Dancing in the blood

[MikeBjerum]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41021843/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/?GT1=43001

“The reason he was able to be tackled was he had to pause to reload,” Dennis Henigan, vice president of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, told The New York Times. “The problem is, he didn’t have to pause to reload until he’d already expended 30 rounds.”

Apparently the fact that this young man had issues that he wasn't dealing with properly, whether self inflicted, from birth, of from outside sources, wasn't the problem at all.  This tragedy was all caused by the fact that he didn't need to reload his gun often enough 

I give NBC credit in this story for doing pretty damn well with their terminology!  "Semiautomatic pistol," "casings," "30 - round
magazine," "plus one in the chamber," and "a total of 31 rounds."  The only error I caught was "he bought bullets."

As sad as the whole event is and with all the spin and ignorance concerning this, it is refreshing to see writing with proper terminology for a change.

[TAB]

bush didn't push the AWB, he did say he would sign it if it made it too his desk.  IMO, there is no diffrence between the too.

The way I see it, he said he approved of it, just was too lazy to push it thru.

[Herknav]

Actually, Bush supported AWB renewal and would have signed it if Congress could've put it on his desk.

Apparently, you have a different definiton of "leading the way" than I do.

[m25operator]

Actually GW saying He would sign the bill, and He probably would have, was good politics, He knew it was not going to happen, not laziness, caginess, of course if something like this had happened to push it, it could have been different. GW is why we have ccw in Tx now, a lot of people don't like him, but Rick Perry has continued to strengthen the ccw laws and now we can carry without a license in our vehicles. Hell He carries and regardless of your thoughts, killed a coyote with his Ruger Lcp with crimson trace laser on a daily jog, how many governors can claim that. Even in the suburbs of Dallas where I live, we have an aqua duct for flood control behind the house, and coyotes do travel up and down it, I have killed 2 possums and 72 squirrels in my back yard and you would think no way if you drove through the neighborhood. Squirrels yes they are everywhere, but possums not so much, surprising I have not killed a raccoon.

[jaybet]

EVERYBODY has possums, Benny, even me...on an island on the Atlantic. (Ok...there ARE two bridges). I had to go out and get all new lock-down trash cans 'cause they kept coming around to eat and would get stuck in the cans and scare the girls. Only a few squirrels, but we have a TON of bunnies since they got rid of the cat lady around the block. There are so many they're coming up 8 steps to make nests in our flower planters on the porch.

[Sponsor]

[tombogan03884]

I have even seen Possums up here. Never a live one yet, but a couple weeks ago there was a dead one on some ones lawn on my way to work, Squirrels everywhere, and once in a while a Raccoon.
As a cool side note, along the river between the 2 lakes we have Bank Beaver, and the other day when I was crossing one of the bridges I saw an Otter doing the back stroke.   I wanted to watch longer but I had to get somewhere.