In the Face of a Horrific Shooting Rampage,
Heartbroken Prague Mayor Speaks Pragmatic Truth
Hot Air,
by
Beege Welborn
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
12/21/2023 10:49:24 PM
This afternoon a university in beautiful, magical Prague descended into unfathomable hell on earth. A deranged lunatic – a domestic terrorist by any measure – murdered his father, brought the rifle to the university he attended – Charles University – and laid siege to fellow students and people on the streets. Terrified students cowered on ledges behind balcony parapets… …or leapt from them to the balconies below. Others barricaded themselves in classrooms, hoping to survive the gunman’s assault, and then waited for an evacuation by police or an “all clear.” When he was finally “eliminated,” as Czech police phrased it, 14 precious lives had been snuffed out,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 12/22/2023 12:05:48 AM (No. 1622067)
Because we refuse to acknowledge that the problem is not guns, but people. Society that eschews norms, standards, guardrails, mutual respect in disagreement, the word 'No', personal responsibility, etc - all the 'glue' that allows us to cohabitate peacefully. We've decided against all that.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
konocti95 12/22/2023 3:46:44 AM (No. 1622088)
Eighty years ago this was a non-story and today entire villages disappear in Ukraine without anyone's notice. Love your family and your neighbors.
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chumley 12/22/2023 6:35:15 AM (No. 1622123)
Just more evidence of the cloud of evil that has engulfed the planet for the last 25 years or so. It affects all of us, but it affects the weakest among us the most. We cant defeat it. The best we can do is defend ourselves and those we care about from those weak ones, and hope the cloud goes away soon.
In my lifetime I have never seen such evil permeating all facets of life. Growing up, there was only one time my dad brought out the guns and showed my older brothers how and when to use them, and that was during the race riots of the late 1960's. Now, I am always armed and so are my adult children. The gun gets picked up on the way out of the house just like car keys.
Evil has always flourished in war, but this is different. It is flourishing in places that are not at war as well. Someday this will be over and I hope I'm here to see it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Venturer 12/22/2023 7:59:03 AM (No. 1622167)
There goes the myth that these things only happen in America.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bpl40 12/22/2023 8:05:27 AM (No. 1622174)
The liberty and blessings of a modern, free society are like fire. It has it's benefits but also it's dangers. The solution is not to take away the freedom of the mass of people but have rules, awareness and education which will minimize the damage. Unfortunately, the most effective weapon - traditional family values, morality and belief in God (by any name) developed by our ancestors are going out of fashion. THAT rather than guns and gunmen is the real killer.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
seamusm 12/22/2023 9:13:11 AM (No. 1622210)
Many such deranged murderers identify themselves in advance - often via social media. This would be a perfect place for AI to identify and warn the police so as to head off mayhem. While I deplore social media's use of blocking or hiding 'wrong, usually non-liberal' viewpoints, I cannot see anything wrong about taking an actual threat of violence and stopping it in advance.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 12/22/2023 10:12:41 AM (No. 1622246)
The publicity makes this sort of notoriety attractive to the insane.
It is the MEDIA COVERAGE that is the root cause.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
BarryNo 12/22/2023 10:19:08 AM (No. 1622254)
Americans may have more guns, but fewer crimes per gun owner. The criminally insane will always find ways to arm themselves, to commit the mayhem they deeply desire, to justify their exhistsnce. Clubs, knives, axes, cars, bombs... They desire first to sow terror, then gleefully deny the pleadings of their victims.
I would rather meet them head on, than hide and give them the satisfaction of power over me. Even as they waltz along with their "God-gun", I would hunt them, looking for the opportunity to let them know their arms and "safe space" hunting grounds provide them no absolute defense.
If I am armed, I might have a better chance to survive.
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Imagine what he could have done had he been armed with a "semiautomatic handgun." And why did we never hear from our news media about that 14-year-old girl in Russia?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 12/22/2023 10:46:03 PM (No. 1622608)
Re #4. Remember the guy in Norway, Anders Breveik, who slaughtered 70 people at a youth camp with a Glock pistol and a rifle. Nobody in the camp had a firearm and went to their deaths like sheep in a slaughterhouse.
“From my cold, dead hands”. Molon Labe.
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