Ten killed in shooting at 'Dark Knight Rises' premiere: local radio

[Frosted]

The guy used guns because it was easier than explosives.

Because you lot already have guns amongst the civilian population, getting rid of them would be impossible. Guess you're stuck with it....and the massacres will continue.
You're happy with the status quo though.

[wa3zrm]

How many people like me have you got in your country?

I have a neighbor a few doors down from me that enjoys firing his full auto AK47 into the air two or three times a year... usually around holidays when he has had a wee bit to much to drink! After he empties two or three clips, the police show up and remind him that he's not allowed to do that. He tells them he is sorry and they take his gun. Same show repeats the next 4th of July, new year's eve or when the Steelers win the Superbowl.

[Dirty Hippy]

Wa3zrm......your neighbor would not just get his full auto AK47 taken away from by police.

He would be getting 25 years in the slammer, if he did not have a class III tax stamp.

Retarded drunk, with a semi auto....

[wa3zrm]

Wa3zrm......your neighbor would not just get his full auto AK47 taken away from by police.

He would be getting 25 years in the slammer, if he did not have a class III tax stamp.

Retarded drunk, with a semi auto....

Don't know where the Mitten is, but folks here in Western Pennsylvania "cling to their guns and bibles!" And yes, they spend hundreds of dollars for the tax stamps... after all, they are "God fear'en" people. Our local gun stores are like supermarkets here... and the police tend to take care of their own... now if a Dirty Hippy happened to show up, I'm sure the police would bring the full weight of local, state and federal laws down on an "outsider."

[Joe234]

Point? That fact remains that more people die on the roads by orders of magnitude. People occasionally dying in spectacular fashion doesn't call for anything to be done about it. Things don't always have to be "done". The world's dangerous, and it'll always be dangerous. Arms mean power. When only the government has arms, only the government has power. That's an intolerable situation, and one our founding fathers attempted to prevent.

Nonsense. How are you going to take on a government that has nukes, drones and guided missiles?

[Joe234]

Aurora Press Conference: Shooter, James Holmes, purchased 6,000 rounds of ammunition on the Internet.



Ar-15 had 100 round drum magazine

[lxskllr]

Nonsense. How are you going to take on a government that has nukes, drones and guided missiles?

What else are you going to do? I'd rather die for a cause, then get bent over for the rest of my "life". Besides, in an all out civil war, some of the military would be on the civilian's side, and it would be highly unlikely nukes would get used. The odds aren't good, but they're still non zero.

[devilock76]

The guy used guns because it was easier than explosives.

Because you lot already have guns amongst the civilian population, getting rid of them would be impossible. Guess you're stuck with it....and the massacres will continue.
You're happy with the status quo though.

No it is not. He could get enough explosive to level the whole theater from chemicals at any Home Depot and the electronics to detonate it remotely from any Radio shack. The skill set to do so are available in the average high school curriculum for someone who pays attention and easily someone working towards a PHD could grasp. He would have killed 100x as many people and been able to do it from the border into Mexico...

Ken

[devilock76]

Nonsense. How are you going to take on a government that has nukes, drones and guided missiles?

Just like the Vietnamese did...

Ken

[devilock76]

Let me explain something. Northern Ireland is a part of the UK right?
If people there had a right to bear arms the country would have descended into civil war. Thank f**k it did not.
If you fail to see this simple point you ARE retarded.
I say assault weapons because they can cause the most damage. You can start there and then with smaller arms

I honestly, genuinely think you're all nuts.

Yes Northern Ireland, a shining example of how banning guns ended that conflict so peacefully and with so little blood shed.

<pssst, that was sarcasm....>

Ken

[Bigblue1]

Nonsense. How are you going to take on a government that has nukes, drones and guided missiles?

This quite possibly may be the stupidest thing I've ever heard. You do realize that said government resides in the same proximity that a nuke may go off to squelch a rebellion. You do know the cold war was based on the premise of assured mutual destruction don't you? And speaking of that premise it fits right in with the fact that somebody is less likely to try to hurt somebody else if they think they can be hurt back..... Same shit different bag. Grow up and understand the basics rather that being brainwashed by one side or the other.

[Joe234]

You are a bigot because you stereotype based on the color of ones skin. .

thanks for the label

I stereotyped them on their wearing powered wigs. I respect the
founding fathers. The point I was getting at is that they are not
infallible. Sound believe anything they wrote is sacred and ordained
by God.

[Joe234]

This quite possibly may be the stupidest thing I've ever heard. You do realize that said government resides in the same proximity that a nuke may go off to squelch a rebellion. You do know the cold war was based on the premise of assured mutual destruction don't you? And speaking of that premise it fits right in with the fact that somebody is less likely to try to hurt somebody else if they think they can be hurt back..... Same shit different bag. Grow up and understand the basics rather that being brainwashed by one side or the other.

I should believe someone who gets their info from Alex Jones?

[Joe234]

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An excerpt from Piers Morgan Tonight

Interview with Constitutional Law Professor Lawrence Tribe

MORGAN: What happened in Colorado is a tragedy. But could stricter gun laws have prevented it? The debate that many people are having tonight across America.

Joining me now is Harvard Law's Lawrence Tribe. He's a professor of constitutional law there. Mr. Tribe, it's a debate that rages every single time there is a shooting of this nature. This is the worst shooting in terms of people who were hit by gunfire that America has ever seen.

Is this enough, now, to prompt stricter gun control? And would stricter gun control have made a difference in this case?

PROF. LAWRENCE TRIBE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY: First of all, I want to express my grief and my deep condolences for the victims. I think gun control is overdue. The Second Amendment does protect the rights of people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said.

But it certainly does not protect the right to buy 6,000 rounds of ammunition on the Internet or to buy four guns, including automatic and semiautomatic weapons, in a short period of time. There's no reason in the Constitution why we as a civilized society couldn't get our hands around a problem like that.

The reason is the National Rifle Association and all of the people who, frankly, make a living out of restricting the political possibility of gun control. We have to do something about it. I don't know how many killings, how much slaughters it's going to take before the nation wakes up to the need to address the problem.

I think we fool ourselves if we say better and stricter gun control would necessarily solve the problem. There are all kinds of things that we need to do. We may need to do things about the exits at movie theaters, so that if they are opened, there's an alarm that goes off if they are not immediately shut. We may need to do something about our educational system. We need to do something about the culture of violence.

But I think this is a time for the country to come together. And it's certainly not a time for us to divide over the question of whether we can impose reasonable controls on ammunition. I think everyone agrees that the Constitution permits that. It's simply our political system that has failed to act adequately.

MORGAN: Professor Tribe, very eloquently put. Thank you very much for joining me.

TRIBE: Thank you, Piers.

[OregonNative]

When did I say guns should be illegal? How about common sense like Europe.

You're right, bad shit never happens in Europe...

What happened about, oh I don't know, a year ago in Norway?