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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:14 PM Original message |
What the hell is going on in Tennessee? |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:15 PM Response to Original message |
1. 1)easy access to guns.. 2) pissed off, unhinged people with guns.. n/t |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:17 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Sounds like an explanation to me. |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:18 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Pfft. You just described St. Paul in early September, but ... |
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SharonAnn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:27 PM Response to Reply #1 |
16. Right-wing, angry, Republicans. Just last week a student was suspended for wearing |
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tnlefty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:18 PM Response to Original message |
4. There have been many shooting in Chattanooga |
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colonel odis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:19 PM Response to Original message |
5. you left out the shooting in the high school in knoxville a few weeks ago. |
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asjr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:23 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. I went to high school and college in E. TN also. |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:24 PM Response to Reply #5 |
11. Do you have a link? n/t |
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colonel odis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:30 PM Response to Reply #11 |
21. here they are |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:50 PM Original message |
What a mess. I'm sorry. n/t |
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zazen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:20 PM Response to Original message |
6. lots of heroin in "middle class families;" social services slashed; high unemployment? |
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TNDemo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:20 PM Response to Original message |
7. You forgot the kid shot at the high school (where I went). |
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zazen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:32 PM Response to Reply #7 |
23. she was kidnapped at her hotel by four? Mexicans who worked there--that ups the rage too |
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susanbanks44 (449 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:21 PM Response to Original message |
8. Hillbilly militias are on the rise. n/t |
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Cessna Invesco Palin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:24 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Serious question: What's a hillbilly militia? |
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SharonAnn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:28 PM Response to Reply #12 |
17. WE have a couple of "militia" compaounds around here. High, barbed wire fences, lots of armed men |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:30 PM Response to Reply #17 |
22. Got them in Michigan too. Upper Peninsula |
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Cessna Invesco Palin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:33 PM Response to Reply #17 |
24. So kind of like the 90s style anti-gubmint militias? |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:43 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Not to jump out of line here but the ones I seen in Michigan just hated government |
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Cessna Invesco Palin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
9. Everybody has guns, the economy is awful, and a huge number of the population are alcoholics. n/t |
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SharonAnn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:29 PM Response to Reply #9 |
20. Alcoholics or drug addicts. Methamphetamine, Oxycodone, etc. |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
13. I have family in Tennessee... |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:28 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. Who is pushing hillbilly banter? n/t |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:29 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Oh, not you... |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:45 PM Response to Reply #19 |
27. I just saw that. |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 05:25 PM Response to Reply #27 |
36. It's getting scary! |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 05:29 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. I think it's different than that. |
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zazen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
14. oh, and their outrageous zero tolerance policies, which only hurt the high-performing kids |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 05:30 PM Response to Reply #14 |
38. I'm sure that if you started your own thread about it ... |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:25 PM Response to Original message |
15. people are looking more and more to violence to resolve even minor disputes |
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2Design (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:44 PM Response to Original message |
26. right to work state - it is poor - they are stressed n/t |
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GeorgeGist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:48 PM Response to Original message |
28. They're very religulous |
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brentspeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:57 PM Response to Reply #28 |
33. So how do you explain all the massacres that Washington state has experienced? |
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southernleftylady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:59 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. it happens everywhere I dont get the whole TN thing myself nt |
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southernleftylady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:50 PM Response to Original message |
29. I am from Tn... couldnt you get these type of headlines in other states too? |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:52 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. "Isnt this really how america is headed?" I hope it isn't. |
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southernleftylady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:53 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. Then lets pray that Obama does win because sadly.. in this economy its only going to get worse |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 05:39 PM Response to Reply #30 |
40. Guns, poison, bombs, whatever... |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 05:37 PM Response to Reply #29 |
39. You are so right |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 05:56 PM Response to Reply #29 |
41. Those kinds of incidents happen almost daily in Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, etc. |
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codjh9 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:53 PM Response to Original message |
31. Well, did you hear about THIS one? I wonder how many we're going to see like this: |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 05:03 PM Response to Reply #31 |
35. I was thinking of compiling all the victims of GOP-failed policies, like ... |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 05:58 PM Response to Reply #31 |
42. There have been several threads about that one |
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