Gun Threads - Merged

[townpete]

 

[Kev3188]

Black male with an AK-47... 
 
Some reports say that the shooter was a former employee — described as a disgruntled worker — who shot an elderly woman in the parking lot, then walked into the building and opened fire.

I'm sure the bereaved will find comfort in all of that...

 

[townpete]

I'm sure the bereaved will find comfort in all of that...

 
Context is everything....

 

[Kev3188]

The first words out of your keyboard were "Black male with an AK-47." Maybe you can help us with that context.

 

[townpete]

The first words out of your keyboard were "Black male with an AK-47." Maybe you can help us with that context.

 
No explanation necessary, i merely quoted the article.

 

[delldude]

Multiple crime scenes?
 
 

 
 
Walton said in an earlier press conference there were "four to five" different crime scenes in the area, including the Excel plant where dispatchers earlier said they were responding to a shooting.   http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/02/25/at-least-2-people-reportedly-killed-in-kansas-workplace-shooting.html 

 
 

 
 (CNN) -- Multiple people were killed Thursday in a series of shootings that ended at Excel Industries in Hesston, Kansas, Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton told reporters. http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/25/us/kansas-shooting/index.html?eref=rss_topstories 
 

 

 

[townpete]

Kansas Gunman Was a Felon Barred from Gun Ownership
 
So what laws would have stopped him......since he disregarded the existing ones?

 

[delldude]

Aside from the issues endured by this person and the resulting actions he chose, above the law, what is available to society to prevent these type actions?
 
 Sadly...........someone dealing with  some type of life changing issues, resorts to extreme consequences, using firearms, how can these issues be prevented living within the Constitution and how did he get access to firearms as a violent convicted felon?
 
Make that progressive thang sting one on the butt, Yo'?

 

[Dog Wonder]

If you take one gun away from a violent felon, you take all guns away.

 

[townpete]

Kansas shooting gunman Cedric Ford's girlfriend charged with giving him AK-47
 
Existing laws didnt work. She broke the law, he broke the law. 

 

[Dog Wonder]

Existing laws didnt work. She broke the law, he broke the law. 

Are you saying more laws are needed?

 

[townpete]

Are you saying more laws are needed?

 
You think it would make a bit of difference since they didnt obey existing laws?

 

[Kev3188]

That's not what he asked...

 

[delldude]

Are you saying more laws are needed?

 
Too many laws now. You think he would have obeyed even more?
 
How do you cope with the 4th and 5th amendments regarding mental issues?

 

[townpete]

That's not what he asked...

 
What new laws would have prevented this from happening?