Hi Jamie, We corrected the error on Alan's last name. Thanks.
Which Hawks/Wayne Rio Bravo are talking about, Rio Bravo, El Dorado or Rio Lobo?
Scott Carder, before you talk about what Martin Luther King stood for, perhaps you should find out what he actually believed.
Martin Luther King espoused the "far left liberal agenda" that you deride. He was proud of his association with the left wing of the U.S. Labor movement, and he advocated for economic equality.
Some quotes from Dr. King: “I am more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic.” "There must be a better distribution of wealth, and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism.”
For King, capitalism was “a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.” He was also staunchly anti-imperialist, and a vocal critic of the war in Viet Nam:
"Our irrational, obsessive anti-communism has led us into too many quagmires to be retained as if it were a mode of scientific thinking.”
Why do you think the FBI had him under surveillance?
King was a great man, and he was proudly, staunchly liberal.
You need to be more careful with your cherry-picking Anon. That Politifact link you cite rates the 77 cents-to-the-dollar "myth" as "Mostly True".
Thanks Pete.
Mark, I'm so glad you got me started!
I stand corrected. The 2002 Monash University shooting left two dead and five injured.
It still pales in camparison to the death toll in the US due to mass shootings since 1996. The 2007 Blacksburg VA shooting alone left 32 dead and 15 wounded. While hardly comprehensive, this list shows over 30 mass shootings in the US from 1999 to 2011:
http://www.newsmax.com/us/mass-shootings-u…
It still stands that since Australia enacted the 1996 gun regulations that firearm homicide rate has fallen by 59 percent, and the firearm suicide rate has fallen by 65 percent.
It's true that gun homicides in Australia increased in 1997. But why stop in 1997? Maybe because since enacting gun control laws, Australia's firearm homicide rate has fallen by 59 percent, and the firearm suicide rate has fallen by 65 percent.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkbl…
Since 1996 Australia has had no mass shootings. The US had had more than 50.
http://iansa.org/system/files/School%20sho…
Turns out that it's not a people problem, it's a people-who-oppose-gun-regulation problem.