Gun control discussion

[pomtzu]

Yet another shooting..........this time someone opened fire outside the Empire State building - reporting at least 5-10 shot. Not really much info yet.

More fuel for the fire for this thread. It will never end.

[pomtzu]

I guess the shooter wasn't aware that a pick-up truck is even more lethal.

Not exactly a joking matter, or appropriate comment - is it???

[lizbud]

Not exactly a joking matter, or appropriate comment - is it???

Oh I don't know. Sometimes it's better to laugh than go mad .This is a crazy crazy world we live in.

[Edwina's Secretary]

I see nothing inappropriate about it. In fact, it is what I am thinking.

And especially as we have had a page or so of people joking about a death by coffee mug!

[pomtzu]

I just didn't find an implication to the OK City bombing, as a laughing matter. Must just be my stuffy old age speaking. The coffee mug references were just plain silly and it did lighten the "discussion" a bit too. Of course - JMHO.

ETA: My apology - and I stand corrected. A pick up truck was NOT used in the OK City bombing. So I guess the pick up truck reference was acceptable and funny afterall.

[Edwina's Secretary]

I just didn't find an implication to the OK City bombing, as a laughing matter. Must just be my stuffy old age speaking. The coffee mug references were just plain silly and it did lighten the "discussion" a bit too. Of course - JMHO.

ETA: My apology - and I stand corrected. A pick up truck was NOT used in the OK City bombing. So I guess the pick up truck reference was acceptable and funny afterall.

It was a Ryder box truck. I was working for Ryder at the time and was in the Kansas City office when the FBI came to look at the rental records. One of the reasons they were able to so quickly aprehend the bad guys was that Ryder has an identifying number put on many of the pieces of the truck - axles, engine block, etc. So when the truck blew up it was still possible to identify the truck and from there to who rented it.

My husband also worked for Ryder at the time. Shortly afterward he was on a plane wearing a shirt with the company logo on it. Another passenger lit into him...how could he wear that shirt! Yelling at him. Apparently being the employee of a company from which a terrorist rents a truck is shameful....

[chocolatepuppy]

I wish I had my gun with me out in the back yard with the dogs last night! Two big guys were in my neighbor across the streets back yard. Her husband was not home. Layla spotted them and started barking, they started running. Some quick calls and several neighbors shining spotlights and they came running back through, jumped in the back of a pick up truck and took off. The vehicle description was given to the city cop sitting in a parking lot three tenths of a mile up the road. That is a waste of time, we live in the township.
Would I have chased them if I had my gun? No. What would I have done if they ran up to me? Whatever they want I suppose, seeing as I was unarmed. I wonder if they were selling Avon at 10:30 at night and figured since the husband wasn't home (his truck wasn't in the driveway) they'd go to the back door? If we wouldn't have scared them, would my dearest friend across the street not be alive today? Only if she couldn't get to her gun before they got upstairs to her room.
This is why I have a gun on my dresser. Seems I'm not very smart or it would have been in my hand out in the yard.

[Karen]

"NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two people were killed and at least eight were wounded in a shooting outside the landmark Empire State Building in New York City on Friday, a New York police source said".

I guess the shooter wasn't aware that a pick-up truck is even more lethal.

The sad part is all the wounded were apparently wounded by the bullets of police officers. We'll see, when it all is investigated fully, what the truth turns out to be.

[Edwina's Secretary]

The sad part is all the wounded were apparently wounded by the bullets of police officers. We'll see, when it all is investigated fully, what the truth turns out to be.

Every time I hear some jamoke say, after the latest shooting..."if only someone in the school/classroom/hair salon/movie theater, etc. etc. had a gun!" Here we see trained professionals who create collateral damage. When will people understand it is not like the movies...a clean shot to the head of the bad man?????. No one else is hurt and everyone is back in the next episode without so much as a limp!!!

[Edwina's Secretary]

Opps! Don't you hate when that happens??

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012...-intruder?lite

[Randi]

If the woman isn't charged, I can picture where this going.

[Karen]

Opps! Don't you hate when that happens??

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012...-intruder?lite

Don't blame this on the gun, she could have just as easily bashed his head in with a baseball bat or something!

[Edwina's Secretary]

Don't blame this on the gun, she could have just as easily bashed his head in with a baseball bat or something!

But she didn't. She didn't keep a baseball bat beside the bed. She kept a gun. And killed him.

He might have survived a baseball bat.

What could have been has nothing to do with what is. She shot him...with a gun...and he is dead.

I do not blame it on the gun. it is the fault of the person who had the gun. I hope she will be held accountable.

Either way -though - blame her or the gun - her husband is no less dead.

[Alysser]

Geez, and it wasn't even in the middle of the night or something. Seems a little fishy...I hope she gets some charges pressed too.