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Thomas Alton Caffall Loved Those Video Games

CBS News adds some detail to the profile of the latest hero of gun rights.

Caffall's stepfather, Richard Weaver, told CBS station KHOU that the suspected gunman refused to work after apparently quitting his job less than a year ago. Weaver said Caffall regularly played video games inside his rental home near the campus. According to KHOU, Northcliff, the third man killed on Monday, was Caffall's landlord.

Weaver told KHOU that Caffall played video games so much that it seemed to be warping his sense of reality. He said Callfall's alleged violent reaction to an eviction notice was not something that surprised him. Weaver even told KHOU he had become concerned that Callfall might hurt, or even kill, one of his own family members in recent months.

This reminds me of the famous Anders.  He played video games too.

FOUR DEAD IN OH-HI-OH!

Who cares about three students dead in Ohio when they've killed more before?



You gotta shot a whole lot more before anyone takes any notice about school, or other mass shootings in the US they are so commonplace there.




And I have one thing to say to the people who want to make stupid comments about whether it semi-, fully-, automatic, or what the fuck.

The big difference is between whether you have to move you trigger finger.

There is something called muzzle climb with fully-automatic weapons which means the muzzle rises with each shot fired.

A semi-automatic weapon doesn't have that problem, which means the bullet may not be flying as fast, but they are more accurate.

but, what I really want to say to you if you are going to play games about what type of weapon it is:

EAT SHIT, ASSHOLE

Arizona Murder Suicides

I'm still working my way through the A's for murder suicides by state, just looking at recent murder suicides that involves shootings.  While I see the occasional stabbing, strangling, nearly all of these have been incidents involving gun violence, overwhelmingly so.  In every case one or more people are the victims of a shootist who later kills himself or herself - the shootists are mostly men - or tries to shoot themselves.

Guns are clearly being used frequently to take the freedom to life and liberty and the pursuits of happiness away from other people by gun carriers.  Some of them are legal gun owners, occasionally even a member of law enforcement, and some are not.  Clearly, we are not keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous individuals who are acting on an impulse, who are acting in anger, or despair, or some other toxic combinations of emotion.  But whether they are killing themselves, or other men, women and children, they are taking lives that are not theirs by right to take. They are injuring other people with those firearms.

The number of Defensive Gun Use are rare, are minimal, and often could be accomplished with other means.  The argument that we hold people accountable AFTER these events instead of preventing them from occurring is not an acceptable resolution to this problem.  Stricter, more stringent gun regulation IS a fair way of establishing a fair and effective balance between competing rights.  No one is willing to admit they are not the right person to own guns, they are not safe; but clearly there are people who are not safe, who do not respect the rights of others when they are emotional.  Enough is enough; we can stop this.  Maybe not every single one, but many of these can be prevented.  These are primarily crimes of GUN VIOLENCE, far more so than any other instrumentality.  That cannot and should not be ignored, just because gun nuts don't want to face facts.

It's time and past time we do so.