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This killer likes Piers Morgan and supports gun control, so...so...so there!

POSTED: Thursday, February 7, 2013, 8:42 PM

Of course it's big news when an ex-Los Angeles cop goes on a killing spree, but the Right seems particularly obsessed tonight with the horrific crimes of Chrs Dormer because....because it's a convoluted tale of policing, politics and race, because it's a killer who said nice things about Piers Morgan and who supported gun control.

Which means...what exactly?

At the end of the day he's just another American with mental health issues who had access to a gun, just like the paranoid anti-government lunatic down in Alabama, just like the many, many, many, many others before him. He was just nutty in different ways.

Ii's just more proof that we need to re-double our efforts for anything -- from background checks to a better mental-health system to banning killing mass-killing mechanisms like high-capacity magazines -- that will bring gun sanity to America,

Will Bunch @ 8:42 PM Permalink | 17 comments

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:50 PM, 02/07/2013

If you really really really truly cared about reducing murder by gun, and you don't mind occasionally infringing Constitutional rights, you would advocate for stop and frisk policies where gun violence is rampant. But you don't really really really truly care about gun violence.

— Mr. Smith

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:51 PM, 02/07/2013

Why don't you tell us a little more of what this is all about so we can make up our own minds?

— CurrerBell

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:58 PM, 02/07/2013

As if the democrats don't get obsessed with anything...Obsessed with waterboarding but hardly a peep on drones KILLING american citizens with no trial & then trying to justify it! What's worse Will, waterboarding or killer drones? Sick of gun control being the biggest issue in this country when it seems every other store in my town is shutting down. The biggest issue is the national debt. Why is it covered up that a city with a gun ban, like Chicago, had over 500 gun murders last year? Remember when people said George W. Bush was like a nazi? Well what is this drone nonsense? It's going above one's power & I'm really frightened for this country. As for Piers Morgan, he's lucky CNN hates America so much they felt the need to pick a british guy to take Larry King's spot...No Americans were qualified for the job. Maybe I should go to England & get a talk show & complain about their laws...

— Dobie Gillis

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:59 PM, 02/07/2013

Dobie, real the loooong piece I'm about to post in 10 minutes. I wrote it for you :-)

— will

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:01 PM, 02/07/2013

SPIN Willy, SPIN LIKE THE WIND!!

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/331245.php

— rudytbone

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:02 PM, 02/07/2013

There is NO cover-up of the problem in Chicago--every news medium in the country reported on it. The problem in Chicago and states like New York is that banning gun sales in the city or state does not prevent people from buying them outside the city limits or state lines and then carrying them into the banned locations, which is why we need a national policy to replace or bolster city and state laws.

— Archimedes

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:10 PM, 02/07/2013

His name is Dorner NOT Dormer.

— fredgwynne

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:30 PM, 02/07/2013

This is a nightmare scenario for the LAPD. A former cop and highly skilled ex-military man (who specialized in intelligence) is turning what should be the predators into prey. He declared in his manifesto that they would be targeted on the clock and off duty and their families are fair game. He won't be taken alive. Scary situation.

— wokmaster

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:56 AM, 02/08/2013

very scary wok. That's why people laugh at Liberal democrats who want to disarm law abiding gun owners. Before they are confiscated, people will just lose their weapons in a canoe accident,if you know what i mean?Reminds me of an old Soviet era saying..." why do Russian women pour oil on their flower boxes? So their Kalishnakovs don't rust".

— MilesLong1

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:53 AM, 02/08/2013

Huh?

— wokmaster

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:13 AM, 02/08/2013

Best of Luck to all the officers out there trying to catch and disarm this disturbed person.

— gibby58

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:30 AM, 02/08/2013

So, two killers. The one on politically left is just a poor guy with mental health issues, and the one politically right is a paranoid anti-government lunatic.

There it is.

— jmc

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:27 AM, 02/08/2013

Are you suggesting that the paranoid anti-government lunatic ISN'T a poor guy with mental health issues? That's been our diagnosis for a long time. Maybe you should take your meds and pay attention.

— montani semper liberi

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:00 PM, 02/08/2013

What I'm suggesting has nothing to do with mental health issues. You should read my post closer and think about it. Think, McFly, think.

— jmc

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:47 AM, 02/08/2013

No doubt, he's crazy if he likes Piers Morgan. Few sane people do. That's why his ratings stink.

— PFCzar

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:34 AM, 02/08/2013

It means that in order to feed their need to feel persecuted, particularly when it is correlated to ideology, people will invent stuff. Its the media. My prayer to the fates is that I never come to learn that my son grows up to ever think to blame the media. Ever.

— Murrayman

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:41 AM, 02/08/2013

"The biggest issue is the national debt". Its not even close. There is no "issue" with the national debt. Right now, and in the foreseeable future, the market yawns at the national debt. The biggest problem is jobs, and essentially the government, other than issuing the minimum amount of assistance, has turned their back on the problem. They could end the employment problem within the year, but the bogeyman "out of control spending" fabrication is out there, haunting people. There is no spending decrees. Nothing can get past the House. "Huh?" -- wok, he's suggesting that if the government attempt to confiscate all arms, people will simply do what they must to hide them. Of course the delusion here, again, is that there is no legislation, no slippery future slope, where there will be confiscation on a mass scale. None. Doesn't exist. Its legislation to control people and to ban certain types of arms -- which has precedent in this country (see: bazooka, gatling gun, auto mags, etc).

— Murrayman

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