We're also very very lucky that the attackers tried to use explosives rather than guns.In the deadliest mass shootings in America in living memory, only one has topped 50 dead -- the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. Only five have topped 20 dead. Add up those top five attacks, and you get 152 people killed in the worst mass shootings we've had in our lifetimes here.
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) September 19, 2016
In Oklahoma City alone, 169 people were killed by one bomb.
Regularly in Iraq we would see dozens of people killed by truck bombs -- VBIEDs, as we called them. Pull one in a crowded market place, maybe 80 people would be killed in a second. You never saw numbers like that from gun attacks ("SAF," for "Small Arms Fire").
Don't wish for bombs. We're very lucky that most of our crazies here still want to shoot you. Then they have to kill you one at a time.
You even get a chance to fight back.
I'm still trying to figure out what he meant by that. Lucky how? (I don't think it's possible that he believes an attack with a firearm would be expected to kill more people than an attack with a bomb.)
ReplyDeleteA fine grade of stupidium. Weapons grade, so to speak.
ReplyDeleteThat was irony, folks. He was making fun of the anti-gun nutbags.
ReplyDeleteMadrid 2004- 192 dead, 2,050 wounded
ReplyDeleteLondon 2005- 56 dead, 784 wounded
Bali 2002- 202 dead, 209 wounded
Bombs also tend to wound a whole lot of people. We are lucky that this guy is apparently no genius, tactically- poor emplacement, faulty timing. Change that and he could have done some serious damage with those charges.
Hayes is giving the idiom 'shoot me, please' new meaning.
Dad29
ReplyDeleteThat was irony, folks. He was making fun of the anti-gun nutbags..
Chris Hayes, an Editor-at-Large at The Nation and host of a show at moonbat lefty MSNBC, "was making fun of the anti-gun nutbags?" Don't think so.
From Wikipedia: Chris_Hayes_(journalist
On May 27, 2012, Memorial Day Weekend, Hayes made comments on air regarding the use of the word "heroism" as applied to American servicemen killed in action, stating, "I feel uncomfortable about the word because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war. And I don't want to obviously desecrate or disrespect the memory of anyone that's fallen, and obviously there are individual circumstances in which there is genuine, tremendous heroism, you know, hail of gunfire, rescuing fellow soldiers, and things like that. But it seems to me that we marshal this word in a way that is problematic. But maybe I'm wrong about that."[15] His remark generated widespread controversy.[16][17][18] Hayes initially defended his comment by urging people to listen to what he had actually said,[19] Nonetheless, he apologized on his blog.[20] Furthermore, on his June 2, 2012, show, he devoted a discussion to his comments and the disconnect between civilians and the military.
I very much doubt that Chris Hayes, given his past history, intended to make fun of anti-gun nuts.
Regarding Dad29's claim that Chris Hayes was making fun of anti-gun nuts: it is very difficult to impossible to parody progressives. What one would write as a parody of progressive-speak sounds very much like a progressive in "I am very serious" mode.
ReplyDeleteWhen you consider that progressives are for the most part rather humorless, it becomes even more unlikely that progressives would write parodies.
It's getting harder, to be sure. That piece the other day about white people not doing yoga -- ironic, or forthright? You decide. I'm not sure I can tell any more.
ReplyDeleteGringo; When you consider that progressives are for the most part rather humorless, it becomes even more unlikely that progressives would write parodies.
ReplyDeleteGrim: It's getting harder, to be sure. That piece the other day about white people not doing yoga -- ironic, or forthright? You decide. I'm not sure I can tell any more.
From the link at your posting I Think We're All About There:
The lady started to protest Milo’s speech as soon as he made a statement about the left failing to take a joke.
Say no more, as Monty and the Pythons often told us.
If something is stated in irony or in parody,my default assumption is that it wasn't a progressive who was using parody or irony. Progressives tend to be a rather earnest, humorless lot whose idea of humor is to yell "STUPID STUPID" at their political opponents. Though I will admit that professional comedians like Jon Stewart can be funny.
Though I will admit that professional comedians like Jon Stewart can be funny.
ReplyDeleteThe intellectual class of the Left, their priests so to speak, tend to be a little bit more clever than the average prog.
Stewart's a little bit below that class, but his experience in the show makes up for it.
One of those mil sci fi books, Weapon of Mass Destruction I think it was by Michael somebody, talked about using bombs to collapse skyscrapers, then setting up bombs to kill emergency first responders. Oklahoma showed that buildings are just death traps, if you can get them to collapse.
Perhaps 9/11 did as well. But those kinds of ops are pretty expensive and requires trained demolition personnel. Which Hussein has probably trained up for Syria, given the weapons armament program. Now if they ever come back from Syria and train cells in the US or come from Europe to share their knowledge, then people should then see the power of a few home made bombs.
The FBI used to be pretty good at spotting bomb makers and where they get their material. Now that CAIR is puppeting them... I wouldn't be too confident in them any more, no matter who is the next King of America. It's not hard to turn an organization to evil, just ask how the Left did it to America's institutions via Gramsci.
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