Gun control and the Colorado Springs shooting

Before the casings were cold from the rifle in Colorado that the deranged murderer used to kill three people and injure a dozen more, the president was calling for more gun control, according to Politico;

“This is not normal. We can’t let it become normal. If we truly care about this — if we’re going to offer up our thoughts and prayers again, for God knows how many times, with a truly clean conscience — then we have to do something about the easy accessibility of weapons of war on our streets to people who have no business wielding them. Period. Enough is enough.”

The Washington Post sent reporters to Colorado and North Carolina to search for the reason that would make the nutty fellow snap in Colorado Springs. The worst things that they could find was reports to police about him abusing animals and peeping on his neighbor’s wife. His own wife who lived with him in his little shack in the woods in North Carolina, once reported to the police that he had abused her in 1997, but she didn’t file charges against him. People who lived near him described him as “reclusive”, you know like millions of other Americans. Not much of a crime, and there is no question on the ATF Form 4473, the Firearm Transfer Record, that asks if the new owner is “reclusive”. When the FBI does the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) check, they don’t look for “reclusive” Americans.

The Post’s article also quotes his neighbors calling the nameless gunman a complainer about nearly everything. He also told neighbors that he was a Federal agent, that he “knew the secrets” about the government. He was a crank – again, no law related to cranks buying firearms.

What is not in the Post article is that the gunman was registered in Colorado to vote, that he is a female and that his party was listed as “unaffiliated”. So, I guess we should restrict gun ownership to people who declare their membership in a political party.

According to unnamed police sources, NBC News says that the gunman mentioned something about “no more baby parts” when he was arrested. So, should there be an “abortion litmus test” for gun ownership?

Have you heard about the Bunny Friend Park shooting in New Orleans last week? Seventeen people were shot at a block party there by a lone gunman;

Court records show that [gun man’s name], 32, once had criminal ties to [another gun man’s name], the leader of the 7th Ward “Frenchmen and Derbigny” gang. [gun man]’s younger brothers opened fire on a Mother’s Day second-line parade in 2013, injuring 20 — but, just as in this week’s melee, killing no one.

[Gun man] and [another gun man] were co-defendants in a 2002 cocaine and heroin possession case in which both men pleaded guilty, records show.

No one was killed, but the facts of the case are similar to the Colorado, shootings;

Witnesses saw a man with a silver-colored machine gun flee toward Louisa Street. Gunfire continued in the park after he left.

I’m sure it wasn’t a machine gun, but rather scary-looking gun with things like a flash suppressor and a pistol grip. The shooting in New Orleans is thought to be gang-related. The reports from Colorado Springs are that the gunman there used an AK-47 rifle, but who knows, given the habit of the media to call every weapon an AK-47 these days. But the Bunny friend Park shooting barely made a “blip” in the news cycle despite the number of casualties. Probably because the media didn’t think that it was newsworthy that another black man shot a bunch of black people at a block party, whereas, a white guy shooting up an abortion clinic is more newsworthy and it demonstrates how there is some sort of right-wing terrorism in this country that everyone ignores. All the while they ignore the terrorism on the streets of urban communities.

The President didn’t call for disarming American criminals when the Bunny Friend Park shooting happened, but he will step up to call for the disarming of law abiding Americans because of the Colorado Springs shooting.

So, the only thing that we can do, since authorities are unable to make the NICS checks work is to take away the guns of millions of law-abiding, reclusive, pro-Life, politically unaffiliated Americans who didn’t shoot anyone on Friday.

The president complains that there is “easy access” to firearms – from a guy who has never been through the process of legally buying a gun which really isn’t all that easy. No one has told us yet how the gunmen in Colorado and New Orleans got their firearms, but let’s politicize the process (which we’ve known was broken at least since the South Carolina shooting, but we’ve done nothing to fix). You know, the government should really repair the process that has been in place and has failed Americans for 22 years, before they start taking guns from those of us who abide by the law. But it’s much easier to demonize the gun than it is to demonize the criminals who used them – and that’s what the president meant when he said “enough is enough” – he wants to ban your scary-looking semi-automatic rifle, merely because it’s scary-looking, to make sure that you law abiding Americans continue to obey his laws.

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