Mass Shooting at Washington Navy Yard

[Coito ergo sum]

Here you go, from the Torygraph

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peter ... -gun-laws/

Well, if the telegraph says that US gun laws are notoriously lax, then the opposite must be true.

I don't think even telegraph commentators are loony enough to argue otherwise. There's mad and then there's American gun law......

Can't trust the telegraph. If they're saying it, it's a lie.

[cronus]

Here you go, from the Torygraph

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peter ... -gun-laws/

Well, if the telegraph says that US gun laws are notoriously lax, then the opposite must be true.

I don't think even telegraph commentators are loony enough to argue otherwise. There's mad and then there's American gun law......

Can't trust the telegraph. If they're saying it, it's a lie.

[Clinton Huxley]

"Lies", "conservative bias". Nearly but not 100% the same thing.

[Warren Dew]

Let's see...

He was paranoid, thinking that everyone was going to try to steal his belongings, so he went around packing a .45 everywhere he went.
He had some psychological issues stemming from 9/11/01
he was wackily religious, spending days at a time "meditating" in a Buddhist temple.
He felt he was discriminated against
He felt that he had recently been financially screwed over his contracting job at the end of last year
He had few friends
He felt the Navy didn't treat him right.

But, he played Call of Duty, so that's why he went on this rampage -- that's the headline. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... games.html

Perhaps more restrictive background checks might've helped prevent a guy like that from from being armed the way he was?

Ban Buddhists from having guns and only allow them to Christians? Who knows, maybe it would help. It would be unconstitutional, though.

Of course, two of the guns were stolen on the base.