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Definition of importance in English:
noun[mass noun]
The state or fact of being of great significance or value: the importance of a good education an issue of great importance
More example sentences
- I want to write. I want to be able to spend a day doing nothing of any real importance.
- There was no importance placed on the way you look, because that was not the way you were going to get by.
- Most buildings of importance were pulverised and much of the city is still a ruin.
significance, momentousness, import, consequence, note, noteworthiness, substance, value;
seriousness, graveness, gravity, weightiness, urgency
power, influence, authority, sway, weight, dominance;
prominence, eminence, pre-eminence, notability, worth, account;
prestige, high rank, status, standing, stature, superiority, mark, fame, renown, greatness, grandness
informal clout, pull
full of one's own importance
- Having a very high opinion of oneself; self-important: the butler was a gentleman full of his own importanceMore example sentences
- He accused local Councillors of not having a clue and being full of their own importance.
- Some were engaging, others pompous, and yet others far too full of their own importance.
- They don't need some literary twit full of his own importance to tell them 'You're too common to describe the world for yourself; better let me do it for you.'
Early 16th century: from French, from medieval Latin importantia, from important- 'being of consequence', from the verb importare (see import).
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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
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"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few." So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line of Shunryu Suzuki's classic. In a single stroke, the simple sentence cuts through the pervasive tendency students have of getting so close to Zen as to completely miss what it's all about. An instant teaching on the first page. And that's just the beginning ...
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When Shunryu Suzuki Roshi's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind was published in 1972, it was enthusiastically embraced by Westerners eager for spiritual insight and knowledge of Zen. The book became the most successful treatise on Buddhism in English, selling more than one million copies to date. Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness is the first follow-up volume to Suzuki Roshi's important work. Like Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, it is a collection of lectures that reveal the insight, humor, and intimacy with Zen that made Suzuki Roshi so influential as a teacher.


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Jack Thompson Still At It
Threatens Gabe Newell Over School Shooter Mod
by exterminat
©2011 Nicholas Laborde
I'll cut to the chase: we all collectively dislike Jack Thompson.
No matter what walk of life you come from, no matter how you were raised, no matter how little of a gamer you are, we as the gaming public have grown to completely disdain this man.
But don't worry, guys and gals, he's still around.
You may recall my article reporting on the development of a school shooting mod for Half-Life 2, School Shooter: North American Tour 2012.
Well, Mr. Thompson, disbarred for life, has taken it upon himself to correct this mistake, by all means available to him, going so far as to threaten Gabe Newell.
Here is his letter in full.
You either know or should know that the more moral midgets who run Checkerboarded Studios have created a mod for your company's Half-Life which they call School Shooter: North American Tour 2012. This mod is a full-blown Columbine massacre simulator which cannot function without your company's assistance and acquiescence.
Attached herewith is a letter from FHE-ASAP that expresses their, my, and others' concerns about this Columbine massacre mod. As you either know or should know, your Half-Life murder simulator was obsessively played, and thus became a training aid, for a) teenaged Robert Steinhauser, who authored at Erfurt, Germany, the worst school shooting massacre in European history, and b) Seung-Hi Cho, who authored at Virginia Tech University the worst school shooting massacre in world history. As to the latter, the sources of this information are the Washington Post and the New York Times. Now some sociopaths have made reprises of Erfurt and Virginia Tech far more likely.
Given the fact that your company has the technological ability to stop the operation of School Shooter, you must undertake steps immediately to do so.
Speaking for myself alone (for now), you have until five o'clock pm Eastern standard time this Friday, March 18, 2011, to shut down this public safety hazard I predicted years ago this school massacre game would arrive. I hate being right all the time.
Regards, Jack Thompson"
Now… really?
He just did that.
This is also the man who tried to link the Virginia Tech shooting to video games, and it was found that it had zero connection to them.
Ol' Jack also claims that copies of this "letter" were sent to the mod developer, Checkerboarded Studios, along with copies for the FHE-ASAP [the Florida Higher Education Alliance for Substance Abuse Prevention], the United States Secretary of Education and many "significant others."
We, the gamers, made sure this man would go away and never do this nonsense again.
But here he is, acting like he is making any sort of difference.
The only thing he'll get out of this situation at most is a complimentary hat from Valve.
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2 terrorists arrested in Himachal
A Chinese pistol was recovered from their possession and the terrorists were being interrogated by the police.
Shimla: Two suspected Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists, masquerading as labourers, were arrested by the Himachal Pradesh Police in Kotla area in Kangra district of the hill state in the wee hours today.
The two, hailing from Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, were identified as Jameed Ahmed, aged 35 years, and 20-year-old Gulam Nabi, ADGP (CID) ID Bhandari said.
The two ultras were posing as labourers when they were caught by the police at Kotla in Nurpur sub-division, he said.
They came to Himachal Pradesh last month and planned to stay in the state till April next year, he said.
A Chinese pistol was recovered from their possession, the ADGP said adding the terrorists were being interrogated by a joint team of Himachal and Jammu and Kashmir Police.
Jameed was suspected to be the district commander of Hizbul Mujahideen in Doda while Nabi was his associate, he said.
Both of them tried to conceal their identities and tried to mislead police by giving wrong names and addresses, the ADGP said.
A case had been registered against them under various sections of the IPC and the Arms Act, he said.
Security has been beefed up in the hill state in the wake of the arrest of two suspected terrorists.


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Today KDNK starts a local, month-long series about the history of the Valley. We've hired a new news reporter to help tell you some of the untold, bigger picture stories that affect Carbondale and the Valley as a whole. His name is Mathew Katz. News Director Conrad Wilson sat down with Katz to discuss what exactly we'll be bringing you over the next few months.


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Everyone benefits from eating more fruits and vegetables every day. Fruits and vegetables are nutrient all-stars, packed with naturally occurring antioxidants, phyto-nutrients, vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber, water and complex carbohydrates. Research has shown...
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For some, nothing but a squiggle of mustard passes muster. For others, the pile of toppings looks like a hot mess—the good kind. When it comes to hot dog condiments, there is no right or wrong. There are, however, myriad creative and tasty complements. Before we begin making mouthwatering matches, let's take a moment to reflect on the origin of condiments.Read More
We want to help you get to know your steak. There's no time like the present. The fact that we are approaching the unofficial kick-off to grilling season only raises the steakes. In the following steakeout, we surveil the quality, cut, and appeal of every steak in the Trader Joe's label. And to get you good and fired up for grilling season, we've outlined straightforward steps that make strides toward successful steak—however you like it.Read More
The soul of the Grilled Cheese Sandwich—cheese. Glorious cheese. From flowing to crumbling, and fresh to funky, there exists an intricate matrix of cheeses for sandwich grilling. It's not a question of right cheese or wrong cheese, rather it's an answer to what kind of character...Read More
While a professional cupper may give rank to acidity, and a casual sipper may talk about a brew's "bite," they are describing the same thing—coffee character. There are many factors that influence how coffee expresses itself in your cup. These include cultivar, micro-climate, harvesting techniques, processing, roasting, even your own brewing methods. Since the nuance is so expansive, we're narrowing our focus to two simple yet important criteria—geographic origin and roast—of Trader Joe's coffees to help you identify what kind of characters with which you'd like to fill your cup...Read More
In case you didn't know, Joe's loves potatoes. Shouldn't be surprising—who's ever heard of a tater hater? We love them because they're versatile, ready to pair with almost any protein, or another vegetable. Potatoes are also exceptional vehicles for other flavors; and they're tasty all by themselves. To top it all off, they're inexpensive… need to feed and fill a bunch of people? Potatoes! Given the span of spuds we offer in our stores, we'd like to shed more light on them (figuratively speaking only—they're classified as nightshades for a reason). And so, we thought a Guide was in order. Read on to become rooted in our regular selection of starchy, all-purpose, and waxy potato varieties. We promise, you won't have to dig too deep to discover helpful preparation suggestions, along with some totally tuber-ular recipes...Read More
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in the night, in the myths
I tell myself, there is a secret
haunt, a cave of darkness
where my heart wanders,
sometimes in fear, sometimes
in wonder, that organ
being so dessicated one is akin
to the other, really
my battered consciousness
is etched with cryptic pearls
of illusion even as
there is a wealth of
bright reality above
there is no dearth, here,
of wariness, but the riddles
cannot be solved by
what anyone has promulgated
before, at least to this point
of my dissatisfaction
I am double Leo, daughter
of the sun, yet I cannot, will not, be
carved away from this cave of
night, though I kick and
scream at the stark
injustice of the blight
even knowing how I become
blind and amoeba-like
in the day
I draw darkness around me
like a warm shawl, and something
inhabits one wall...creatures,
I'm sure, conceived on
some torture couch of Hell,
and always room for one
happily, though...
for in this explicit darkness
I can perfectly hear
the whisperings of
the infinite...clamoring to
make my heart
Make this cave my
sanctuary, then, for a sweet wind
blows upward from the depths
and to the dim end, no
matter the magic of grass
or noon sky, no
matter the bone-gnawing
pain of these wounds,
the dark makes death look dear
and its silence echoes
wisdom across the eons from
my fathers and theirs,
spirits of the ages
bending to
my ear
I do not fear the runic night,
for it endows my strength.
it is here that I find
the light of truth unshackled
by fashion, politics or
creed, and in that light
I can better see what
most would deem
ugly because
truth is
and because I know beyond
doubt that beauty will go
savage in these secret mountains
before the portended end, when
we crawl out on a ledge of
rock and die snapping
like wolves
--Jo VonBargen 2011
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This morning, HBO's GameOfThrones account tweeted that the HBO Shop on 6th Avenue & 42nd had a new display window featuring costumes, banners, and other items from Game of Thrones. We can see costumes belonging to Littlefinger, Cersei, what we suppose to be Jon (or a Night's Watch recruit, anyways), and what we're supposing to be Ned. Banners we can make out are Arryn, Clegane, what we assume to be the Mallister eagle, and a somewhat different design for the Greyjoys.
If you live in the area, make sure to drop by and check it out. And maybe pop inside, see what GoT memorabilia they have on sale, and maybe ask if they know about what's going to be coming to the shop in the near future…
Edited to Add: In a new post at "Not a Blog", GRRM shares some great pictures of the display, both outside and inside the store. Kingsguard armor, the Hound's helmet, dragon eggs, and more!
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Yesterday's hurling final represented the third Sunday in a row that the GAA provided edge-of-your-seat sports excitement. In yesterday's game, underdog Tipperary beat Kilkenny to end the latter's bid for five straight championships.
You don't have to be an expert on hurling to have appreciated yesterday's contest. It was a replay of last year's final in which Kilkenny came from behind to go past Tipperary to win their fourth straight title. Yesterday for much of the game it looked like it might be more of the same as Tipperary led most of the game, but they just couldn't put Kilkenny away.
Then the magic moment arrived. Last year as the game entered the final few moments Kilkenny uppped the pressure and Tipperary buckled, lost their discipline and Kilkenny went past them for victory. Yesterday, when the critical moment arrived Tipperary held firm, found an extra step and buried Kilkenny with a late flurry of scores to make the final totals look lop-sided. The champions had been dethroned.
What's amazes me is that because Tipperary had won the game with a couple of minutes to play it was actually a let down in terms of late excitement compared with the two football semi-finals played the previous two Sundays. Both of those games were in doubt until the last minute and, in fact, the Down vs Kildare game was only settled when a last second shot at goal hit the crossbar.
Thrilling, heart-stopping stuff in front of 80,000 fans and hundreds of thousands watching on TV. You can't beat it, but the fact that the GAA is an amateur organization and all the players have to earn a living outside of sports only enhances the enjoyment. Of course professional sports are exciting, but they don't provide more excitement than what this great amateur body offers.


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Federal government rejects Maine request for disaster relief
FEMA turns down ice storm helpUPDATED 8:39 PM EDT Apr 03, 2014
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has rejected a request from Maine for disaster relief money for last December's ice storm.Video Transcript
AND THERE'S SOME BAD NEWS TONIGHT FROM THE FEDS - ON MAINE'S REQUEST FOR HELP. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS REJECTED MAINE'S REQUEST TO DECLARE A DISASTER FOR DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE DECEMBER ICE STORM. THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY DETERMINED THAT DAMAGE "WAS NOT BEYOND THE CAPABILITIES OF THE STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS." OFFICIALS SAY IT'S A TOUGH BLOW. they were holding us to a standard that we would have to meet for a snowstorm, but because we didn't meet that standard, a lot of road treatment costs were not allowed, and of course that was a major expense for a lot of our communities. THE STATE DOCUMENTED MORE THAN ONE-POINT- EIGHT-MILLIO N DOLLARS IN DAMAGE FROM THE ICE STORM THAT KNOCKED OUT POWER TO MORE THAN 160-THOUSAND HOMES AND BUSINESSES AND LEFT MANY IN THE DARK FOR A WEEK. OFFICIALS SAY NO APPEAL WILL BE FILED OF THE FEDERAL DECISION.
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Volume 29, Issue 9, September 2003
Ortho-para conversion in the solid hydrogens at high pressures29(2003); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1614172View Description Hide Description
At low pressures the ortho-para conversion in and is a slow process governed by the magnetic dipole interaction of the nuclear magnetic moments,phonons being the main energy sink. As the pressure is raised to a few GPa and the Debye temperature increases substantially, the conversion energy finds itself in an area where phonon states are depleted and conversion slows down. The recent Raman and NMR experiments showed that the conversion rate in after an initial slowdown predicted by theory, increases immensely. As to solid the conversion rates have apparently not yet been directly measured under pressure. In order to explain the anomaly observed in we have suggested a new conversion mechanism, in which the basic conversion-producing interaction only initiates conversion, whereas the energy is removed by rotational excitations via the stronger electric quadrupole–quadrupole interaction. Estimated conversion rates are in good qualitative agreement with available experimental observations. Here we extend the theory to solid taking into account the differences between and in the molecular and solid-state parameters. The new libron-mediated channel is predicted to result in conversion rates for under pressure that are an order of magnitude larger than at
Structures and optical properties of solid hydrogen at ultrahigh pressures29(2003); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1614173View Description Hide Description
The electronic energy bands in structures whose primitive cell contains up to four molecules are studied with full optimization of the structures on the basis of GGA and LDA band calculations. Above 250 GPa, the eventual optimal structure obtained by the GGA or the LDA calculation is which is a layered structure with the molecular bonds lying in planes and which has a metallic band structure with no band gaps. The metallic property of the band structure remains unchanged even if the molecular bonds in the plane of the are inclined so that the atoms in the molecule lie out of the plane. The electronic bands of the structure and those of some other candidate structures are discussed in the light of recent experimental results. Effects of the occupation of electronic states on the predicted optimal structures are also studied.
Influence of vibrational anharmonicity and vacancies on the thermodynamic properties of rare gas crystals29(2003); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1614174View Description Hide Description
A statistical method is used to calculate thermodynamic properties of Ar, Kr and Xe (isobaric and isochoric heat capacity,bulk modulus,thermal expansion coefficient, interatomic distances, Grüneisen parameter), and good agreement with experimental values is observed. It is shown that at high temperature, slightly above the melting point of the rare gas crystals, an instability of the crystalline state occurs. As the temperature approaches this instability, the isobaric heat capacity and the thermal expansion coefficient show strong increases similar to the experimentally observed anomalies.


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Boston– John Hancock Retirement Plan Services (JHRPS) announced today the launch of the John Hancock Defined Benefit Program. A leader in the 401(k) industry, the addition of defined benefits to the John Hancock product roster expands its retirement plans offering. Both cash balance and traditional plans are available through the John Hancock program.
"The Defined Benefit Program broadens our retirement plan offering and is a good strategic fit. John Hancock defined benefit plans will be supported with same service and infrastructure excellence for which John Hancock Retirement Plan Service is known.* We can now provide our clients with defined benefit plans, 401(k) plans or both – depending on the unique needs of that company," said Ed Eng, Senior Vice President, Product Development. "With the passage of the Pension Protection Act of 2006, we see an opportunity to grow this freshly invigorated market," he commented further.
Early experience suggests increasing interest in cash balance plans from a range of professional-dominated organizations and small businesses. These companies are looking for ways to maximize retirement contributions for their employees beyond the 401(k). Candidates typically include:
As with the 401(k)s that JHRPS provides, the defined benefit plans will be offered exclusively through an unbundled model. Plan design and testing and actuarial support will be provided by pension consultants or third party administrators (TPAs) who constitute a key component of the JHRPS value proposition. John Hancock's Lifestyle Portfolios are expected to be a popular investment selection although the plans do offer a full investment line up.
About John Hancock Retirement Plan Services
Amongst mutual fund, life insurance companies and banks, JHRPS is ranked as the #1 provider to 401(k)s based on number of 401(k) plans managed, according CFO Magazine. (CFO Magazine 401(k) Buyers Guide Study, published May 2007.)
About John Hancock and Manulife Financial
John Hancock is a unit of Manulife Financial Corporation (the Company), a leading Canadian-based financial services company serving millions of customers in 19 countries and territories worldwide. Operating as Manulife Financial in Canada and Asia, and primarily through John Hancock in the United States, the Company offers clients a diverse range of financial protection products and wealth management services
through its extensive network of employees, agents and distribution partners. Funds under management by Manulife Financial and its subsidiaries were Cdn$410 billion (US$386 billion) as at June 30, 2007.
Manulife Financial Corporation trades as 'MFC' on the TSX, NYSE and PSE, and under '0945' on the SEHK. Manulife Financial can be found on the Internet at www.manulife.com.
The John Hancock unit, through its insurance companies, comprises one of the largest life insurers in the United States. John Hancock offers a broad range of financial products and services, including whole life, term life, variable life, and universal life insurance, as well as college savings products, fixed and variable annuities, long-term care insurance, mutual funds and various forms of business insurance.
Group annuity contracts are issued by John Hancock Life Insurance Company (U.S.A.) (John Hancock USA). John Hancock Investment Management Services, LLC, a registered investment adviser, provides investment information relating to the contract.
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Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 6:51 pm
Post subject: BFP after ectopic
Finally got my long awaited bfp last Wednesday!! After suffering an ectopic almost 2 years ago hopefully our run of bad luck is ending.
I'm 4+ weeks now, got an early scan booked for 9th May. Fingers crossed all is well. I've had no bleeding at all so hoping that's a good sign.
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Congratulations!!! I had a m/c last year which was though to be ectopic (nature took its course so I was lucky in a way, no intervention needed) for me I had intense pain prior to bleeding with the m/c and this time I had some pain (only slight) but still worried. Not long until your scan to set you mind at rest xxx


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Tim Blair
–, Sunday, December, 16, 2012, (2:59am)
"The Sandy Hook school was a gun-free zone," reports Emily Miller. "The shooting in July in a movie theater in Aurora, Colo. was also in a gun-free zone. Rather than engaging in yet another debate about the Second Amendment, perhaps we should be discussing whether security is enhanced or weakened by not allowing a school to be armed for self defense."
Good point. Further from Glenn Reynolds:
"After a shooting spree," author William Burroughs once said, "they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it." Burroughs continued: "I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military."
Plenty of people — especially among America's political and journalistic classes — feel differently. They'd be much more comfortable seeing ordinary Americans disarmed. And whenever there is a mass shooting, or other gun incident that snags the headlines, they do their best to exploit the tragedy and push for laws that would, well, take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.
There are a lot of problems with this approach, but one of the most significant is this one: It doesn't work.
Read on. Meanwhile, and not for the first time, Paul Toohey and Miranda Devine disagree with me about gun control.
The gunman who slaughtered 20 young children and six adults at a US school in Connecticut "forced" his way into the building, police say.
Lieutenant Paul Vance of Connecticut State Police said the man – identified widely in media reports as 20-year-old Adam Lanza – was not let into the Sandy Hook Elementary School "voluntarily".
One method might have stopped him.
UPDATE II. A request:
Here are two.
UPDATE III. Further reading for Jonathan, via Douglas Bass.
UPDATE IV. And more reading still for Jonathan, who is now ignoring the topic.
Have Your Say
My first thoughts about this tragedy. What if someone was armed at the first place, and even more so skilled to respond.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (03:24am)
Sun 16 Dec 12 (03:53pm)
For the love of God, Tim: if reports in the New York Times are correct, the gunman took the guns from his Mum, and shot her dead.
She was a gun lover. She was fully armed! She had half a dozen of the things.
She could not save herself.
Then he took the guns - locked, loaded, and fully licensed - and killed 20 children, and six women.
Enough with the super-powered weapons. You are one of my dearest, oldest friends, and I could not disagree with you more.
Love etc, Cx
Sun 16 Dec 12 (03:53pm)
The focus is now on the shooters mother. Apparently she was a big big gun fan who took her boys target shooting. This young man had Aspergers Syndrome...a high functioning form of Autism. In hindsight mum should have found a better way to bond with her troubled son.
There are many arguements for and against gun ownership, but a moment of anger can result in what happens all too frequently in the US. Personally I am very glad John Howard took the action he did.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (06:25pm)
I can't claim to have thought along those lines.
But it does makes sense.
Good to see Tim Blair's response to Jonathan Green.
They took away guns from 'the people who didn't do it', after Port Arthur; and the taxpayers had to foot the bill for the gun buyback, didn't they. Who owns all the guns now?
Sun 16 Dec 12 (06:38pm)
What a tragedy for those little children and teachers. I cried when I heard the story. What a shame there was no security guard with a gun to stop him.
Having said that, I believe everyone that wants a gun should have one with due process of identification. Otherwise, the only people with guns are cops, soldiers and crooks.
I totally disagreed with John Howard on the gun amnesty. Can't imagine crooks lining up to hand in their guns and usually after a moratorium like that more guns end up on the streets!
Sun 16 Dec 12 (06:40pm)
How can it be claimed "she was fully armed"?
Isn't "fully armed" going about with weapons on your person?
Was this gun owner doing that?
Here come the experts - they Know these things - they Know.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (06:43pm)
In fairness the mother probably wasn't expecting her son to open fire. Had a man in a balaclava entered her place in the night I'm sure it would have ended badly for him, rather than her.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (07:26pm)
OK Caroline, seeing that you feel so strongly, write a statute and design a successful legislative campaign that will forever prevent any similar atrocities. Dream on.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (08:26pm)
For the love of God, Tim: if reports in the New York Times are correct, the gunman took the guns from his Mum, and shot her dead.
So maybe they should ban full time carers of disturbed, mentally ill children from having unsecured guns in the home?
Mon 17 Dec 12 (02:48am)
You don't need professionals.
Incidentally, this is another one for Jonathan Green. From Ocala, Florida, in mid-July. As the video shows, two criminals were 'brought down' by an armed bystander, though perhaps not in exactly the way Jonathan meant. However, the point of an armed bystander protecting unarmed innocents from armed villains is clearly made.
Other points from the video: the unarmed patrons, though vastly outnumbering the crims, immediately became submissive and compliant; until faced with armed resistance the crims were brazen and aggressive; once faced with a gun and someone prepared to use it, the crims couldn't get out of there fast enough, literally tripping over themselves in their haste; the police could only respond after the crims had left.
Mon 17 Dec 12 (04:37am)
Caroline, he shot his Mom while she was in bed. It is reported that he had Aspergers. Can syndromes be banned?
Mon 17 Dec 12 (06:01am)
SSimon & Habib - that elderly gent with his small auto pistol (looks like a .22 or .32 to me) certainly made short work of those two thugs. Good to see.
Mon 17 Dec 12 (08:34am)
@Deborah Leigh
"Caroline, he shot his Mom while she was in bed. It is reported that he had Aspergers. Can syndromes be banned?"
No but guns can. Esp guns in the home of syndrome affected sons.
Mon 17 Dec 12 (11:55am)
Simple Simon, thanks for that. Excellent work that man.
In a country of 300+ million, it's inevitable to find more than a few crackpots, nutjobs, and those otherwise living in their own screwed-up reality. Sadly, when their inner demons come calling, access to firearms makes little difference.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (03:50am)
Sun 16 Dec 12 (10:17am)
You're exactly right.
Timothy McVeigh didn't use a gun either.
Although I agree the citizen ownership of assault rifles is not right, hunting rifles, shotguns and handguns should be legitimate weapons of self defence and/or hunting.
The woman in this particular case may have benefited from being so equipped.
And Howard's laws went way too far in banning semi auto shotguns. None were used in Port Arthur, or in any other similar crimes in Australia, and the anti-gun lobby simply used that tragedy to push their barrow as hard as they could.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (11:25am)
The ABC is running on overdrive with this issue. No surprises there. Especially on ABC1's main nightly news broadcast and all of ABC1's ancillary current affairs programs.
Nigerian school massacre recently - 26 dead - nothing on ABC1's main nightly news bulletin.
Syrian school massacre - 30 dead, including 29 students - nothing on ABC1's main nightly news bulletin. And this was just after their nightly wailing for every single Palestinian child killed by evil Israelis just days before.
It's like I've always said, it's not an issue about who or how many die for these bleeding-heart Leftie frauds, but solely an issue about who kills them. And, in that, this Connecticut tragedy was made to order.
It seems that the only way for the developing world dead to register with these hypocrites if for them to be killed by so-called 'extreme' weather events. Then, and only then, when they can be exploited for use in climate-change propaganda, are they then deemed worthy headline material.
I'm for sensible gun control.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (02:04pm)
Howard's laws went way too far in banning semi auto shotguns
I am not a shooter but you are 100% correct Ant. I cannot see the logic in Howards anti gun stance, not only did he disarm innocent people, he stopped our country's supply of pre-trained soldiers in the event of an attack.
Mon 17 Dec 12 (02:58am)
On the correlation (or lack thereof) between gun ownership and gun murders I just provide the following.
There are issues with the statistics (there always are), but the point is clear: there is no simple correlation between firearm ownership and firearm-related murders.
Out of interest, I have highlighted 'peaceful' countries with high ownership.
Firearm ownership (per 100 residents), top 15:
Yemen (54.8)
Switzerland (45.7)
Cyprus (36.4)
Saudi Arabia (35)
Iraq (34.2)
Finland (32)
Uruguay (31.8)
Sweden (31.6)
Norway (31.3)
France (31.2)
Canada (30.8)
Austria (30.4)
Germany (30.3)
Firearm homicide rate (per 100,000 of population), top 15
South Africa (74.5748)
Colombia (51.7683)
Thailand (33.0016)
Guatemala (18.5)
Paraguay (7.3508)
Zimbabwe (4.746)
Mexico (3.662)
Belarus (3.31)
Barbados (2.9963)
Uruguay (2.5172)
Lithuania (2.2463)
Slovakia (2.1659)
Cote d'Ivoire (2.068)
Mon 17 Dec 12 (05:30am)
Simple Simon:- The US Gun murder rate is 11 times that of Australia regardless what statistics you choose to use. Do you think that would be the case if not for the Second Amendment? This is freedom taken to rediculous extremes to the point where actual freedom is curtailed. Land of the free, don't make me laugh.
Mon 17 Dec 12 (10:26am)
"Timothy McVeigh didn't use a gun either." True, but the possession of a handgun was one of the reasons resulting in him being detained according to this source:.
"Shortly after the bombing, while driving on I-35 in Noble County, near Perry, Oklahoma, McVeigh was stopped by Oklahoma State Trooper Charles J. Hanger from Pawnee, Oklahoma. Hanger had passed McVeigh's yellow 1977 Mercury Marquis and noticed that it had no license plate. McVeigh admitted to the police officer (who noticed a bulge under his jacket) that he had a gun and McVeigh was subsequently arrested for having driven without plates and illegal firearm possession; McVeigh's concealed weapon permit was not legal in Oklahoma".
But for that he may have gotten way with a traffic infringement ticket.
Mon 17 Dec 12 (02:35pm)
Boy TonyN, how do you get so many feet in the same mouth?
So if Timothy McVeigh didn't have a gun, he could well have gone on to build more and bigger bombs. But because he did, he got caught!
And that's a reason for more gun control why?
The majority of people arnt calling for the banning of all weapons but the banning of semi automatic weapons, I dont understand what the problem is with this (In theory). Citizens would still be able to carry weapons to protect themselves. But at least the chances of a madman getting there hands on a semi automatic weapon would be less which would mean even if they did attack there would in all likeihood less deaths. The problem is that the right to own thes eguns is so entrenched in US society that I can see serious confrontations and bloodshed if they try to take them away.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (03:52am)
Sun 16 Dec 12 (10:23am)
You come from Sydney and you make a statement that stupid?!
How many crims in Sydney have access to semi-autos?
Answer...all of them dumbarse.
Criminalising semi-autos has simply left the law abiding less well armed than the crims.
Not a good outcome.
No deterent for massacres whatsoever.
Well done Mr Howard.
Well done do-gooders.
Please continue with the cultural rot.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (10:28am)
Pretty much any pistol which isn't a revolver is a semi-automatic gun, as are any shotguns which aren't single shot or double barrelled.
That kind of ban would be the sort of knee-jerk opportunistic reaction we went through here with Howard.
I see Rupert Murdoch is pushing that argument in the USA. As Glenn Reynolds has asked, what kind of guns do his body guards carry, and why is he entitled to the protection they offer when he thinks the non-elite should not?
Sun 16 Dec 12 (11:00am)
Semiauto firearms have been around now for more than a century, and they don't spoil if they're kept on the shelf, so they're not going away any time soon. Unless, perhaps, you have a working magic wand to send them all away.
I understand the desire in some to restrict/prohibit semiauto weapons (or bad chocolate, for that matter), but in real life it wouldn't make any noticeable difference.
- Criminals are prohibited from owning any firearms, but they don't seem to have any trouble getting and misusing them. You can't keep illegal drugs out of maximum-security prisons, for crying out loud.
- Semiauto handguns are *easier* to make than, say, a revolver, and full-auto weapons are even easier to make. A high-school shop, or decent hobbyist garage setup could turn either out in moderate quantities during off hours.
- Someone with a revolver and a pocket full of speed loaders could easily have done what the killer did at Sandy Hook. Most people just don't think of something simple like that. Well, most people wouldn't think about doing something like that in the first place.
Consider the Bath, Michigan elementary school mass murder. When it was over, 38 students, 2 teachers, 4 other adults, and the killer were dead. Oh, this happened in 1927, and the killer used a couple of homemade bombs. Another bomb, using 500lbs of dynamite, was found in the school basement, unexploded; it could have been even worse.
If someone wants to do something horrible, they can surely find a way. The problem is intent to do harm, after that, any given means is 'way down list in importance. Prohibition may made some feel good about "doing something", but it very often has no real effect in solving a problem.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (11:05am)
Hey Alpha, we KNOW the crims will still have them. We want to stop the 18 year old disaffected mentally unbalanced geeks getting their hands on them.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (11:51am)
Hey alpha, how many full time crims are going around massacring innocent people. It's not full time crims who walk into schools and shopping centres and massacre people you moron. Let the crims murder each other. Good riddance to them all. No deterrent for massaces? Have I missed something you ignorant dumbarse because I havent heard of any massacres in Australia since the ban. Steveh spare me the if someone wants to do it they will find a way BS, that being the case why don't we make grenades, bazookas and every other weapon available to the public, after all looneys will find a way anyway so why not make it easy for them.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (02:13pm)
Sid, I take it you are having a bit of a laugh there.
Or are you perfectly happy for criminals to have firearms so long as said criminals are not 18, disaffected, or geeky?
If so, you're nuts. Murder is murder, whatever the criminal's age or demeanour. (And yes, murder IS illegal, always, even when it's done with a tyre iron.)
Sun 16 Dec 12 (04:41pm)
Couldn't get their hands on a semi-automatic weapon?
Have you noticed that pretty much every gang shooting in Australia since 1996 HAS used a semi-automatic weapon?
Sun 16 Dec 12 (05:53pm)
Rickw, seriously what is your point, what did they use in gang shootings before 1996?, knifes. The laws werent brought in to stop gang shootings.
Mon 17 Dec 12 (04:51pm)
My point?
Criminals CAN get semi-automatic weapons post ban, but madmen CAN'T ??? You have got to be joking, or stupid !!!
A semi-automatic weapon ban to make "Australia Safer" wasn't aimed at getting guns off gangs? Atleast you seem to have some hope of grasping the absurdity of the gun-buyback.
Reynold's piece begins with an apt quote from William Burroughs, a paranoid heroin addict who, I believe, shot his wife in the head while playing William Tell.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (04:08am)
If only we had laws against lunatics slaughtering innocent children, this whole mess could have been averted.
Remember when you grandfather and your great grandfather who could own any gun they wanted without registering it or storing it safely used to go on on mass shooting sprees? I guess it was a different age. It's a a miracle they survived to reproduce.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (04:30am)
The bodies were not even cool and already the control freaks were screaming about the NRA and needs to ban all firearms (which takes a complete dump on the Constitution as not only the 2nd gets killed but several others, and hey they hate the silly thing to begin with...too full of "negative rights" telling the gov't things it can't do to you (Our current President's position on the document he is a scholar of) so trampling all over Rights to confiscate the millions upon millions of firearms is no small obstacle. BTW, gun owners literally outnumber the military and well the added militaries of several nations put together. Oh, and some of us can make fully automatic firearms from scratch very damned easily.
We need armed teachers like Israel. There is a reason Pallys explode themselves instead of mass shootings. They never get many if any shots off before someone shoots them and stops the attack.
Meanwhile in China, a man stabbed 20 kids in a school. See gun control stops mass murder...or something.This guy for instance or even starting from all scrap with a simple pattern (Brit Stens were made in bicycle shops by the Resistance during WWII) and there are books showing how to make one with all hand tools.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (04:42am)
Sun 16 Dec 12 (10:29am)
How would you feel if it had been one of your children that was killed - I think it would be safer living in Afghanistan than the good old US of A.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (11:09am)
You'd feel horrible, of course, like any other normal person.
Past that point, however, you've left the tracks, reality-wise.
The risks of dying by violence in Afghanistan are hugely greater than in the US. Statistics showing otherwise conveniently ignore things like terrorist bombings and IEDs.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (11:09am)
Good on you champ, much better to have a system where an armed teacher can take down an attacker than to prevent access to assult weapons to people who have no need for a firearm of that nature.
The British aren't coming back mate, you can breathe a little easier on that front.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (11:09am)
well Ms. SusieQ, if it were my Aunt (a teacher) I'd be highly mad as she knows how to shoot and could have protected the children maybe but is prevented from doing so by the fact schools are "gun free zones" which simply says "soft target" to goblins. And well Afghans have been killing girls for the crime of going to school so to put it politely, Shut Yer Yap, less ignorance will flop out.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (12:57pm)
I think it would be safer living in Afghanistan than the good old US of A.
You also thought if you planted a feather a chicken would grow.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (01:03pm)
I love a hypothetical SusieQ.
Hypothetically I have no children. I would feeeeel nothing.
Please now present your next most compelling intelligent argument substantiating your position on this public policy.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (02:40pm)
I was being sarcastic - although I might not be far off the mark. There was another shooting in a hospital - just some guy walking around with a gun - usual hohum day in the US.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (04:40pm)
Hi JP,
They started here too. One of the daily morning shows had a 'well informed' lobbyist telling us all about 'automatic handguns', and how many are in the community. She even wants to ban the far less dangerous semi-automatic handguns.
These people hoodwink the majority of the population who don't have an interest in firearms.
With reference to your link, it just goes to show what a half bottle of vodka and a little imagination can do.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (04:43pm)
You also forgot to mention armed teachers like those in the south of Thailand and the Philippines.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (04:57pm)
SuiseQ, you are a great example of those who fall for media driven 'reality'.
Here are some great examples of gun and bomb violence all over the world on a daily basis that don't make the news:
Weekly Jihad Report
Dec. 08 - Dec. 14 Jihad Attacks: 42
Allahu Akbars*: 5
Dead Bodies: 137
Critically Injured: 223
Let's talk real violent crime.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (08:31pm)
There was another shooting in a hospital - just some guy walking around with a gun - usual hohum day in the US.
Guns are illegal in hospitals, as they are in schools. Anyone walking around with a gun in a hospital is already breaking the law.
What is your point?
Mon 17 Dec 12 (05:01am)
SusieQ, it's sad that you live in fear. Let me help you b offering a one way ticket to the sandbox aka Afghanistan. You'll have to buy your burqa. Maybe you'll find security tending to a goat herder. Oh wait...they all have guns. Watch for the IED.
Mon 17 Dec 12 (06:30am)
I don't live in fear - that is the point. I'd much rather live here than in the US where any nutter could come along in an hospital or school and shoot everyone. Gun free zone - what a laugh. Everywhere should be a gun free zone. Afghanistan was just a sarcastic example.
US readers would know whether or not schools in rougher parts of the US have armed guards, senior staff or a focused police presence.
A "gun-free zone" seems more like a state of mind than anything. Wishful thinking that everyone holds the same values and mentality in regards to violence. Regardless of whether there were tighter gun restrictions, this kid was intent on destruction and could have used a few gallons of petrol to similar effect.
I hope the murderer was mentally ill. While not mitigating his reprehensible, inconceivable actions one iota, to imagine that he was sane when he did this is even worse. Only the cool, calculated atrocities committed by the Islamic Chechens at Beslan is recently comparable to the pure evil this kid visited upon the world yesterday.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (05:23am)
Sun 16 Dec 12 (11:23am)
the answers for you are:
No, there are not armed guards in our schools, even those in nasty places tend to have unarmed guards.
One school in N.O.with metal detectors had an AK tossed over the fence by gang members so a fellow member could shoot someone.
Yes, GFZs are simply a state of mind.
The Pearl Mississippi shooter was stopped by an armed teacher, who had to leave, run to his car parked far enough off the grounds to satisfy the letter of the law, unlock the car, glove box, and run back in and stop the shooter. All that time the kid was able to do as he pleased. How much less grief would there have been if the pistol was on his person and he had not had to run over half a mile to retrieve it?
And yes, the guy had mental issues of some sort, what is not clear as multiple version are still floating about. Conn. just extended a law they have that limits what others are able to do to those who are a danger to others. You can't force them to get help or it severely limits when and how you are able to do so.
If more armed people solve the problem why are there fewer mass shootings in other western countries where there are less armed people?
Sun 16 Dec 12 (05:42am)
Sun 16 Dec 12 (11:10am)
You're right. No other country has murders. Only Americans murder. The actual act of murder isn't important. Its HOW you are murdered thats important. All the studies insist on that after all. A person stabbed to death doesn't count for statistical purposes supporting the case for gun control.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (11:20am)
Because they are different cultures; some with lower violent-crime rates actually have equal or higher rates of legal gun ownership compared to the US. Switzerland and Finland, for example.
Legal ownership rates don't seem to have much, if any, correlation to homicide. US homicide rates have dropped to about half what they were in the mid 1980s, while gun ownership has remained the same or increased. Homicide rates in western europe didn't change much as various countries adopted more restrictions on legal ownership; those who are low now were similarly low before. It's a cultural thing for the most part.
Violent crime in the US is nowhere close to being evenly distributed through the population; remove the contribution from young african american and hispanic males, and the US rate is about equal to Canada's. In fact, according to StatsCan, states adjacent to Canada, with two exceptions, have slightly lower homicide rates than do their adjoining provinces. A small part of the population skews the totals 'way up. It's a cultural thing.
Mass shootings are pretty rare, given a population of nearly a third of a billion people, but you can be sure than every single instance makes the international news.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (11:42am)
A dishonest answer, little dasher. You are right to say that murders happen in other ways. But I'm sure you know full well that what Elijah was referring to was that the USA has many times the incidence of hand-gun deaths compared to comparable nations. From memory, Australia has less than 100 per year, whereas the USA has over 10,000.
The difference is culture. We aren't taught that we have to have a gun, and the law says we can if we want to. Those of us who have grown up with guns in Australia are taught to use them responsibly, whereas in the USA, having a gun is almost a status symbol. A very different culture there, which is at the heart of the problem.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (12:21pm)
What ignorant rubbish, Elijah.
Go to Switzerland where every household of able-bodied adult persons up to 50 years of age has a military automatic high power assault rifle stored AT HOME.
Switzerland has the lowest rate of fire-arm related homicide. Worked it out yet?
In country Australia, most young men and some women are trained in fire-arm use. It is a matter of great shame and withering scorn among their peers if they ever abuse that right.
Shot up signs show the the passage of an immature and untrained "townie" who has missed out on the important other passage - the rite of passage into adulthood with fire-arm training and ownership.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (12:34pm)
How about on a state by state comparison. Lets take my home state, North Dakota.
Lots of guns here and loose gun ownership laws. According to your logic, we should be some sort of murder spree capital. But guess what? North Dakota is one of the least violent states, gun or otherwise, in the Union. Compared to states with a higher amount of gun control, like Illinois or California where gun crimes are daily occurrences.
Maybe you need look at cultural issues and try to fix those. Oh wait that is hard, you'd rather just do the most ineffective thing.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (04:15pm)
Are you claiming that homicide by handgun is somehow more important than homicide by any other means? Is murder by that method more tragic and its victims more dead?,,, because that is the only rationale for claiming that we should focus on just one of the many lethal tools used to commit murder. Yet that is what you do when attempting to focus on "handgun-crime". Or "gun-crime" of any kind..
The reality of which most Australians are ignorant, is that there is no such thing as a single, distinctive "American Gun Culture". The key predictors of crime in that incredibly diverse nation are not firearms ownership, but the social and ethnic makeup of the community. A middle-class, rural, anglo-european community in the US will have comparable rates of violent crime to a similar community in Europe or Australia. In contrast, the highest rates of violent crime are found in inner-city ghettos, where ethnic gangs defend their "turf" with illegal guns purchased on the black market with the proceeds of their drug deals. If you search out the same social dynamic in Australias large cities, you will find high levels of violent crime there, too.
This is so common and universal that criminologists regard it as a no-brainer.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (05:11pm)
Want to know where a mass shooting like this could never take place?
Try a heavily African American/hispanic area like Compton, Detroit, or East LA.
First, the gunman wouldn't be allowed near the school in the first place if he was an outsider. He'd be killed.
Second, if he slipped through, he'd be shot to pieces before he got his weapon out and ready to fire.
Third, if they could assign blame, it would start a war of unbelievable violence amongst the various tribal cultures imported from around the world.
Not altogether a bad thing, but the point is it wouldn't happen where people are armed and ready to respond..
Sun 16 Dec 12 (06:37pm)
" because that is the only rationale for claiming that we should focus on just one of the many lethal tools used to commit murder. Yet that is what you do when attempting to focus on "handgun-crime". Or "gun-crime" of any kind.."
… which I didn't do, making your post a waste of time.
You've lost me. I don't want to live in a society where everyone has guns, at the ready, for any perceived threat.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (05:59am)
Sun 16 Dec 12 (02:06pm)
So you would not like to live in Switzerland or Finland, where the firearm homicide rate is minute but well over half the adult population own a gun?
No doubt you'd prefer Mexico, where gun ownership is tightly restricted, yet firearm homicides per 100,000 population are three times as high as in the USA.
And so on. UN stats on firearm deaths worldwide paint a very mixed picture. But gun control shriekers, most of whom have never handled a firearm in their life, cherry-pick the numbers that seem to suit their case and discard the rest.
Guns exist. People have access to them and will continue to do so. The only question is, under what terms?
The terms the shriekers would impose would ensure that the only civilians left with guns are criminals.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (04:25pm)
Please don't make too many assumptions about where I'd like to live AoG.
I want to live in a culture where there is next to no imperative to have guns at the ready for any perceived threat.
You can cherry pick the stats all you like but it won't make me regret that in this country we don't have a rabid gun culture.
Calling yourself AoG and your opponents shriekers reveals a lot, and it aint pretty.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (05:36pm)
So more about your feelings than the facts, Country Liberal. Understood.
There're 315,000,000 Americans and if a very small percentage are nutters, it's still a lot of people and if you extrapolated deaths per 100,000 firearms the death rate would be no different to any other nation remembering the Seppos have more guns than the next 10 nations combined.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (06:05am)
Sun 16 Dec 12 (11:24am)
The top four nations in firearms per capita are Switzerland, US, Yemen and Finland.
One is not the same as the others…
Tim, I cannot believe you are making out that the blame here resides in that no private citizen was able to be armed, and thus be capable of taking out the murderer themselves rather than the fact that a man barely out of his teens could get his hands on an assult weapon. Get a grip.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (06:42am)
Sun 16 Dec 12 (11:26am)
Possession, use and sale of cocaine and heroin are pretty much prohibited to everyone, adult or not.
How's that worked out so far?
Sun 16 Dec 12 (01:58pm)
Sorry steve, did you intend to send your response to my post? What does possession of illicit drugs have to do with unbalanced mouth breathers having access to automatic weaponry?
Sun 16 Dec 12 (10:44pm)
He's making an analogy asparagus. If prohibition doesn't work for drugs then why should it work for...have you got the drift yet?
Mon 17 Dec 12 (08:23am)
I know it is an analogy, but it was rubbish. Yes there are illicit drugs in society, but there is no data to validate that the amount of illicit drugs wouldn't increase if it was legal. This data would need to be available for that analogy to be useful. It isn't, so it's not.
However, we have the Australian example where JWH implemented a process where the quantity of assault weapons in society - similar to what was accessed by Lanza, who to that point was a law abiding citizen. So my counter point is that in certain circumstances, concerning the item in question - assault weapons, prohibition can work.
Get the drift?
From the WSJ:
"Schools nationwide have increased security measures since the shooting at Columbine. Many have installed metal detectors, developed detailed crisis plans, implemented policies to keep doors locked and accessible only by buzzer, and put teachers and staff through training on how to recognize and deal with threats.
A letter sent to Sandy Hook parents earlier this year described a new security protocol at the school. Most visitors are required to show identification and ring a doorbell to gain entry to the school's front entrance, which is locked after 9:30 a.m.
"If our office staff does not recognize you," the letter said, "you will be required to show identification with a picture ID.""
I read elsewhere and cannot now find it, that he was let into the school because they recognized him.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (06:56am)
Tim, it is a sad indictment on US society when every school would have to arm itself and create bullet proof bunkers to protect school children from gun wielding crazies. Your reasoning sounds like the US pro-gun nuts who demand access to guns to protect themselves from every other gun owning nut. I don't think William Burroughs envisaged multiple mass school shootings with military style weapons when he penned his thoughts on gun control. For the US though, unfortunately gun control has been left far too late with the horse well and truly having bolted. Ironically, this latest shooting tragedy will probably see US firearms sales soar. Nothing beats a good military assault rifle for Christmas.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (07:02am)
Sun 16 Dec 12 (11:08am)
I agree Phil.
I am amazed that there are people who argue that tighter gun controls are not the answer. Until tighter gun controls occur in that country it will continue to self-destruct. It will corrode from the inside. The argument preseneted by you Tim and other brain dead morons constitutes an arms race.
If the killing of 27 innocent people including young children is not enough to sway you from the unfortunate philosophy of 'the right to bear arms', then nothing will. You will continue to have an opinion like a religious zealot - believing in something when the blatantly obvious is staring you in the face. You want to hope your suggestion of maintaining or increasing the arms race for American civilians is defeated or you can just sit back and enjoy more massacres to come with the rest of the NRA…
Sun 16 Dec 12 (11:34am)
mr shinkick,
You might want to consider something before you go too far:
Since 1987, 39 U.S. states have adopted shall-issue CCW laws (and two place no restrictions on legal ownership).
Since adopting these laws, none of the states in question have seen increases in violent crime, and most have seen those crime rates decrease.
In contrast, increasingly-stringent gun control laws have shown, at best, to have had no effect on violence rates, and in some cases may correlate to increasing rates of violence.
What were you saying about "an opinion like a religious zealot"?
Sun 16 Dec 12 (01:24pm)
Look steveH,
If America does not disarm this will keep happening. It's like alcohol to an alcoholic. You take away the enabler and the alcohol and you are one step closer to sobriety; take away the ability of psychopaths to get their hands on guns and you take away an enabler. An arms race is not the answer. If there were no guns in their communities, do you even think they would need the sort of security you see at their schools?? It's a pretty simple concept. It is a very sad endightment on humanity that this concept is not open to you and people like you.
You seem to suggest that if guns were ubiquitous then crime rates lower?? If this is the case (and you've provided only anecdotal evidence so could I know you're telling the truth?), then maybe it is only a matter of time…
Sun 16 Dec 12 (04:14pm)
Mr Shinkick, did you actually read what steveH wrote?
No? Read it again and respond to what he said, rather than to the voices in your head.
Yep, you'll never see anyone try to shoot up a Texas rodeo, its always a "Gun Free Zone" ... until someone with a gun shows up.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (07:05am)
I agree with Miranda and Paul. Enhancing school security is not the answer. All too frequent repeats of these tragedies won't stop until the Second Amendment is changed and, over time, the quantity of automatic weapons being kept in American homes is drastically reduced. These atrocities are not being carried out by career criminals but by troubled individuals with access to automatic weapons in ordinary households. The fact is a tragedy of this scale would not have ocurred under Australia's gun laws. Ordinary folk don't keep automatic pistols in their homes.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (07:14am)
Sun 16 Dec 12 (11:26am)
so the 20 kids in China stabbed are morally superior to the children shot?
Sun 16 Dec 12 (11:39am)
Ordinary folk don't keep automatic pistols in their homes. I do
Sun 16 Dec 12 (12:57pm)
They're under the front seats of their re-birthed cars.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (06:47pm)
[quoteThe fact is a tragedy of this scale would not have ocurred under Australia's gun laws. Ordinary folk don't keep automatic pistols in their homes.]
Obviously you've never been to Bankstown or Lakemba…
Sun 16 Dec 12 (09:07pm)
Forget the Second Amendment being 'changed' - that is not going to happen this century ... In fact in recent years the intent of the Amendment has reconfirmed by the US Supreme Court - if you are interested Google and read "District of Columbia v Heller".
Sun 16 Dec 12 (10:35pm)
They don't need to change the second amendment - it needs to be removed completely. Any attempt that has ever been made to apply restrictions to weapon ownership has always been blocked by the US Supreme Court. The only way any reform will ever get past this, is for the "right to bear arms" needs to be stricken from the record completely.
And for those who say they need access to military-assault weapons for "self-defense", who do you stop there? If having access to these weapons makes the world a "safer place", then surely allowing private ownership of tanks, nerve gas, biological bombs or nuclear weapons would make it extra safe? Would you support this as the next step?
( and Tim - just what sort of weapons are you proposing that the 6 year olds should have been carrying? )
Mon 17 Dec 12 (03:41am)
Ok, for those that equate anti guns with Left Wing consider Tim's suggestion will only further increase the already over bloated size of government in America (fiscal cliff anyone). How many schools in America? How many government regulated security guards will be needed? Fancy the land of the free need to cower behind guns to feel safe going to school. As for American gun crime falling, it is still way beyond the Australian gun crime rate regardless of what they do in Lakemba. The second amendment has severely curtailed American freedom, not increased it.
Alas I think now the cat is out of the bag there's no putting it back. Fancy needing to put armed guards in kindergartens to have your children's safety ensured. Land of the free? More like living in a police state. What a joke, no wonder America is in decline with this sort of crazy thinking.
Mon 17 Dec 12 (05:07am)
take the guns away from the people who didn't do it
The usual gun lobby exaggeration rubbish. I usually support what Tim writes but get a grip, we're talking about Semi Automatic weapons here! If Semi Automatic weapons weren't being kept at home by the gunman's mother most of the 26 innocent people including 20 5 to 7 year old kids would be alive today. Single shot guns don't cause the unthinkable carnage that unfolded at Sandy Hook. Semi Automatic weapons are designed for military use to kill many people, usually enemy soldiers, not innocent civilians, nor rabbits and foxes . Single shot guns are more than adequate if you feel the need to defend yourself or if you are a hunter or sportsman and nobody is seriously saying we should ban all guns.
To SG: Thanks for your reply. Nice to get sensible comment.
To: JP Kalishek, irrelevant. Apples and Oranges mate.
To others: Take note of the Telegraph online poll. 86% say ban semi-automatic weapons. The gun lobby can make all the online noise they want but the overwhelming majority of clear minded people know what is the right thing to do. Further, at least in Australia, clear minded voters far outweigh voters in the gun lobby who get their kicks playing with lethal semi automatic weapons. Find something else to play with.
Mon 17 Dec 12 (01:25pm)
Jason, polls are not relevant to retaining essential rights, particularly when they are derive from a population which is nearly completely ignorant of the subject.
Automatic weapons are very tightly controlled in the U.S. and not commonly available (refer to 'nearly completely ignorant' above).
The term "assault weapon" is entirely a construct of the anti-gun lobby, it is nonsensical in that anything used as a weapon may be used for assault. The rifles the left seeks to ban are semi-auto rifles that function exactly as all other semi-auto firearms. They are no more or less "lethal" than any other projectile-launching device.
Reynolds goes on about gun control not working. Well, define 'working'. Today's America of unrestricted freedom to bear arms is not 'working'. Violence, incarceration rates, murder rates ...........unparalleled disaster.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (07:34am)
Sun 16 Dec 12 (10:08am)
The US crime rate is at historically low levels. Outside of black neighbourhoods, American cities are far safer than Australian cities.
You're more likely to get shot in Western Sydney than any major US city, except maybe Chicago or DC where guns are banned.
Mon 17 Dec 12 (05:46am)
Infidel Tiger, the US crime rate might be at historically low levels but it is still 11 times the rate in Australia. . All that despite what might be occuring in Western Sydney.
Mon 17 Dec 12 (10:20am)
US population is 13.78 times that of Australia. Here and here.
Mon 17 Dec 12 (12:31pm)
Mike of the shire, US rate is 11 times the per capita rate. Population got nothing to do with the rate per 100,000. I am well aware of the difference in population, no need to link it.
Punish the guilty, seize their home, jail their parents and dismiss any doctor or teacher who gave some loon's emerging madness the "benefit of the doubt" for politically correct reasons, run out of town any magistrate who let him off lightly for previous form - and leave the people who weren't there and who are not responsible be.
"they do their best to exploit the tragedy and push for laws that would, well, take the guns away from the people who didn't do it"
The past few years have demonstrated how easily the likes of Obamaccles II and his foot soldiers can slink in and implement their insidious programs of government dominance. Now more than ever ordinary people (who shot no-one) need to be independently capable of looking after for themselves.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (07:59am)
The Left conveniently forgets the knife attack in China, or for ancient history, the attacker who slew his brother with a rock.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (08:00am)
Sun 16 Dec 12 (11:23am)
Gun nuts like yourself conveniently forget to mention how many people were killed in the China attack.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (11:28am)
the largest death toll at a US school killing was a bomb.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (11:57am)
How many are dead Deborah and how many would be if the attacker had guns.
I suppose it's too convenient to just forget about the guy who shot up Melbourne's CBD a couple of years ago (incidentally, Victoria has the country's mosy nanny-ish of gun control laws). It's probably also too convenient not to notice that Australia has roughly the same rate of people murdered with a gun as the US does. Gun control laws don't prevent criminals from obtaining guns illegally.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (08:03am)
Sun 16 Dec 12 (12:14pm)
It's also too convenient for you to note that no massacres have happen since the laws came in. By the way we don't have anything like the rate of gun murders in australia as the US, it's not even close so where do you get your info from? Someone in the US is 20x more likely to die by gun then in any other western country, and 30x more likely then in Australia. You conveniently forget that gun related deaths have halfed in Australia since the laws came in.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (04:10pm)
Andrew, why include only the US in your comparison? Its firearm homicide rate is by no means the highest in the world.
Many countries that impose tight controls on civilian ownership of firearms (starting with most of South and Central America) have much higher firearm homicide rates than the USA.
Marky is right. The killer in this case got his guns illegally--he stole them from his mother, after (also illegally) shooting her dead. The Columbine shooters got their guns illegally. The shooter in Aurora, Colorado used his guns illegally--he broke Aurora's gun-control statutes by carrying guns and discharging them within the city limits.
Britain, which already imposed limits on civilian gun ownership, was the site of the Dunblane school massacre in 1996 (18 killed, including the shooter). Britain further tightened its firearms laws. In 2010, Britain had another massacre, in Cumbria (12 dead, including the shooter, 14 injured).
After a 2002 school massacre in Germany, which already had strict gun laws, the Germans made the laws even more restrictive. In 2007 Germany had another school massacre.
Laws can be broken. Laws WILL be broken by those without regard for the law.
And heavy penalties like fines or imprisonment are meaningless for an individual ultimately bent on suicide.
Sun 16 Dec 12 (11:42pm)
Aristocracy, Why include the US, because he did you idiot, and Im referring to his post. So gun laws dont stop all maasacres, who said they did, but that doesnt mean they dont work does it, there may have been 10 massacres in germany and the UK if they didnt have gun laws, how the hell would you know. You seem to be missing the point, so they got the guns illegally in the US, yeah off private citizens who with tighter gun controls wouldnt have had them in the first place. Your argument about them finding a way is nothing but a BS argument. What your saying is they will find a way so why make it hard for them. That being the case why dont we make bazookas, grenades and other weapons available, let then do a proper job of massacreing people.
Tue 18 Dec 12 (05:55pm)
Andrew - I can't remember where I read that, and it was a couple of years ago now, time and distance from the source as well as the subject in general might have clouded my memory. I'd question your own sources, though, since from what I was able to find, gun control legislation did not help or hinder the declining rate of gun-related homicide that had begun long before the legislation was introduced.
armed whackjobs( possibly after playing hours of 1st person shooters video games), as the one mentioned above love to attack children, women and unarmed folk, he surely wouldn't walk into a shooting range and try the same act of muderous cowardice there
he got his 5 minutes of fame, will live in imfamy, his name immortalized in the realms of the anti gun lobby, .
what a lowlife scum, the dreg of society, rot in hell you coward
Sun 16 Dec 12 (08:10am)
Sun 16 Dec 12 (12:19pm)
PLayed shooter games for years. 18 years in the cops (with yearly psych checks) says look somewhere other than computer games for somewhere to place the blame.
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The St. Rita Library sponsored an essay contest for St. Rita students in grades 1 through 8. The topic was "The Best Book I Ever Read" and 46 students submitted an essay on books such as The Bear that Heard Crying, James and the Giant Peach, The Help, Heaven is for Real, and Percy Jackson the Last Olympian. Twenty-five essays were selected from the group and these winners were invited to the library on April 22 to visit with author Kimberly Willis Holt. Students spent 45 minutes with the author asking questions about Willis Holt's background and experience and receiving advice on things they should do to pursue a goal such as becoming a published writer.
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Moving and flowing and churning things up, water is the quintessential symbolic image for motion and change. That's a good thing, folks. Change can be difficult, but it's natural, just like water. It's immobility that's actually strange and uncomfortable. Auden builds up a dense network of water metaphors to help him describe the way poetry can function in our sad, sorry lives.
- Line 9: Check out the strange adjectives Auden attaches to water here: it's personified as a "peasant" river and a "fashionable" quay (wharf).
- Line 17: The soul moves, see. It's always growing and changing and persisting – even when the body starts to collapse in on itself. The imagery in this line helps link Yeats's soul to his poetry, which is also described with water-like language.
- Line 38: Here's where poetry gets the metaphoric motion that Auden wants art to have: it's imagined as a river snaking through landscapes of concrete and congestion. Ever notice how trickles of water seem to emerge from nowhere in the middle of a city sidewalk? That's the sort of persistence that our speaker is talking about.
- Lines 52-53: Water isn't always a good thing: in these lines, the "seas of pity" "frozen" inside people become a potent image of failed compassion. There's something about us that makes it so darn difficult to actually care about other people – at least, that's what our speaker seems to think.
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Earlier this month, the ethics commission ruled the proposed changes submitted by Wood County are in compliance with the state's Open Meetings Act. Prosecutor Jason Wharton said the county officials wanted to wait on the committee's ruling before altering policies or procedures. A committee, which consisted of Commissioner Blair Couch, Wharton and county administrator Marty Seufer proposed the changes after concerns about compliance with the state's Open Meetings Law were raised.
During what was designated a "work session," the commissioners earlier discussed numerous items not listed on their agenda and made a number of rulings, including allocating funds to several entities without prior notification to the public. During a subsequent meeting with the commissioners, the prosecutor pointed out "a work session, where a quorum of a governing body is present and matters requiring official action by the governing body are discussed, are meetings subject to the requirements of the Open Meetings Act."
The commissioners then formed the committee and the proposed changes were submitted to the ethics commission for consideration. The committee ruled the Wood County Commission complies with the Open Meetings Act if it makes the agenda available for public viewing "at least two days prior to the meeting." Under the current schedule that means the agenda must be ready Tuesday afternoon if there is a Thursday meeting, and Thursday afternoon for a Monday meeting. The commission voted in January to hold meetings on Mondays and the first and third Thursday monthly.
"We will also be adding a line item on your agenda informing the public that correspondence including invoices, exonerations that will be acted on during that next meeting will be available for public viewing during regular office hours starting late in the day two days prior to the meeting," Seufer told commissioners. "Nothing will be added to that after the close of business on Tuesday or Thursday."
"If there is an emergency, like a grant or something that needs to be added on to the agenda, there may be special circumstances," Commissioner Blair Couch noted.
"If it falls under the new definition of emergency as outlined by the Legislature, it can be added, you just have to explain why," Wharton said.
New deadlines for invoices caused some concern for the clerk's office finance department.
"We will have to cut off the deadline a day early," county Clerk Jamie Six said. "That could cause more late fees."
"We will need to make some modifications to the current purchasing procedures to comply," Seufer said.
Six said it was the county commission's policies that "created the difficulties in the first place. Why don't you just have a standing order, like other counties do, that as long as a purchase isn't over the budgeted amount available, it goes through. You have always wanted to see all of them. You have already approved the purchase, so you still have prior knowledge and if the funds aren't there a red flag comes up in our office," Six said.
"It seems like this is more complicated than it needs to be. I'm not sure why the previous commissions did it this way. It seems like duplication," Commissioner Steve Gainer said.
Couch, the senior member of the commission, noted the commissioners have the right to request further clarification of a purchase, noting there have been issues of concern in the past.
"I'm not against changing policies or procedures, as long as we maintain checks and balances," Couch said.
"We wanted to wait until the opinion was rendered before addressing purchase order procedure changes," Wharton said.
"The key is not overspending. If it is it comes up red, we know to stop it," Six said. "We've been discussing this for the last two years."
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