Posted on 10/02/2015 11:50:54 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Roseburg grapples with grief and indignation as Obamas call for US gun control collides with horrifying new details of another mass shooting.
A cache of 13 weapons has been discovered in the possession of gunman who opened fire on a writing class at a community college in rural Oregon on Thursday, killing nine people and injuring seven in the deadliest mass shooting in the states history.
Seven weapons were recovered at the gunmans home, in addition to the six weapons that were recovered on the campus of Umpqua Community College, Celinez Nunez, of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), told reporters during a Friday morning press briefing. A bulletproof jacket and five extra magazines were also recovered at the scene in Roseburg, Oregon, where residents, students, survivors and families were grappling with grief and indignation.
All 13 weapons were purchased legally by the shooter or a family member in the last three years, Nunez said, as a national debate reignited over long languishing gun control reforms. The Douglas County Sheriffs department said on Twitter that investigators recovered five pistols and one rifle from the crime scene.
Douglas county sheriff John Hanlin said during the press conference that officials were still working to notify victims next-of-kin and said the medical examiners office was expected to release their names and brief biographies Friday afternoon.
Hanlin has refused to name the gunman out of deference to the victims and their families, and chastised the media for reporting his name, saying it glorified a murderer....
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“Still living at home.”
Medved would approve.
Maybe he learned he was going to lose his parent sponsored “Health Coverage” on his 27th B-day....
All that's lacking is a panel where King Obama and celebrities jump on the dead bodies and try to scare people into supporting their anti-gun agenda.
In this country, it is illegal for people with mental disorders to possess firearms. An admitted homosexual obviously has a serious mental disorder.
I was just counting my weapons and discovered I have a cache. Luckily a gunshow is coming near me next month so I can turn it into an arsenal. Now my ammunition may classify as a dump.
Who cares?
You can only shoot one of the darn things at time. (Well, I have seen some guys put on credible performances with two pistols, but that only lasts until it is time to reload.)
Guns don’t kill people. Nutballs in Victim Disarmament Zones kill people.
Had the college been an open carry campus this killing spree could have been averted.
Where did this loser get the money to buy all this?
Dealing drugs, perhaps?
Thirteen guns ain’t a ‘cache’. More like a starter set.
I grew up in Austin and lived only a few blocks from the UT Tower at the time of the shooting. I will always remember how we could hear the shots from our yard until my mother made us come in the house.
Several civilians in the area got their rifles and returned fire to Whitman, allowing the two officers to get to the top of the tower and take him out.
Legally obtained.
Ouch.
And there is the rub, if they were purchased legal what’s a fascist to do? The only solution that would work would be outright confiscation of all guns and then you would have a black market and criminals with the guns and it would take centuries for most guns to be removed from public access and still there would be criminals with them. However, a good tyrant can use these tragedies to get registration and restrictions on law abiding citizens so they can eventually go for confiscation.
This is the crux of the matter. When the only mental disorder precluding gun ownership is patriotism only the deranged will own guns.
Thurston High School shooting: Springfield, Oregon
May 21, 1998
After he was expelled for having a gun in his locker, Kipland P. Kinkel, 15, a freshman at Thurston High, went on a shooting spree, killing his parents at home and two students at school. Five classmates wrestled Kipland to the ground before he was arrested. Total injured and killed: 29
How did he get the money? No mention of his job. Was he being subsidized by the government and getting disability checks?
That’s a very usual gun collection for the area.
The kids in that town come from a hunting background. They know the sound of a gun, or so said, one man whose daughter was at the school at the time.
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