Russian police swoop on opposition leaders

http://news.yahoo.com/ru...ers-rally-113146413.html 

Leftist Sergei Udaltsov and anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny were detained on the central Lubyanka Square, where witnesses said about 2,000 people gathered, and protest leaders Ilya Yashin and Ksenia Sobchak were detained on their way.

"The bloody regime has got to Sobchak," Navalny said before he was hauled away, referring to the 31-year-old former socialite who has joined the opposition even though her late father was once St Petersburg mayor and a close ally of Putin. 

I've not heard of these people. New crop of Russian "opposition"? 

Dartagnan: I think this disaster in the USA should be a good lesson for Russia. Russia should not sell weapons to its citizens. 

Protect our Children

 No civilian needs a weapon that can kill in mass and not even have to reload. My heart is broken, and I'm angry that it is so easy for mentally unstable people to get their hands on these weapons. Let's stop making it easy for them. Could anyone tell how I can help?

Guns=Drugs

 When you buy a gun, you want to shoot someone. When you want to shoot someone, you go to a bad part of town. When you go to a bad part of town, you'll be offered drugs. When you're offered drugs, if you were stupid enough to buy a gun you'll buy the drugs. When you buy the drugs, you'll take them. Once you take the drugs, you'll be hopelessly addicted for the rest of your life and die a good for nothing druggie.

We don't need weapons to exist

We're not a hunting society, and we have adequate protections in place by our cities, states and country. There are plenty of guns we can kill each other with (oh yea, and go hunting) without needing something that can discharge 30 rounds or is an automatic weapon. Weapons for protection and hunting is a red herring.

People kill with the help of guns

The USA has the worst record of death by shooting in the world...52 deaths in Canada last year, over 10,000 in the USA. Yes you can multiply our record ten times beacause of the population difference. Still the numbers speak for themselves!! Don't ban everything just the assault rifles with large clips!! WAKE UP USA !!!!!

People with weapons!

Those supporting the right to bear arms say that weapons do not kill, but people do. However, evidence suggests that people without weapons cannot go on a murder spree -- people with weapons do. Let us keep weapons and people away from each other. As far as defending ourselves go -- let us reduce the need for defending ourselves, and if needed let us behave like a civilized country -- where the job of defending us is left with police officers trained in the use of guns.

US Ambassador thanks Russians for their sympathy

As I said before selling handguns&marijuana produces a lot of money to people who sell them. So I don't think that the us government is going to take any measures to stop this bussiness because banks need money and these people keep their money in banks. 

I don't think that the new law for marijuana will help the US young people. I think this law is going to destroy them and make them crazy. 

 Environmental factors play a role in the development of schizophrenia. 

Environment

Drug use

Amphetamine, cocaine, and to a lesser extent alcohol, can result in psychosis that presents very similarly to schizophrenia. Although not generally believed to be a cause of the illness, people with schizophrenia use nicotine at much greater rates than the general population. About half of those with schizophrenia use drugs or alcohol excessively.Evidence supports a link between earlier onset of psychotic illness and cannabis use; alcohol use is not associated with an earlier onset of psychosis. Other drugs may be used only as coping mechanisms by individuals who have schizophrenia to deal with depression, anxiety, boredom, and loneliness. There is evidence that alcohol abuse via akindling mechanism can occasionally cause the development of a chronic substance induced psychotic disorder, i.e. schizophrenia. A small number of people withdrawing from benzodiazepines experience a severe protracted withdrawal syndrome which can resemble schizophrenia and be misdiagnosed as such. The more often cannabis is abused, the more likely a person is to develop a psychotic illness, with frequent use being correlated with twice the risk of psychosis and schizophrenia.Whether cannabis use is a contributory cause of schizophrenia, rather than a behavior that does not actually cause the disease, remains controversial.

Guns=Drugs

 When you buy a gun, you want to shoot someone. When you want to shoot someone, you go to a bad part of town. When you go to a bad part of town, you'll be offered drugs. When you're offered drugs, if you were stupid enough to buy a gun you'll buy the drugs. When you buy the drugs, you'll take them. Once you take the drugs, you'll be hopelessly addicted for the rest of your life and die a good for nothing druggie.

Originally Posted by: CROUCHING TIGER

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Originally Posted by: Dartagnan

This is Victoria. She died a hero yesterday. She hid her first graders in the cabinets and closets after hearing the gunfire. When the shooter came to her classroom, she told him that her students were in the gym. He then gunned her down and moved on. She saved the lives of all of her students. Please pass this on if you see it. She deserves to be remembered for her bravery by the US government. 

                                               

https://plus.google.com/...posts/8DLZETGtPqx?cfem=1

I agree, but the US government won't. The people will have to memorialize Victoria Soto ourselves. The corporate state fears & despises fight-back from the people.

Amongst all the 911 hoo-hah, how much you see about the brave fighters of Flight 93? Threatened, government demands we just roll over & hope some trained apes in black body-armor come "save" us. 

You see why we gotta look after ourselves, maybe even believe we need guns?

Dart, there is another dimension to this question that has to be understood. Most Americans do not take government's "right" to disarm us as a given:

The corporate boardrooms love a big spree killing precisely because it stokes the divisive "culture-war". Their President is on it like a dog on a bone, so there MIGHT be a firearms crackdown looming--or not. One will see.

I haven't hunted for thirty years and possess no firearms. However, I rather agree with José Ortega y Gasset's observation that there can be no moral decision once law enters the picture.  I did not eschew weapons under any diktat--had there been such, I would more likely have cached them.

The Second Ammendment has nothing to do with hunting (or with home protection either), but with the guarantee of an armed citizenry. We may or may not agree with that but let's not cloud the agenda. That is media's job. If it will save the life of a Single child... hell, just throw out that dead relic, the Bill of Rights, altogether. We already know the "protect the children" plaint immediately moves on from the Second Ammendment to abrogate the First and on & on... 

Pluralistic mass movement, most recently in the form of Occupy, is always vulnerable to division. If we want to flush out of the mix those nasty ideologues, whether their flavor is Constitutionalist or Marxist, this is one way to go. Thus the proclivity of the 1%'s lap-dog press for beating these drums. They don't give spit about the animals or kids either  --the real agenda would be to disarm the lower orders before they get any more desperate than they already feel. 

Unfortunately, as the social fabric unravels under the pressure of global economic stress, we're bound to suffer more and more berserkers of various sorts. But experience says banning weapons doesn't secure us from, say, rooftop snipers--just that more of them will be in black body armor with a license to kill.

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WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD

11:00 GMT: Dec 21 has come over the Eastern Hemisphere (though still pre-dawn in Mayaland.)  

No apocalypse yet, though the right-wing National Review fears one if Obama doesn't intervene to avert a port strike on the 29th. lol

http://www.nationalrevie...-strike-michelle-malkin#