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The Chief
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Oct 14, 2015 - 10:34am PT
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Holy shet LOcker..
That's 40 out of your last 42 posts here on ST all about... "The Chief".
Living in your Head, doooooooooooooooooood.
WoooooooooooooooHooooooooooooooo! You go LOcker.
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The Chief
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Oct 14, 2015 - 10:59am PT
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Nice try LOcker...
The Chief
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Oct 14, 2015 - 08:29am PT
... Or are you just bending over again
locker
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STFU n00b!!!
Oct 14, 2015 - 10:17am PT
"just bending over again"...
Now that's 41 ot of 43 out of your last posts on ST LOcker, directed to or thinking about, "The Chief". Keep em coming there, Sport!
Living in YOUR head, LOcker.... WooooooooooooooooooooooooooooHooooooooo!
Edit: HOW many years did you go to that photography school, LOcker?
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philo
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Oct 14, 2015 - 11:15am PT
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Yep its all about the Chuff.
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The Chief
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Oct 14, 2015 - 11:31am PT
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There's another one.... Philco. 9 of your last 13 posts here on ST, "The Chiefie/Chuff" or whatever you else you come up with.
Living in YOUR head... love it.
EDIT: Hows them "guns' of yours, Philco.
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The Chief
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Oct 14, 2015 - 12:19pm PT
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LOcker... that's 42 outta 44!!!
Living in YOUR head.... HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
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philo
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Oct 14, 2015 - 05:34pm PT
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UPDATE: Gunfire at bus stop sends students scrambling for cover in South Chattanooga
One shooter in custody, another on the loose
October 13th, 2015by Shelly Bradbury in Local Regional NewsRead Time: 2 mins.
Gunman opens fire at school bus stop full of students in Chattanooga
Chattanooga News
Suspects questioned after gunfire threatens students at bus stop
At least one gunman opened fire this morning at a Chattanooga school bus stop where elementary, middle and high school students were waiting for the bus.
The kids ran for cover behind nearby houses and dove into porches. No one was hit during the drive-by, which happened across from the Bethlehem Center at 225 W. 38th Street.
The gang-related incident happened around 8:20 a.m., according to police.
"I saw one little boy's legs dangling off someone's porch," said Latoya Hunt, who was across the street when the shooting started. "He was trying to hop over it. He was scared...he was just dangling."
Howard students walk along 38th Street after arriving in a school bus on Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 13, 2015, in Chattanooga, Tenn. A shooting toward a group of students waiting for school buses happened near this spot on Tuesday morning. No one was wounded in the shooting that police believe is gang related.
Photo by John Rawlston /Times Free Press.
Witnesses reported hearing between five and 20 shots and said the shooter never stopped. Several houses were hit with bullets. It appears some kids at the bus stop had some sort of warning as the shooter approached — witness said the students started to run seconds before the first shots were fired.
Police responded immediately, Chief Fred Fletcher said. Investigators have one suspect in custody and are currently searching for a second suspect.
A man who asked not to be identified said a school bus arrived shortly after the shooter was gone.
"[The kids] jumped on that bus like it was the safest place to be," he said.
"They ran to that bus to get on it, so you know they were scared," another woman agreed.
The neighborhood is now bracing for retaliatory violence, Hunt said.
"It ain't over," she said, shaking her head.
Fletcher said police will have extra officers in the neighborhood today and called the shooting unacceptable.
"When someone terrorizes any neighborhood, it offends me," he said.
The daily drumbeat of gunfire in Chattanooga hasn't paused since Friday. Five people were shot through Monday. Though no one was hit in today's incident, the attempted shooting marks five days in a row in which gunfire has disrupted the lives of Chattanooga residents.
So far this year, there have been 107 shootings in Chattanooga and 17 gun-related homicides.
Yeah UmerKKKA HOME OF THE FEARFUL LAND OF THE SCARED.
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Rollover
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Oct 14, 2015 - 06:47pm PT
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Yea The Chief.
And 9/11 was Al Qaeda's fault.
Talk about living in your head.
Sheesh.
Hard to believe Bush-bots like you still drink the look-aid.
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philo
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Oct 14, 2015 - 06:57pm PT
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Arming every man, woman and child is not going to stop school shootings: Anne Reeves
Anne Reeves | areeves@pennlive.com By Anne Reeves | areeves@pennlive.com
on October 09, 2015 at 9:30 AM, updated October 09, 2015 at 11:00 AM
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During Pope Francis' recent visit to Philadelphia, many of the area's universities closed due to the anticipated traffic jams and congestion caused by millions of papal pilgrims.
Officials believed the closures would reduce some of the chaos, while keeping students safe. It was a good move.
This past week, classes at many of the same schools were canceled again. But this time a terrorist created the shutdown, not the pontiff.
The juxtaposition of good and evil couldn't be more staggering: the joy and love of Pope Francis versus the fear and loathing of an extremist.
I am sickened. Terrified. And outraged.
Our country has to do something. One airline passenger attempts to detonate a shoe bomb mid-flight and now we all have to remove our shoes at security.
Everytown.org says there have been 142 school shootings since 2013 and what have we done in response? Damn little.
Last weekend, the FBI and ATF alerted Philadelphia-area universities "out of an abundance of caution," of a threatened attack similar to the massacre at Oregon's Umpqua Community College that killed nine people and injured seven others.
A posting on the same social media site used by the Oregon murderer warned that, "A fellow robot will take up arms against a university near Philadelphia. His cries will be heard, his victims will cower in fear, and the strength of the union will decay a little more."
"If you are in that area, you are encouraged to stay at home and watch the news as the chaos unfolds. His sacrifice will echo throughout the nation."
Schools beefed up security and advised students to report suspicious people and events. Some also enlisted the help of local police.
State and federal officials likely get tons of similar threats every day; we just never hear of them. But the fact the law enforcement believed in the credibility of this one paralyzed whole college communities.
My daughter attends one of those Philadelphia universities. With news of the horrific attack against peers across the country still painfully raw, she and other students struggled over what to do: go to class and risk an ambush or stay home and let the terrorists win?
This is no longer just a gun issue It's become an issue of how we live our lives. How our schools have become hunting grounds.
We parents agonized as well. Intellectually, I wanted to tell my daughter to be brave, live her life and to hell with the terrorists. But as her mother, I feared that if something horrible did happen, I did not want her there. I didn't want to imagine the unimaginable.
Other parents expressed similar concerns on social media: "I don't know what to tell my children. Certainly, it is not same America we used to live. So, so sad," said one mom.
None of the schools canceled classes, but many individual professors did. Most kids stayed in their dorms, terrified to venture outside.
This is no longer just a gun issue. It's become an issue of life and death. An issue of how we live our lives. How our schools have become hunting grounds.
I am tired of the arguments that only criminals kill with guns. I doubt the mother of the Oregon murderer thought her son was a criminal. Other school shooters also had no prior criminal record.
And as to the growing chorus that the only real protection against violence is to carry a gun, please just stop. That if the victims had been carrying a gun, they'd be alive today? That if every man, woman and child is armed, the killings will stop? Welcome to the new O.K. Corral. Let's just hope no cars backfire nearby! Duck!
Our country's would-be leaders aren't helping.
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said on Fox News that he would've done more to prevent the killing spree.
"Not only would I probably not cooperate with him, I would not just stand there and let him shoot me," Carson said. "I would say, 'Hey guys, everybody attack him. He may shoot me, but he can't get us all.'"
GOP presidential contender Donald Trump, told MSNBC that, "You're going to have these things happen."
"It's not politically correct to say that, but you're going to have difficulty ...and people are going to slip through the cracks," Trump said. "What are you going to do, institutionalize everybody?"
This is exactly what's wrong with this issue. We mourn, we question, we say we'll pray for the victims. But then we make excuses. We call for adding more guns in public spaces instead of restricting them. We become numb. We forget.
We have a serious problem with gun violence in our country. Blame it on the criminals, the mentally ill, or the terrorists — whoever you want, but we can't just do nothing. Something has to be done. Our lawmakers must act now before another college campus, elementary school, or movie theater becomes a hunting ground. Arming every citizen is not the answer. Disarming some of them, is.
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Oct 14, 2015 - 07:07pm PT
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NATION
Epidemic: Guns kill twice as many kids as cancer does
Dustin Racioppi, The Asbury Park (N.J.) Press
Apr 11, 2013
Seth Wenig, AP
Group to give away 30 guns in 30 days in PR bid
ASBURY PARK, N.J. — Most victims of gun violence in 2010 were not on a battlefield or remote hillside in the Middle East fighting in a war. They were, like 6-year-old Brandon Holt, children and teenagers in America, according to the Children's Defense Fund.
Brandon was shot in the head by his friend and neighbor, an unidentified 4-year-old boy, on Monday night. He is now also a statistic of gun violence.
STORY: Family donates N.J. boy's organs after shooting death
In 2010, 15,576 children and teenagers were injured by firearms — three times more than the number of U.S. soldiers injured in the war in Afghanistan, according to the defense fund.
Nationally, guns still kill twice as many children and young people than cancer, five times as many than heart disease and 15 times more than infection, according to the New England Journal of Medicine.
"We see guns as much of a threat in their life as we used to see bacteria and viruses," said Dr. Judith S. Palfrey, a past president of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the co-author of the New England journal report. "If you look at what's actually killing children and disabling children, guns is one of the major things."
Accidental firearms injuries have been on the decline nationwide. In 2001, 5,091 children ages 19 and under were injured by a firearm. Those numbers steadily decreased through 2009, when 3,587 children under 19 were reported injured by a firearm, according to the defense fund.
A national issue
Monday night's shooting in Toms River comes during a high-profile period for guns and politics. Congress is set to vote on a series of gun-control measures aimed at reducing gun violence.
Meanwhile, gun violence persists. Since the shooting on Dec. 14 in Newtown, Conn., 58 children have been killed by guns, according to the online magazine Slate. On Saturday in Tennessee, a 4-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed the wife of a sheriff's deputy.
"Gun violence right now is an epidemic in our country," said Raymonde Charles, a Children's Defense Fund spokeswoman. "It's a moral imperative for us to really come together, work together to reduce gun violence."
It was not clear Tuesday how the Toms River boy got access to the rifle.
Nicola Bocour, director of Ceasefire NJ, which advocates for stricter gun laws, said the shooting underscores the need for a societal shift in attitudes toward guns.
"I think what it really shows is that the state of the gun culture in this country right now, the way it's approached, is not healthy," Bocour said.
Statistics on shootings
— In 2010 in the U.S., 606 people died from an unintentional shooting.
— In 2011,14,675 people were wounded in an unintentional shooting but survived.
— In 49 percent of unintentional shooting deaths, the victim is shot by another person.
— Thirty-three percent of U.S. households have a gun, and half of gun-owning households do not lock up their guns, including 40 percent of households with kids under age 18.
— A gun in the home is 22 times more likely to be used in a completed or attempted suicide (11 times more likely), a criminal assault or homicide (seven times more likely), or unintentional shooting death or injury (four times more likely) than in a self-defense shooting.
— Most unintentional shooting deaths occur in the home (65 percent), based on data from 16 states. The most common context of the death (30 percent) was playing with the gun.
Source: Brady Campaign to End Gun Violence
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John M
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Oct 14, 2015 - 07:12pm PT
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you overplay your hand, you end up pissing people off and they become entrenched.
If your attitude is that they are already entrenched, then why bother.
in other words..
give it a rest.
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zBrown
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Oct 14, 2015 - 07:18pm PT
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