I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

"Looking for someone to blame" ---  sounds like a normal person to me!  Isn't that what the majority of people have done with this tragedy? 

PatMom may have been right, they weren't looking then, and now they're jumping on every june bug that flies by.

BTW Medigal, I was in a little grocery store here in the North of the South yesterday, rounded a corner and what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a big old jar of "Pickled Pigs Feet". I didn't check the price but I thought of you! 

Classic case of Monday Morning Quarterbacking.

Kadeeb:  That's how I always wanted to be remembered by:  "A jar of pickled pigs feet!"  Don't forget the "tails" if you ever run into any.  Seriously, it just shows "some people" still like and buy them or that store would not be selling them.  You are so lucky to live wherever that is!

So...it's all speculation of course, but my reading of the fellow in Tucson echoes Alpal's:  he was shot, he was angry, he was frustrated, and he made a gesture (a gesture!) and said "You're dead".  The fact that he did it in a public place in front of witnesses is the difference.  What about a wife in her own home in a fit of intense anger (and hyperbole!) yelling at her husband and saying "I'm so mad about what you did that I want to kill you"?

I'm sure there's more to the story, but if I had just been in the crossfire of a mentally unstable man and had been shot in the leg in a public place, I'd be bloody angry too!  And maybe the whole episode would have left me a little mentally unstable too...

As for pickled pig's feet -- I just can't help thinking about Babe or the poor little pig in Charlotte's Web.  Aaawwwwwww................

Lindasa:   Do you eat fried chicken?  Do you think about the famous "Henny Penny" who spent her life running around telling everyone "the sky is falling"?  Aaawwwwwww, poor whittle chickie and we sit around eating all her ancestors every day.   Fried, baked, stewed etc.  Besides, I made sure the piggies feet and tails I ate didn't belong to Babe or the one in Charlotte's Web.   But.........until I become a Vegan, they are at risk!

Medigal -- I thought Henny Penny was stupid! and I don't have any fond memories or fairy tales or movies of/about pet chickens.  There's a reason for the term "birdbrain" and it sems to fit chickens quite well!  Pigs, on the other hand, are determined to be the smartest brains in the stable and they've gotten such a bad rap over the years.  They wallow in mud to keep themselves clean and tic-free, and I've heard that if they are kept in a pen, they will only defecate in one corner.  I wouldn't want one as a pet, however!

So yes, I eat chicken, I cook chicken, I can live with the way a plucked and cleaned chicken can look like a naked chicken.  I can also eat bacon (not much), salami (again, not much!), pork tenderloin and roast pork shoulder -- all because none of it looks like the body from whence it came!  Silly, I know, but that's just me!

Yep .. maybe Mr. Fuller was making a point.  Did you see the interview on T.V. about the young man who was carrying a gun at the Safeway and almost pulled it out and shot the wrong guy.  The young man was very shaken up about that.  He saw one of the survivors holding Loughner's gun, and in a split second decided against pulling out his own gun.  He was so upset thinking that he could have shot an innocent man mistaking him for the killer.

Medigal -- Of course we're kidding!  In fact, if pickled pigs feet were available here in the GWN, I might be tempted to try them, on your recommendation, and only if I'd consumed at least a bottle of wine first!  If I can eat escargot (slimy snails) and really enjoy them, I'm sure I could do the same with pickled pigs feet -- as long as garlic was included in the pickling!

Hoping you're having a nice (and warm!) Sunday too!   The sun may be shining here but the thermometer reads 17F.  Brrrr!

Hugs!

I saw the interview where he said he went running toward the shots when he heard them inside the store.  When I saw him interviewed he never said he almost pulled out his gun.  He said that the shooter was down, therefore helped keep him down.  He said he didn't want to cause more "collateral" damage.

AZ Massacre Hero Educates Geraldo on What a Responsible Gun Owner Does In a Crisis  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUmmOWL05r8

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Here, the way I understood it, he would have shot Loughner if he needed to. But, they already had him down.

Joe Zamudio: "I would have shot the man holding the gun."

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_p-PVwZeek

 

BTW, did anyone hear the MSNBC news program Friday where they mentioned someone in the Congress seriously wants to introduce a measure allowing congressmen to carry a gun on the House floor?  It was Rep. Gohmert of Texas and it seems he was serious!  Gosh, if they disagree on a Bill they can now start shooting at each other!  Of course that is not what they really want it for but for protection.  It seems the Arizona killings really put a serious concern on them wherever they have to be.   I can't see it ever happening but just to think it has come to be this much of a concern for the reps is scary.  It could be Dodge City in Washington!

Barbara:  Wow!  You should delete that post!  Never know who's watching in these crazy times. I am glad to see you added "kidding".  That should take 50 years off your sentence! 

Barbara:  Don't fear.  Once they read this thread and see what some of us "eat" they may feel you already paid your pentence by just being a part of this thread and won't touch you.  You know you always have me and my little piggies to fight for you too!  Besides, I think the Feds have enough problems without having to fool with bc women who befriend people who eat "pickled pigs feet"! You're safe gal.  Have no fear "Medigal and her piggies are here!"

I also saw an interview with the man from the store.  

He definitely did say that he immediately thought about pulling his gun out and shooting the person he saw with the gun.  Even when he saw the shooter on the ground he briefly wondered if the other person was a second shooter.  Of course this was all happening in seconds.  But that is all it would take to react...the wrong way. Thank goodness he paused, but he was still quite shaken about how close he came to shooting an innocent person.

I totally agree PIP but do we yank the ability to have guns and carry with training? The vast majority of people are just like him..and US!!