From my home state, comes this story. A story we read FAR too often in this country.
Another legally acquired gun ending lives. Sad.
Pop quiz: guess how many people would have died in Illinois in this story? Answer: the exact same number. Conceal carry isn’t the answer, people. Period.
Go to Brad’s Blog and read this.
Wow. Surfing around in the interest of self-education tonight and I find this heartwarming story. (sarcasm)
So 57% of all guns manufactured world wide every year end up in the U.S. Gun owners are soooo abused here, aren’t they? Um, people, I think we have enough.
Lots of people think we have “enough” things, like teachers, funding for education, health care for children, gun laws, and funding for seniors.
Those same folks, along with still others, think we have enough sports venues, and parks, laws, and greenspace.
Those folks also, for the most part, think we not only have enough, but too MUCH of things, such as liberals, abortions, athletes making big money, hunting regulations, government, and taxes.
Ironically, many (most) of those same people who feel that way, however, don’t have a problem with their freedoms being taken away by the very people they elected to office.
Those people also feel, however incomprehensible that it may seem, that we DON’T have ENOUGH gun rights. Huh? I think this story I’ve linked to suggests otherwise.
Police find arsenal in kid’s house before he gets to kill.
Oh, here’s the most disgusting part:
The weapons included a 9 mm assault rifle that the teenager’s mother had recently bought for him, Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce L. Castor Jr. said. Prosecutors are reviewing her actions.
Then, of course, there’s this part:
Also discovered were seven explosive devices Castor described as homemade grenades: plastic containers filled with BBs to which gunpowder could be added. Authorities said one grenade was operable and the others had been in the process of being assembled.
And this:
“I do not think an attack was imminent and I am not certain that an attack was going to occur at all,” Castor said at a news conference. “It could have simply been big talking by a kid who thought that he was bullied previously and he was going to exact his revenge.”
The teen previously attended middle school in the district but had been taught at home for more than a year after voluntarily leaving school, Castor said.
So…no attack was imminent? How’s the view from your arsehole, Mr. Castor?
The kid was caught after a tip from a high school student and that student’s father. The “no attack was imminent” weapons’ horder was being home schooled after voluntarily pulling out of school.
But let’s get back to the sick part: Mom bought the gun. My questions: How easy do you suppose it was for her to do this? Show a drivers’ license? Smile flirtaciously at the sales clerk? Tell him, “oh, don’t worry about me, it’s a gift for my 14-year old home-schooled son who voluntarily left school last year”?
Tell me again how we already have too many laws and it’s this sick twisted woman’s right to do this.
UPDATED: Mom had purchased two more guns, which were stored at a friend’s house. She is not an early leader in the Mom of the Year race.
Students tried to warn staff at the Cleveland alternative High School that was the scene of yet another scary shooting incident.
“Armed with two revolvers”, the story says, as well as “had a history of mental problems” and “he was talking about doing it last week”. Oh, and don’t forget, “He seemed like an angry young man” and “students believe the attack could have been prevented”.
Another sad, sad case. The ONLY saving grace and “good side” of this story is the fact that as of yet, no one (save for the shooter) lost his or her life in this incident. But the attacks in the comments will be aimed at me for being “liberal”, not for the real problem.
Another white guy, another legally obtained gun (he was a police officer!), another six senseless deaths. When you count the gunman, the total rises to 7.
When is it going to stop? When are we, as a society, going to open our eyes and grow up? Amazing. Sickening. But “don’t take away my gun”, right? Whatever.
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