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11 Aug 2012, 5:16 am

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/372458/20120810/david-berkowitz-son-sam-gun-control-summer.htm

For those of you don't know, David Berkowitz is the "Son of Sam" killer. He shot and killed 6 people, and wounded 7 more in NYC. It's very unusual for serial killers to use a gun.

Another expert agrees, gun control works! :lol:


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11 Aug 2012, 11:33 am

Of course, sound advice from a man who recieved messages from Satan through a dog telling him to kill people, he has had a religious conversion and recieves messages from 'God'. :lol:


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11 Aug 2012, 9:50 pm

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Of course, sound advice from a man who recieved messages from Satan through a dog telling him to kill people, he has had a religious conversion and recieves messages from 'God'. :lol:


Oh, I don't know. I imagine he's gotten the psychological care in prison that he never had while free and killing decades ago. His mental health has probably improved since those days.
Not that I want the guy loose and walking with gun in hand by my wife and I sitting in our parked car.

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12 Aug 2012, 3:52 am

Of course he's for gun control, armed victims sort of take the fun out of serial killing.


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12 Aug 2012, 2:13 pm

Dear Dox-47, can we please rent a billboard and put your comment on it?
Maybe t- shirts, too?
We will be rich, as well as sharing some common sense.

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12 Aug 2012, 4:19 pm

Sylkat wrote:
Dear Dox-47, can we please rent a billboard and put your comment on it?
Maybe t- shirts, too?
We will be rich, as well as sharing common sense!

Sylkat


Nothing would make me happier than making David Berkowitz the new face of the gun control movement. :lol:


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12 Aug 2012, 8:49 pm

Dox47 wrote:
Sylkat wrote:
Dear Dox-47, can we please rent a billboard and put your comment on it?
Maybe t- shirts, too?
We will be rich, as well as sharing common sense!

Sylkat


Nothing would make me happier than making David Berkowitz the new face of the gun control movement. :lol:


They will put the blame on the NRA for enabling Berkowitz having a gun and that the gun took control of his mind.


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12 Aug 2012, 8:56 pm

Raptor wrote:
Dox47 wrote:
Sylkat wrote:
Dear Dox-47, can we please rent a billboard and put your comment on it?
Maybe t- shirts, too?
We will be rich, as well as sharing common sense!

Sylkat


Nothing would make me happier than making David Berkowitz the new face of the gun control movement. :lol:


They will put the blame on the NRA for enabling Berkowitz having a gun and that the gun took control of his mind.


I seriously doubt anyone thinks that.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer



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12 Aug 2012, 11:32 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
Raptor wrote:
Dox47 wrote:
Sylkat wrote:
Dear Dox-47, can we please rent a billboard and put your comment on it?
Maybe t- shirts, too?
We will be rich, as well as sharing common sense!

Sylkat


Nothing would make me happier than making David Berkowitz the new face of the gun control movement. :lol:


They will put the blame on the NRA for enabling Berkowitz having a gun and that the gun took control of his mind.


I seriously doubt anyone thinks that.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

For people that think that way, look no further than the PPR forum! It's unfortunate it's not practical to keep up with all 5 (I think) threads. :(


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12 Aug 2012, 11:46 pm

John_Browning wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Raptor wrote:
Dox47 wrote:
Sylkat wrote:
Dear Dox-47, can we please rent a billboard and put your comment on it?
Maybe t- shirts, too?
We will be rich, as well as sharing common sense!

Sylkat


Nothing would make me happier than making David Berkowitz the new face of the gun control movement. :lol:


They will put the blame on the NRA for enabling Berkowitz having a gun and that the gun took control of his mind.


I seriously doubt anyone thinks that.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

For people that think that way, look no further than the PPR forum! It's unfortunate it's not practical to keep up with all 5 (I think) threads. :(


I think everyone knows Berkowitz was/is off his rocker. Now, if he claimed his gun was talking to him, you might have an argument. :lol:

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13 Aug 2012, 2:18 am

Kraichgauer wrote:
I seriously doubt anyone thinks that.

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Browning beat me to it, but yeah, I think some people actually do think that, or something very similar. Look at the whole narrative of gun control, that otherwise normal and law abiding people suddenly turn into potential killers when you put a gun in their hand, as if the gun itself changed their personality and morality. It's not that far off from claiming a serial killer's weapon is what made him kill.


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13 Aug 2012, 3:09 am

This is perhaps the most ironic thing I've seen.



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13 Aug 2012, 3:13 am

Dox47 wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
I seriously doubt anyone thinks that.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


Browning beat me to it, but yeah, I think some people actually do think that, or something very similar. Look at the whole narrative of gun control, that otherwise normal and law abiding people suddenly turn into potential killers when you put a gun in their hand, as if the gun itself changed their personality and morality. It's not that far off from claiming a serial killer's weapon is what made him kill.


Perhaps you could argue that a murderer wouldn't have killed if guns weren't available, but I state again - nobody serious believes that the gun or gun manufacturers could transform a gentle, law abiding individual into a killer.

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13 Aug 2012, 5:11 pm

Raptor wrote:
Dox47 wrote:
Sylkat wrote:
Dear Dox-47, can we please rent a billboard and put your comment on it?
Maybe t- shirts, too?
We will be rich, as well as sharing common sense!

Sylkat


Nothing would make me happier than making David Berkowitz the new face of the gun control movement. :lol:


They will put the blame on the NRA for enabling Berkowitz having a gun and that the gun took control of his mind.
LMAO!! !! !! !! !! !!

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I seriously doubt anyone thinks that.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
Well not exactly, but gun control advocates tend to have a real external locus of control which gives them the underlying assumption that the average Joe has just as much of a propensity for extreme violence as the habitually violent. The habitually violent have certain personality traits, values, etc. that give them that propensity for violence. Extreme acts of violence aren't just mere isolated incidents where just about anyone could've slipped up and gave in to impulse, they're a reflection of habitual patterns of thought and behaviour.