Sandy Hook massacre

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None of these angry white people had much to say about [[gun control|the easy availability of assault weapons]] in the United States.  Quite a lot of other people did.  The shooter's mother, whom he had [[murder]]ed before driving to the school, was a [[gun nut]] and [[survivalist]] who, despite Connecticut's supposed tightness of gun laws, had legally obtained multiple rifles and handguns, including an AR-15  (used for all but one of the deaths).
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None of these angry white people had much to say about [[gun control|the easy availability of guns]] in the United States.  Quite a lot of other people did.  The shooter's mother, whom he had [[murder]]ed before driving to the school, was a [[gun nut]] and [[survivalist]] who, despite Connecticut's supposed tightness of gun laws, had legally obtained multiple rifles and handguns, including a semi-automatic civilian variant of the military M4 carbine, which was used for all but one of the deaths.
  
 
However, [[MSNBC]] contributor [[Joe Scarborough]], a noted gun-rights advocate, announced in an editorial that he had, because of the tragedy, reversed his position on unrestricted access to firearms.<ref>[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036789/ns/msnbc-morning_joe/#50222624]</ref> He is joined by former [[West Virginia]] governor Joe Manchin and [[Virginia]] [[US Senate|Senator]] Mark Warner,<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20763749 Newtown shootings: Gun debate flares as funerals begin]</ref> and likely more to come. So give it up for them.
 
However, [[MSNBC]] contributor [[Joe Scarborough]], a noted gun-rights advocate, announced in an editorial that he had, because of the tragedy, reversed his position on unrestricted access to firearms.<ref>[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036789/ns/msnbc-morning_joe/#50222624]</ref> He is joined by former [[West Virginia]] governor Joe Manchin and [[Virginia]] [[US Senate|Senator]] Mark Warner,<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20763749 Newtown shootings: Gun debate flares as funerals begin]</ref> and likely more to come. So give it up for them.

Revision as of 10:52, 18 December 2012

On December 14 2012, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, a gunman attacked and killed 20 children and six teachers before committing suicide.

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Wingnut excuses

America's extreme wingnut contingent has reacted with calm and considered diplomacy. Wait, no, the other thing: they've used it as an excuse to blame all sorts of completely irrelevant bullshit, because, frankly, they are awful, opportunistic shitheads.

The gun control debate

None of these angry white people had much to say about the easy availability of guns in the United States. Quite a lot of other people did. The shooter's mother, whom he had murdered before driving to the school, was a gun nut and survivalist who, despite Connecticut's supposed tightness of gun laws, had legally obtained multiple rifles and handguns, including a semi-automatic civilian variant of the military M4 carbine, which was used for all but one of the deaths.

However, MSNBC contributor Joe Scarborough, a noted gun-rights advocate, announced in an editorial that he had, because of the tragedy, reversed his position on unrestricted access to firearms.[18] He is joined by former West Virginia governor Joe Manchin and Virginia Senator Mark Warner,[19] and likely more to come. So give it up for them.

See also

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There is a broader, perhaps slightly less biased, article on Wikipedia about Sandy Hook massacre

Footnotes

  1. Mike Huckabee: Newtown Shooting No Surprise, We've 'Systematically Removed God' From Schools, Huffington Post
  2. Mike Huckabee Explains Bizarre Claim That God's Absence From Sandy Hook Led To Massacre, Huffington Post
  3. Fischer: God Didn't Stop CT School Shooting Because He's a 'Gentleman' Who Doesn't Go Where He Is Not Wanted, Right Wing Watch
  4. Reports: As Newtown Plans Burials For Shooting Victims, Westboro Baptist Church Prepares To Picket, CBS Local New York
  5. Glenn Beck tweet
  6. Tennessee pastor: Mass shootings because schools teach evolution and ‘how to be a homo’, Raw Story
  7. I weep for America, Jerry Coyne, Why Evolution Is True
  8. Stay classy, Eric Hovind., Unreasonable Faith
  9. Hovind's utter lack of class prompted theologian James F. McGrath to call him a "lowlife pseudochristian" and suggest to him that he ought to read the read the Book of Job
  10. Eric Hovind's Facebook
  11. Dobson: Connecticut Shooting was God Allowing 'Judgment to Fall Upon Us' for Turning Our Back on Him, Right Wing Watch
  12. Wildmon: Satan Carried Out the Shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Right Wing Watch
  13. Steve Deace Ties Connecticut Shooting to Public Schools' 'Culture of Death', Right Wing Watch
  14. French teacher suspended for asking pupils to write suicide notes, Telegraph.co.uk
  15. Connecticut School Shooting... Why???, Way of the Master (just after 3m mark).
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  17. Ex-SNL star Victoria Jackson links massacre to abortion
  18. [1]
  19. Newtown shootings: Gun debate flares as funerals begin
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