Shooting in Las Vegas

[mpholland]

While I can't imagine anybody not being sympathetic for the reason, country music fans are largely conservative, as are a majority of the popular country singers. Probably has more to do with the rural upbringing than anything. Maybe that's why Trump actually seemed a bit more sincere than usual. He can alienate his peers, but probably doesn't want to alienate his base.

[whell]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Typical Whell. Just shove your fingers in your ears are sing, 'lalalalalala', loudly like a little kid, while complaining about what some librul said on a blog. You're a real hoot, Mike.

Hardly. Bloggers are typically nameless and faceless. The example I cited was a real person working as in house counsel for CBS. She must have been one of their rising stars.

[whell]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

Even if seriously flawed, politics is the chosen method for making determinations about what is in the public interest. The public interest is properly invoked when an individual has available to him weapons that allow him to murder dozens of people in a very short time. It is the responsibility of public officials to determine the appropriate response to this set of dangerous circumstances. I am enough of a realist to doubt that they will accept that responsibility, but there is no shame in making demands on them to do so.

I haven't seen law enforcement confirmation of the weapons used. But if speculation is correct that at least one of the weapons were fully auto, the Feds have already made those extremely difficult to obtain through approved channels. Its seems more likely that someone would need to circumvent the law to obtain one...

...which of course is the argument typically raised by the gun rights crowd when the subject of more gun control laws comes up.

[sheltiedave]

Any of the twenty odd videos on the web, more than a few by NRA members, will help anyone circumvent the law in that regard.

[mpholland]

Turning a semi-auto into fully auto isn't rocket science. Some guns only need slight modification to the seer, others need to have new ones machined. Neither is terribly difficult if you have access to a machine shop.

[Pio1980]

Chances are he did it simply cause he could, had the means, and no reason not to indulge an urge and/or a fantasy into reality. Some people are like that.
Also, thinking Charles Whitman when I first heard of it.
Politics? Probably not.

[Chicks]

Sarah Sanders:
"Now Is Not the Time to Talk About Gun Control"

Actually, Sarah, you worthless mouthpiece, now is precisely the time, nay, well beyond the time, to talk about getting the hell rid of the kind of weapons that have no possible purpose other than mass destruction.

[ebacon]

Americans have become numb to shootings. IMO the gun lovers need to learn a lesson from President Trump and President Trump needs to learn a lesson from them. The lesson might be binned as how to unwind an interest.

President Trump has experience in bankruptcy, which is a traditional, even biblical, form of unwinding debt.

President Trump would do well by teaching gun lovers how to unwind their interest. Gun lovers are afraid that no one wants to carry on their torch. The fact is that most people love guns too. We love target shooters in the Olympics. We love craftsmen that repair them. We love woodsman that use them as honest tools.

Perhaps a good direction for discussion would be to license gun ownership based on need rather than sanity. Seek professionalism in hunting, targeting, and craftsmanship.

The obvious hole in my dream is that crazies will organize with professiolism as a pretext. And corporations are a mother fucker to deal with when pretext is an institution.

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by MrPots

We know the ISIS claim is fake. Just another angry white guy, undoubtedly a huge Trump supporter, getting his justice.

Probably the guy is just pissed off by the sight of people having a good time.

[Pio1980]

And, of course, this.
http://politi.co/2hJhjb7