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Bob Juch
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by Bob Juch » Thu Oct 01, 2015 12:56 pm
Multiple Casualties After Shooting at Umpqua Community College
Multiple people were killed in a shooting at an Oregon community college on Thursday, fire officials said.
The shooter at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg was "down," a Douglas County fire official confirmed to NBC News.
At least one female was shot in the chest at the college, the official said, and at least two other people were injured. The total number of people killed and injured was not immediately clear.
Are we really going to do nothing to prevent more incidents like this?
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
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by Bob Juch » Thu Oct 01, 2015 12:57 pm
I have reports of 10 and also 15 dead.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
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by BackInTex » Thu Oct 01, 2015 1:18 pm
Bob Juch wrote:
Are we really going to do nothing to prevent more incidents like this?
We could declare the campuses "Gun Free Zones". Oh, wait.....
..what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms.
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
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by Bob Juch » Thu Oct 01, 2015 1:41 pm
BackInTex wrote:Bob Juch wrote:
Are we really going to do nothing to prevent more incidents like this?
We could declare the campuses "Gun Free Zones". Oh, wait.....
Yeah, right. That's where I'd go to shoot as many as I could.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
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Estonut
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by Estonut » Thu Oct 01, 2015 5:22 pm
Bob Juch wrote:BackInTex wrote:Bob Juch wrote:Are we really going to do nothing to prevent more incidents like this?
We could declare the campuses "Gun Free Zones". Oh, wait.....
Yeah, right. That's where I'd go to shoot as many as I could.
It starts with reporting whackos who think about how they would pull off such acts...
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Groucho Marx
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themanintheseersuckersuit
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by themanintheseersuckersuit » Fri Oct 02, 2015 5:55 am
Chris Mintz, Hero
http://thebea.st/1L0conI
Sorry for the bad link
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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by silvercamaro » Fri Oct 02, 2015 6:20 am
suitguy, I think you have the wrong link.
Now generating the White Hot Glare of Righteousness on behalf of BBs everywhere.
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themanintheseersuckersuit
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by themanintheseersuckersuit » Fri Oct 02, 2015 7:25 am
silvercamaro wrote:suitguy, I think you have the wrong link.
Thanks
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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by jarnon » Fri Oct 02, 2015 7:45 am
Great article. I also agree with these quotes, which echo what I've said after atrocities like this:
Oregon gunman wrote:Seems the more people you kill, the more you’re in the limelight.
Michael Daly wrote:Forget the zero and remember the hero.
Слава Україні!
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by jarnon » Sat Oct 03, 2015 12:27 pm
Another Army hero, Alek Skarlatos, also lives in Roseburg and attends Umpqua Community College. If Alek and Chris had both been there on Thursday, the gunman wouldn't have stood a chance.
Alek got the Légion d'honneur, and Chris deserves a medal too. If you agree, please sign this petition:
http://wh.gov/iUFTOСлава Україні!
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Estonut
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by Estonut » Sat Oct 03, 2015 5:34 pm
jarnon wrote:Another Army hero, Alek Skarlatos, also lives in Roseburg and attends Umpqua Community College.
I read that not only does he attend the school, but he also has a class in one of the buildings where the shootings occurred. Had he not been in L.A. taping DWtS, he probably would have been there when this happened. That brought out the conspiracy nuts, believing this was more than coincidence.
Being the guy that he is, he left L.A. immediately upon hearing the news and went home to help wherever he could.
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
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