tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post3376239663088342200..comments2023-11-10T04:17:00.492-05:00Comments on View From The Porch: Gray.Tamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-63325081749668651382007-04-17T20:59:00.000-04:002007-04-17T20:59:00.000-04:00"Now comes the media-fueled search for blame, the ...<I>"Now comes the media-fueled search for blame, the hounding of the victims and their families, the search for political advantage preached from atop a rostrum built of still-cooling bodies..."</I><BR/><BR/>...Which began the <B>same damned day</B>, before we even had a body count. <BR/><BR/>Or a suspect profile. <BR/><BR/>Or anything. <BR/><BR/>Now is not the time for blame. <BR/><BR/>It's not the time for making points. <BR/><BR/>Frankly, as a citizen of this nation and a member of this species, I think the time is still to grieve.Matt Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03500429239798601210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-50327818001805844502007-04-17T19:37:00.000-04:002007-04-17T19:37:00.000-04:00"Did you have your radio on?"Is that becoming one ...<I>"Did you have your radio on?"</I><BR/><BR/>Is that becoming one of the most fearful questions in the English language now, or what?<BR/><BR/>I just took the Beretta out to the back yard for sixteen shots as fast as I could bang 'em into the hillside.<BR/><BR/>It was my paraphrase of the line from <I>"Dr. Zhivago"</I>:<BR/><BR/><I>"I am the only free man on this train."</I>Billy Beckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13406609611276200667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-50419751696226291132007-04-17T18:10:00.000-04:002007-04-17T18:10:00.000-04:00I'm already getting spam from stopthenra.com askin...I'm already getting spam from stopthenra.com asking for money. <BR/><BR/>Don't these people have any shame at all?BobGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405172215849046373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-44512727148245356122007-04-17T16:29:00.000-04:002007-04-17T16:29:00.000-04:00Yup.Likewise, I'm phoning it in to the blog. Got ...Yup.<BR/><BR/>Likewise, I'm phoning it in to the blog. Got so much to say that nothing is gonna get written.Cowboy Blobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13880979084783592543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-11087276054256785072007-04-17T14:46:00.000-04:002007-04-17T14:46:00.000-04:00I felt the same way the day I was watching what wa...I felt the same way the day I was watching what was going on at Columbine. I watched people that weren't even making an attempt to get in and try to stop those 2 monsters for over an hour plus. Yesterday seemed to have the same results that show we haven't learned things since then. I JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT THIS WORLD! We have good people but we lack the desire totake care of things when required...<BR/><BR/>( I'm not the most courageous person either - I fall in somewhere between Sir Galahad and Sir Robin but I do know that I wouldn't let that person just execute me... ) <BR/><BR/>Joe R.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-10371823450314999742007-04-17T12:26:00.000-04:002007-04-17T12:26:00.000-04:00I feel the same way you do Tam. Just empty. An...I feel the same way you do Tam. Just empty. And just a thought of all those young people cowering in fear as that bastard had his way with them...I'm man enugh to say I'm near tears.<BR/><BR/>He OWNED that campus. 60+ felt bullets that day (tens of thousands will feel the mental effects) all from a simple pair of handguns. <BR/><BR/>And when the killer felt his work was done he checked himself out.<BR/><BR/>Good people did nothing....<BR/><BR/>God I feel sick.<BR/><BR/>-Weer'd BeardWeer'd Beardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13528978001340070552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-40276924925741660632007-04-17T12:12:00.000-04:002007-04-17T12:12:00.000-04:00The one bright spot is the reaction of people arou...The one bright spot is the reaction of people around me. One resolved to carry full-time. Another moved from plinking to shopping for the first handgun and getting certified to carry. Several co-workers are coming to learn the basics in May. Some former sheep are turning Hussite, circling the war wagons and blowing on the arquebus fuses.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com