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The shooter bought an assault style rifle six days ago?

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Not sure how they know it because the article says: "It was not immediately known where the gun was purchased.", but it said "Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa bought the weapon on March 16, just six days before the attack at a King Soopers store in Boulder, according to an arrest affidavit". Somebody probably knows exactly when and where it was bought, but don't know how buying it six days ago or six months ago had an effect on his actions.

One side will say we need gun control and the other will say "they" want to take our guns. A background check could prevent someone with a record of mental issues from legally buying an assault rifle from a dealer, but not all the shooters a record of mental issues and not all weapon are sold by legally registered dealer. As for taking our guns, don't know how that would be possible either and not without a drastic changed to the Second, Fourth and Fifth Amendments and maybe a couple more.

Probably is no satisfactory answer and politicians will continue saying "our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims".

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Avatar eddessaknight -
#1
Stack-
As a society, we need to seriously consider what obscene mayhem we are showing the public in movies, TV, video games, advertisements,etc, being passed off as entertainment to impressionable minds.

The constitution does not protect perverse purveyors for profit.
Avatar noise-gate -
#2
E-Knight : When you have militia surrounding folk like Roger Stone, militia storming State Capitols, armed folk walking down the street to show they have an arsenal of weapons & no one can do anything about it, it tells people like this guy that it's okay to act out on your fantasy. Year's ago another guy from that State snuck into a movie theater and shot people going in to watch Batman. Funny how these folk have mental health issues, but they sure know what : Gun they want & how much ammo they need.
Avatar lakerben -
#3
From what I've heard the republicans fought hard for their right to buy assault weapons and it just recently passed!!!   Why in the world does anyone need an assault weapon?   I won't be going to Colorado anytime soon.
Avatar noise-gate -
#4
The air is too thin for me up there.
Avatar Stack47 -
#5
Eknight,

How many people died in the last 10 years from watching movies, TV, video games, ads, etc? When was the last time someone on WWE Raw or Smackdown was shot with an AK?

Never played and video games where an AK or AR-15 is the weapon of choice either. Have a friend that is a licensed firearms dealer and last week he showed me an auto AK and an auto Glock both with a suppressor. He unloaded both magazines in about 2 seconds each and about $50 worth of ammo. Might seem weird, but neither of us suggested driving to the nearest Walmart and shooting shoppers.

Finding the root cause is the basic of any problem solving and it should be very obvious that guns are the common denominator and the root cause of all the mass shooting. I don't know exactly how these mass shooting can be prevented, but I do know it would be next to impossible disarm everybody in the U.S.
Avatar Stack47 -
#6
I live in an open carry state so it's not unusual to see several people packing in grocery stores. Don't know why they believe it's necessary to be packed while pushing their carts threw the store or how they would react to a mass shooter, but from my experience, their hand guns are no match against an AK or 15. And hand guns were no match for Lucas McCain either.

As for blaming what "they" are showing on TV, Gunsmoke and the Lone Ranger were radio shows before TV. Movie westerns from the beginning showed people get shot, but it wasn't until the 1970 where they began using special effects to show getting shot more realistic. Most kids in the 50s and 60s had cap guns and some even had "coon skin hat". If we use the "blame TV" logic, were there mass raccoon shootings or reports of 3-year-olds "kilting bears"?

The point is "ol Betsy" is not a weapon of choice for mass shootings.
Avatar rcbbuckeye -
#7
I remember when I was a kid my dad and I would pretend to have "gunfights" like in the old west using our hands as guns. We would even use "sound effects" of our guns shooting. I never sat and thought about shooting up a store my entire life.
The problem is not the guns. The problem is how people have been raised. My parents taught me right from wrong. The CO shooter is from Syria. They are saying he was bullied in school and that made him do this. Well, there were times I was bullied in school but I didn't shoot the place up. And yes, I had several guns when I was a teenager.
Every weekend there are thugs in Chicago that decide to murder people for no good reason. Chicago has become a real war zone, but we don't much about it. Does anyone think their parents took the time to teach their kids right from wrong.
Avatar Stack47 -
#8
Kids began being bullied the day the first school opened and most kids were bullied several times, but the majority of those kids turned out fine. Like with almost everything these days, there has to be a scapegoat so this time they will blame bullying.

I wouldn't drive through any area of Chicago on a weekend night unless it was in a tank.

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