Try to imagine being 42 years old and knowing seventy people who have been killed. Imagine being able to write down their names. Or you can just start perusing the list of homicide victims in 2011 in a place like, say, Hampton Roads. It’ll take you a while. You’ll notice a trend. Lots of white men murdering their wives and then themselves. And a lot of people with names like: Khylief Thorpe, Dontae Jamar Howard, Reginald Lamont Davis, Darelle J. Williams, Raheim Hason Stokes, Chiquita Long, and Rahkim Goodwin. Take a look at a list of the homicide victims in Phladelphia from 2011. See how long it takes you to read out their names. And then maybe you will be in the correct state of mind to read Ann Coulter’s article about gun violence control.
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Around the corner from my house, SEPTA has a repair shed at Woodland Avenue. It’s a raised foundation that takes up the 50th-49th street block.
There is a mural painted on the foundation, stretching from 50th and Greenway, and then up Woodland to 49th with the theme “Survivors are Victims Too.” It is nothing but the names and faces of homicide victims. All of them are black, all but two or three are males, and the majority are under 30.
Unsure what “the correct state of mind” would be for me to read Ann Coulter.
Right.
I suspect “the correct state of mind” required to read coulter and the other hopeless (but well paid) shills is the totally partisan somewhat paranoid state of mind frequently seen in progressive bloggo world.
According to many progressives, we must pay close attention to the shills, in order to “expose their lies”. over the 2-3 years of campaigning prior to last fall’s election, we were repeatedly warned/told of the immense power of the shills, FAUX News, etc. and how 1,000’s/millions of people were being swayed to “the dark side” and were going to vote for ROMNEY.
Utter bullcrap. this is insulting and wrong in more ways than one- the most obvious being the notion most of us are too stupid to know coulter’s a paid shill, that she’s lying most of the time.
the other myth perpetrated by all of the pundits/mainstream media was that the race was “close”. the truth is the race was never close and that most of the reporting saying so was HYPE.
Obama crushed Romney, thus proving the hype to be bullcrap and proving many “progressives” to be totally wrong about the “power” of right wing media/shills.
Yet progressives still insist on paying attention to Coulter and the rest.
Sorry, no, I’m not wasting my time.
Completely stoned?
I can’t remember ever reading AC’s utter nonsense. It’s far worse than I imagined, non-coherent, a piece of trash and filled with racist rambling and absolute mindless. I won’t compare her with anything or anyone in fear of offending the animal or person. AC is just an empty shell, filled with anger and frustration. She must be preaching to a dwindling community of right-wing nutcases. She does not comprehend the cause of domestic violence and has no heart for the abused women. I can’t believe AC is serious, it must be a pose where she is celebrating and feasting on an extensive graveyard of victims of violence.
See my diary – Guns In Texas.
The lists of homicides and gun deaths are sad.
I couldn’t even finish that hate-filled crazy screed from that harpy. It’s like there’s nothing there but rage and hate that’s been cultivated so long it can’t hear or undertand anything else. Does she do any reaearch into domestic violence? A gun in the home makes it far more likely the man will kill the woman, not the other way around.
If you didn’t make it to the end, you missed these delicious words:
“Liberals’ advice to rape and domestic abuse victims is: Lie back and enjoy it. The Times’ advice is: Get a protective order. The NRA’s advice is: Blow the dirtbag’s head off. Or, for the delicate: Resist with a gun, the only effective means to stop an attack.”
Good to stay out of the comments, too. Hideous people.
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Physical abuse in domestic violence has decreased and mental abuse has increased. The husband knows with physical abuse, his case before a judge is very weak. The attention for domestic violence seems to be succesful, however where previously the man killed his wife, it’s the woman who has suffered abuse for so long who now kills the violent spouse. The woman is not relieved in court cases for acting in self-defence of herself or her children and gets heavy jail sentences. AC doesn’t know sh*t what she is talking about.
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I read it and understand her point, but she obviously misses (willfully or otherwise) the larger point – easy access to weapons of mass destruction increases the number of people murdered. The conundrum, to me, is that the only real solution to this overall problem (drain the pond of guns) is so draconian that it would validate every wingnut’s worst nightmares. It is to me equivalent to loose nuclear material on the world stage, enough to arm every nation on earth sufficiently to wipe out a continent.
I have no viable solution, but I won’t oppose efforts – no matter how insignificant – to fix it.
The guy who knew 70 people who were killed?
The drug problem of today has a virtual one-to-one correlation to the liquor problem of the prohibition era – rivals killing each other. It’s a problem that needs solving, but our culture of gun violence goes deeper than the drug issue alone.
Most often it’s poverty, desolation and people without hope in society. Whether it’s alcohol, domestic violence, drugs abuse or a combination of these, there are always profiteers and politicians with an agenda and no vision. Perhaps I was mistaken with Francis.
But today, in Chicago at least, they are killing innocent bystanders at an even higher rate. I have some sympathy for the conservative that told me, “the best way to end these senseless murders is to give the gangbangers gun training so they can kill each other instead of spraying the whole street and missing the guy they’re shooting at.” You can’t even call it aiming when they shoot with the gun sideways so that the sights aren’t visible.
Within Coulter’s first paragraph was the phrase describing the NRA as the country’s oldest civil rights organization, so the rest of her article really didn’t matter. But what I find so interesting (and by “interesting” I mean ridiculous) is that she provides an instance where an abusive husband tears down a door and beats his wife with it. She survived and moved away, but he found her and this time he killed her, using a gun. So how exactly does that strengthen Ann’s argument? It proves to me that unstable, abusive partners don’t need guns.
I find the likes of Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh to be nothing more than posturing hate-baiters. They exist to rile people up and make money doing it. They’re actually more despicable than Wayne LaPierre, (if that’s even possible), because at least he truly believes in his cause and would probably die for it. They just want attention and this is how they get it.
Chinks is no more.
I habve really resisted reading Coulter, but I made the mistake of hitting the link. The rest of my day is now ruined. Take away the strawman arguments (liberals don’t want women to be able to defend themselves) and the contradictions (okay he did kill her with a gun but…) and the obvious hatred for her own gender (at least I think she is female) you have nothing left except vomit.
I’d think that the Coulter link would be the one least likely to ruin your day.
The other links don’t ruin my day. They may enrage me, sadden me, motivate me, etc. The Coulter link ruins my day because as long as enough people think like her, there will not be an end to the other.
I will not read that racist heifer