jamesg1213

craigb

sharke
The talk of gun control after a massacre like the one in Vegas is something that's largely driven by the media to divert attention from the elephant in the room - which is that the media's sensationalist coverage of these psychopaths is what drives them to kill in the first place. 

 
The Joe Walsh song Dirty Laundry comes to mind...

Don Henley, no?

 
I think it was Henley although he ripped off the Bangles' song, "Dirty Panties."

There were some Bangle's I would have ripped the dirty panties off of...
 
 

(Oops!  Sorry...  That was only supposed to be said in my mind!)

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The bottom line is if someone wants to commit mass murder or any kind of terror they will find a way and there are many types of items one could use to do it. I don't believe in disarming people because of the few sick bastards out there. There will always be crazy people and we should be able to protect ourselves. I think some people who are in some kind of a bad way in their life see these kind of terror acts as a way to be famous(in their mind) and want to be recorded as part of history events. I think anyone who wants to purchase a weapon should not only have a complete background check but it should be mandatory that they take a safety course as well.   I don't think weapons should be sold at flea markets either.
 

IBTL.

Why, when some drunk gets behind the wheel of her car, drives the wrong direction on the freeway and plows head-on into another car, killing those inside, do people not talk about taking cars away from sober people?

The thing I'm finding hard to believe about this whole story is how long it apparently took the cops to find his room. It took them...how long? We're expected to believe that they had no idea which floor he was on, and had to work their way down from the top. They're now saying they only found him after the smoke from his guns set off a fire alarm. 
 
Really? 
 
First of all, he shot out two huge floor to ceiling windows on a high floor. Even in the dark (which isn't really that dark in Vegas), it would have been a simple matter to identify the building the shots were coming from, scan the facade of identical glass panels, see the broken ones, observe the flashes of gunfire coming from them and work out from there which floor he was on and also where on that floor he was located. 
 
Not only that, but I'm presuming there were many other guests staying on the same floor as him. The noise from those guns would have been deafening. Do they really expect us to believe that nobody heard the din from constant automatic gunfire on their floor and reported it? Either the Vegas police are uncommonly stupid, or there's something which doesn't pass the smell test about this whole account. 

bdickens
IBTL.

Why, when some drunk gets behind the wheel of her car, drives the wrong direction on the freeway and plows head-on into another car, killing those inside, do people not talk about taking cars away from sober people?

 
Not only that, but using vehicles as a mass killing weapon has now been tried and tested. The Islamic terrorists in Europe have cottoned onto it, and we're going to start seeing more of those truck attacks. It might even overtake suicide bombings given how much easier it is to rent a truck than it is to make a bomb (or acquire an arsenal of weapons). 
 

jamesg1213
A little inappropriate in this thread, don't you think Craig?

Yep.  Sorry, forgot what thread I was in... 

The idea of "weapons sold at flea markets" is a bald-faced lie. If one wishes to discuss the merits and/ or drawbacks of various ideas on public policy, one should base those discussions on actual facts and data rather than on emotional appeals designed to obfuscate rather than clarify the issue at hand.