Posted on 04/03/2009 3:06:49 PM PDT by neverdem
Because it was a gun free zone, for the public safety.
On Anderson Cooper, one of the gals at the scene was saying he had permits for both guns.
This doesn’t sound right to me. Does she mean both guns were registered or is she trying to spin against CCW holders?
That doesn’t sound good at all.
Cuz there were no dogs to shoot. /s/
Wrong.
They are the ones committing the crimes. Let me make this clear. Out of every 10 I have to deal with, 8 are foreigners, or illegal aliens. Hope that clears things up.
Thanks bobby.
In NY, a permit can be granted to allow posession of a handgun on premises (no CCW) or it can be full CCW. Many “full CCW” permits are restricted by local judges to only posession + transport for target shooting/hunting. It is a very local thing. Whether this guy had a premises permit or full CCW (or restricted CCW) permit is unclear. Either way, the permit process was a complete failure. Of course in NY, that means they will just make the permit process more difficult, not make it shall issue (which they should do).
Also, the specific serial number handguns must be listed on your permit, so this guy apparently had one of these permits with both guns listed.
LLS
Then why the heck didn't the guy speak English?
Voong had recently been laid off from IBM in Johnson City, U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, a Democrat whose district includes Binghamton, told the Associated Press. The gunman opened fire on a citizenship class, he said.
I don't think the IBM thing's correct. A report this morning said the IBM employee may have been the shooter's dad. The employer I heard mentioned this morning was a company I'd never heard of. The report said the shooter was an engineer who'd recently been let go.
I don't know how much anyone's actually nailed down yet. Here's a report stating the perp's an immigrant...
The killer-- believed to be a Vietnamese immigrant himself -- then entered a room just o the reception area and red on a citizenship class.
Well, they’ve got the wackdoodle thing in common, that’s for certain. Hopefully this is just the Taliban talking out its backside. But the trouble the cops are having nailing down the IDs and backrounds of the perp and some of the victims surely isn’t helping to clear this up.
14 Dead in Rampage in Binghamton, N.Y. (Perp had a NY pistol license with another alias)
If the license is legit: Way to go NYS!
This is FR... these days it is more important to be a jerk and attack other FReepers about some insignificant unproved fact than to accept the possibility that one’s position may be slightly in need of adjustment. Thank you for posting to me... I truly appreciate your comment.
Hey, we’re all at the mercy of the idiots in the MSM. And their reporting yesterday was worse than usual. Trust but verify’s my motto :)
I’m well aware of NY State’s draconian gun laws as I spent the first 46 of my 51 years as in Flushing, Queens and Bethpage, Nassau County.
I was being a wise guy with my post.
But I really am glad the shooter was not a white guy, as we would never hear the end of it.
By the way, I possess a Firearms License from the state of Georgia and own a 9mm pistol, a shotgun and a rifle.
I pack the pistol whenever I engage in my favorite hobby which is videotaping and photographing trains. For some reason, trains don’t run through the better parts of town. 8)
Since I generally have about $7,500 in equipment, plus my vehicle and my behind at risk, and have encountered a few folks that appeared to be interested in relieving me of some or all of the above, I’ve taken to arming myself on my little jaunts.
A nice old gent who also engaged in my hobby was car-jacked and murdered last year near the Georgia/Alabama state line while taking train pictures. The two low-life rednecks that killed him were later captured using his credit card to buy, what else?, beer and cigarettes.
The methamphetamine epidemic here in the Southeast is insane.
“Can I be honest? “
No. You must say, “Our Strength is Our Diversity” 500 times in atonement. Then give all your money to Obama...he will take care of the immigrants.
I learned years ago that if you want to know what really happened you have to find out for yourself. The press pretty much NEVER gets things right, most reporters are incompetent plus everything gets filtered through a left wing editing process. I dropped my newspaper subscription long ago and I pay little attention to television news other than occasionally watching the local news or the national news on Fox.
Anyone who still trusts the press needs to take one story at random and thoroughly investigate in an attempt not to debunk but to VERIFY the story. The results are usually quite eye opening.
“And he still needed language classes? I don’t get it.”
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We have plenty of forty year olds who were born in this country who still need to learn the language.
“Just heard on ABC Nightly Noise... the shooter used “two automatic pistols”
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Most journalists literally don’t know the difference between a rifle and a shotgun, many of them think duck hunters use rifles, probably less than five percent can conceive of the difference between automatic and semiautomatic. I have even read at least one column by one of these clowns who claimed to know that in fact automatic and semiautomatic are the same thing. If the average cardiac surgeon was no more competent than the average journalist it is doubtful that anyone would ever survive a bypass. If you see an accurate newspaper story it was probably written by someone who is in some other line of work and just happened to write a newspaper story for some reason.
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