Lautenberg / Carolyn McCarthy to reintroduce gun-ban bill

[acp]

Kool aid?

 

[inactive]

Kool aid?

Good thinking! It slipped my mind as the Jones thing was not in the US. But they were American lives.

 

[MaddSkillz]

The 33-round magazine wasn't the thing that made the shooting so lethal. The lack of CCW holders there to save the day was...

Amen!!!

 

[inactive]

Crazy people will find a way to do what they do. As a society, we have to expect some tragedy to happen. It is not entirely preventable.

If it wasn't 33 round magazines, he would have had a half dozen 10 round ones (and could have been as effective if trained on reloading). If it wasn't guns, it would have been knives or bombs or ???

On the other side, to think that a group of armed CCWs should have a mission to defend the public safety is equally naive. Armed citizens certainly have a place. A bunch of CCWers (or open carriers ,for that matter) whipping out pistols in this large chaotic scene and firing to "save the day" scares me. Even if I was armed, I would run like hell from that scene!

Perhaps at VA Tech, it would have made a difference. From how quickly it seems this event took place, I am skeptical.

We gotta accept that "crazy happens." Doesn't mean we have to like it. Doesn't mean I am making an excuse for it.

 

[OkieMoe]

Quote:
One of the fiercest gun-control advocates in Congress, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), pounced on the shooting massacre in Tucson Sunday, promising to introduce legislation as soon as Monday targeting the high-capacity ammunition clip the gunman used.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories...#ixzz1Aeofs1cQ

The bodies are still warm, but this person see's an opportunity to further her agenda, you go girl!


Makes me sick..

 

[Perrone]

I can't wait until they try to take our guns away and the thugs still run around shooting people up. They will never learn.

 

[MaddSkillz]

Crazy people will find a way to do what they do. As a society, we have to expect some tragedy to happen. It is not entirely preventable.

If it wasn't 33 round magazines, he would have had a half dozen 10 round ones (and could have been as effective if trained on reloading). If it wasn't guns, it would have been knives or bombs or ???

On the other side, to think that a group of armed CCWs should have a mission to defend the public safety is equally naive. Armed citizens certainly have a place. A bunch of CCWers (or open carriers ,for that matter) whipping out pistols in this large chaotic scene and firing to "save the day" scares me. Even if I was armed, I would run like hell from that scene!

Perhaps at VA Tech, it would have made a difference. From how quickly it seems this event took place, I am skeptical.

We gotta accept that "crazy happens." Doesn't mean we have to like it. Doesn't mean I am making an excuse for it.

I agree to an extent. There comes a point when you notice a person is just shooting random people and you feel your life could be next. It's not so much about protecting the public as it is about avoiding being next.

 

[Glocktogo]

Aside from airplaines, I say bombs (binary explosives). Kehoe used dynamite in a school to kill 45. Of course McVeigh used fertilizer to kill 168.

There are numerous fires that have killed in the dozens. A "Circus Fire" was a name given to many of them.

I guess I should have excluded McVeigh, as his was a terrorist attack. Some other good guesses with blankets and other Indian attacks, but that wasn't the direction I was headed either. I was looking for a plain, old fashioned murder. The answer is the Happy Land arson/murder of 87 people in the Bronx in 1990. No one ever remembers it because he just used some gasoline and a couple of matches.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Land_fire

 

[grizzly97]

I guess I should have excluded McVeigh, as his was a terrorist attack. Some other good guesses with blankets and other Indian attacks, but that wasn't the direction I was headed either. I was looking for a plain, old fashioned murder. The answer is the Happy Land arson/murder of 87 people in the Bronx in 1990. No one ever remembers it because he just used some gasoline and a couple of matches.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Land_fire

Wow. That's crazy! Guess we should outlaw gasoline and matches, just to make sure no one ever does it again.

 

[inactive]

I agree to an extent. There comes a point when you notice a person is just shooting random people and you feel your life could be next. It's not so much about protecting the public as it is about avoiding being next.

I understand, it's a careful balance.

And thanks for reading into what I said correctly and not taking it as an affront of sorts It was difficult to try to get my message across without sounding cynical of CCW, which I am not (of course! Why else would I be on the forum?!)