“White guy sold him the gun.”
If you are familiar with NYS gun laws, you know that it is impossible for someone to buy a handgun in NYS unless they have a pistol permit. It is very difficult to obtain a pistol permit. For example, you need statements from several residents of your county who have known you for at least five years. Then there are the high fees (to exercise your right) and fingerprinting, background check, training, etc.
If this monster had a permit, the extensive requirements did not protect the innocent lives he took. If he did not have a permit, then the idea of the pistol permit process was a failure. Either way, NYS’s severe laws did not protect the citizens.
well said. even with these events where the victims were basically defenseless there are still anti-firearm people I run into that will hem and haw, change the direction of the discussion etc. when I ask ‘em one simple question....”if your mother or father, wife, hubby etc. was in the line of fire in one of these things would you have hoped that they had firearm, the physical training AND the mindest already in place to defend themselves with that firearm?” most STILL for cryin’ out load say, call 911, wait for the police, try and ‘talk’ to the shooter etc. etc. with their OWN loved ones involved!!! the liberal brainwashing of the people of this country continues on doesn’t it?
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.
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.