beach thus de-Mayflowered was quite enough.

Back to the sad topic: It is here all over in the papers too. What do we do now, lock away all slightly autistic nerd kids pre-emptively? That is actually a question on my mind not an agitating statement.

And Dave, I have to disagree: It is a national tragedy, more so than a Challenger crash because a young guy barely out oh his teens with a disturbed mind did it, not a defunct fuel tank. It would (and should) be in any state on earth not ravaged by a civil war where massacres like that might be common place.

Bis bald, my next posting will be from NYC!

Uwe

I didn't mean to say the pic was porn.  I was just saying it got my attention because I don't normally see anything like that on the Internet.  Obviously, it didn't bother me and I fully understood it was a pun.  I also agree that people who have healthy sex lives are much less likely to go on a killing spree.  I also agree that the U.S. is too prudish, although the topic is really something more serious, of course.  I also agree that this is not only a national tragedy, but an international tragedy as well.  The enormity of what happened is incomprehensible.  Later, I will be able to absorb some of the details like those found in this article.  At the moment, though, I cannot even bring myself to do it.  It is too sad and heartbreaking.  Each person deals with something like this in his own way.  My way is to deal with it gradually as much as possible.  Otherwise, I tend to be totally overwhelmed with the sadness of it.  My problem is being too empathetic, not the reverse.  This relates to personality types which I have mentioned in earlier posts.  Mine is INFP which is the most emotional of the 16 types and also a type easily offended and likely to take things personally.  It's something which can be positive or negative, depending on many things. 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/15/connecticut-shooting-victims_n_2308463.html

[Dave W]

Now apparently the ghouls at Westboro Baptist plan to picket the funerals.

[dadagoboi]

Now apparently the ghouls at Westboro Baptist plan to picket the funerals.

Yep, time for the religious wingnuts to grab their time in the media spotlight.  While we're banning guns can we ban organized religion as well?

[nofi]

i really wish something could be done with these lunatics. where is the Punisher when you need him.

[rahock]

Yep, time for the religious wingnuts to grab their time in the media spotlight.  While we're banning guns can we ban organized religion as well?

Organized religion has caused way more death than handguns, assualt rifles and atomic bombs combined.
Rick

[Hörnisse]

I heard a statistic this morning that on black Friday some 283,000 guns were sold in the USA.

[gweimer]

i really wish something could be done with these lunatics. where is the Punisher when you need him.

I had a post on FB come through that was supposed to be all their home phone numbers.  If the information is correct, it looks like Westboro is embedded in Shawnee County law enforcement and legal work.  The people at Westboro are NOT representative of all Christians.  We take offense at their stance and actions as much as non-believers.

[westen44]

I had a post on FB come through that was supposed to be all their home phone numbers.  If the information is correct, it looks like Westboro is embedded in Shawnee County law enforcement and legal work.  The people at Westboro are NOT representative of all Christians.  We take offense at their stance and actions as much as non-believers.

Thank you for posting this.  A statement like this is very valuable.  Recently, I bought a book written by a Christian who posed as someone else to get some insight on some things.  It's really quite a long, complicated (although important) story.  He found a way to personally meet with some of the people at Westboro and was treated like total crap.  These people are fanatics, they are despicable and it's really sad that there are people out there who believe that Westboro represents the Christian community. 

[Dave W]

Westboro Baptist isn't so much a church as it is a group of con artists, mostly related to each other, who protest hoping they can sue someone for violating their civil rights. I doubt there are many people out there who consider them to be representative of anyone other than themselves.

They count on the restraint of decent people not to attack them. One of these days, though, they might find themselves victims of a lynch mob. If they really protest at the funerals of innocent children, this just might push some upstanding citizens over the edge.

[gweimer]

Westboro Baptist isn't so much a church as it is a group of con artists, mostly related to each other, who protest hoping they can sue someone for violating their civil rights. I doubt there are many people out there who consider them to be representative of anyone other than themselves.

They count on the restraint of decent people not to attack them. One of these days, though, they might find themselves victims of a lynch mob. If they really protest at the funerals of innocent children, this just might push some upstanding citizens over the edge.

They were blocked at an attempted protect of military personnel in Byron, IL recently.  A good friend of mine lost her nephew, who was part of the 3/5 Marines, and he was from Byron.  There were enough locals to let them know they weren't welcome and also not allowed near the funerals.

[Dave W]

From the comments below the article in the Examiner, there's already a Facebook group planning for a human barricade against them.

[Pilgrim]

If they have the balls to show up in this case, I wouldn't be surprised if even law enforcement found ways to keep them far, far away...legal or not.  This is a situation in which people like the Westboro idiots would be well advised to stay far away.

[Aussie Mark]

Australia introduced quite draconian gun laws in 1996 following the Port Arthur massacre (which involved one shooter and two semi-auto assault rifles, for a body count of 36).  In the 16 years since then, there has not been a SINGLE mass shooting in Australia.  So, it can work.

[Rob]

From the comments below the article in the Examiner, there's already a Facebook group planning for a human barricade against them.

Good!  Block the stupid bastard sons and daughters of hypocrisy.
I would be there if I weren't 1500 miles away.

[dadagoboi]

How many deaths has Westboro Baptist caused?  Where does it say in the Constitution you have the right not to be offended?

It's a short stretch from banning legal albeit wacko shenanigans to limiting other forms of protest.  I'd like to see the First Amendment given the same deference that the Second receives.