My God Man! They need to take this son of a b--ch out!

Even if they get this little boy back alive, which I hope
the god they do.

sorry to the folks who object to the death sentence BUT!

He is not safe to be around anyone and he killed someone
and COME ON!.. a 5 year old boy hostage?

SO.. No court.. No trial.. Just death! Good By Wack Ball!

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57567060/alabama-standoff-negotiators-talkin...

garryrussell wrote on Feb 1^st, 2013 at 9:36am:


Garry, as a responsible gun owner myself, I have to disagree with you as do millions upon millions of responsible and safe gun owning Americans do.

The fork is the most deadly weapon in the US right now! 

On the topic of the good of guns:
http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_van_uhm_why_i_chose_a_gun.html

The 911 terrorist used box cutters and high jacked aircraft to kill 3,000 +.

Timothy McVeigh used ammonium nitrate and motor-racing fuel to kill 160 +.

Seems to me that Norway has some of the strictest gun control laws and the laws didn't stop a determined pyscho getting weapons and from killing 77 people.

People hell bent on killing will not be stopped or deterred in anyway by any laws that only law abiding people will follow.

My two cents.....

Romulus111VADT wrote on Feb 1^st, 2013 at 10:51am:


What makes you think Norway has strict gun laws? Scandinavia has a strong hunting tradition and Breivik's guns were legal. Google 'Breivik's guns' and read the Wikipedia article. Of course, it might 'seem' to you that Norway has strict gun laws - but where doesn't compared to the US? Maybe Libya or the Congo or somewhere. They're nowhere near as strict as the draconian gun laws in the UK, where politicians made political hay following the Dunblane massacre and banned even the Olympic single-shot .22 pistol. They're now talking about banning air rifles; the word 'gun' is almost a swearword, and the media demonise 'knife carriers'. I carried a knife when I was about eight, as everyone in the country did. In the view of the UK gutter press, I was a criminal aged eight.

The problem here is ideological extremism. Every country needs laws for anything dangerous. The US and the UK are at opposite extreme ends of the gun issue, with the most influential politicians and media making hay at opposite ends of the continuum. Most European countries are somewhere in between these silly extremes.

Having said that, Norway's laws are still too liberal in my opinion. I don't see why hunters need semi-automatic military style weapons - certainly not over .22 (And, BTW, I come from a country area in the UK where I grew up with guns. But I don't worship them.)

It's true that people hell bent on killing will find some way to do it. But the easy availablity of military-style weapons makes it too easy for people to start killing not because they're hell bent, but because they snap. Take the school massacre recently in the US by a guy whose mother was paranoid and had the house stacked with semi automatic weapons. If it hadn't been for that, he probably wouldn't have killed anybody, and even if he had, if he hadn't had semi-automatic weapons he wouldn't have been able to kill so many. As usual, most replies to these sort of question are ideological and irrational - people with fixed ideas will argue that black and white are both grey - and common sense lies somewhere in between.

haegri wrote on Feb 1^st, 2013 at 11:23am:



.....a .22 caliber hunting rifle........

That's actually illegal here in Washington State. We have what they call "Big Game" here.
Shooting a deer with a .22 is more likely to mame or wound than to kill. Very irresponsible.

Imagine facing down a charging bear with a single shot .22 that you already fired your single shot from   I'll bet you'd be wishin' for that semi auto .308 then.

Funny how quick people are to agree with a ban on things they don't have or understand

CHUCK79 wrote on Feb 1^st, 2013 at 11:38am:


And how many Americans will face a charging bear anytime soon? I'm more concerned about armed, crazed drug addicts in downtown parking garages than Smoky the Bear.

Once in Armenia my father-in-law was going to take me to see an aquaduct project he was supervising up in the mountains of Lori Province, and he told me we had to stop by the police station to check out his weapons. That's right. His high-powered rifle and shotgun were stored at the police station, available for check-out 24x7 when needed. "Why do we need weapons?" I asked, puzzled. "Bears and wolves," he replied. A blizzard cancelled our trip and, yes, there's still occasional gun violence in that small, miserable post-Soviet Republic. But those murders are usually assassinations, mafia work. I think it's an interesting example of how high-powered weapons are regulated "over there", regulated but still available for sport. But I'm sure a hot Makarov pistol could easily be had at the local bazaar.

Another example from that distant almost-a-country comes to mind, a terrible car accident with fatalities. The surviving driver was the mayor's son, high on prescription drugs, joy riding after a night at the casino. The crooked judge made a summary ruling that a trial wasn't necessary. A few weeks later, the mayor's son is back in the bars, surrounded by hookers, drinking shots of vodka, while the families of the deceased are trying to recover from the senseless deaths of their loved ones. Yes, there is a need for trials in the courts.

Right. This is turning into a peeing the furthest contest and has no place here. LOCKED!
Next idiotic news thread saying people need to be "taken out" WILL see the imbecile posting it BANNED!
This is your ONLY warning!
I've seen too many of these idiotic episodes over the years to tolerate. We like discussion but we come here to get away from the negativity of the Press. DEAL WITH IT!