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If it is shown that this wacko got his hands on an AR-15 after the Republicans made them available again, the loved ones of the victims should sue the state back to the fucking Stone Age, and no Coloradan should vote Republican again for a generation.

Also, “boarder”?

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Come on Rich, where's the snarky comments about taking the suspect alive or that the police don't know the motive yet ... Oh wait, maybe that does not fit into your PERSONAL narrative based on the suspects name.

Like the those before him (and to follow), this guy is a sick bastard. We'll never get rid of guns, but at least get rid of the god damn machine guns.

8

I thought good guys with guns stopped bad guys with guns. Was the cop not armed? Or was he not a good guy? Maybe we need to start giving guns to the guns.

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@5: Yeah, in a town called - get your smelling salts ready: Rifle!

Let them enjoy their M16 Burritos. You pointing to tangential noise.

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Boulder, Denver, and Fort Collins are the main liberal, democratic areas of Colorado. The rest of the state, most notably Focus on the Family headquarters Colorado Springs, are heavily libertarian. They all vote for the fascist party, but if they had their druthers, they'd take anarchy.

After the Aurora theater shooting, some really mild gun laws were passed in Colorado. That angered the gun lovers there so much they held an emergency recall election to remove the politicians who sponsored the bills and then remove the laws themselves.

Boulder's full of rich, limousine liberal, NIMBY ex-hippies and wealthy trust fund kids going to the school there. Even Table Mesa, where the shooting happened, is pretty liberal, though less so than the city center and The Hill, where the college is. Table Mesa's mostly families. It's sleepy.

I'd be willing to bet the shooter didn't live in Boulder.

Fun Fact: There's a little town North of Boulder called Gunbarrel. There's another town further away called Rifle. Coloradoans like guns.

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@10 Rifle is where Qbert's restaurant is on the western slope -- quite, quite a ways away from Boulder. And if I heard correctly the shooter was from Arvada.

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This country has chosen death as freedom above all. We choose to allow civilians and cops to murder people with weapons we refuse to regulate. We choose death. We choose to have a society where death is the most sacred freedom. In a world where we could have any society we want, where we humans claim to be the most intelligent beings on earth, we have chosen to worship, uphold, and demand the right to kill and destroy as the highest form of freedom. Guns, viruses, refusal of health care, pollution of land, air, and water - doesn't matter. We don't care. Our collective depraved indifference to life and the continued refusal to do one goddamn thing about it has reached levels of obscenity that are beyond comprehension. We will literally kill and kill and kill by any and all means possible until there is no life left. And we will claim that doing so was our right and that we were free.

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stereotype fun day on Slog

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The NRA way of life is ruining our nation
Decades of gun propaganda has created a nation of sociopaths

The grim reality is that the entire nation is in the thrall to a minority of extremely insecure mostly white men who, drunk on decades of NRA-fueled propaganda, have decided that having the ability to commit mass murder at a moment's notice is a crucial component of maintaining their manhood...

https://www.salon.com/2021/03/23/the-nra-way-of-life-is-ruining-our-nation/

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NRA bragged that it blocked Boulder AR-15 ban just days before deadly shooting killed 10 people

"Gun rights" group also tweeted a defense of the Second Amendment hours after gruesome Colorado shooting

"A Colorado judge gave law-abiding gun owners something to celebrate," the NRA tweeted on March 16. "In an [NRA Institute for Legislative Action]-supported case, he ruled that the city of Boulder's ban on commonly-owned rifles (AR-15s) and 10+ round mags was preempted by state law and STRUCK THEM DOWN."

https://www.salon.com/2021/03/23/nra-bragged-that-it-blocked-boulder-ar-15-ban-just-days-before-deadly-shooting-killed-10-people/

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Oddly, none of the news articles mention which "well-regulated militia" this asshole belonged to. I'm sure they'll get around to it.

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@22 For the most part they do not exist and when they do, as in the case of Jemel Roberson, they are murdered by the police when they show up.

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@17: "is in the thrall to a minority of extremely insecure mostly white men"

Add a dash of person of color:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-charged-10-counts-first-degree-murder-after-shooting-colorado-n1261808

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@12,

I didn't mean to come down so hard on Boulder residents. I have a lot of great friends who live there (none of them were killed or injured thankfully!) and there ARE a lot of great people.

I have found though, that not all are quite so open to progressive ideas as they'd have you believe. There is a minority who live there who have a very strict interpretation of what kind of "liberal" you're allowed to be, and they get extremely vocal and combative (and snobby) if you dare challenge that.

Despite that, I'd gladly live in Boulder again, if only I could afford it.

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I've really only spent time in Denver and Colorado City, but I assume outside of that most of Colorado is like South Park.

And those border facilities look worse than the tent camps on the Mexico side wherein people stay before heading across the border. Saw a drone video of one and it was clean as a whistle and there was even a woman sweeping between the tents with a broom! And people say these migrants are lazy? Let them in, I would gladly trade them for our tent-dwellers who have turned living in filth into a normality.

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if only Everyone had gunz
we might commence to circular
firing squads that much sooner and
lend a much-needed Hand to the Covid
who thanks Profusely the Entire
'repubican' party and its pro
bono lynchpersons from
which it came.*

*your Version
may vary

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@25: Boulder is a great town.

The prof just has a propensity to upstage anyone who provides commentary or color on a locale and trash it to bits.

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10 - Texas has a town called Gun Barrel City about 30 miles southeast of Dallas. I adopted a dog there once. The "city" has maybe three or four stoplights.

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@29,
Yeah, Gunbarrel Colorado isn't exactly a metropolis either. Though iirc, there is a neat little brewpub there.

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Why the fuck can't the neofascist RepubliKKKan-and-NRA-blindsided gun Nazis kill themselves FIRST before opening fire on everybody else?

@4 schmacky, @8 Brent Gumbo, @14, @17 , @18, and @23 xina for the WIN!

@20 Professor_Hiztory: Thank you for the gentle reminder of why I am so grateful that I don't have access to a TV or the FOX network.

@29 Morty: I'm not pointing any fingers at you personally--I just have a question to ask you professionally because as a former cop, you would know. What is your opinion about police forces across the United States "needing" plexiglass shields, rubber bullets, AR-15 military assault rifles, and pepper spray all to merely protect and serve?
Instead of defunding police forces, let's instead defund the NRA and its ties to nationwide police forces in the U.S. I'll bet by doing so the astronomically high rate of annual gun fatalities would suddenly go poof.

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@34 - The NRA filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in January and was never publicly funded anyway.

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@LavaGirl and all Aussies out there battling floods and the current siege of arachnids---you pretty much already know to do this anyway, but especially watch out for Sydney Funnel Back, Mouse, and Red spiders! YIKES!


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