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Adults, children. Adults, children. Is the difference really so hard to comprehend?

The line must be drawn somewhere. The kids in Sandy Hook Elementary School were slaughtered. Strong enough word for you guys?

I have young grandkids of my own, same age, as the victims (6, 7, 8 innocent years)
No words can describe how their parents are feeling, knowing their beloved children were victims of tragic unspeakable violence.

I’m not removing Delilah song & the like; we know better. I am deleting songs involving violence against young children! Jeeezz!

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Brian

With all due respect, we have a factual saying here in the good ol’ USA. “Guns don’t kill people. People kill people”. So you see, love affair with guns or not, it really doesn’t matter. People matter!

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Brian

Brian, I know the stats. It’s higher here than in Europe & I’m not denying that fact. I will not get into politics regarding this issue as I see it’s moot at this point.

It's a sad state of affairs when we read in the news that we had yet another mass shooting. Yes, guns were involved committed by one person. I agree. A large part of that ugliness involves how easy it is to obtain firearms. Unfortunately, it’s not the gun’s fault that it falls into the hands of crazies & lunatics.

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Interesting thing on Delilah - on the Pioneer video version - Kato Kaelin was the actor who played the guy who stabbed his girlfriend, long before the OJ situation.

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Brian

Defending?? Really? Look here, Brain, I mean Brian. It’s been known.………….Never mind. Whatever!

I hereby refrain from any further comment as I already mentioned above I refuse to discuss the politics of the matter. It’s not a sign of submission nor am I agreeing with you. I’m just afraid the consequence would only drive us into this sort of thing. A never ending discussion. You can take the high road & I’ll rest my case. Have a nice day!

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Brian, I have carefully read and re-read your replies to myself and to BruceFan4Life, and I have tried to see where you're coming from... BUT, to me it smacks slightly of "Songs advocating violence towards children are not acceptable, but songs advocating violence towards adults are". Personally, I am against violence in any form, but not to the point of banning music that happens to mention it - that would be censorship taken too far.

Clearly this is a subject you feel very strongly about, and we maybe should agree to disagree on it. I predicted I would get hung out to dry for my previous post (which was not directly aimed at you, but everyone who had posted to the effect of deleting songs as a knee jerk reaction), but that is my own opinion, nothing more, nothing less. Since I don't know you from Adam, it certainly wouldn't be my place to judge you or your karaoke show based entirely on a few segments of text in cyberspace.

Do you know that when a law enforcement officer kills a criminal during a crime, it goes into those statistics? If a home owner shoots an invader, as any shooting in self defense, goes into those statistics.
Do you think he couldn't have done at least as much carnage, with an suv on a crowded play ground....or maybe a few 5 gallon cans of gasoline. With the children cornered in a walled classroom, he could have done just as much with a butter knife. We recently had police officers in Chicago kill a man for comming at them with a butter knife, "justified"....so it must be possible.
One thing is certain....this crazy SOB, should have never had access to even a butter knife.
Strange statistic, most American soldiers in Afganistan are killed by IEDs, not bullets. There must be at least a million 6th graders in our country, that could whip one up, without even using a bit of gun powder, and kill many people with it.....but they don't.......people kill people, not guns, not knives, not IEDS........now bodies of water, swimming pools, cars, machinery, and lots of other things can do the job without any human help.

i don't won a gun, but i see the problem differently.
these tragedies never happen at a police station, at an NRA meeting, or anywhere else besides places that ban guns. we all know the tired old "if you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns", but our friend in the U.K. has shown just that. the citizens may not have guns, but you can bet the criminals do (mafia aside), criminals have proven that if they want something, they can get it. just look at the batman shooting, that was all SWAT gear he had...WHT did he get that? but by only going into places that laws are taking away the citizens right to have a gun (gun free zones) means the criminal has no resistance. it is much more appealing to try this crap in a place where no one will shoot back because you KNOW you are the only one with a weapon. most would think twice before trying this if there were armed people in the building, may no stop them, but they would think twice.
and just like the batman shooting and the other school shootings, if the guns were not banned there, he might not have tried it at all and if he did, one...maybe two shots fired before someone took him out saving lots of lives. the teachers were truly brave in the situation, but they were limited to being sacrificial fish in a barrel, when the only gun on the premises is in the hands of the one who wants to kill you, what can you do?

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People in England are of a different nature, they have less crime because people kill people, and they have a fewer percentage of people that kill people......not because of their gun laws. It's that simple.

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Brian

seems like your country is in pretty bad shape, matter of fact, you may end up seeing things happening in your country you never dreamed possible......probably best to start worrying about your own problems, and maybe save some of your opinions for your own government, and country-persons.....

Never said it wasn't but in what way do you mean?

UGH!!



Thats rich coming from an American, policing the world comes to mind.

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Brian

Don't include us all in those statements!

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personally, I'm an isolationist, and as far as I'm concerned, you and the rest of Europe could be speaking German right now.....

Something that was meant to be in memory of some innocents sure turned mean.

I think CostaKaraoke & a few with provocative comments took this thread way down south. Just saying.....

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