Good morning, gentle people - well, you knew that there wouldn't be much introspection over at Free Republic over the Tucson shooter, but you probably couldn't imagine the trip down De Nile that the Freeperati are taking.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you all to double up on iso suits, gloves, and booties. It's a mess in there.
(You can read it here, with NSFW language intact)
Here's what passes for soul-searching in Freeperville:
Not "Should we quit screaming hate at public servants?", but rather "This wouldn't have been so bad if numerous people in the crowd had pulled out their own handguns and started blazing away!"
Let's face it, if this had been a Republican event-VANITY
Me | 1/8/11 | self
Posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 8:43:23 PM by SonofReagan
If this had been a Republican event in Tucson today there would have been just one death, the gunmen. Several in that kind of a crowd would have pulled their weapons and aeriated him immediately.
Leftists! You started this war and one of your own contiunued it today.
1 posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 8:43:23 PM by SonofReagan
You're not a son of Reagan, you're a son of a b**ch - and a stupid one, at that. This isn't a freaking movie. If five people pull handguns in a crowd of people and attempt to shoot one of them, two things will happen:
- More then half the shots fired will miss, hitting bystanders, and the other would-be heroes.
- The bullets that do hit the shooter will over-penetrate and hit bystanders, and the other would-be heroes.
But hey - it works in the movies, so what the hell.
To: SonofReagan
Ditto that...especially here in Texas!
5 posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 9:10:23 PM by NYTexan
Someone stole your brain and replaced it with a ditto machine.
"And posting 'Me, too' like some brain-dead AOL'er"
To: NYTexan
Democrat or Republican, here in IN the thumbstraps going off would have sounded like popcorn.
8 posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 9:19:10 PM by tumblindice (Henry Fonda won a Bronze Star, his daughter won our contempt)
And the bodies hitting the ground would have sounded like a platoon dropping their duffle bags on the tarmac.
To: SonofReagan
I have attended five Tea Party events; first one, concealed carry, the rest open carry.
Always got a positive response, and usually an admission of carrying themselves.
I don’t know if no one else would have been wounded, but I can guaran-damn-tee you the perp wouldn’t have survived.
10 posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 9:23:36 PM by IYellAtMyTV (Workday Forecast--Increasing pressure towards afternoon. Rum likely by evening.)
Check the handle - I imagine he does a lot of yelling. At his TV, at clouds, at kids on his lawn... Rum will do that to ya. This imbecile needs to have his CCW permit folded until it is all sharp corners and inserted up his ditto-hole.
To: SonofReagan
Can you imagine what would have occurred had this been Sarah Palin? Outside of the jokes that would have been made of course. They are quick to blame the Tea Party, who are as docile as 55 yr old white folks that the MSM bill as terrorists. What worries me is that some smart ass Liberal Attorney will have this guy change his story and have him confess to being on the Tea Party payroll. With the current AG I have a greater worry that something will be covered up.
21 posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 9:45:58 PM by Bringbackthedraft (The candidate they smear and ridicule the most is the one they fear the most.)
Of course, there's the occasional Freeper that is suddenly very sensitive:
To: SonofReagan
Maybe it's just me but the bodies of the dead aren't even cold yet. There will be time for a more sober analysis later perhaps. The tone of this just seems a bit harsh this soon after a 9 year-old (and 5 others) was blown away.
Like I said, maybe it's just me.
3 posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 9:05:32 PM by muir_redwoods (Obama. Chauncey Gardiner without the homburg.)
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To: muir_redwoods; SonofReagan
It’s not just you. This kind of crap makes us all look bad. Would not be surprised if it the thread shows up on some other site.
14 posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 9:35:56 PM by NucSubs
Imagine that.
Next up - the original shooting reaction thread (what the mods didn't scrub, anyway).
It's so predictable so see the Freeperati scurry away from the fruits of their labour.
Their "reasoning" goes like this:
"This couldn't possibly be our fault. Just because we constantly talk about being in a war and the Government being something that needs to be gotten rid of, describing the political opposition as traitors and America-haters, and watering the tree of liberty with blood doesn't mean that any of this is our fault. We was just funnin'."
Well, I'll concede that you guys were really serious about making government smaller - one Democrat at a time.
Next step of illogic - "This is all your fault!"
To: tcrlaf
Prayers up.
I think we all know who the MSM will blame for this.
3 posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 12:33:01 PM by jazminerose (o)
See? It's not the shooter's fault.
It's the dreaded Em Ess Em's fault.
To: tcrlaf
sounds really bad.
Has La Raza declared open war?
4 posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 12:33:32 PM by GeronL (How DARE you have an opinion!!)
It's the Messicans' fault!
To: tcrlaf
Kristalknacht.
11 posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 12:35:19 PM by null and void (We are now in day 718 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
It's the Jews' fault!
To: jazminerose
The left is pissed at this Rep. for defecting and voting against Pelousy and some of her stupid ideas.
14 posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 12:36:40 PM by jessduntno ("'How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think." - Adolph Hitler)
It's "The Left"'s fault!
(bonus Hitler quote)
To: jazminerose
whoever it was, this will result in a call for ‘more gun control’.
God be with her.
16 posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 12:36:49 PM by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
It's gun control advocates' fault!
To: tcrlaf
Immediate prayers to her. This does not sound good. Prayers to her family too. Even if McCain comes on TV right now and says that this lady needs prayers, I will support him of this but that is it for McCain.
19 posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 12:37:41 PM by napscoordinator
It's McCain's fault!
To: darkangel82
OK I’ll jump the Shark.
When Hairy said the Tea Party will die, is this what he was talking about. Some sort of tragic event to blame on TPM?
40 posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 12:44:30 PM by Marty62 (Marty 60)
It's Harry Reid's fault!
To: Marty62
I also worry the gunman may be tied to the Mexican drug gangs; remember the Mexican border at Nogales is only a few short hours’ drive south from Tuscon.
41 posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 12:44:31 PM by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
Did we already do the Messicans?
To: tcrlaf
Did she vote for or against Nanzi for minority chief? What are her stands on immigration?
46 posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 12:46:12 PM by Mamzelle
It's Nancy Pelosi's fault!
To: tcrlaf
Prayers up for all. Awful.
My first thought on motive? The updated Weather Underground/SDS/assorted other bomb-throwing radicals aiming to pin it on the tea party.
50 posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 12:48:08 PM by bootless (Never Forget. Never Again. (PursuingLiberty.com))
It's the Weather Underground's fault!
(They're throwing bombs - all the way from 1967. Helluva arm on that pitch, huh?)
To: Marty62
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They are angry but they have RESEPCT for the rule of law and this wouldn’t be right.
As for feeling bad for a baby killing adovcate and other vile things ... one less doesn’t upset me. If I had lived during HItler’s time, I would also not be upset when he took his own life. I just can’t FEEL BAD for vile people. I won’t physically harm them but again, I don’t FEEL BAD for vile people when BAD things happen to them.
54 posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 12:48:35 PM by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
And here's the crux of the biscuit:
I think you're a vile person. and I would feel terrible if someone shot you in the head.
That's the basic difference between people like you and people like me.
You want people dead, but you're too much of a coward to do it yourself.
If someone you inspire to violence does it for you, you can shrug and say "Too damned bad, but you got what you deserve".
You're a piece of dung masquerading as a human.
To: null and void
Wouldn’t be the first time. Wonder which DU user name the assailant used?
56 posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 12:48:48 PM by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
It's Democratic Underground's fault!
To: tcrlaf
Prayers Up for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and family and friends. This is terrible.
Suggestion to LE...
Get info on the shooter, out to the public quickly.
I do not want this type of activity, by the shooter, to become a trend.
63 posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 12:51:49 PM by no-to-illegals (Please God, Bless and Protect Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
That ship has sailed.
To: floriduh voter
Gunman’s name will not be released if they are "undocumented" or one of those criminals, I mean terrorists.
eh? They haven't ruled out terrorism yet???
65 posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 12:52:04 PM by null and void (We are now in day 718 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
It's the Mooselimbs' fault!
(I wondered what had been keeping them)
To: null and void
I’m hazard a guess that the left sacrificed her to forward their agenda.
Seems likely.
Does Obama have an alibi?
68 posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 12:53:45 PM by Doe Eyes
And of course - as always - Obama's Fault.
The rest here. Click through if you have the stomach for it.