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Gun Control Laws Fail to Stop Colorado Springs Halloween Gunman
breitbart.com ^ | 10/31/2015 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 11/01/2015 8:00:27 AM PST by rktman

In the early morning hours of October 31 the tranquility of downtown Colorado Springs was interrupted by multiple shootings in which three innocents were killed before Colorado Springs Police were able to kill the gunman in a shootout.

The Colorado Springs Gazette reported that just before 9 a.m. residents who heard the gunshots looked out their windows to see a man with a rifle. A 21-year-old witness named Matt Abshire said the gunman “shot a person on Prospect Street and two more near El Paso Street.”

Police had been called and arrived to confront the gunman just after he had shot the two individuals near El Paso Street. Once confronted, the man began to fire at police and was killed. No details on the gunman nor possible motives have been released.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; co; colorado; corruption; guncontrol; mafia; organizedcrime; socialism
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Since existing laws, rules, regulations and restrictions failed to prevent this act, liblogic 101 dictates that, obviously, more and stricter laws, rules, regulations and restrictions are needed. Obviously. Maybe make murder by firearm illegal.
1 posted on 11/01/2015 8:00:27 AM PST by rktman
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To: rktman

Yes, and the reason Chicago has such high violent crime rates is because Vermont has lax gun laws.


2 posted on 11/01/2015 8:04:54 AM PST by umgud (v)
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At this point, it is almost a day later and they still haven’t identified the gunman. Not doing so should create suspicions that there is a reason the gunman hasn’t been identified.

I think that when such suspects are from a “protected class”, there will be an effort by the authorities to ‘cleanse’ their only existence to eliminate references to one religion in particular, gang affiliation, political affiliation, incriminating photographs, etc.

Because “We don’t want to reinforce stereotypes”, which is complete b.s.


3 posted on 11/01/2015 8:09:18 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: rktman

And the media constantly screams for more gun laws.


4 posted on 11/01/2015 8:12:10 AM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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"TPTB refuse to ID killer"

"Still looking for YouTube Video to blame it on if TEA Party is not responsible.

5 posted on 11/01/2015 8:13:49 AM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: umgud

Very good point.


6 posted on 11/01/2015 8:14:19 AM PST by real saxophonist (YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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To: rktman

Laws don’t stop criminals, cops stop criminals.

And if there’s not a cop handy, which there usually isn’t, you better be armed to stop ‘em yourself.


7 posted on 11/01/2015 8:16:13 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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"At this point, it is almost a day later and they still haven't identified the gunman. Not doing so should create suspicions that there is a reason the gunman hasn't been identified."

I wondered about that, too.

According to the US Census, Colorado Springs is 78.8% white, 6.3% Black, 1.0% Native American, 3.0% Asian and 16.1% Hispanic. Odds favor a bat**** crazy -- but why no ID?

8 posted on 11/01/2015 8:18:07 AM PST by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy, the people get the government they deserve." - Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859))
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Yes, how interesting no ID yet. When they want to, they can do an instant dump of almost every detail of a suspect’s life all over the media. This one is hush hush. Similar to a couple found dead in Kissing Camels neighborhood last week as well. No names, no info. Orwellian PC bureaucracies at work.


9 posted on 11/01/2015 8:38:55 AM PST by bluejean (The lunatics are running the asylum)
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“...more and stricter laws, rules, regulations and restrictions are needed. Maybe make murder by firearm illegal.”

No, no, no. The killer was obviously a member of the NRA (National Rifle Association). :o) All that needs to happen is for the NRA to refuse membership to killers.

I read a few days ago that NO killer anywhere was a member of the NRA, so, actually, they are doing a good job of refusing membership to killers. However, that must be wrong because I heard Hillary say, in a speech very recently, it’s the fault of the NRA when people get killed.

Therefore, it can’t be both ways - either the NRA has killers as members or they don’t. The facts say they don’t. We must conclude Hillary is wrong, but we know she is never wrong, never takes responsibility for anything she says or does that is wrong (as in “illegal”).


10 posted on 11/01/2015 8:41:27 AM PST by Marcella (CRUZ (Prepping can save you life today.))
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Maybe make murder by firearm illegal.


they tried that one already.


11 posted on 11/01/2015 8:44:20 AM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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That’s because criminals don’t obey laws shockingly.

Gun control advocates don’t want law abiding citizens to have guns, because they wish to control law abiding citizens via laws.

It really isn’t hard to understand.


12 posted on 11/01/2015 8:44:51 AM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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A gun free zone?


13 posted on 11/01/2015 8:45:08 AM PST by TYVets
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To: bluejean

Indeed.

How many people remember the murders of a newsreporter and her cameraman a month or so ago in Virginia?

The perp was a Black faggot, so the media dropped it quick.


14 posted on 11/01/2015 8:51:09 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
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But the phrase, “when seconds count, the police are only minutes away” applies. Cops - even before Obama and BLM tied their hands - can’t be everywhere.

However, an armed populace increases their own safety exponentially until the cops arrive.

Obamas excuse for “gun control” is exactly the same as was Hitler’s...people control.


15 posted on 11/01/2015 8:52:03 AM PST by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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One article says cops shot him about 20 times. That’s graveyard dead. He shot a man dead by a bicycle and then 2 women when leaving the first killing.

He made his final stand between Taco Bell and Wendy’s.

Of course he had an AR 15.


16 posted on 11/01/2015 9:02:20 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: FlyingEagle

This story might work in to a pretty solid blues song.


17 posted on 11/01/2015 9:03:38 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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Was it one of the ultra super high energy lethal kind or just the run of the mill AR?


18 posted on 11/01/2015 9:08:51 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
yup, gotta scrub clean all the social media accounts first
19 posted on 11/01/2015 9:17:58 AM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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They did not describe but it’s bound to a black assault weapon one


20 posted on 11/01/2015 9:18:24 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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