On November 5, 2009 Nidal Malik Hasan shot 42 people in Fort Hood, Texas – while shouting Islamic epithets. Obama was quick to jump in and say “he said he could not rule out the incident as an act of terrorism, evidence does not support that theory.”
He had a different story in Norway : “It’s a reminder that the entire international community has a stake in preventing this kind of terror from occurring,”
A properly armed citizenry would have prevented this from occurring.
Over there, the uniformed cops weren’t even armed. I might go out on a limb here – and jump to the conclusion the bodycount would be have been lower if at least the cops were able to fight back.
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The cops didn’t even show up for 90 minutes.
Perhaps they were waiting for him to run out of ammunition.
My understanding from the reporting is: unarmed (read useless) cops were already there on the island. Then armed cops were dispatched, and had logistical difficulties delaying their arrival on the scene – specifically, a hole in their boat!
d(^_^)b
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Probably worried about his human rights.
so easy to find trhe answer…
They had no cops there, armed or not. They we’re camping in a political event.
He was dressed as a cop and gathered them before starting to shoot.
Armed cops were delayed when they overloaded their boats with people and equipement, that’s when it started to take water.
And about arming the civilians….they never faced something like that.
Pretty sure some had guns at home but had the normal habit to leave them there.
When you don’t face gun violence like an american would, you don’t think it can happen.
Not unless you’re warned.
Well there was that little thing when they got invaded by Adolf Hitler’s gang. Unless you live in an inner city with gangs, your chance of facing gun violence in the US are incredibly small. But folklore sure is fun.
The answer to what, exactly? It seems we agree they were all sitting ducks for evil due to their government’s policies. Keep looking for meaningless details, Robert L.
d(^_^)b
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“terror” =/= “terrorism”
So you agree Ft. Hood was an act of Muslim terrorism.
I think Obama said “Let’s not jump to any conclusions” regarding the breaking story about Hasan.
But we can pole vault to conclusions if anyone even suspects the shooter shared an opinion with Sarah Palin.
And not just that…..
Obama is very smart, intelligent, an impressive intellect? You’d think he’d have no time for anything but the debt ceiling “crisis”? You’d be wrong. He was stirring up racial division at a “LaRaza” meeting. “LaRaza” means “The Race”, i.e. Hispanic over every other race.
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/07/25/obama.la.raza/
It seems this man loves anything but America. Fundamental change is what he’s all about. And the Founding Fathers need to get out of his way because “they are part of what caused the problem in the first place”. After all he is so smart and knows how to run things better than them.
Islamism has killed 270,000,000 people since its inception.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkEbPoCRtBg
“A properly armed citizenry would have prevented this from occurring.”
Yeah Steve, that’s why it never happens in the US of A.
You mention above a killing at Fort Hood … if it can happen there then it can happen anywhere, this arguement that everyone being armed would stop spree killings is false, all it would do is make matters worse as everyone starts shooting in panic and the authorities don’t know who the actual killer is.
Compare the number of spree killings in the USA to the UK over the last 20 years averaged for population difference?
Andy
It is really difficult picking out a guy in a police uniform with a machine gun chasing kids around an island.
The soldiers weren’t allowed to carry weapons at Fort Hood. Obviously if they had weapons the shooting never would have happened.
In neighborhoods where people are legally armed in the US, crime rates are very low, because only a complete moron would break into a house knowing that they will face a 12 gauge on the other side of the door.
I’m really hoping you are brighter than you pretend to be. You frequently make these clueless smart ass posts that are just plain … dumb..
Steve, it still would have had happened at Fort Hood even if they were armed, it happens a lot in Afghanistan when supposed onside Afghans shows their true colours, and it happened in Iraq with, I believe, the 82nd Airborne when some soldier got pissed off and started chucking grenades.
Occassionally, some law abiding citizen with a gun in the USA will stop a spree killing, but you have to offset that against all the times when people with guns have got mad for some reason and just shot 1 or 2 people. I heard the other day some domestic squabble at an rink ended up with 4 or 5 people dead just because a gun was present and able to be used.
As I mentioned in my other post, your gun can’t protect your property when you are not even in it. Better protection for the house protects it all the time, such as alarms and secure doors and windows. Buglars are lazy, they will go rob somewhere else rather than choose a tough nut to crack.
You can argue all you want but unfortunately all the statistics show that more guns equals more people dieing and being injured by them. Now I understand you want to have them because you like guns and firing them, or you are worried about the government etc, but you should admit there are downsides and heavy penalties to match the upsides.
Surely a smart ass comment that is dumb is a dumb ass comment ?
A really dumb comment will be when someone comes on here and starts comparing gun deaths to car deaths or says (in a John Wayne voice) “It’s people who kill people, not guns”
You have got to be kidding. You pull out a gun in a group of armed people and you are dead.
You don’t know what you are talking about.
‘More Corvettes equals more people dieing and being injured by them.’
‘More Cars …’
‘More Campfires …’
‘More Skydivers …’
‘More Irish …’
‘More Blacks …’
Anything will graph out to an increase using your algorithm. Hockey sticks!