13Feb/13
Gun Nut or Mass Shooter?
I've actually been to the Kroger supermarket in Charlottesville where a 22 year-old man made national news by waltzing through the store with an AR-15. He has since been banned from the premises. I mean, really. If I see some random person with an assault weapon in a public place, I'm not waiting around to find out what their intentions are.
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February 13th, 2013 - 12:48
At least Ted Nugent confines his assault gun toting to his spacious preserve.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2013/0213/Ted-Nugent-slams-State-of-the-Union.-Why-did-he-rip-GOP-too
Most states require guns locked unloaded in trucks during transport, and use only at gun ranges or by permission of land owners well outside cities.
February 13th, 2013 - 13:42
The dipwit who did this in Virginia, and a couple of also early-20s dipwits in Oregon who parded with their rifles near a school, said they are trying to show people that guns, in and of themselves, are harmless. Yeah, geniuses, but those guns weren’t alone – they were being carried by testosterone-filled young men.
I really really really am starting to think it was a mistake to end the draft, because when people got drafted and had to have responsibility for toting around an automatic rifle, or a rifle and a machine gun, keeping it spotlessly clean, and dreading the consequences of lossing control of it, you never want to see one again.
February 13th, 2013 - 13:47
Yes, I meant to add something in my comments about the extra bonus stupidity of engaging in such an act while happening to be from the very demographic — young men — that seem to carry out most mass shootings these days.
February 13th, 2013 - 15:11
Not enough people have called bullshit on the ubiquitous talking point of “good guys with guns” protecting us from “bad guys with guns.” I guess in this simplistic fantasy world the “good guys” wear white hats and the “bad guys,” black ones.
February 13th, 2013 - 19:13
The paranoid idiot with the rifle only has himself to blame if another paranoid armed idiot blows his head off.
February 18th, 2013 - 20:28
What’s really telling are the comments on the linked site defending the guy. I wonder if these people would be singing the same tune if their children called them up and told them there were a dozen or so dudes from the inner city wearing hoodies walking around the mall with AR-15’s strapped on.
February 19th, 2013 - 11:41
The Census Bureau projects the U.S. population, now over 315 million, to reach 439 million in 2050, a 28% gain, most of which will be in crowded urban areas already afflicted by an epidemic of daily shootings. Yet no one in the Congress favors any sort of meaningful gun controls. On the contrary, the current debate inside the Beltway is on the number of rounds in clips, ie. how may brains one should be allowed to splatter before reloading.
The most chilling aspect of the gun crisis is the indifference of of the media. While New Jersey’s successful gun recall program scarcely made its news pages, a recent New York Times op-ed piece had Bush I’s Secretary of State, James Baker, and Michigan Democratic Congressman John Dingell in smarmy, bipartisan agreement that teaching young boys to hunt is a good thing,