A gunman opened fire at an Albuquerque fiber optics manufacturer Monday, killing two people and wounding four others before turning the gun on himself in what police are calling a domestic violence dispute.
The suspect has been identified as 37-year-old Robert Reza.
Detectives and FBI agents reviewed surveillance video and questioned witnesses to determine Reza confronted his target, his former girlfriend and parent of his children, outside the building before entering and continuing to fire his weapon. A total of 20 to 25 bullets were found on the scene.
It seems like this all-too-frequent type of tragedy, which has come to actually symbolize the United States from abroad, so often ends with a self-inflicted gunshot. Where are all the lawful gun owners when we need them? Where are all the concealed carry guys, whom they say number in the millions? Why do we read of so few timely interventions?
Perhaps the answer is in order to have a discernable benefit, the one gun advocates keep talking about, we'd have to arm three or four times as many people. The way things are now, the number of guns in lawful hands is causing terrible problems. There's theft, accidents, improper transfers and of course the ever-increasing occasions of lawful gun owners turning bad.
Imagine if we increased that three or four fold?
What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.
I can't wait for an armed citizen, or maybe a few armed citizens to get involved and really turn the incident into a total clutterfuck.
ReplyDeleteEspecially when the LEOs arrive!
Maybe that'll finally piss everyone off and tell the gunloons to STFU!
And, boy will people be pissed when they find the Second Amendment was intended to protect them from Standing armies!
Laci
"And, boy will people be pissed when they find the Second Amendment was intended to protect them from Standing armies!"
ReplyDeleteIn the dictionary under "beating a dead horse" it says "See Laci".
And sadly, in the dictionary under "fat white man" there will be but a picture of a fat white man.
ReplyDeleteJadegold, of course there would be a fat, white man shown for a dictionary entry of "fat, white man". Who would honestly expect anything else?
ReplyDeleteFile that one away under "well, duh..."
Laci--you honestly believe it wasn't a total cluterfuck without a law-abiding armed citizen?
ReplyDeleteI know you don't trust Lott, but he found that the biggest reduction correlated to concealed carry is multiple-victim shootings.
I presume a higher probability that this employer has a "gun free zone" corporate policy than Reza holding a CCW (as Jade believed, before he was proved wrong.)
Big surprise. NOT.
ReplyDelete> Note: Due to it's association with Sandia National Labs, Security was high in this locked facility, a GUN FREE ZONE. Robert Reza 36, a former employee, shot his way in, After shooting his main targets outside. Adrienne Basciano, estranged girlfriend and Michelle Turner were main targets. Dixie Colvan, Rodney Noble remain in hospital in Satisfactory condition. REZA was carrying a Felony DUI (2nd arrest) on his record already, which made him illegal to carry, and in most states even Own a firearm.
Laci: “I can't wait for an armed citizen, or maybe a few armed citizens to get involved and really turn the incident into a total clutterfuck.”
ReplyDeleteIt is pretty sick that you wish for stuff like this to help your agenda.
Laci has gleefully wished death upon gun owners before, even claiming she'd like to do the killing herself.
ReplyDeleteCan't say I'm surprised she's espousing a similar view here again...
More guns = more incidents like this. It wouldn't be so bad if the pro-gun advocates were trying to find a way to arm only the responsible law-abiding people. But, since that's not so easy, they want to arm nearly everybody, some of them go even further and say "everbody" period. Then they try to tell us, with Lott as the leading expert, that things will be better then. I don't buy it.
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