The killer in Oregon, like all the other mass shooters in recent memory, bought his guns, many of them, legally over the counter. It is not only perfectly legal but easy for a young man in this country to own 13 guns, a flack jacket, extra amno clips. Actually he had 14 but traded one in, like a baseball card or a xbox game.
Investigators found 13 firearms connected to the man who killed nine people at Oregon's Umpqua Community College, Celinez Nunez of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco and Explosives ssaid Friday at a news conference.
Six weapons were found at the college, where the shooter died Thursday after a gun battle with police, she said. Those weapons included five pistols and one rifle.
Police searched his residence and found seven firearms -- two pistols, four rifles and a shotgun, she said.
All the guns were legal, obtained by the shooter or family members over the last three years through a federally licensed firearms dealer, she said.
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Why do we have regulations that allow a person to have 13 guns? Who needs 13 guns? He was not a hunter, he did not work on law enforcement, his profession was not inherently risky, he was not under menace but legally he had one shotgun, 7 pistols and 5 rifles. Including at least one AR-15. That's more weapons than a squad of the US army.
Think about it. We made it easy, supereasy, for a perturbed person enamored with violence, Nazi paraphernalia, the IRA and who knows what else to posses massive caches of weapons that the IRA in the 70s would have to work a lot to acquire. For the IRA probos that would have been guns enough to arm 3 units.
I've been doing a series of diaries after the last 4 or 5 of this incidents. In all of them the guns were bought legally.
We need to require real controls for the ownership of lethal weapons enough is enough.
PS: F@ck you Jeb! Bush. Shit happens right? I hope Trump punches you in the face in the next debate and Rubio squats and farts in your face when you are down cause shit happens