BamaD -> RE: Oregon Shooter had fifteen firearms (10/7/2015 1:07:41 PM)
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961 Freaking hell, you want a full casualty list? The fact that no one on the right said anything about the victims is no different than no one on the left saying anything about them either. In point of fact, the first thing out of anyone's mouth from the left is "this wouldnt happen if their were no guns." Should we mourn the victims, hell yes, but to say no gun rights supporter hasnt thought about them implies some omnipotent mind reading power possessed by the liberals, that quite frankly I doubt exists. Let me drop a bombshell on you folks, something coming from a gun owner, and pointed right to your "antigun" bullshit, knee jerk crap. First, a mass shooting as any incident involving more than four people at one location or a series of related events. That is the DOJ definition. As it stands now, there have been more "mass" shootings in the US than days in the year so far. On the same day as the incident in Oregon, there was one in Florida, three people killed before the shooter killed himself. No national news on that one. Incidents involving four or more victims happen routinely in major cities, written up as gang related. In south central LA, the average victim count on drive by is 5, and there are more than one a day. Yet it is this type of incidents that get the headlines. Why? The answer is simple, any other place in the US where this is common it is considered so routine that it is ignored by the national media. Where is the liberal outcry for the thousands killed and injured in those incidents? They are just as important as the students at a small community college. There is one difference, those other incidents happen in places where the liberals dont give a crap about. If they did, MSNBC and the liberal news outlets would be all over it. Gun related violence is not because guns are easy to get, gun related violence happens in places where guns in private hands should not happen at all, because officially, no private person can own guns. The problem is not, never has been the ease at getting a gun, it has been in the fact that of over a million pages of gun legislation passed, the crap is so convoluted as to be damn near unenforceable. We hear about the gun show loop hole, which is kind of a bullshit theory, simply because most dealers at a gun show hold a FFL, and in many cases, more than one, and have no problem using the various smart phone, tablet and lap top apps to run back ground checks to follow the law as far as it can be. The problem is that most of the shit that should show up on that back ground check is not readily available. Shrinks do not want to notify authorities of a patient with a violence problem, because that violates their ethical rules, in most states it is not even mandatory unless the patient is admitted for more than observation. Then there is the fact that even in this era of "instant" information access, information is slow to get into the places it needs to be so that someone would know about a potential violation or block to the purchase. And as for callous or an uncaring attitude, well gee, it is kind of hard to appear anything but when you are trying to defend your beliefs in light of so much bullshit being thrown around. Here is a good example: Semiautomatic assault weapon. (a) Any of the firearms, or copies or duplicates of the firearms in any caliber, known as: (1) Norinco, Mitchell, and Poly Technologies Avtomat Kalashnikovs (all models), (2) Action Arms Israeli Military Industries UZI and Galil, (3) Beretta Ar70 (SC-70), (4) Colt AR-15, (5) Fabrique National FN/FAL, FN/LAR, and FNC, (6) SWD M-10, M-11, M-11/9, and M-12, (7) Steyr AUG, (8) INTRATEC TEC-9, TEC-DC9 and TEC-22, and (9) Revolving cylinder shotguns, such as (or similar to) the Street Sweeper and Striker 12; (B) A semiautomatic rifle that has an ability to accept a detachable magazine and has at least 2 of -- (1) A folding or telescoping stock, (2) A pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon, (3) A bayonet mount, (4) A flash suppressor or threaded barrel designed to accommodate a flash suppressor, and (5) A grenade launcher; © A semiautomatic pistol that has an ability to accept a detachable magazine and has at least 2 of -- (1) An ammunition magazine that attaches to the pistol outside of the pistol grip, (2) A threaded barrel capable of accepting a barrel extender, flash suppressor, forward handgrip, or silencer, (3) A shroud that is attached to, or partially or completely encircles, the barrel and that permits the shooter to hold the firearm with the nontrigger hand without being burned, (4) A manufactured weight of 50 ounces or more when the pistol is unloaded, and (5) A semiautomatic version of an automatic firearm; and (d) A semiautomatic shotgun that has at least 2 of -- (1) A folding or telescoping stock, (2) A pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon, (3) A fixed magazine capacity in excess of 5 rounds, and (4) An ability to accept a detachable magazine. For the military and international community: assault rifle is a selective fire rifle that uses an intermediate cartridge and a detachable magazine. For most anti gun fanatics it is anything with technology other than singleshot smooth bore musket. Actually someone, I am pretty sure it was DCnovice posted a rest in peace message, I agreed with this for all but the shooter and Tommy was offended because I believe in Hell. But other than that you are correct about the lack of sympathy posts. You are correct it is difficult to sound sympathetic when told that if you do not buy into the gunaphobes approach you are an uncarring sociopathic lunitic.
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