'Batman' Shooting: Gun Lobby Counts On Short Attention Span

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Free Thinker, Jul 23, 2012.


  1. 1.They can be bought legally (semi auto)you know that RCG


    A 22 is too weak for self defense purposes imo

    People own them for different purposes .Over 99 % of legal assault rifles owners commit no crimes with them
     
    #11     Jul 23, 2012
  2. Nope.But guns aren't just for hunting FT
     
    #12     Jul 23, 2012
  3. Well why not just really do it up and put an IED at one exit, go to the other and start spraying. When the patrons head toward the exit furthest away the IED goes off, sending them back into the kill box.

    Plenty of ways combat trained people can slaughter the sheeple. My point is, if I cannot get weapons that can be modified to become military grade, it would go a long way. You do not need an AR-15 to kill a deer.
     
    #13     Jul 23, 2012
  4. A .22 is meant to be a stopper, not a killer, that is my exact point.

    It is easier to use, has less recoil, blah blah.

    If I shoot a man with a .22 , center mass, from the front, coming into my house, and he happens to die, I will walk in my state. If I shoot a man with a .357 I got problems.
     
    #14     Jul 23, 2012
  5. here is your answer:
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/23/james-holmes-weapons-internet_n_1694451.html

    Suspected Aurora Shooter Amassed Huge Arsenal Online With No Background Checks

    James Holmes, Aurora Shooting Suspect, Used Internet For Arsenal

    DENVER — In a world where Amazon can track your next book purchase and you must register to buy allergy medicine, James Holmes spent months stockpiling thousands of bullets and head-to-toe ballistic gear without raising any red flags with authorities.

    The suspect in the mass theater shooting availed himself of an unregulated online marketplace that allows consumers to acquire some of the tools of modern warfare as if they were pieces of a new wardrobe. The Internet is awash in sites ranging from BulkAmmo.com, which this weekend listed a sale on a thousand rifle rounds for $335, to eBay, where bidding on one armored special forces helmet has risen to $799.

    "We're different than other cultures," said Dudley Brown, executive director of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, which advocates for firearms owners' rights. "We do allow Americans to possess the accoutrements that our military generally has."

    Gun rights activists like Brown celebrate that freedom, but even some involved in the trade are troubled by how easily Holmes stocked up for his alleged rampage.

    Chad Weinman runs TacticalGear.com, which caters to police officers looking to augment their equipment, members of the military who don't want to wait on permission from the bureaucracy for new combat gear, and hobbyists like survivalists and paintballers. The site receives "thousands" of orders daily, sometimes from entire platoons that are about to deploy to war zones.

    On July 2, Holmes placed a $306 order with the site for a combat vest, magazine holders and a knife, paying extra for expedited two-day shipping to his Aurora apartment. The order, Weinman said, didn't stand out.

    "There's a whole range of consumers who have an appetite for these products, and 99.9 percent of them are law-abiding citizens," Weinman said. But he said that "it makes me sick" that Holmes bought material from him. He added that he doesn't sell guns or ammunition and that he was "shocked" at the amount of bullets that Holmes allegedly bought online.

    Authorities say all of Holmes' purchases were legal -- and there is no official system to track whether people are stockpiling vast amounts of firepower.
     
    #15     Jul 23, 2012
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    #16     Jul 23, 2012
  7. the gun lobby owns the republican party and strikes fear in the democrat party.
     
    #17     Jul 23, 2012
  8. Thank goodness.

    We all can see where things are heading. We have one party run by radical activists who celebrate Occupy thugs and sneer at teh Constitution. The other party is run by a bunch of cowardly sell-outs who surrender at the first murmur of opposition from the media.

    Our economy is going south in a hurry. Already it is not safe to be out in many of our big cities at night. Not just in bad areas, but in highend shopping and dining areas. Obama's campaign platform is largely third world demagougery that suggests anyone with money doesn't deserve to keep it.

    The handwriting is on the wall.
     
    #18     Jul 23, 2012
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    TraderR
    Military style can just as easily mean camo clothes.Honduras bans US hunters from wearing camo clothes. You dont live in Honduras do you??.LOL

    Actually with 3 or 4 weapons involved[1 or2 pistols, 1 shotgun, 1 semi auto[not full auto like military has-big difference:cool: ]

    Thats a frequent media lie;
    calling a semi auto= an auto/automatic .Its illegal to 'do a little file' to make a semi auto an auto /automatic.Actually having shot an auto[-.223] in US Army, auto is much harder to hit/kill with.

    Sorry,Trader R, your emotion based argumant doesn' t work in trading or much anywhere. And Colorado killer[orange haired dude, who called himself ''the joker''] his semi auto jammed.

    Nazi[national socialist] gun laws like to micromanage gun laws;
    & were the first to define ''sporting purpose''.
     
    #19     Jul 23, 2012
  10. Very insightful post into your psyche, AAA. Very insightful indeed.
     
    #20     Jul 23, 2012