Quote Originally Posted by Karried
Come on, you know we are dealing with unusual and extraordinary times.

Stop taking comments that are being made currently (while our citizens just suffering the worst imaginable circumstances), as the way most of us think on a daily basis.

We are all thoroughly disgusted and sickened by what is going on - you know all of us are reacting to the horrors that we are seeing day and night. These victimes just survived a CAT 5 hurricane, lost everything and now are getting shot and raped....

It's not a time to debate the NRA or due process - it's time to help these people and if some of us are really pissed off at people who are preventing these poor people from getting help because the emergency personnel are being shot at - so be it.

Your arguments are valid but take it in the way it is delivered, out of anger and frustration towards these evil people.

You know we aren't advocating walking downtown OKC and shooting people - come on - get real.
With all due respect, Karried, the problem is when the anger and frustration builds to animus and a mob mentality where rational, sane thought is suspended and replaced with a blood-thirsty lust to kick some ass.

Many of the comments here are representative of a mob mentality less concerned with fairness and more concerned with "getting the bad guys," whether or not we know they are really bad.

No where did I say not to restore order. No where did I say not to take care (or take out) the shooters. No where did I say to let the rapists run wild. If you recall, the thread started with "shoot the looters." The most severe of punishments is not the answer to common theives or people simply trying to survive.

My hope is that cooler heads will prevail. That's my ultimate point. A mob mentality is dangerous. Stress often brings to the surface the way people really feel. It's some of those issues that I have challenged.