Comments by "B Nic" (@bnic9471) on "ABC News" channel.

A coworker adopted a baby like Jaxon, and he lived for 11 years. I'll never forget holding him and carrying him around one day, when he was about 5. He could not do a thing for himself and never spoke a word, but I swear someone was in there. When I held him and danced around with him, he laughed peals of gusty laughter. He was adorable, and seemed not to be suffering. He seemed to process another's touch, and motion, and seemed to get pleasure from it. I know that I felt joy, and his entire adoptive family loved him and worked hard to meet his needs. Are you really sure that you want to judge this family harshly? They're making the best of a tough, tough situation. I'm glad Jaxon brings them joy.
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@shizuokaBLUES Are you Japanese, perchance? Now there's a bizarre, dysfunctional, dying, and occasionally genocidal cluster*ck of a nation.
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@starkravingralph Way to psychoanalyze an entire state based on your own dislike of being armed. What genius commentary.
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Yes. Extremely heartbreaking. I usually avoid looking at these videos, but I wanted to look at a successful case of "good guys" saving the day. But my heart goes out to the two innocent victims.
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@malrose Do you suppose that 300 grand helped them satisfy some enormous medical bills? Even good insurance isn't all that good, of course.
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She looks happy to me.
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Oh, wait . . . they are rather exploitative of their son. Still, no reason to condemn them for choosing to have him rather than euthanize him in utero. This happened to a cousin of mine, and she never had to decide whether to terminate or not, because the baby died in the sixth month of pregnancy. Be nice.
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What the heck is an "assault" rifle? Doubt you could come up with a definition. Also, I've noticed that gun control fanatics never, ever stop trying to ban more and more things. No self-respecting American is going to roll over for creeping fascism.
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The whole country is strapped. Guns are neutral tools, insurance policies, if you will, and most never get used against another human. Certainly, most do not carry with evil in their hearts.
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D K Well, isn't it normal to walk around with a gun 24/7? Let me guess . . . you're a suburbanite, or maybe from one of those stabby countries where armed police and government thugs suffer you to live.
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Well, I've found that the gun doesn't always unholster easily. That could have been me. Let this brave man's example remind us to upgrade our skills and maintain them. May he rest in peace.
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@alextheskaterdude07 How do you know that the shooter was black? He was covered up in black like an Antifa loser, but does anyone know his ethnicity? The first poor guy murdered by the shooter was black. That much is evident.
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Urosepsis . . . The old man's friend.
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Friends of mine raised a child similar in appearance to those girls, although most of his brain never developed. "Just a feather on the left side in his skull," his mother said. He wasn't able to control his body even to the extent that the girls did. Yet, when he was about 9, I picked him up and carried him around, and he laughed great, pealing belly laughs. He loved to be held and carried arounf, and I loved to hold him. I felt such joy, doing so. His IQ might have been nil, but he was in there. This particular boy made his soul and personality known--on a gut level! And, for his 11 years, he gave his family and friends much joy.
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Don't you take your piece to church? I know I do. Guns do no good home in the gun safe.
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@shizuokaBLUES You can't resist taking a gratuitous, slanderous potshot at the U.S. President and the good people who sent him? How am I not surprised? Try not to worry TOO much, though. The man is already a legend for his vision, and in the fullness of time, you might even have cause to agree. I can't fault you for your chauvinism, myopia, or whatever it is. It is just noise.
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@starkravingralph Neither. I see that you've edited your comment extensively, in any case, so I can't review if I misread your comment, or not. In any case, my attention span is fine, thanks.
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With a name like "Wayne Mills," you certainly sound as if you are an American.
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He did get killed. He drew the gun but did not have time enough to aim. But he may have bought time for the man who did kill the shooter. Hero.
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D K Yes, areas of the U.S. are rapidly going to seed (the warmer parts of it, mostly), and it always helps a person to see their own society from a foreign vantage point. I learned about mine while living and going to school in a Mexican metropolis. And, from what I can tell, we have unraveled into a society much more reminiscent of Mexico, in terms of the wealth gap. I wonder what the US GINI coefficient is today. Oddly, my perspective and my American heritage mandates that I keep my personal arsenal shined up and well oiled, with at least one weapon on my person at all times. Personal responsibility + the right to keep and bear arms.
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@Matthew Emanuel Emanuel Oh Jesus Christ . . . spare me your red diaper kaka, lazybones. If taking responsibility for myself is "backward", then give me backwards.
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D K I guessed Switzerland. Yay me! Your country is tiny, culturally homogenous, and not above sitting on its hands while your fellow Europeans wallow in their own blood. Not impressed . . . my people emigrated from Belgium, Germany, Norway and Sweden, and, with the possible exception of Norway, those countries are currently letting the barbarian walk in, unopposed. The United States works fairly well for such a huge country because its citizens are united in a common philosophical creed. It may very well survive the current crisis by virtue of the fact that citizens are armed. It may look ugly while the crisis unfolds, but then, we are a sprawling multiracial nation. We are not the insular Swiss. Switzerland would never "scale up" to something even remotely as vibrant and multifarious as the United States.
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D K The violence in my country is largely confined to economic behavioral sinks in large cities, including in the northern city of my birth, known as America's Berlin for all the Germans who landed there. My city was also once renowned for its orderliness and kept electing socialist mayors throughout the 1960s. Now, parts of it, including my old north side neighborhood, are shooting galleries. They became crime-infested with the rise of dependency culture in the 1960s. It's such a shame. As for me, I don't ever have to lock my doors, either. At least part of the reason for this safety is that my state, traditionally as progressive as California once was, is positively bristling with firearms, from hunters to farmers to people like me with a revolver in her purse and another in her car. Miscreants just never know when they will be met with a bullet, and so they tend to behave themselves.
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D K You seem to be under the impression that guns just leap out of holsters and start mowing masses of people down under their own steam. That's pretty funny. That's very cute. I'll bet you approach your own militia weapons with all the terror of a bird facing a snake. Egads!
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D K Giving you another upvote for you perspective. I wish you could understand that most armed Americans also regard their weapons as a necessary evil, too. My revolver is in my purse not for glory, but for an emergency. I once thought as you did that people glorified their guns, but, over the years, living here, I have learned better.
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D K Kill someone efficiently with a pen? Like James Bond? That's great! For my part, I'm a nurse and former emergency medical services. I've learned a lot about how to de-escalate violent people, overcome them with restraint (and a shot of tranquilizer to the booty!) and the final puzzle piece was how to safely and lawfully handle a firearm. The gun itself doesn't make me feel safer, especially, but boy howdy, I now no longer worry about all the people with concealed weapons, out there. I've seen how they train, and noticed that they do not act like fools with toys, as I had once feared they might.
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Good. I guess you're out of your misery, then.
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This sort of thing is not all that common, and you're probably influenced by our media sensationalism and lousy, violent movies. You'll almost surely be fine visiting here, especially if you stay out of the poorer parts of our big cities.
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This is drummed into our heads. The so-called "Five Rights" of medication administration keeps getting longer and longer. It is still easy to drop the ball.
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@keng4847 What are you even saying? This whole scenario is heartbreaking, with the only silver lining being that an armed parishioner halted the murderer. All your "What if" objections are just so much noise. Face it: you will never be able to control who does and who does not carry concealed weapons. Be glad that there are so many well trained and well intentioned people with concealed weapons. Like me, for instance. I hope never to have to fire my revolver outside of the practice range, but I've got it and will use it if given no other choice. It is my constitutional right.
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What, exactly, is an "assault rifle"? Is it different from a tickling rifle or a massage rifle? Do enlighten me.
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It's certainly a much better outcome than the 2017 Texas church shooting. That gunman was also killed by a parishioner with a legal weapon, but only after he'd slaughtered over a dozen churchgoers.
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@Autumn Lewellen I'm not impressed by your logic or your scolding. Unless you, Autumn, are a parishioner at that church, you just showed up here as a rubbernecker--to gawk at tragedy. And your admonition to leave politics out of tragedy is inane. In fact, I'll bet that your own political leanings motivated you to scold him. This tragedy is indeed political, underscoring the wisdom of self-protection. So stop with the scolding and get on with your morbid gawking, already.
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Way to exhibit your pet hatred, Mr. Fountains. I'm probably a better shot with a snubbie than you are.
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I think that this was a sloppy case, too, although I want to add that carotids pull back away from the anterior aspect of the neck when the head is arched back.
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@MorbidManMusic Well, when some guy sweeps you with his shotgun, be sure to get your complex mind whirring and humming on a better solution. Preferably faster than the 6 seconds it will take the gunman to kill two innocent souls. Or did you have a foolproof idea for preventing crazy gunmen from opening fire in church in the first place? If so, you shouldn't be holding out on us simpletons.
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@nicholasbrown4109 What a silly all-or-nothing purity test. Of course only 2 people having died is worth celebrating . . . or are you trying to say that 2 dead is the same as 2 dozen dead? Try telling that to each of the 240 survivors. "I would rather that you had died than to see concealed weapons policy in your church."
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@starkravingralph Nope, Toots. The guy was a volunteer, not a formal, paid security guard.
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Well, that troubled man sure had a funny way of seeking help.
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erock755 more like you're a sh!t for brains sheep trained to de0lore everything Trump. You're nothing but a midbrain. Hope your parents support you well.
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LOL. Did you pull that figure from the Rectal Bureau of Statistics, or what?
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