Once upon a time they passed an amendment to remove our free right to drink alcohol. Prohibition didn't turn out very well, so they passed another amendment to repeal it. I imagine if we somehow passed an amendment to repeal the 2nd amendment rights that it would look a lot like prohibition. Lots and lots of weapons available but on the black market. Increased violence between gangs and between gangs and the cops with no end in sight. I posted a police weapon on the cover of a magazine. Well, that's what you'll see every cop carrying all the time. They would have to pry guns from the dead fingers of their owners. Realize what that's going to take and what it would do to us as a society.
If I had a time machine, I wouldn't try to kill Hitler. I'd bring the founding fathers forward to see where we are now and ask them to steep in this country for about a year before giving their opinion. I bet Thomas Jefferson shacks up with a stripper.
The focus on shooting violence is not seeing the forest because of the trees. http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=49
I will say this: most children are animals, feral and without empathy, until they're about 28. The cruelties they visit upon one another are myriad in variety and boundless in scope. Which is why maybe, just maybe, they shouldn't be allowed to augment their rash decision making and desire to hurt others in a fit of rage with the easy availability of weapons designed to kill multiple targets efficiently.
First off... TV-Novosti is a Russian propaganda arm in English. Secondly, what's up with the militarization of the police? No conspiracies, please... just a real opinion.
It's the Bush revolution. He Israelized the U.S. His disciple Bush, Jr. carried on after his demise. Waiting in the wings is another one, Hillary Rodham Bush. They are bored and eager for the U.S. to start tearing itself apart like a Middle Eastern country. They will wait many decades, trying to provoke us while we just yawn them off.
So just the normal "this used to only have industrial use but we've saturated the market there so let's sell it to civilians" marketing creep? Makes some sense.
"Killing multiple targets" is incredibly rare. And if they want to mass kill, they'll use a gallon of gasoline and a match if they're really set on it.
I don't think they had cars in 1776, just saying. Maybe they should make driving cars a constitutional right too. The right to possess and drive cars, shall not be infringed! Then people would say, well fuck I should be able to drive my Ferrarri 160 mph any time I want or drive after I have had a night of drinking and strippers. And road head! That's totally legal man. Don't you bitches infringe on my constitutional rights! And then others would say, but look at all the bloodshed. People are driving 160 mph, when drunk, and getting road head and running over kids. Oh the humanity!
Not sure yet. All I have read is that the shooter was a former student. I haven't seen anything else.
CNN is reporting the shooter had an AR-15 and a brown paper bag filled with more than 20 fully-loaded magazines.
