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Las Vegas was tragic, but I don't know why everybody is clutching their pearls about it. We have a couple mass shootings every year and we'll have more in the future. People are acting like it's something that has never happened before, but it has - many, many times.
This sense of righteous outrage doesn't cover the fact that we accept this in our society. And nothing will change because we don't have the political will to change. Other countries have a fraction of the gun violence we have, but as long as the NRA considers a few hundred people getting their heads blown off every once in a while acceptable, and as long as they can bribe members of Congress to continue to make an unlimited number of guns available to anybody who wants them, nothing is going to change.
The old adage about only criminals getting guns may be partially true, but we do everything we can to put them in their hands because they are available just about anywhere to anybody.
If those dead children in Newtown couldn't spur change, then we as a society accept this collateral damage every few months.
Then the question becomes, at what point does the amount of guns purchased and the amount of ammunition gain a level of scrutiny? Are there no laws on that? Maybe there should be. At what point does the amount of weaponry purchased from a seller become a liability for the seller? Again, that is a reasonable discussion to have considering the number of people murdered and injured in this and other mass shootings. I'm guessing there will be some creative lawyers looking into this now and in the future.
It is also connected to the one next door, the pyramid one. I stayed there once, and there is an underground mall and access which connects the two resorts.
You can rent an handicap electric cart for about $40 per day and attach your own cart to it. The hotels only rent them out they don't own them and won't say squat to you.
Actually, if this guy bought all these guns from a private seller and they identify the seller, can that seller be taken to court for the result? No? Maybe there should be laws on that. Odds are the seller will be publicly identified at some point in this case.
Nonsense.
So by your logic, auto dealerships can be sued if thier customers are arrested for DUI?
Paint companies for graffiti? Walmart for illegal use of any of thier products?
Previous owner of a used car, if the new owner uses it in a robbery?
Las Vegas was tragic, but I don't know why everybody is clutching their pearls about it. We have a couple mass shootings every year and we'll have more in the future. People are acting like it's something that has never happened before, but it has - many, many times.
This sense of righteous outrage doesn't cover the fact that we accept this in our society. And nothing will change because we don't have the political will to change. Other countries have a fraction of the gun violence we have, but as long as the NRA considers a few hundred people getting their heads blown off every once in a while acceptable, and as long as they can bribe members of Congress to continue to make an unlimited number of guns available to anybody who wants them, nothing is going to change.
The old adage about only criminals getting guns may be partially true, but we do everything we can to put them in their hands because they are available just about anywhere to anybody.
If those dead children in Newtown couldn't spur change, then we as a society accept this collateral damage every few months.
I wish this wasn't true but it is. Republicans call these shootings "the price of freedom". It's horrific and it goes back to that television executive saying she lost hope Republicans will do anything after Sandy Hook. Her second comment went too far but her first comment was simply acknowledging that if twenty murdered children doesn't motivate Republicans to stop excusing mass shootings, nothing will. Las Vegas was still in progress when right wing blogs were going into overdrive defending guns.
Then the question becomes, at what point does the amount of guns purchased and the amount of ammunition gain a level of scrutiny? Are there no laws on that? Maybe there should be. At what point does the amount of weaponry purchased from a seller become a liability for the seller? Again, that is a reasonable discussion to have considering the number of people murdered and injured in this and other mass shootings. I'm guessing there will be some creative lawyers looking into this now and in the future.
What difference does it make if he had 4 guns or 400?
A person can only shoot one gun at a time.
He had several handguns and shotguns in his arsenal - neither of which would have done much from 32nd floor of hotel.
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