Multiple Shootings at Seattle House

As you may have seen in your local paper or on TV (or the internet), a guy, for reasons unknown, killed six people "execution style" Saturday morning. It happened in my neighborhood (though I don't know the victims).

In one of the many stories in the local press, a gun shop owner is asked about the gun, a 12-gauge shotgun, that was used in the shootings:

A gun-shop employee who asked that his name not be used said it was ridiculous to blame the killings on the availability of guns.

"If I kill you with this calculator, is Office Depot going to be responsible for killing you?" he asked. "I think not."

My guess is that if the guy had tried to use a calculator for his crimes, six people would still be alive today...

U 'd prefer
that he used a bomb.

Thay are faster n easier to make than guns,
tho those are ez too.

There is nothing " tragic " about having an arsenal.
What one DOES with it
can be good or " tragic. "

OmSigDAVID wrote:

U 'd prefer
that he used a bomb.

Thay are faster n easier to make than guns,
tho those are ez too.

Not sure how you drew that conclusion. By the way, your spelling is as bad as your logic...

OmSigDAVID wrote:

There is nothing " tragic " about having an arsenal.
What one DOES with it
can be good or " tragic. "

There cannot be any good in having an arsenal of weapons in
the hands of private citizens.

Gun control is the answer in almost all civilized parts of the world,
why not in the United States?

Well, to begin with,
the successful Revolutionaries who created government in America,
after the Hanoverian Dynasty was removed from control,
explicitly put control of guns beyond the reach of government,
so that the citizens cud keep government in line.
They knew that more revolutions might be necessary,
and they desired the citizens to win such encounters;
that wud be impossible if they were helpless.

Secondly, it was obvious to them
that the citizens needed guns
as defensive emergency equipment
from the depredations of criminals or animals,
remember: when the Bill of Rights was enacted in the 1700s,
there were no police anywhere in America, nor in England.
Everyone had to take care of himself.

Indeed, in Colonial America,
in the spirit of today 's madatory seatbelt laws,
it was against the law to go to church in an unarmed condition.
The clergymen checked their congregations.
( Apparently, they 'd lost too many Christians, on the way to church. )

No ... but everyone needs a shotgun to hunt quail.

Ticomaya wrote:

No ... but everyone needs a shotgun to hunt quail.

Tico, if you hunt quail with a shotgun, there is nothing left but feathers,
besides quail is out of season - has been for a long time

Indeed, in Colonial America,
in the spirit of today 's madatory seatbelt laws,
it was against the law to go to church in an unarmed condition.
The clergymen checked their congregations.
( Apparently, they 'd lost too many Christians, on the way to church. )