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Mark Haslett Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 19 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 6429
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Posted: 13 November 2015 at 8:51pm | IP Logged | 1
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Safe travels, Robbie Moubert.
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Shaun Barry Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 08 December 2008 Location: United States Posts: 6905
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Posted: 13 November 2015 at 10:29pm | IP Logged | 2
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Well shit, Newt Gingrich just beat the NRA to it!
Newt wastes no time...
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Darren Ashmore Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 30 April 2004 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 960
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Posted: 14 November 2015 at 2:07am | IP Logged | 3
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Awful, terrible. My thoughts this morning are with the people of Paris, especially our French members and their families.
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Petter Myhr Ness Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 02 July 2009 Location: Norway Posts: 3909
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Posted: 14 November 2015 at 3:21am | IP Logged | 4
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Utterly horrible. I feel for the French people.
And once again madness in the shape of religion rears its ugly head.
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Joe Zhang Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 12857
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Posted: 14 November 2015 at 3:37am | IP Logged | 5
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Disgusting. Jihadists and their ideology is a cancer to civilization.
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Glen Keith Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 04 July 2010 Location: United States Posts: 851
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Posted: 14 November 2015 at 5:14am | IP Logged | 6
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Genuinely horrified by this. My thoughts go out to the citizens of Paris.
It's also upsetting to hear people say that this is a wake up call about Islamic terrorism. Really? The same thing was said about Charlie Hebdo, the Madrid subway bombers, and just about every incident going back to 911, and it feels like we just keep rolling over and going back to sleep until the next time.
And, unfortunately, there will be a next time.
Edited by Glen Keith on 14 November 2015 at 5:16am
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John Byrne
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Posted: 14 November 2015 at 7:10am | IP Logged | 7
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Well shit, Newt Gingrich just beat the NRA to it!Newt wastes no time... •• Imagine the pandemonium that must have erupted in that Paris theater when the shooting started. The apparent assumption by the gun lobby is that having armed civilians in the audience would produce some kind of orderly response to the attack. Every unarmed individual remaining calmly in his/her seat, ducking and covering, while the Heroes took down the Bad Guys. The scenario Gingrich suggests would most likely result in more deaths, not fewer.
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James Reese Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 18 July 2015 Location: United States Posts: 434
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Posted: 14 November 2015 at 7:51am | IP Logged | 8
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Hours before the attack Obama said ISIS was contained. I guess he thought those 50 guys had it under control.
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Michael Abbey Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 14 November 2015 at 7:56am | IP Logged | 9
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Just more evidence that radical Islam is the great evil of this generation.
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James Reese Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 14 November 2015 at 8:19am | IP Logged | 10
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Radical Islam has been causing trouble since at least 711 AD. ISIS are no different from the Moors and other Islamic factions throughout history.
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Eric Sofer Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 31 January 2014 Location: United States Posts: 4789
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Posted: 14 November 2015 at 8:21am | IP Logged | 11
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JB: "Imagine the pandemonium that must have erupted in that Paris theater when the shooting started. The apparent assumption by the gun lobby is that having armed civilians in the audience would produce some kind of orderly response to the attack. Every unarmed individual remaining calmly in his/her seat, ducking and covering, while the Heroes took down the Bad Guys.The scenario Gingrich suggests would most likely result in more deaths, not fewer."
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Yes, but more deaths would increase the percentage chance that the "bad guys" would end up dead. And as such events continue to occur, the "heroes" would get to be better and better shots, so that the number of deaths could actually DECREASE... (/sarcasm off.)
Good grief, why can't people do simple math? Or basic physics? Guns are designed to kill. Using guns = killing people with guns.* So if one wants to stop killing people with guns...
*I don't count those who are trained to use guns and know when to use them - and when NOT to use them. I include the military and most police in that group.
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John Byrne
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Posted: 14 November 2015 at 8:37am | IP Logged | 12
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On-Duty military and law enforcement personnel should be the only ones allowed to carry or even possess firearms. Unfortunately, in this Nation we have fostered a paranoia of Then against Us, where "Them" are precisely those individuals we have hired to protect us. "Who watches the watchmen?" is a mantra among the gun nuts.
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