At the screening of The Dark Knight Rises a white 24 year old male wearing body armor, gasmask, goggles carrying three firearms including assault rifle, explosives & smoke grenades shot killed 14 people, 50 people injured at a Batman Dark Knight Rises screening cinema in USA, Colorado. Live on CNN. Suspect has been detained did not resist arrest. Really sad horrific, shocking news. Thoughts and condolences goes out to those families. [video]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18922685[/video] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...creening-Batman-premiere-Denver.html?ITO=1490
This is why there shouldn't be a right be bare guns/arms in America. Too many fuk tards. Absolutely senseless.
Their Gun law is ridiculous. In some places in the U.S you don't even need a licence to buy a firearm.
While I agree, but if someone was that set on doing what that guy did, no gun law was going to stop him. Also I read an article an hour or so ago that said the death toll was only 12, and that the original estimate of 14 was wrong. My thoughts are with all of the families out in Colorado that have been deeply affected by this tragedy.
He had multiple guns and thousands of rounds of ammo, plus gas. It's much much harder for a young dropout to obtain such levels of arms if they are not available legally in shops all over your neighbourhood. Condolences to the victims of this atrocity.
No, but if I wanted to shoot 70 people it wouldn't be too difficult to find a few guns. This wasn't a crime of anger or passion where stricter gun laws would have meant a gun was never in his possession when he lost it, it was a calculated job. Stricter gun laws would just make it a bit more difficult to obtain a weapon but wouldn't do anything to stop the bloke being a psycho intent on killing a load of strangers.
Sorry Watford , but you're talking bollocks! Firearm control is a must, this kid just walked into what was effectively Woolworths and purchased a arsenal. You could never get your hand on that kind of metal in the UK.
You could, just not as easily. If you or I really wanted a gun that badly we could get one, just less conveniently and probably at greater expense. I agree that restrictions are necessary but more to avoid crimes of passion as things such as this, unless someone has the foresight to see something in a person that makes them suspicious, are sadly unavoidable in my opinion.
I'm intrigued as to where you think your could obtain this kind of hardware, 1000's of rounds of ammunition? Even the Adams don't hold or indulge in that magnitude
I don't profess to be an expert but I'd have thought military cast-offs can be obtained where there's a strong enough will to do so or shady London backstreets where a market for such activity still exists. Where there's demand for anything there will be a supply.
Watford, you cant make a statement"No, but if I wanted to shoot 70 people it wouldn't be too difficult to find a few guns." and then make a presumption" I'd have thought military cast-offs can be obtained where there's a strong enough will to do so or shady London backstreets where a market for such activity still exists." and expect to be taken seriously.
the americans are very strong believers in every mans right to arm himself and that is fair enough but even so no one person should be able to amass an arsenal like that!! so they do need to sort something out.
Of course you can. The second statement doesn't make the first one untrue. I don't know for a fact that if I was a nutcase in need of a few hundred bullets and a rifle or two that I could get one but, honestly, how difficult can it really be, assuming you have the money? A black market exists and such items are available at the right price, perhaps not immediately but if you know a guy that knows a guy that knows a guy, in time such an item can be obtained. Corrupt soldiers, as with any profession, probably exist that would be tempted to sell off something meant for the scrapheap to back up their meagre pay. We've had nutters rampaging with multiple weapons in this country who have got the stuff they need by hook or crook.
Goes back to years of struggle. Americans strongly believe in freedom and freedom to defend yourself above all, it's common in most states. Down South it's just scary though. There are lots of things right about American law but lots of things wrong.
You're basing your presumption on ifs and buts. How many more massacres would this country have had if you could just walk into a shop and buy a gun?
