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How many mass murders like the Colorado movie theater shooting occurred in the US before 1968?

RJ~PWCM~JLA 2012/07/20 15:20:22
Literally thousands!  With guns so easy to obtain, there were mass murders just about every day!
Very, very few. In fact, I can't think of ONE that happened before 1968!
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In the United States before 1968, guns could be purchased mail-order.

That's right. Anyone who "certified" that they were over 21 could purchase a gun via the mail. There were no "background checks", or waiting periods, or one-gun-a-month laws.

Guns were cheap and plentiful.

My God, the carnage must have been horrible!

So just how many mass murders like the Colorado movie theater shooting occurred in the US before 1968?
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  • RJ~PWCM... Kern 2012/07/24 17:19:03
    RJ~PWCM~JLA
    Oh yeah?

    So who said "Let's >>>> start <<<< with president Obama."?

    Or is your attention span only about 5 minutes?
  • Kern RJ~PWCM... 2012/07/24 17:43:40
    Kern
    If you hand any comprehension, you would have seen that the quote to which I responded was said they don't remember any mass murders before they started to take our guns away.

    Here's the quote moron.

    "I don't remember more than a couple before they started trying to take our guns away."

    Let me help you understand this since your comprehension skill are limited. The poster assumed that Democrats started to try and take guns away from people after 1968. So as I am guilty of bring up President Obama as an example of how misinformed Republicans are, I am not guilt of straying off of the subject.

    Again meathead, go to the source and bitch about it.
  • holly g... Kern 2012/07/20 20:57:18
    holly go lightly
    +1
    Let's not start with that trash bag.how about we stay on topic and if you can't then go bother some one else.
  • Kern holly g... 2012/07/20 21:11:44
    Kern
    +4
    Just stating facts.
  • holly g... Kern 2012/07/20 21:22:55
  • Kern holly g... 2012/07/20 21:24:09
  • holly g... Kern 2012/07/20 21:35:29
    holly go lightly
    +1
    Geez,I'll bet there are tons of people that did not know that.Thank You.
  • Proggy holly g... 2012/07/20 22:14:55
    Proggy
    +4
    Yep, and all of them are conservatives.
  • RJ~PWCM... holly g... 2012/07/20 22:32:08
    RJ~PWCM~JLA
    +1
    Yeah, really, he's the only one talking about 0bama here lol!
  • holly g... RJ~PWCM... 2012/07/20 23:01:01
    holly go lightly
    +1
    Is it just me or are the dill rods out in pairs today? These two don't seem to get "it" do they ?Partners in lunacy miles off the topic.
  • RJ~PWCM... holly g... 2012/07/20 23:58:40
    RJ~PWCM~JLA
    +1
    lol, not, it's not you, they're dragging in everything under the sun!

    I mean, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!

    monty python spanish inquisition
  • holly g... RJ~PWCM... 2012/07/21 00:24:37
    holly go lightly
    LOL!
  • aherbert holly g... 2012/07/21 00:59:46
    aherbert
    +2
    He is not talking about a trash bag ... did he even mention the pill popping Rush ... you know the fact guy the leads the GOP rush l gop leader

    rush l gop leader

    rush l gop leader
  • holly g... aherbert 2012/07/21 01:18:59
    holly go lightly
    If you are trying to find a neocon to argue with you have come to the wrong place.
    You should read thread before you try to show your ass.
  • aherbert holly g... 2012/07/21 02:17:38
    aherbert
    +1
    Hey you people are all one in the same in my book ... biotch
  • holly g... aherbert 2012/07/21 07:16:06
    holly go lightly
    +1
    That's all any of you simple minded swarmers are talking .Just trash.
    I have seen no mention of the POTUS by anybody but your pathetic little gang of simpletons.
    paranoid much?
  • aherbert holly g... 2012/07/21 17:13:16
    aherbert
    stupid always right folly?
  • Sissy Kern 2012/07/27 11:56:02
    Sissy
    Nonsense. No politico in their right mind would even think to take your stupid guns away. Otherwise there probably wouldn't be 240,000 of them in the hands of Americans. Every single election the NRA sends out their trolls to lament over the mean and nasty Dems who have mentioned that oozies and AK-47's shouldn't be in the hands of those who go on playgrounds, college campuses, malls and now theaters. Give it a rest. That dog don't hunt no matter how much you whine.
  • Kern Sissy 2012/07/27 13:25:47
    Kern
    I agree. I think you left off a few zeros in your number. There are closer to 300,000,000 guns in the hands of America. The bad thing is those 300,000,000 guns are in the hands of only 1/3 of the American public.
  • RJ~PWCM... Sissy 2012/07/27 17:32:42
    RJ~PWCM~JLA
    What you mean is the American people have spoken. The Democrat party learned its lesson in the 1994 mid-term elections. It went a "bridge too far" on its incrementalist road to banning gun ownership, and got their ass kicked.

    Since then, the Democrat party has not been willing to make gun control an issue.

    But only a naive fool would believe that it has given up on its agenda.
  • Sissy RJ~PWCM... 2012/07/29 01:03:58
    Sissy
    What exactly do you perceive that "agenda" to be?
  • RJ~PWCM... Sissy 2012/07/31 12:42:04
    RJ~PWCM~JLA
    It has **nothing** to with what I **perceive**. It has **everything** to do with what the leaders of the gun control movement have stated.

    Pete Shields, the former head of Handgun Control Inc. - which became the "Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence" in 2001, and is now called simply the "Brady Campaign" - said this about what the agenda is:

    "We'll take one step at a time, and the first is necessarily - given the political realities - very modest. We'll have to start working again to strengthen the law, and then again to strengthen the next law and again and again. Our ultimate goal, total control of handguns, is going to take time. The first problem is to slow down production and sales. Next is to get registration. The final problem is to make possession of all handguns and ammunition (with a few exceptions) totally illegal."
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Josh Sugarman, head of the Violence Policy Center, said: "The NRA is Right: But We Still Need to Ban Handguns"
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...


    So that is the agenda. NOT the "agenda", in quotes, but the publicly-stated agenda.
  • Proggy holly g... 2012/07/20 22:11:59
    Proggy
    +4
    Please name the laws that Democrats have legislated that have taken guns. The Brady bill was presented by the Reagan administration just in case you were thinking of that one. But I guess it's your logic the way to combat gun restriction laws is to go on killing sprees. That's conservative logic indeed.
  • V~POTL~PWCM~JLA 2012/07/20 16:58:55
    Undecided
    V~POTL~PWCM~JLA
    +5
    Lee Harvey Oswald bought a mail-order gun in 1963, which he allegedly used to shoot JFK.

    Ironically, the purchase was DESIGNED to be traced. The guy lived in Texas, where he could have bought a rifle over the counter at any one of hundreds of guns stores -- no questions asked. So instead, he uses mail order. I guess he wanted to make it easy for FBI investigators to close the case.
  • Kern V~POTL~... 2012/07/20 20:47:06
    Kern
    +2
    Silly person, Texas didn't sell guns that shot magic bullets so he had to get the correct gun through mail order. At the time Texas didn't sell guns that shot bullets that could go through two people and make a right turn in mid air.
  • RJ~PWCM... Kern 2012/07/20 20:57:02
    RJ~PWCM~JLA
    Not sure if that's sarcasm or not but in case it's not - it's been amply demonstrated that the bullet did no such thing. It appeared to because the initial investigators did not take into account the ways in which Kennedy and Connally were seated.
  • Kern RJ~PWCM... 2012/07/20 21:12:37
    Kern
    +1
    it was sarcasm.
  • V~POTL~... Kern 2012/07/21 01:08:07
    V~POTL~PWCM~JLA
    Hint: The mail order gun didn't do that either.
  • ray 2012/07/20 16:21:35
    Very, very few. In fact, I can't think of ONE that happened before 1968!
    ray
    +4
    Before 1968 such things were so rare ,that they were topics of conversation for decades to follow.
    After the progressives convinced all the snivelers that they are victims , every snit and whimper is convinced that something is owned to them . These crimes are never committed by someone that believes each should be responsible for themselves.
  • Kern ray 2012/07/20 20:50:31
    Kern
    +1
    These types of incidents are carried out by very disturbed people. The situations are ALWAYS worse because conservatives believe that gun rights mean the government has no rights over your gun ownership privileges. Do you really need a gun that hold more than six rounds? Do you need access to assault weapons?
  • RJ~PWCM... Kern 2012/07/20 20:57:57
    RJ~PWCM~JLA
    +2
    If two people break into my house, yes, we need a gun that holds more than six rounds.

    Since when does the government get decide how MUCH of a RIGHT someone needs?
  • Kern RJ~PWCM... 2012/07/20 21:15:14
    Kern
    +1
    The government tells you how much of a right you have all of the time. They tell you what you need to have the right to vote. They tell you that you need a license so you have the RIGHT to carry a gun. They tell you who you have the right to marry and how old you have to be to marry.
  • RJ~PWCM... Kern 2012/07/20 22:34:53
    RJ~PWCM~JLA
    +2
    All you need to vote is a certain age, and citizenship. That's always been true.

    And yes, you "need" a license, but in most states, they HAVE to issue it unless there's a compelling reason not to.

    The fact that the govt. impinges on your right to marry doesn't make it right. The govt. should be out of the marriage business.

    And you can marry at much younger than "govt" ages with parental permission in most states.
  • ray Kern 2012/07/20 21:11:36
    ray
    +2
    In case of maniac killing people with a gun , what is the solution ?
    Call men with guns to shoot at him.
    Had more people been on the scene with guns , he could have been stopped sooner.
    As it is 65 people were shot because no one had a gun to stop the killer.

    Do you really need a gun that hold more than six rounds?
    Yes , when target shooting six rounds go mighty quick . Each person is allowed to decide for them selves how much capacity they need .

    Do you need access to assault weapons?
    What is an assault weapon? Each person decided for themselves what guns , capacity , caliber , etc for them selves.
  • RJ~PWCM... ray 2012/07/20 22:35:33 (edited)
    RJ~PWCM~JLA
    +2
    Heard on the radio a while ago that the theater had a "no guns" sign out front. Don't know if it's confirmed - it came in an interview with the guy from GOA.

    BTW, the liberals "know" the answer to the "do you need" question, they won't listen to our answers. Their answer is "we'll TELL you what you need."
  • ray RJ~PWCM... 2012/07/20 22:47:52
    ray
    +2
    theater had a "no guns" sign out front.
    I suspected that , Hard to believe that no one in the theater was carrying .
  • Schläue~© 2012/07/20 15:57:23
    Undecided
    Schläue~©
    +8
    There were a few, just as mass murders have occurred since the first tribe of cave-people decided to steal the other tribe's meat.

    Excellent points you make, once again proving that it isn't the weapon that kills, rather the mind of the person wielding it.
  • Proggy Schläue~© 2012/07/20 20:00:50
    Proggy
    +1
    And organization like the NRA that make sure sick minds can attain the weapon to wield it.
  • RJ~PWCM... Proggy 2012/07/20 20:09:39
    RJ~PWCM~JLA
    +3
    Whooooosh!

    That's the sound of the *whole point* going over the *head*!
  • Proggy RJ~PWCM... 2012/07/20 20:14:03
    Proggy
    +1
    BANG!

    That's the sound of another gun taking another life because the NRA which owns the GOP make sure that any psycho sociopath can easily buy any kind of gun they want.

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