Let’s hear it for a well-regulated militia!
DENVER — Unhindered by federal background checks or government oversight, the 24-year-old man accused of killing a dozen people inside a Colorado movie theater was able to build what the police called a 6,000-round arsenal legally and easily over the Internet, exploiting what critics call a virtual absence of any laws regulating ammunition sales.
President Obama met Police Chief Daniel Oates and Mayor Steve Hogan in Aurora, Colo., on Sunday.
With a few keystrokes, the suspect, James E. Holmes, ordered 3,000 rounds of handgun ammunition, 3,000 rounds for an assault rifle and 350 shells for a 12-gauge shotgun — an amount of firepower that costs roughly $3,000 at the online sites — in the four months before the shooting, according to the police. It was pretty much as easy as ordering a book from Amazon.He also bought bulletproof vests and other tactical gear, and a high-capacity “drum magazine” large enough to hold 100 rounds and capable of firing 50 or 60 rounds per minute — a purchase that would have been restricted under proposed legislation that has been stalled in Washington for more than a year.
Our punk-ass, spineless legislators (past and present) in D.C. who are so fucking afraid of the NRA have blood on their hands. What could possibly go wrong with stronger gun controls? Once the assault rifle ban expired it seems as though the flood gates opened for any all types of arms sales.
Jeeze, it’s so sad that gutless politians won’t dare touch the issue even when one of their own almost lost her life. Of course the staggering number of murders within most major cities in the country aren’t even mentioned on cable news. When dozens of people are killed in Iraq, it’s all over the news. But in the presidents hometown the murder rate approaches 300 people this year alone, not a peep is heard.