Monday, August 30, 2010

Arizona Rampage - 6 Dead

In Lake Havasu, Arizona, a custody dispute turned into a bloodbath.

I can already hear the pro-gun side. The shooter already had a restraining order against him, what more could have been done? Criminals don't obey laws. What laws would have prevented this anyway? That's one of their favorites.

I know this much. There's no place in the country that's easier to get guns and more acceptable to carry them around with you than Arizona. I think that has something to do with this.

What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.

6 comments:

  1. Pataphysics shows conclusively that the solution to gun violence is more guns.

    Laci

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  2. The shooter already had a restraining order against him, what more could have been done? Criminals don't obey laws. What laws would have prevented this anyway?

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  3. Laci, No one is biting. Your trolling attempts are pata-thetic.

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  4. "That's one of their favorites."

    It's not one of my favorites.

    Since this is a state that allows anyone (even prohibited persons and violent criminals, and illegal aliens and children and dogs and the mentally ill and drug users and drug dealers and felons) to buy and carry fully automatic grenade-throwing UZIs with double bayonettes and flash-hiders and shoulder things that go up, my favorite is, "If only the victims had chosen to be armed, this would likely have ended with fewer (if any) deaths."

    If it had been a state like CA or MA or NJ or HI, I might have used, "If only the victims hadn't been disarmed via legistation, this likely would have ended with fewer (if any) deaths.

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  5. FWM is playing hard to get.

    "Criminals don't obey laws. What laws would have prevented this anyway?"

    The answer: the laws which would constrain the last legal owner of a gun to not let it slip into the underworld. Some of these guys are in the gray area, turning a blind eye, and so forth. Others, are truly ignorant. But stricter laws properly enforced can cut down on the gun flow and some of these restraining-order characters will be left with only knives and bats to do their damage, which will then be less.

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  6. Or they'll ram them with their car. That'll do less damage, huh?

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