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I don't know about deploying snipers stationed on roof tops. What if the sniper was in the same building as the snipers on the roof? If there were a few cops on the ground with AR15's they could have fired some shots into the window where the guy was shooting from. This would have made him stop long enough for more people to escape and it would have made him turn his attention to the cops allowing more people to escape. They might even have gotten lucky and hit him.
It's not just the "likelihood". It's the fear that it instills and the cost and inconvenience it causes to try to prevent this kind of thing.
All to make sure a RWNJ can have a garage full of weapons for his anti-government fantasy camp.
So only RWNJ's own guns? Right. You sound like just another emotional, far left fanatic.
Fear it instills? Maybe man up, and realize that the chance of this happening to you is even less than you winning the lottery, or getting hit by lightning.
Known as the "gun show loophole," most states do not require background checks for firearms purchased at gun shows from private individuals -- federal law only requires licensed dealers to conduct checks.
Under the Gun Control Act of 1968, federal law clearly defined private sellers as anyone who sold no more than four firearms per year. But the 1986 Firearm Owners Protection Act lifted that restriction and loosely defined private sellers as people who do not rely on gun sales as the principal way of obtaining their livelihood...
Again,, how many guns can someone fire at a time? Is a gun swap faster than a mag swap?
BTW ALL of this guy's guns were bought legally.
Yes they were, he could buy as many guns as he wanted and as much ammo as he wanted and no questions were asked because Constitution.
The guy was able to keep an almost constant stream of shooting with 23 guns and many of them having legal bump stocks. It's all legal - no restrictions whatsoever. 500+ victims is just the cost of freedom.
Most gun owners don't. Apparently a mentally ill person is a fine gun customer and after all, gun sellers must have made a nice $100K off of Paddock so it's just the "cost of freedom".
Psychiatrists have to compete med school and then a psych program before they are qualified to practice. You think a clerk is capable of diagnosing a customer? You’re a special kind of anti-science person.
Yes they were, he could buy as many guns as he wanted and as much ammo as he wanted and no questions were asked because Constitution.
The guy was able to keep an almost constant stream of shooting with 23 guns and many of them having legal bump stocks. It's all legal - no restrictions whatsoever. 500+ victims is just the cost of freedom.
Didn't answer the question. Should everyone at that concert have been fully armed? What would it have accomplished? Many were drunk according to the police scanners. So 22,000 fully armed people, some drunk, start shooting at an undetermined source with no ability to actually stop the shooter who is 32 floors up.
-Of the 22,000 many were children who can't legally own guns.
-In Nevada its illegal to be in possession of a firearm if your BAC is at .10 or higher. This is the real sticky point for your ridiculous argument though since you believe that criminals or people with bad intents will instantly be stopped by additional gun laws, but you seem to be arguing that the law restricting one from even possessing a firearm with a .10 BAC or higher wont be followed in your hypothetical situation.
-As for the remaining non drinking of age and fire arm carrying people, you seem to imply that they will just wildly shoot at will into the air with no target in sight? In an incident like this, step one is to hide/shelter, then and only then if its safe can you begin to get a visual on the shooter. At that point if you are lucky enough to find him, you will probably quickly realize that your hand gun and your skills probably won't let you accurately hit a target 100s of yards away.
Our local concert area is set up properly. Flat ground, dug into the dirt and sufficient armed security to stop such a thing if it happened. There is no sniper hide from any distance where someone could shoot.
This is something we'll need to adapt to, sad as it is. Huge gatherings of unarmed people are just targets.
Sadly, I think it does need to be implemented for major events (and they are for the most part), just like they have baggage searched, concrete barriers, plain clothes police amongst the crowds, etc.
All medium sized metropolitan police departments have SWAT teams with trained snipers so that isn't an issue really. The question is as someone pointed out you simply can't cover all outdoor events....too many occur on a daily basis. One would have to do some risk assessment for each - any high cover near the event? etc.
Yes they were, he could buy as many guns as he wanted and as much ammo as he wanted and no questions were asked because Constitution.
The guy was able to keep an almost constant stream of shooting with 23 guns and many of them having legal bump stocks. It's all legal - no restrictions whatsoever. 500+ victims is just the cost of freedom.
All he needed was one gun, you know that right?
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