My husband commented this morning: Do you think this guy was all about implementing gun control, sacrificial lamb for the cause yada.
I blew it off as too far out but now I am starting to wonder.
I can't make that leap yet, not enough info out there yet.
If it does turn out to be true, I definitely wouldn't be surprised.
Same thing exactly happened a few years ago in Australia....leading to total gun confiscation and control.
The Port Arthur massacre of 28 April 1996 was a killing spree in which 35 people were killed and 23 wounded, mainly at the historic[1] Port Arthur prison colony, a popular tourist site in south-eastern Tasmania, Australia.[2] Martin Bryant, a 28-year-old from New Town, a suburb of Hobart, eventually pleaded guilty to the crimes and was given 35 life sentences without possibility of parole.[3] He is now imprisoned in the Wilfred Lopes Centre near Risdon Prison.[4]
Port Arthur massacre remains one of the deadliest shootings worldwide committed by a single person.[citation needed] After the shootings, it emerged that that the shooter, Martin Bryant, had significant intellectual disabilities.[5]
Story here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_massacre_(Australia)
By CHRIS GRIFITH 24jan99
THE $500 million national gun buy-back scheme has failed, Queensland's foremost police weapons expert says.
Inspector John McCoomb says gun laws introduced after the 1996 Port Arthur massacre have sent the trade underground.
"Once they're on the black market, they're there for anyone to buy," he said.
He said that "with the right contacts", it was still possible to buy semi-automatic weapons like the Armalite (AR-10) rifle Martin Bryant used in the massacre. Inspector McCoomb, who heads the Weapons Licensing Branch, said Australians had handed in only a fraction of the weapons in the community.
So far, just over 643,000 guns had been surrendered nationally, about 131,000 of them in Queensland. It was impossible to calculate the number of guns in Australia but 643,000 was a fraction of just two brands of now-illegal guns in the country. "About 800,000 (semi-automatic and automatic) SKK and SKS weapons came in from China back in the 1980s as part of a trade deal between the Australian and Chinese governments," Insp McCoomb said. "And it was estimated that there were 1.2million semi- automatic Ruger 1022s in the country.
"That's about 2million firearms of just two types in the country."
Insp McCoomb said police realised there were abundant illegal firearms for people to commit public atrocities.
On November 1 last year, gang members fired a hail of bullets at a Sydney police station using high-powered 9mm automatics or semi-automatics. Five police were inside. This barrage of shots in a city street was exactly the sort of scenario the buy-back was supposed to stop...
Ah, unintended consequences. Such unpleasant surprises...
More here: http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=002vFS
Of course, it is the FAST AND FURIOUS LOOPHOLE.
If you are gay and muslim, you’re good. Black dealer like Trayvon? Excellent!
A “poor psycho” who happened to buy a gun? OH MY!!! The media will defend you in court and praise you for the massacre!!!!
Let me see... how many other loopholes we have?
911 Saudis? My, now your religion is the dominant legal religion in AMerica, and you get to infiltrate the State Department and all of that. We cannot be unpc and draw profiling conclusions.
And illegals do not rape when they rape, they exercise their rights.
A cop or politician? Yeah, no need to pay the whores in Bolivia if you have a SS badge, or rape them in hotels like DSK did.
Geitner? No tax need to be paid.
Holder? Ah, he gets offended when accused.
Obama? No need of birth certificate, we got the racism loophole there going.
And the list of “gun show” or “Fast and furious” loopholes go on...