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Family Research Council Shooter: I Got the Idea From Lib Group’s ‘Hate Map’

Feb. 6, 2013 4:19pm Becket Adams

Local and federal investigators work to gather evidence after a security guard was shot in the arm at the headquarters of the Family Research Council Aug. 15, 2012 in Washington, D.C. (Getty Images)

The Family Research Council shooter, Floyd Lee Corkins II, on Wednesday pleaded guilty to charges that include assault with intent to kill and committing an act of terrorism.

Shockingly enough, Corkins told FBI agents that he chose FRC as a target based on the liberal Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate map.”

In case you were unaware, the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated FRC a “hate group” because of the conservative organization’s position on gay marriage:

The Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate map” showing Family Research Council’s headquarters

“Floyd Lee Corkins II pleaded guilty to three charges including a charge of committing an act of terrorism related to the August 15, 2012 injuring of FRC’s guard,” the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard notes.

“He told the FBI that he wanted to kill anti-gay targets and went to the law center’s website for ideas [emphasis added],” the report adds.

Corkins also told FBI agents that it was his intention to “kill as many as possible and smear the Chick-Fil-A sandwiches in victims’ faces, and kill the guard.”

At about 10:45 a.m. ET on the morning of the the shooting, Corkins entered the FRC lobby but was confronted by a security guard who asked him where he was going, the Washington Post reported. Corkins then took out a gun and opened fire on the guard before being wrestled to the ground and disarmed. He was later taken into FBI custody.

The incident occurred shortly after Chik-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy said in an interview that he supports traditional marriage, which explains the chicken sandwich-themed attack.

FRC president Tony Perkins has called on the Southern Poverty Law Center to take down its “hate map.”

“The day after Floyd Corkins came into the FRC headquarter and opened fire wounding one of our team members, I stated that while Corkins was responsible for the shooting, he had been given a license to perpetrate this act of violence by groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center which has systematically and recklessly labeled every organization with which they disagree as a ‘hate group,’” he said.

“Once again, I call on the SPLC to put an immediate stop to its practice of labeling organizations that oppose their promotion of homosexuality,” said Perkins, adding, “Whether the SPLC continues to demonize those who hold to biblical morality or not, the Family Research Council will remain unequivocally committed to our mission of advancing faith, family and freedom.”

As of this writing, the SPLC’s “hate map” still includes FRC.

Final Thought: Let’s take a trip in the WayBack Machine, shall we?

Shortly after a Tucson, Ariz., shooting spree that killed six people and wounded 13 others, including former Congresswoman Gabirelle Giffords, left-leaning journalists and bloggers raced each other to be the first to pin the blame on conservatives.

“Arizona massacre: Should Sarah Palin share the blame?” read one headline.

Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, blamed Palin as well as Sharron Angle for the shooting: “I think [their] statements are totally irresponsible and they’re not without consequences.”

Elsewhere, the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank blamed Palin and Glenn Beck for the shooting.

“Both are finally being held to account for recklessly playing with violent images in a way that is bound to incite the unstable,” said Milbank during an appearance on CNN’s “Reliable Sources.”

The New York Times’ Paul Krugman published a blog post blaming conservatives for the tragedy within hours of the incident:

Just yesterday, Ezra Klein remarked that opposition to health reform was getting scary. Actually, it’s been scary for quite a while, in a way that already reminded many of us of the climate that preceded the Oklahoma City bombing.

You know that Republicans will yell about the evils of partisanship whenever anyone tries to make a connection between the rhetoric of Beck, Limbaugh, etc. and the violence I fear we’re going to see in the months and years ahead. But violent acts are what happen when you create a climate of hate. And it’s long past time for the GOP’s leaders to take a stand against the hate-mongers.

Here’s the best part: “We don’t have proof yet that this was political, but the odds are that it was.”

Jared Loughner. (Associated Press).

Of course, as we now know, Loughner wasn’t motivated by conservatives — he was motivated by the voices inside his head. Prior to the Tuscon shooting, he didn’t watch TV, he burned American flags, he “disliked” the news, he pored over “The Communist Manifesto” and “Mein Kampf,” and he didn’t listen to talk radio. Furthermore, it has been revealed that he is a registered independent.

“He didn’t take sides. He wasn’t on the left. He wasn’t on the right,” said Loughner’s high school friend Zach Osle.

What are the chances Krugman, Milbank, and everyone else who has falsely accused conservatives of inciting violence will take on the SPLC for its apparently inspirational “hate map”?

Anyone?

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Comments (136)

The Third Archon
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:40pm
“FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL SHOOTER: I GOT THE IDEA FROM LIB GROUP’S ‘HATE MAP’”
Well when you insist on continuously publish “research” that EVERY credible scientific expert and authority has thoroughly rejected and asked you to stop spreading propaganda to support your preconceived prejudices, you are GOING to get labelled a “hate group.”

“In case you were unaware, the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated FRC a “hate group” because of the conservative organization’s position on gay marriage”
Well no, that’s not the sole criterion by which they made it onto that map–if that WERE true, then the overwhelming majority of every Christian church in America would make it onto the SPLC’s hate group classification (hint–they don’t). They were singled out because, despite pleading to the contrary from every credible (that is to say, peer-reviewed and tested according to the rigors of empirical science) scientific authority to stop, they continue to publish outright false long discredited “research” to advance an virulently anti-homosexual bigotry. They are likely solely responsible for 90%+ of all the inane wild oft-repeated beliefs about homosexuals and homosexuality held by individuals ON THIS VERY SITE. It’s one thing to have an erroneous belief that homosexuality is immoral–it’s QUITE another to make up inflammatory **** about homosexuality and THEN try to pass it off as “science.”

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- rickroland
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:48pm
  Well, that might make them wrong-headed, but hardly the category of “hate group” by any stretch.
  
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- NotAConstituencyGroup
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:50pm
  So it is your thesis that disseminating junk science makes you a hate group, or at least a hate group on the map.
  
  Therefore Al Gore is a hate group. I’m not going to even look to see if he’s on their map.
  
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- Beachmastermax
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:54pm
  Add East Anglia University to the map.
  
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- FROTHYDISCHARGE
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:59pm
  I’m really curious Mr. Scientist, give us an example of their outrages claims that in your mind is worthy of someone shooting up their office? Really I don’t know the group and haven’t heard their research.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:01pm
  THE THIRD ACHORN, Yeah, yeah, and just as the SPLC says, The New Black Panther Party is a right wing hate group too.
  
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- LakeHartwellSailor
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:16pm
  You are merely engaging a deflecting tactic with your comments about the FRC in order to take the spotlight off the POINT of the story , which is that this nut job went to a Liberal organization an use their Hate Map to decide on his target.
  
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- John.Galt
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:21pm
  If you disagree with ANY LIBERAL OPINION, you are part of a hate group.
  
  Totalitarians do not tolerate dissent, and the lib-tards love their murderous dictators! Proof – no libs are complaining that obama can use drones to kill anyone, anywhere outside the US, for pretty much any reason whatsover, the sole prosecution, judge, jury and death are decided completely within his administration, by people he nominated.
  
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- Beachmastermax
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:22pm
  Let’s see, who is the “Hater”. The one who argues for traditional marriage and points out it’s importance to sucessful civilizations. Or one who shoots and defends the one who shoots, the $10 an hour security guard that protects the ones who argue for traditional marriage?
  
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- Sensible_Centrist_Democrat
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:25pm
  They list the new black panthers as a hate group on their website.
  
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- Sensible_Centrist_Democrat
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:32pm
  Edit: the splc lists the new black panthers as a hate group and they don’t call them a “right wing hate group.”
  
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- Sensible_Centrist_Democrat
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:37pm
  Also, I may not agree with all of the SPLC’s designations of hate groups. However the FRC does write “scholarly” articles positing that homosexuals are likely child predators. It is different to do junk science hen you are attacking certain demographics than other types of works (neither are acceptable though)
  
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- 1_Smoot_Tall
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:40pm
  Archead and Keaton,
  
  There’s NO science you can quote we can trust.
  
  Moral Certainty: Choosing to BE is not the same as choosing to DO.
  
  Sometimes DOING what one is BEING is offensive to God & destructive to one’s self, family, & society.
  
  Deviant BEHAVIOR is a CHOICE, & even if it were not a choice to BE queer it is most certainly a choice to DO queer. My church has millions of members & my church EXCOMMUNICATES those who DO queer but tries to counsel those whom the Adversary has tricked into thinking they ARE queer.
  
  Before converting, I found these deviants disgusting & sub-human & if one approached me back then I’d permanently injure IT.
  
  Later, Jesus Christ taught me to love them; but not at the expense of letting the Adversary run the world THROUGH them. The Lord destroyed two large cities for deviancy. He doesn’t tolerate the unrepentant deviant, why should I?
  
  If you think you know better than God – then you’re a useful idiot to the Evil One & sadly, you may be among the first to burn.
  
  If you think there is no God then what is your source of morals? Is it okay for a pervert to have sexual interactions with a willing child, pet, appliance, or adult with very low IQ. If not – be consistent and explain why not. Then answer, are YOU the source of moral clarity for the world, you wannabe god?
  
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- Sensible_Centrist_Democrat
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:58pm
  @1_smoot
  How closely do we follow the bible’s words? Are women supposed to be subservient to men?
  (1 Corinthians 11:3 *But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman [is] the man; and the head of Christ [is] God. )
  
  How come we don’t outlaw alcohol or at least look down on alcoholism as much as you do homosexuality?
  
  The bible looks down upon adultery + other types of intercourse, but many Christians seem focused on homosexuality.
  
  Also, the bible allows for the regulated use of slavery. Do we allow this?
  
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- the_history_teacher
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 7:02pm
  90+% of all statistics are made up. Why shouldn’t this be labeled a hate crime? According to liberal ideology this would be the very instance in which the term “hate crime” would apply. He hates people with thoughts and lifestyles other than the homosexual lifestyle so he goes and shoots them.
  
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- Beachmastermax
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 7:05pm
  @ STD
  
  Sodomites like to say that 10% of the population is “Gay”. The more acceptable figure is somewhere below 4%.
  
  Now, I would say at least 50% of child rape is against young males. In Muslim countries it is a much higher percentage.
  
  Lets see, can you give me one instance where a heterosexual raped a little boy?
  
  Or here is another, how many Catholic priest have molested chior boys vs. Nuns?
  
  Do the math, it does not take a rocket scientist.
  
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- VetMike
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 7:11pm
  So, you’re okay with this guy trying to kill all those people. The reason I am asking is that you seem to have forgotten the First Amendment. It applies to all of us not just Liberals.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 7:16pm
  To be clear, lib “shooters” usually just shoot around or near their intended victims. Emotional wankers couldn’t handle a sling shot without breaking nails.
  
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- Sensible_Centrist_Democrat
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 7:18pm
  @beast
  Even the Family Research Council says that less than 1/3 of all sex crime victims are young boys.
  
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- Sensible_Centrist_Democrat
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 7:25pm
  Also I think it is wrong to claim that male child predators who victimize male children are gay. They are sick demented child predators with deep seated mental problems. Similarly males who victimize young girls aren’t straight: they are sick disgusting child predators.
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 7:45pm
  Man, Archon, I’m really disappointed. You usually present a good plate (even if it stinks imho), but this was one heck of a stretch my friend…
  
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- Beachmastermax
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 8:12pm
  @STD
  So, their is no sexual component to rape? A heterosexual monster is just as likely to rape a man or boy (I do not know how he would even get it up) as a woman or girl. Likewise, a Sodomite monster is just as likely to grab a little girl. You have abandoned reason in your argument.
  
  Another:
  The bible scripture you use does not mean all women are subservient to men. It means wives should be subservient to husbands. And where wives chose not to be subservient to their husband, I would have to think the marraige is more than likely doomed. More because the wife ends up loathing the husband.
  
  Another thing, you know very little of the Bible me thinks. Where you get that Christians have more disdain for one sin verses another goes against the whole concept of Christianity. Commit one sin and you are barred from heaven. There has not been a man on this earth, excepting Christ, who has lived a sinless life. Therefore, we are all doomed and can not approach a holy and righteous God.
  
  Whether you commit the sin of homosexuality, gossip, lust, or commit audulty, they all disqualify you from eternal life with a Holy God.
  
  Homosexuals have the same opportunity as anyone else to accept Gods gift of his Son and recieve redemption and eternal life. This is an equal opportunity concept. I hope, as God does, that not one shall perish, but live eternally with him. I hope every Homosexual is in heaven with me in the end.
  
  That is Christianity.
  
  Now go see what Is
  
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- Sensible_Centrist_Democrat
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 8:46pm
  A) You have misrepresented my point. A sick disgusting child predator who solely attacks female children is not a heterosexual— they are a child predator. The same thing applies to male child predators who attack boys.
  B) You surely have an antiquated view of gender roles in marriage. Women need to be subservient to their husbands for marriage to work, or the women will loathe their husbands. I’m happy not many people believe this and society is progressing.
  
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- Beachmastermax
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 9:15pm
  @ STD
  I strive to think the way God thinks. Simple as that. You chose not to believe there is a God or disregard his word, that is your choice. God created freedom and gave you a volition, so think the way you want. But regardless, my main point still stands, Christians do not regard Homosexuality as worse than most sins as you accuse. God has the sins he hates and Homosexualty is not listed. The only active sin listed is Murder (what the guy attempted at the FRC) and you attempt to justify by committing another sin God hates, “The public lie” regarding Christians.
  
  I am going on 33 years in my marraige to my first and only wife, How about you? How’s yours “progressing”.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 10:36pm
  SENSIBLE_CENTRIST_DEMOCRAT, I beg to differ with you on that. Only a short time ago there was even a story here on The Blaze about how the SPLC listed the New Black Panthers as a right wing extremist group. I am quite familiar with the SPLC considering they are located only a little over a hundred miles south of where I am sitting right now. They are all to often in local and state news here more than they hit the national news. These tools do everything they can to skew their lists and information for their agenda driven ideals.
  
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- desert buckeye
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 11:24pm
  It’s erroneous for me to believe homosexual behavior is immoral? Really? I also happen to believe the same about incest. Is incest o.k. too?
  I wasn’t taught these “beliefs” either. My instincts tell me it is so. The thought of another man touching me in a sexual manner is enough to make me want to vomit. But, according to you, there must be something wrong with me? Okie dokie!
  
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- gunslingerpatriot
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 8:43am
  It would be nice if the ACA and the APA would publish studies that contradict their left leaning pro-gay positions since the studies that I’ve read on sexual orientation reassignment therapy follow the rigors of the scientific method, but because the researchers can’t get them published in the ACA/APA they’re not considered “Peer reviewed”.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:58am
  LOL. It’s cute how you libbies rationalize your violent tendencies. Immediately after you posted this, you went outside and kicked a puppy didn’t you?
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:59am
  So in other words Archon, you’re just peachy with people killing others, as long as those they kill are not of your politics.
  
  You’re a real swell guy.
  
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- Rowgue
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 1:13pm
  Do you have to try to be that stupid, or does it just come naturally?
  
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- makamae
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:32pm
  Archon – you are SADLY confused. There is NO peer-reviewed scientific study in existence that bolsters ANY position supporting homosexuality as something natural. Sure, there have been “studies” where pseudo-scientists with a big, fat agenda, sought to prove their point, and therefore justifiy their life choices – but reviews by real scientists have ALWAYS proven these studies to be false.
  
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publicas
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:26pm
ORGANIZATIONS FUNDED BY GEORGE SOROS AND HIS OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1237
Southern Poverty Law Center: This organization monitors the activities of what it calls “hate groups” in the United States. It exaggerates the prevalence of white racism directed against American minorities and has been linked to terror attacks within the United States….

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- barber2
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:53pm
  Soros certainly owns a big piece of the governmental and media pie in America. Guess he is the Wizard of Obama Oz : the man behind the curtain, behind our the Democrat Party radicals, behind the teleprompter messages, behind the agenda. George , his money , and his determination to ” change” America. Why does Soros hate Britain , America, and conservative Murdoch so much ?
  
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- chips1
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 7:34pm
  Obama is doing everything in his un-Constitutional power to pit every group against each other. He knows that nutcases are in every fabric of society and each individual act such as this one will result in total chaos. Drones, extra ammo for different agencies, etc. It’s coming people and it’s all planned ahead of time. He is using the power of suggestion.
  
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publicas
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:22pm
I don’t recall a mob of conservatives damaging 5 banks and a Hooters in DC on Barry’s inaguration. I don’t recall a mob of conservatives occupying Wall Street and other public places across the nation turning them into a mess of filth that they did not bother to clean up. I don’t recall a mob of conservatives marching, rioting and looting every time some court ruling offends conservatives. I don’t recall mobs of conservatives rioting and looting in L.A., Newark, NYC, Cleveland, Atlanta, Kansas City, Miami, New Orleans, Cincinnati, St. Petersburg, Crown Heights, Chattanooga, Lawrence, Fontana, Benton Harbor, Omaha, Detroit, Augusta, Louisville, Baltimore, Tampa, Buffalo, Milwaukee, Plainfield, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Cambridge, San Francisco, San Diego, etc, etc, etc… to name a few off the top of my head. However, I do recall the following groups organizing demonstrations that almost always seem to turn into rioting or looting even resulting in deaths of innocents. Democratic Party (USA), Green Party, Socialist Labor Party of America, Socialist Party USA, Peace and Freedom Party, Earth Front, Earth Liberation Front, PETA, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Socialist Equality Party, ACORN, Working Families Party, Freedom Socialist Party, Labor Party, Socialist Action, Socialist Alternative, Socialist Workers Party, World Socialist Party of the United States, SIEU, AFL, CIO, Weather Underground, Black Liberation Army, Black Panthers, groups funded by George Soros/

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- cogito ergo sum
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:11pm
  @Publicas
  
  Do you recall the riot at Ole Miss because Obama got reelected? Let’s not be like the other side. Selective memory is always bad.
  
  Cogito Ergo Sum
  
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- publicas
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 1:23am
  @cogito ergo sum Perhaps my memory is better than yours, since I remember reading/watching several news reports about Ole Miss ‘riot’ that was available at the time dismissing the ‘twitter’ reports. Best you keep trolling elsewhere, try teapartycommunity.com… They are gonna love you. LMAO@cogito ergo sum!
  
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  “I was there the whole time,” Carr told WMC-TV. “There was one sign lit on fire. For about 45 seconds. Mostly, it was hundreds of college kids who heard the word riot and ran to take pictures and see what it was about.”
  Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/07/university-of-mississippi-students-protest-election-results/#ixzz2KBuXmhZf
  
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  However, judging by the raw video of the incident it seems more like a few drunk college students acting like idiots alongside even more kids who just wanted to see what all the fuss was about.
  http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/11/ole-miss-students-werent-very-good-rioting-over-obama/58797/
  
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- publicas
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 12:55pm
  Chicago, yest again. proviso west fight search, look at the dates of the videos
  
  http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=proviso+west+fight&oq=proviso+west+&gs_l=youtube-reduced.3.1.0l4.579064.581491.0.583347.13.11.0.2.2.0.263.1469.4j3j4.11.0…0.0…1ac.1.neQf2M_pZwM
  
  http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/proviso-west-high-school-cafeteria-fight-190124211.html
  
  Just where were those mobs young conservatives causing all this??
  
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Patriot83
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:06pm
I am not an attorney, but it appears the SPLC may be liable as an accomplice to the tragedy; involuntary manslaughter? Does leaving their “Hate” posting on their website constitute greater negligence than if they removed it after being informed of the tragedy? Can we get an opinion from a legal professional?

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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:16pm
  You arn’t a lawyer for good reason. Charging the SPLC would be a ridiculous and dangerous precedent and infringement on free speech.. Unless we are ready to charge anti-abortion organizations with involuntary manslaughter for every abortion doctor who’s been shot.
  
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- Godfather.1
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:44pm
  Ok. Are you then willing to Glenn Beck accountable for the guy who went to shoot up the Tides Foundation? After all, he said he learned about it from listening to Beck.
  
  Are you going to hold Sara Palin accountable for the Arizona shootings? After all, she had a map on her website with crosshairs over the districts of politicians she did not like.
  
  Do you want to hold Jenny McCarthy liable for the deaths of the children who were not vaccinated because their parents listened to people like her?
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:06pm
  KRETINC333, The SPLC is in itself a hate group. In my humble opinion, they should be held with some co-responsibility.
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:21pm
  Yeah ExKreaton! That would be like……. Suing Smith and Wesson because someone was shot by one of their guns!
  
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- GadsdenGurl
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:26pm
  SPLC should be held accountable. They have listed all patriot groups, tea party and even Catholics as ‘hate groups’. They are the biggest hate group on the map!
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:30pm
  exactly pipit
  
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- Sensible_Centrist_Democrat
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:44pm
  ^they don’t list Catholics as a hate group. It is a specific sect of Catholicism which the Vatican doesn’t recognize. These Catholics vehemently hate Jews and other groups. They also name a few Jewish groups as hate groups, but not the Jewish religion as a whole.
  
  However I do agree with you that labeling the “patriot movement” and/or sovereign citizen movement a hate group isn’t right. Any group can have “hateful” elements. If these movements are hate groups then many leftist movements could be hate groups also.
  
  I like a lot of what the SPLC does, but sometimes they get too ideological. However most groups do that– left and right.
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:46pm
  GADS listing a homophobic organization as a hate group and involuntary man slaughter are two very very different things!
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:11am
  Patriot, you know you’re over the target when you start taking flak. These libs have been exposed as the violent murderers they are. They’ve come on here to troll to try to deflate that exposure. They can’t stand the fact that they are everything they accuse us of.
  
  You libs need to come to terms with the fact you’re all potential murderers. This shooter is all of you, you all share what is in his head. The fact you come on here to deflect and blame FRC for it show us all you would love to do the same thing. People who don’t share your “progressive” view of the world must be silenced or killed. Personally, I hope you do. I am armed as well, and I assure you I am a better shot than the security guard. I won’t miss, and I won’t lose sleep over it.
  
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desert buckeye
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:01pm
This guy was a poster child for the thinking and lack of tolerance to opposing beliefs, held by the “progressives.”…”live by my rules or die.” “Buy health insurance or be punished.” Who else do we know who thinks this way? Oh yeah! Those pesky muslim extremists! Am I wrong?

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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:09pm
  Ya you are completely wrong.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:21pm
  KEATON… here’s a little test for you…
  
  Name ONE Liberal platform/ idea that is WRONG.
  Just one.
  
  I’m a conservative and can name a dozen Conservative platforms that i believe to be unconstitutional/ aka “wrong”.
  
  Where does KEATON break from the Kool-Ade? …or do you graze in the field like so many sheep?
  
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- LakeHartwellSailor
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:27pm
  @Keatonc333
  
  Would you care to offer some details of WHY he’s wrong? Or do you just stick your fingers in your ears (or whatever oriface you prefer) and say “you are wrong”?
  
  Face it, the Progressive’s are showing their true colors more and more….and those colors aren’t pretty.
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:42pm
  eastinfection… yes i can! I don’t agree that banning assault riffles is necessary.. however I do believe we need back ground checks for all purchases and a gun registry. I also personally am morally against abortion. as proof I had a child 22 days after turning 18, that being said i recognize my personal views don’t represent everyones so I am pro choice. if that counts. Also i was against the provision in the ACA that didn’t allow christian organizations to refuse to cover birth control. i’m sure i can think of some more. but those are just the most obvious.
  
  and LAKE
  its simple using this guy to represent progressives is as stupid as using a pedophiliac priest to represent all catholics
  
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- jhrusky
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:56pm
  @ keatonc333
  
  ” I also personally am morally against abortion. as proof I had a child 22 days after turning 18, that being said i recognize my personal views don’t represent everyones so I am pro choice.”
  
  Do you believe abortion is the murder of a child? You say you are morally against it … why are you against it? What in your belief system tells you it’s morally wrong?
  
  Now, here comes the hard part — if you truly believe it is the murder of a child, a human being (and I do not yet know if you do but will trust you to answer honestly), how can you still be pro-choice? To believe abortion is the murder of a human being and still be pro-choice is to say it’s OK to murder a human child if you think it ok and that, sir, is where we would completely part company.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:05pm
  OK KEATON.. that’s a good start.
  
  I don’t think our ideologies differ by much… just make sure you argue FOR your passions, rather than just against the GOP…
  
  My favorite quote ever:
  “We all basically feel the same, we just sell it from another point of view”
  
  Bob Dylan, “Tangled up in Blue”
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:15pm
  Jrusky.. I’m torn actually.. abortion has always been a tricky one for me. while i don’t believe a zygote should be considered a human. I do recognize the potential for life.. so I’m not sure.
  and East, Bob Dylan is a genius!!!
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:34pm
  i would support a ban on abortion except in cases of rape and incest.. but thats about impossible. because to prove a woman was raped there would have to be a trial.. which both makes the victim testify and be dragged through that whole process and most rape trials take longer than 3 months. really once the verdict is reached the baby would already be born.. and theres another single parent household. on the other hand if you just allow anyone who claims they were raped to have an abortion then thats not very different from just having abortion legal.
  
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- wolverine
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 7:05pm
  I believe the liberal idea of killing American citizens by drones without due process is wrong
  
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- chips1
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 7:52pm
  Run for your lives!!! KEATON is reproducing!!!!! RUN.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:14am
  No, Keaton. He’s right. You are this shooter. He is one of yours, you are one of his. You are all the same.
  
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SolidusRaccoon
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:01pm
This much was obvious from the start.

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- Lord_Frostwind
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 10:55pm
  This story is a big example of “SIAK” (**** I Already Know) for most of us I imagine. Still, confirmation of suspicions is never a bad thing.
  
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Tri-ox
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:59pm
He was just following orders – this is what obama has told his domestic-terrorists, freeloaders and occupiers to do.

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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:03pm
  You’re next!
  
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- Psychosis
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:16pm
  bring it on keaton
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:22pm
  Exactly TRI-OX. This is what the Cloward-Pivens, the Alinskys, the Obamas, the Bill Ayers’, the Karl Marx’s of the world want. Their whole MO is to get people angry at someone else. Constant derision, ridicule, smear, inuendo…over and over. Blame this guy for your problems. Blame that guy, he hates you. He’s white, he’s old, he’s rich, he’s keeping stuff you deserve from you. He’s harming your “rights”. He doesn’t like you.
  This is how the left operates and as the left’s voice has become more vocal in the public forum , as it comes out of the shadows, it creates people like Corkins.
  The left uses incindiary language repeatedly and vulnerable minds latch onto it.
  Look at Occupy for a great example..certainly it whitered into another addition on the dung heap of liberal failure, but look at what it cost. Millions of dollars in costs for cities to clean up the refuse and damage. Stores and churches vandalized. Why? Because the left needs angry people. Look at every leftist revolution in world history…class against class, blame and hatred piled on the desired target. Mobs mobilized. Look at Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dorhn, terrorists decades ago, educators today. They’re not exceptions, liberals have taken over the education system today and in turn they’ve created a culture of liberal media and entertainment to keep the drip, drip, drip of spite and hatred constant and in your face. Look at the lefty trolls on these boards for instan
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:47pm
  Oh its been brought son! ; )
  
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- Beachmastermax
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:52pm
  Like the Stephen King novel made movie…”Needfull Things.” We are just watching it on a nation wide scale now.
  
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term limits for congress
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:57pm
This is a hate article since it does not advance dear leader’s agenda.

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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:56pm
Don’t worry, if you ever run into one of these people, and you want to buy a gun, your daughter can thank members of Congress for the need to wait several days with back ground investigations because their name was similar to someone else’s, or they filled out the form wrong, while the stalker debates when will be the exciting moment for them to attack your daughter, and rape them?

What part, of the right to bear arms shall not be infringed, of a free People, do you not understand? If you are not in a jail cell, if you are not in a mental hospital, you don’t need a back ground check?

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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:08pm
  You need a background check to find out if you’ve been in a jail cell or mental hospital.. thats the point!
  Plus. don’t worry too much because under your ridiculous argument your daughter wont have to worry, thanks to background checks if you run into one of these people they will be unarmed. and finally! Your right to bear arms is not being infringed. as long as there is never complete confiscation you still have a right to bear arms. unless you are viewed as unstable. which i’ll ask you. should mentally unstable people be able to buy guns? are you ok with the Jared Laughtners of the world packing heat?
  
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- LakeHartwellSailor
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:36pm
  @Keatonc333
  
  Man, you really don’t get it do you?
  
  1. Criminals will not follow laws get a hand-gun. Even if they do go through a background check (like you have to do in Georgia), they can easily lie on the form. Background checks do nothing.
  
  2. You say, in response to the “daughter” scenario, “thanks to background checks if you run into one of these people (i.e., rapist) they will be unarmed. and finally”. Again, you are delusional to think that criminals will abide by any law… There are laws on the books now, and only law abiding citizens follow them. Criminals by definition don’t follow the law.
  
  3. Your right to bear arms is not being infringed. as long as there is never complete confiscation you still have a right to bear arms. unless you are viewed as unstable. which i’ll ask you. should mentally unstable people be able to buy guns? are you ok with the Jared Laughtners of the world packing heat? …….. Dude, these things will NEVER be brought to a complete halt. I’d rather have many guns, with large magazines, and LOTS of ammunition to at least give me a chance against garbage like the Laughners and Keatons in the world.
  
  Think things THROUGH!
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:17pm
  KRETINC333, Loughner passed his background check even though he had been treated for mental instability for years. Its not the background check that has gone wrong, its the reporting of the mentally unstable persons. Also, I think the background checks are a good idea, as long as they stop maintaining a national database as the federal government has been doing now. That is a backdoor form of national registration, and can make future confiscation even more possible. Ann Coulter explained that here rather clearly a couple of days ago. That is what has happened in history so many times before. I also take a dim view of being treated like a criminal or potential criminal each time I have purchased a gun. Its like being told by an all woman college that I am a potential rapist because I have the man parts to do so.
  
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desert buckeye
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:54pm
Look people! The “progressives” are using the same tactics to demonize and marginalize us as the Nazis used to justify the oppression and eventual murder of the Jews. When you convince people that they are fighting evil, there is no lengths they won’t stoop to in order to eradicate that evil. We are being singled out for destruction and I don’t mean politically. I wish our so called “representatives” would realize this and fight back accordingly.
In the mean time, we as individuals need to quit spending our money with entities that support our destructiuon. Do your own home work and research the busineses you do business with and stop it right NOW! And for God’s sake, quit giving your money to Hollywood.
The left is conducting warfare in these arenas rather effectively and we are not responding.
By the way, I wonder what would happen if millions of Americans decided not to send their returns into the feds this April? Would it cause a problem? We have to stop feeding this beast!

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thibx
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:53pm
evil will increase toward the end and we sure see it. libs hate anything that mentions the name Jesus. all powers answer to the name Jesus, that is why the devil and his cohorts tries to remove his name.

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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:03pm
  Thats ridiculous. the majority of democrats are christian. nice straw man though! It does make sense that democrats would be christian. I mean look at what they stand for. equality, love for your fellow man, feed and helping the poor, acceptance of all types etc etc
  
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/09/10/the-politics-of-race-and-religion-in-two-pie-charts/
  
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- Bookster
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:31pm
  No, most Democrats call themselves Christian. They don’t follow God’s word and certainly don’t act Christ like. Calling yourself a Christian and actually being and acting like a Christian are two very different things.
  
  Liberalism is a mental disorder.
  Progressives are a virus, a plague.
  Democrats are Godless.
  MSNBC=Hell’s webcam.
  0bama=Enemy of America.
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:45pm
  Bookster “Calling yourself a Christian and actually being and acting like a Christian are two very different things.” that goes double for a whole lot of people on this page!
  
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- momrules
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:46pm
  I agree THIBX. Look around the world, not just America, and see it getting more evil by the hour.
  
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- TheGrtDcptn
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:56pm
  ‘Thats ridiculous. the majority of democrats are christian.’
  
  And you are a LIAR…How soon you forget about the democratic party booing God…
  
  Enjoy =)
  
  http://freebeacon.com/watch-democrats-boo-inclusion-of-god-jerusalem/
  
  Since when do Christians need a vote to reconsider adding God back into the democratic platform…?!
  
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- team1blazer
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:59pm
  moronoc333 “most democrats are Christian” BU!! SH!P…You CAN NOT be CHRISTIAN and support the MURDER of the innocent unborn children. If you support the democrat party, you are NOT a Christian!
  
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perry1980
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:48pm
Dems = the party of H@TE!
Been that way for 40 years

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- Ghandi was a Republican
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:00pm
  100 yrs
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:06pm
  Another trick article from The Blaze…that’s a picture of YOURSENSEI’s face at his surprise birthday party last year. Those pesky Blaze moderators at it again right SENSEI boy? They just keep “forcing” you to create more screennames.
  
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skippy6
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:48pm
This is sure to be headline news!!!! Oh……. I thought they said tea party group, never mind….

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FISH_BONE
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:45pm
If Barry and Biden had a love child, he would like that picture of Jared Loughner. What a goofy looking bastard.

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Gonzo
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:45pm
“Condone homosexuality or I’ll kill you.” How gay.

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- Lord_Frostwind
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 10:53pm
  Might be a bit more intimidating if they were any good at it. Most of the clowns are wannabe martyrs that have watched a few too many movies, little to no strategic thinking whatsoever.
  
  Someone with even a shred of common sense could have made these incidents many times worse. I just hope that I have to keep dealing with the PC enforcement brigade, they’re not nearly as bad as the McVeighs.
  
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:45pm
The left and SPLC only wishes for a so called deranged right winger to commit such a crime. I only hope the guard injured by Floyd Lee Corkins II sues the SPLC. Hell, I can only hope that Governor Bentley would do something to run them out of the State of Alabama.

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moreteaplease
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:42pm
And yet, conservatives are the hate filled, violence mongers trying stir the pot. The hypocrisy from the left is astounding.

The SPLC knew exactly what they were doing when they put this hate map up on their site and they achieved their intended goal. Nobody will convince me otherwise.

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- FISH_BONE
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:51pm
  Hypocrisy is a core element of liberalism. Without it, liberalism just isn’t the same.
  
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- Balpit
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:03pm
  They say if you point your finger at someone you have three more pointing back at you.
  
  Liberals proudly have six fingers pointing back at them.
  
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Salamander
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:39pm
Sound to me like any hate crime here is incited by The Southern Poverty Law Center! Disband them!

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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:49pm
  nope.. its the person not the tool remember
  
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- Psychosis
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:20pm
  @ keaton
  
  the center is made up of people it is not an inanimate object apples and boxes
  
  your just plain dumb
  
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- LakeHartwellSailor
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 6:19pm
  SPCL is an organization made up of humans. A gun is an inanimate object. Your reasoning skills need a little work.
  
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- Sensible_Centrist_Democrat
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 7:30pm
  @psychosis
  “Your just plain dumb.”
  If you’re going to call someone dumb then use correct grammar. You’re vs your.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:20am
  “Centrist” you just lost the argument for all time by attacking grammar. Good job.
  
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tankyjo
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:38pm
If we indeed catagorize certain crime as “hate”, then this is “love crime” , using logic.

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whatthecrazy
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:36pm
Wow seems us Gun toting ,Bible clinging,America loving Americans should be on notice,we are now the hunted, by Gun toting,satan clinging,America hating Amerikans.Time to head for the hills?I would rather take my chances with the wolves and bears.

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- BlackCrow
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:52pm
  Bring it on! Those idiots have never been to a range not less really learned how to use that firearm. Now here in the GREAT state of Texas I have a CCW and had this fool tried this here he would stand a good chance of facing an armed GOOD GUY who knows what they are doing. Instead this little COWARD chose to attack in Washington D.C. a gun free zone.
  
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Cavallo
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:36pm
I wouldn’t be surprised if Holms and Lanza were both involved in Leftist ideology. I think Holmes might have been a part of OWS if some reports are correct. So maybe its not crazy people we need to keep away from guns, it is Leftists.. or maybe just soaking up Leftist ideology can turn you into a crazy murdering psychopath?

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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:48pm
  So you do support gun control
  
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- BlackCrow
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:22pm
  @ketonic
  
  Gun Control
  
  1.Sight Picture
  
  2. Breath control
  
  3. Trigger squeeze
  
  4. Repeat, repeat, repeat!!! Practice, Practice, Practice!!!
  THAT is gun control!
  
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- mach37
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 7:10pm
  Just put out a watch on people with crazy wild-eyed expressions on their faces. What is the common thread between Jared Loughner, James Holmes, Adam Lanza, and Charles Manson?
  
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LakeHartwellSailor
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:33pm
I see your true colors….shining through.

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NoMoMrNiceGuy
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:29pm
Un – Freekin Real. – Hang on kids – it is going to get bumpy

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- nocalifornia
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:32pm
  lock and load
  
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MCON29
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:28pm
go figure, this will be the only story I read on this. It will dissappear into the sunset never to be talked about again by any other news agency. What a shame.

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- MN NICE
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:50pm
  Yup, like a fart in the wind… I’m afraid we’ll be seeing many more goofy sob’s crawling out from under their rocks in days to come, looking for their 15 minutes of fame and doubt that the administration, MSM and the likes of the ACLU will see anything but victims of society with easy access to guns…
  
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RoDogg
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:28pm
So…. that makes it a hate crime right? Oh wait… thats only for certain people.

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- Cavallo
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:32pm
  Some animals are more equal than others.
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:41pm
  It’s only hate if you only single out a certain group, like if someone only beat up gay people, or black people, or attacked someone because of their religion, like Muslims……………oh, wait, this guy just wanted to kill Christians? Well, that’s not “Hateful”, it was just acting out wrongly.
  
  Maybe we could just perform a very late term abortion on him.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:47pm
  DARMOK, Wasn’t Corkins one of WANGO’s boyfriends?
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:02pm
  RJJ, could be, but I bet Corkin has lots of boyfriends now, you know a gay rights supporter in prison makes a lot of close friends.
  
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