Before we get started, I’d like to compliment long-standing Freeper LUV_W for not changing his/her handle.

Obviously crafted from ancient hand-tooled artisanal stupid, this tribute to once hero / now despised GOP-e icon Dubya shows long-time dedication, and short-term memory loss.

To: maxwellsmart_agent

Where are armed citizens to defend themselves?

8 posted on 8/31/2019, 5:01:16 PM by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)

From someone driving down the highway blasting away with a long gun?  Um – yeah.

To: LUV W

My local news is quoting the New York Times about 2 deaths…they are clueless!

26 posted on 8/31/2019, 5:20:10 PM by KittenClaws (“There is no 1502 Johnson” ~ Joan Hamilton)

How DARE they?? There will be a nasty letter about this tomorrow in the New York………….hmmm.

To: LUV W; null and void

Just in time for the September reconvening of the House and Senate!

Imagine that coincidence!

52 posted on 8/31/2019, 5:39:28 PM by Lazamataz (We can be called a racist and we’ll just smile. Because we don’t care.)

DAMN those deep state congresscritters!!  They’re all in cahoots!

To: LUV W

I know I don’t get out enough, but why do I never get an active shooter loose in my area?

58 posted on 8/31/2019, 5:42:29 PM by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going no than throwing bleach, said one woman.)

Lucky at cards, unlucky at love?

“KittenClaws” takes exception to “Trailerpark Badass”s flippancy :

To: Trailerpark Badass

This is the last time I report on local happenings. I’m live in Odessa…and you bunch of chit chats don’t give a crap.

59 posted on 8/31/2019, 5:44:38 PM by KittenClaws (“There is no 1502 Johnson” ~ Joan Hamilton)

This diverts the discussion a tad :

To: KittenClaws

FR is not the friendly community you imagined it was. I know.

62 posted on 8/31/2019, 5:47:27 PM by HalfIrish

Duh.

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And now, everyone – as promised – CODE TOADY!!

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To: KittenClaws

“and you bunch of chit chats don’t give a crap.”

What exactly were you expecting, a bunch of caterwauling and FReepers losing their minds???

71 posted on 8/31/2019, 5:51:39 PM by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and Americans!)

That’s tellin’ her, by jingo!

To: CodeToad

Get Bent Toad

77 posted on 8/31/2019, 5:55:04 PM by KittenClaws (“There is no 1502 Johnson” ~ Joan Hamilton)

And – we’re off!

To: KittenClaws

It seems you are bent. Maybe you need to straighten out and stop being such an emotional liberal wanting to cry over everything and demand everyone else joins you.

80 posted on 8/31/2019, 5:56:21 PM by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and Americans!)

Yeah, you liberal whiner! Just because you’re in Odessa and a potential target is no reason to cry over things like mass murder and 17-month-olds getting shot in the face.

More below the mouldy fold…

And today, in False Equivalence :

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To: libstripper

But not a peep about the routine weekend shootings in Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, St.Louis, and SOUTHBEND…

51 posted on 8/31/2019, 5:39:07 PM by Freedom56v2

“Jane Austen” agrees :

To: Freedom56v2

No, not a word about those shootings. And they occur constantly.

81 posted on 8/31/2019, 5:56:23 PM by Jane Austen (Neo-cons are liberal Democrats who love illegal aliens and war.)

And then, “Dave W” pisses on the fires of their outrage :

To: Jane Austen

There is a world of difference between a shooting around public housing in some urban neighborhood and random shooting at dozens and sometimes hundreds of people going about their daily business. Because people like you don’t get shot at some public housing in Chicago, but do get shot and killed at a concert in Las Vegas, or working at a desk in Virginia Beach or watching a movie in a suburban movie theater or just innocently driving down a road in Odessa.I assume you know that.  I assume you know that a Chicago urban killing does not affect people the same way a mass killing affects people who like them are just going about their day bothering no one.

Do you get it now?

93 posted on 8/31/2019, 6:02:43 PM by Dave W

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And now – back to our regularly scheduled clown slap-fight :

To: CodeToad

And maybe you should just STFU

I don’t give a krap!

100 posted on 8/31/2019, 6:06:19 PM by KittenClaws (“There is no 1502 Johnson” ~ Joan Hamilton)

Kitten got claws.

“Yossarian” weighs in :

To: Trailerpark Badass

I know I don’t get out enough, but why do I never get an active shooter loose in my area?

I’ve had one happen at an event I almost went to (Gilroy Garlic Festival).

It isn’t fun checking in with friends that you know went to the event to make sure they got out alive.

Why don’t you reconsider your really, really dumb post, and hit the abuse button on yourself?

109 posted on 8/31/2019, 6:19:11 PM by Yossarian

Code Toady isn’t gonna take that squatting down!

To: KittenClaws

Awww, pooor widdle baby got told no one cares about what she cares about and now has a boo-boo.

Society has people like to thank for people being out of control. They were never raised with any discipline and are now prone to childish outbursts.

103 posted on 8/31/2019, 6:08:18 PM by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and Americans!)

To: Reno89519

“Where are armed citizens to defend themselves?”

Texas has come a long way since the Texas Tower shooter.

56 posted on 8/31/2019, 5:42:11 PM by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of ignorance. Cursed be those who don’t.)

And then, reality rudely interrupts all of the “Die Hard” fantasies :

To: Reno89519

Taking on a reported rifle with a pistol is not generally a winning tactic.

112 posted on 8/31/2019, 6:19:44 PM by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)

And a few posts later :

To: napscoordinator

Pistol versus guy in a moving vehicle with a (reported) rifle.

Pistol v. rifle, usually guy with the pistol loses badly – consider also that legally a shooter is responsible for any bullet they fire. Their backstop in this case is a retail district.

You want to be responsible for killing some kid in a store across the street because you couldn’t hit the moving vehicle or you had a bad ricochet?

119 posted on 8/31/2019, 6:23:47 PM by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)

This has been your daily ration of the bleedin’ obvious.

And now, the obligatory $cientologist post :

To: lodi90

We’ll see if the person was on psychotropic meds.

169 posted on 8/31/2019, 8:34:55 PM by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)

To: LUV W

They killed the SOB.

164 posted on 8/31/2019, 8:01:09 PM by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open ( —)

And now a reply, from a poster who’s never heard of the “Think Twice, Post Once” axiom: