Need assistance refuting a Facebook post

[CanonRay]

A "friend" posted this nonsense:

It turns out the problem is so Simple...... Don't let Democrats have guns!
Ft Hood Shooter - Registered Democrat.
Columbine - both families were progressive liberal Democrats.
Virginia Tech Shooter - Registered Democrat - Wrote hate mail to Bush.
Connecticut School Shooter - Registered Democrat; hated Christians.
Colorado Theater Shooter - progressive liberal Democrat; staff worker for the Obama campaign; Occupy Wall Street!
Remind me again, who thinks the Tea Party is Evil???

I've checked Snopes but can't find anything as to party affiliation. Anybody got answers? I cannot leave this BS unchallenged.

[PoliticAverse]

1. "Loughner registered as an independent voter in Arizona"

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/house/jared-lee-loughner-was-a-regis.html

Suspected Tucson gunman Jared Lee Loughner registered as an independent voter in Arizona in the fall of 2006, according to the Pima County Registrar of Voters.

[Atman]

2. All I can say is "sounds like bulls**t."

Can't refute it for certain, but how could it have not been reported that the CO shooter worked for the Obama campaign?

Remember, the goal with FB is often just to get your b.s. out there, then sit back and let a thousand other idiots do your dirty work by sharing it.

[CBHagman]

13. You've summarized the whole problem with that and forwarded emails.

Remember, the goal with FB is often just to get your b.s. out there, then sit back and let a thousand other idiots do your dirty work by sharing it.

And the same is true with the forwarded email. In fact with both Facebook and forwarded emails, the poster/sender will try to shame the viewer into liking and/or sharing -- i.e., "If you don't care about abandoned puppies/little children with cancer/wounded veterans/the future of the nation, just keep scrolling past!"

[Atman]

14. I just read a story about those "Like if care..." scams.

And scams is what they are. I mean, who LIKES cancer, or who doesn't think it's cute that some little girls want a puppy? My question has always been WHY? What do posters gain? Well, as always, it's about the money.

In Facebook's quest to monetize the sight, they've written all sorts of algorithm's to track what viewer' like and view. Notice that names of the FB pages end to be either totally generic in nature, or quite specific. That is so they are marketable.

Once a post starts getting lots of traffic, FB's algoriths "notice" and the FB page starts having a value. Not just for pushing ads, but the page itself become valuable. Like a popular web page. There is actually a list of FB pages for sale, complete with a built-in list of followers.

So think before you like. That little girl with Down Syndrome who doesn't think she's pretty is probably just an old stock photo, and by "Liking," you're just helping some dude make a few hundred bucks.

[cbrer]

3. Last Republican President

Killed 316,000+. And domestically, at least another 4,000 died.

Not counting the Constitutional law breaking. Leave the second amendment. He broke the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th. At least.

Did you ask for links/references?

[Coolest Ranger]

4. Back his butt into a corner

and demand that he post his proof for it. Ten to one odds that he pulled that out of his tail pipe.

[Cheap_Trick]

5. not sure

But I do know that BTK, Ted Bundy and almost every other serial killer were registered republicans.

[Coolest Ranger]

6. James Holmes of CO

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/aurora-dark-knight-shooting-suspect-identified-james-holmes/story?id=16818889

Says clearly in the article he's a member of the tea party. I would do more research for you but I got to get ready for church. Maybe someone else can google mass shooting suspects, party affiliation. That's how I found this

[PoliticAverse]

7. No it's correcting an erroneous report that claimed that.

"An earlier ABC News broadcast report suggested that a Jim Holmes of a Colorado Tea Party organization might be the suspect, but that report was incorrect. ABC News and Brian Ross apologize for the mistake, and for disseminating that information before it was properly vetted.

[PoliticAverse]

8. Cho Seung-Hui (VA Tech) was a permanent US resident not a US citizen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seung-Hui_Cho

[wandy]

9. Just another Teapublicn meme of the week. Yep sheep hears what to bahhh about this week.

[CanonRay]

10. I did find that the VA Tech shooter was a Korean citizen, and not eligible to register.

[CBHagman]

11. For starters, it's illogical to blame the Columbine shooters' families...

...for the carnage.

[Berserker]

16. True but

It's also Illogical to blame it on the guns and not the shooter's.

[Bandit]

19. Right they could have accomplished the same thing with a hammer......Right?

Guns are completely fault free.........Also the moon has finally been proved to be of green cheese...

[Berserker]

20. Guns are completely fault free

As are hammers. Until a human picks one up.

Newton's first law of motion is often stated as

An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.

That of course is Physics not snark.

[Bluenorthwest]

12. Virginia Tech Shooter- Korean national, permanent resident of US, not eligible to vote at all.

So that one is clearly false and it is sitting right there with the others. This means the entire list is in need of citations from the person who is so very, ever wrong about that....

[GoCubsGo]

15. Ask whoever sent that to you to prove it.

They are making the allegations, and it's up to them to back that up, rather than you having to refute all of it.. Tell them to put up or shut up.

[LaydeeBug]

17. Tell your friend that it's all well and good until the G-D TRUTH shows up

Tell them they are entitled to their own OPINION but they are NOT entitled to make up their own FACTS.

Then quote Bill Clinton: It takes a lot of stones to blame somebody else for what you did.

[Buzz Clik]

18. Just reply that they were all Republicans.

Who gives a shit about their party affiliation. If the FB poster finds comfort in saying they were Dems, just contradict him with no proof.

ON EDIT: people did the leg work. He was wrong. I doubt he'll accept these facts.

[Coyotl]

21. Just reply as follows:

One of the not-so-great things about Facebook
is the lack of fact checkers and outright lies.
This means we do our own fact checking.
And your post does not pass my checking.

[leftyohiolib]

22. WHY do you feel a need to refute this p.o.s. the writer will not care or believe anything you say

[CanonRay]

24. Good point

Fair point. She just pissed me off! What possessed me to friend this idiot, I don't know.

[baldguy]

23. Falsely linking mass murderers to a particular political party w/o offering any proof is pretty evil

[robindahouse]

25. here you go

http://www.examiner.com/article/the-idea-that-recent-mass-shooters-are-mostly-registered-democrats-is-a-myth

[cui bono]

27. Good find and nice first post! Welcome to DU!

[hrmjustin]

28. Welcome to Du my friend!

[TeamPooka]

29. nice. Welcome to DU!

[cui bono]

26. I don't know, but ask for proof? n/t