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Just saw the Associated Press update. I will look for a link now.
AP story here update - found it
lame54
(35,349 posts)I know that it is not in Tennessee
but the ridiculous conspiracy hype is everywhere
I doubt it.
MineralMan
(146,351 posts)before too long, once the shooter is IDed. Speculation beforehand probably isn't useful, frankly.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Lone gunman is dead. It'll be a bit to ID him and look through his computer for clues as to motive. I'm sure info will be released as soon as it's available.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)all that bright.
-none
(1,884 posts)Banning firearms is known to not work, as they will just make some cosmetic changes to the banned gun, and then business as usual.
Anyone in the business of manufacturing or making firearms, needs to be federally registered.
What needs to be done, besides keeping track of all firearms, from manufacture to destruction, is to license the people that have and/or want any guns/firearms of any kind. Caught in public without a license/permit for the firearm(s) you have with you, risk losing all your firearms, a fine, and/or prison hard time. Or any combination of the forgoing. Each and every gun a person has, has to be individual registered to the person having possession and include the name of the real owner responsible.
Keep your unregistered stash in your hide-hole, so the gun grabbers can't get them? Fine, be careful to who you show your collection to. And don't forget to get them registered if you ever have to move. And also be able to answer the question as to why you have this stash of unregistered weapons in the first place. One gun, fairly easy. Ten guns, not so much.
We need to make it inconvenient for the gunners, instead of the general public, when the members of the public have to attend the funerals of their friends and love ones. To say nothing about the inconvenience of the people who have had lives cut short, because of those that fight tooth and nail against any meaningful weapons regulations.
Any state laws and regulation cannot work as long as any one state has lax weapons laws. Therefor the Federal Government has to impose uniform laws and regulations across all the states. Most guns cross state lines at some time between manufacture and sale to the first private owner. That is the hook the Federal Government has, if only it would use it.
ileus
(15,396 posts)Democat
(11,617 posts)Common threads in mass killings are extremism or mental illness.
If terrorists cannot get guns, they will kill with bombs or knives or airplanes.
There is a place for gun control arguments, but terrorism is not caused by guns.
-none
(1,884 posts)Using easily available guns. Make guns harder to get and these people will then have a harder time getting the guns they want too.
Most terrorism involves guns, because they are so easy to get and so deadly. Take away some of the tools the terrorists use and terrorism would decline. Anything other than guns, involves much more work and involves a bit more knowledge and research, than just point and shoot.
But whatever, you are deflecting for what I posted anyway.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Place yer bets now.
951-Riverside
(7,234 posts)YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)nt
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)seveneyes
(4,631 posts)Must be workplace violence.
philosslayer
(3,076 posts)Nice snark attempt. That incident was classified by the FBI as workplace violence. This incident clearly is not.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)MineralMan
(146,351 posts)I'm thinking you are incorrect.