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Originally Posted by Taltarzac
[url]The 2010 political climate does seem to have contributed to this 22 year old's frame of mind and its sounds like he had the intent to take lives and planned this out. Sounds like premeditated murder to me.
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I am very saddened by yesterday. Our First Ammendment freedom to congregate peacefully is now in danger. Who's going to object to the next gathering?
The first time I saw some moron carrying a gun to a Republican rally (on TV of course), I knew it wouldn't be long before one of the guns would be used it a hateful way. Didn't anyone think that if people were allowed to attend political rallys "armed" that someday, some nutjob wasn't going to go off? Just the slightest common sense should have told people that the "mob mentality" we witnessed in 2008 which continued right through to 2010 was going to appeal to the least stable in our society.
Just because you have the right to carry something doesn't mean that there isn't a "right time" and a "right place". The right to carry a gun is to be prepared for an armed militia, not to shoot your neighbors or politicians to you happen to disagree with. We don't need to sell assault rifles or multi-clip Glock 9's. We need stricter controls and longer waiting periods on who can buy handguns. This idiot in Arizona had a police record.
You want to hunt? Great! Go shoot Bambi... but eat her meat. She's not a trophy. Don't carry pistols like this is Wyatt Earp country and you live in the OK Corral. You really think you need carry a gun at a Bush rally? If so, you deserve to shoot each other, because you are just two steps away from being the paranoid schizophrenic that killed 6 people yesterday.
In my most humble opinion.