Reading some other threads I though I would drag this back
I was going to jack my own post (my 30 minute metal work) but it fits here, soltz got me to thinking so I grabbed the soapbox and here I am.
Well actually this may be perfect timing. I really don’t mean to come off as a heartless person but as Americans we often forget. There are other parts in the world where this is everyday life. There are people that would be happy going to the store and be cut off by some idiot driver than dodging bullets and rockets.
This is a tragedy hands down and I am outraged by what this guy did here in Colorado, but what this is going to turn into is even more of a tragedy. I don’t know how much of the local Colorado new everyone gets to see, or all the web news. But between celebrity and politician showing up for photo shoots and brownie points (who really falls for this crap). We have the reports of the public with one side saying “Please mister government protect me from the bad guy, get the guns off our streets” and the other side saying “What we need is more guns on the street”
Like I said before in this thread “it will turn into a circus” and here is the starting point,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...rid10|htmlws-sb-bb|dl14|sec1_lnk3&pLid=184230
Is this going to mean your going to have to spend a couple grand with a head shrink to prove you’re not a kook (I see big medical industry jumping on this wagon; the blood sucker just can’t get enough as it is). FYI there was 3000 gun sales in Colorado the weekend after the shooting.
Gun control what a joke! It amazes me how many people really think criminal are buying guns legally, there are them rare occasion like this one but come on. I believe in the right to bare arms and nothing is going to change that. To me gun control is safe guarding your fire arm from the public and hitting what you are aiming at.
I’m on the fence over ccw permits, I know a lot of people that have them and the majority of them I’m ok with. On the other hand there are some that wear that permit on their buffed out chests like a tin badge. I have seen first hand where these John Wayne supper ego gun packing idiots caused more problems by pulling a gun just because they think it is their right. Food for thought on this, I had a buddy with a ccw permit that was in a car wreck years ago. He roll his truck and was knock out, he came to just after the highway patrol showed up. He got lumped up pretty good but was ok, after a few minutes with the patrolman he realized his gun was missing. A year later the county sheriff called and said they had confiscated his gun from someone that used it in a robbery.
The saddest thing about all this is the guy is more then likely going to use the insanity plea or even if he is found fit to stand trial; he is more then likely going to spend the rest on his life behind bars. We the tax payer could end up paying $3,000,000.00 to house this guy. Mean while the family that lost someone in this shooting will be struggling to make ends meet, more then likely lose everything, and who is really going to care about them. No one and this is what really disturbs me, Because in the end the news will die down, the celebrity will move on to the next million dollar movie, the politician will move on to duke the public more, Government will continue to let us scare our self, big business will continue to rob us blind and employ the illegal’s, the criminals will still be buying illegal firearms, and this guy will be rotting in jail on our dime.
Like I said we American often forget.
You go out for a nice day and some idiot with no life decides to kill as many people as he can. There are some really sick people around.
