God sent the shooter….
Sometimes I just despair. Watch this and weep. If this is your God, I weep for you too.
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In the Dark 
December 16, 2012 at 9:34 pm
I’m not religious, but to be fair I don’t think this is anyone’s God except the people of Westboro Baptist Church.
December 16, 2012 at 10:28 pm
I note that it has now been removed by Youtube. I’d actually prefer that it stayed there, so we all know what these people are like.
December 16, 2012 at 10:36 pm
You can get plenty more at their Web site. The very URL is hateful enough that I don’t feel like typing it, but Google will find it for you.
December 16, 2012 at 10:34 pm
For those who don’t know, the Westboro Baptist Church is essentially one extended family (maybe a few dozen members at most). Even the other hateful bigots in the US almost universally regard them with disgust and contempt.
While I don’t doubt that they sincerely believe their deranged and loathsome ideas, one gets the impression that the main motivation for their actions is a pathological need for attention. When they came to my city a couple of years ago to demonstrate outside the Jewish Community Center (does it surprise you to hear that they’re anti-Semitic as well?) some longtime activists in the area suggested that starving them of the attention they crave was better than any sort of counterprotest.
December 16, 2012 at 11:50 pm
I get my ideas of God from the Old and New Testaments, not secondhand. I’m too late to watch this presentation so I can’t comment on how near or far it is from scripture, but I commented critically on the leader of this congregation on this very blog on 26/4/2011, and I stand by those criticisms. Their website looks horrendous.
December 18, 2012 at 7:10 pm
I’m sympathetic to the argument that WBC should just be ignored but this did make me smile.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/12/17/anonymous-hacks-westboro-baptist-church-sandy-hook_n_2315727.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
December 19, 2012 at 12:28 am
This article suggests that 48 thousand will die in four years, so that you are overestimating the rate by a factor of three:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9753225/There-is-no-magic-solution-to-our-human-rights-quandary.html
December 19, 2012 at 12:44 am
The latest figures I could find for deaths by handguns in different countries are for 2009: Japan 11; Great Britain 18; Switzerland 40; Canada 173; Sweden 18; USA 9146
December 19, 2012 at 3:47 pm
As I suggested before, it seems to me that the Westboro Baptist Church is a fringe group with limited cultural significance beyond the suffering their outrageous acts cause to the already grief-stricken. But I have to qualify that by noting that some people with much more mainstream cultural significance in the US advocate similar attitudes. The latest example is Mike Huckabee, http://wonkette.com/493357/mike-huckabee-puts-blame-for-newtown-massacre-on-abortion-pills-where-it-belongs .
To me, Huckabee’s views are far more chilling than the WBC’s, despite being phrased in a marginally less hateful way. Huckabee has a widespread following and has even run for the Republican presidential nomination with a fair amount of success. You’ll never see Phelps of the WBC interviewed or asked for comment by a mainstream news outlet, but Huckabee has his own show on Fox News and routinely appears elsewhere in the media, treated as someone whose opinions are worthy of respect.
My country can survive lunatics like the Westboro Baptist Church; people like Huckabee really scare me.