Fort Lauderdale shooting

[Albion my Albion]

Hopefully, that's just a 'Friday night' throw away comment if not you need to have a serious word with yourself. As much as I dislike Trump or any other politician who I find repulsive/disagree with, wishing them dead is and should be a step to far.

Ahem!

 

[The Clamp]

He's not a racist IMO. He's an opportunist and rabble-rouser but I don't think he means what he says.

Agree with this. He says anything he thinks will get him support. He tapped into the feeling of a huge sector of Americans and used big, meaningless rhetoric to whip them up into voting for him.

 

[Triggaaar]

White supremacist or an act of terror which has nothing to do with the worlds most peaceful religion.

Have those Irish Catholics stopped raping children and gone back to killing?

 

[brightn'ove]

Hopefully, that's just a 'Friday night' throw away comment if not you need to have a serious word with yourself. As much as I dislike Trump or any other politician who I find repulsive/disagree with, wishing them dead is and should be a step to far.

Snowflake

 

[JC Footy Genius]

Agree with this. He says anything he thinks will get him support. He tapped into the feeling of a huge sector of Americans and used big, meaningless rhetoric to whip them up into voting for him.

He certainly pushed all the populist buttons. But he is in danger of delivering on the rhetoric .... repealing Obama care *tick*, blocking Republicans attempt to reduce democratic oversight of the elite *tick* and prioritising car building in the US rather than cheap labour in Mexico *tick*.

 

[The Clamp]

He certainly pushed all the populist buttons. But he is in danger of delivering on the rhetoric .... repealing Obama care *tick*, blocking Republicans attempt to reduce democratic oversight of the elite *tick* and prioritising car building in the US rather than cheap labour in Mexico *tick*.

Yep, he'll do some ground up damage I'm sure.

 

[JC Footy Genius]

Yep, he'll do some ground up damage I'm sure.

I doubt car workers in the US would see it as damage.

 

[The Clamp]

I doubt car workers in the US would see it as damage.

True.

 

[portlock seagull]

Never mind all the bitchin bout Trump you idiots, focus on the real story here: a man, airside is perfectly entitled to carry a machine gun around! Jesus Christ, I'm not sure I want to holiday in America anymore. Lots of people have guns. Check. Lots of people with guns are loons. Check. The government wants to INCREASE the number of public areas it's ok to carry guns. CHECK!!

Cannot make this stuff up. Unbelievable.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Hopefully, that's just a 'Friday night' throw away comment if not you need to have a serious word with yourself. As much as I dislike Trump or any other politician who I find repulsive/disagree with, wishing them dead is and should be a step to far.

It was, to a certain extent, but i am convinced that the man is dangerous, it may well turn out ok, but to have him as the most powerful man in the world who's actions could affect this country, so if he was taken out I would not lose too much sleep over it.
Unfortunately in America if you are going to stand for President and win you have to accept that there is a reasonable chance you are going get shot at, he wont be the first or the last.

 

[Buzzer]

It was, to a certain extent, but i am convinced that the man is dangerous, it may well turn out ok, but to have him as the most powerful man in the world who's actions could affect this country, so if he was taken out I would not lose too much sleep over it.
Unfortunately in America if you are going to stand for President and win you have to accept that there is a reasonable chance you are going get shot at, he wont be the first or the last.

The problem you have there is that Trump is not an idealogue and so is unlikely to make big fundamental changes that are unpopular and this holds him back from the excesses that he hints and promises in his bombastic speeches. If, however, he gets assassinated then Mike Pence becomes President and that man is a fundamentalist Christian, a creationist, an outspoken opponent of gay rights, anti-abortionist and all that goes with it. Seriously, we really don't want Pence as President.

 

[severnside gull]

He's not a racist IMO. He's an opportunist and rabble-rouser but I don't think he means what he says.

That he may do so not out of belief but for the "opportunity" of power may be grounds for a doubtless fascinating, but ultimately irrelevant, debate. His actions create and support racial hatred and xenophobia.

 

[Eeyore]

'Broward County Commissioner Chip LaMarca wrote on Facebook that the gunman had arrived on a flight from Canada with a gun checked into his luggage.'

 

[Canfan]

'Broward County Commissioner Chip LaMarca wrote on Facebook that the gunman had arrived on a flight from Canada with a gun checked into his luggage.'

Apparently not. https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/01/06/gunshots-reported-at-fort-lauderdale-airport.html

"A statement from a Florida official that the shooter had arrived on an Air Canada flight sent officials in Ottawa scrambling Friday afternoon, but a spokeswoman with the Canadian Embassy in Washington said there was no Canadian involvement and that officials had confirmed to her that the shooter flew in from Alaska."

“We understand from officials he was on a flight originating in Anchorage, transiting through Minneapolis and landing in Ft. Lauderdale,” embassy spokeswoman Christine Constantin said.

"Global Affairs Canada also said the flight on which Fort Lauderdale airport suspect arrived did not originate in Canada nor was a Canadian carrier involved."

 

[looney]

That he may do so not out of belief but for the "opportunity" of power may be grounds for a doubtless fascinating, but ultimately irrelevant, debate. His actions create and support racial hatred and xenophobia.

In your dreams maybe, its been the left race baiting with identity politics all the way

 

[Canfan]

'Broward County Commissioner Chip LaMarca wrote on Facebook that the gunman had arrived on a flight from Canada with a gun checked into his luggage.'

Also at https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2...e-airport.html
"It is legal for airline passengers to travel with guns and ammunition as long as the firearms are put in a checked bag — not a carry-on — and are unloaded and locked in a hard-sided container. Guns must be declared to the airline at check-in."

 

[severnside gull]

In your dreams maybe, its been the left race baiting with identity politics all the way

Hmmmmm.
History being rewritten so soon

 

[Eeyore]

Apparently not. https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/01/06/gunshots-reported-at-fort-lauderdale-airport.html

"A statement from a Florida official that the shooter had arrived on an Air Canada flight sent officials in Ottawa scrambling Friday afternoon, but a spokeswoman with the Canadian Embassy in Washington said there was no Canadian involvement and that officials had confirmed to her that the shooter flew in from Alaska."

“We understand from officials he was on a flight originating in Anchorage, transiting through Minneapolis and landing in Ft. Lauderdale,” embassy spokeswoman Christine Constantin said.

"Global Affairs Canada also said the flight on which Fort Lauderdale airport suspect arrived did not originate in Canada nor was a Canadian carrier involved."

Fair enough. But the key point remains unaltered.

 

[looney]

Hmmmmm.
History being rewritten so soon

So you think its OK for a party to use immigration to stack the vote? Or the other party that decides to put a stop to it can be smeared as racist is OK?

btw

Shooter is a Muslim convert apparently.

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

All the usual crass comments from American TV reporters and commentators offering their thoughts and prayers to the victims families - they don't need your 'thoughts and prayers', what they need is gun control legislation to stop this happening over and over again