Shooting at Las Vegas casino

I still don't understand how "a well-regulated militia" turned into "anyone can have as many weapons as they want, the angrier and whiter the better."

 

The 2A itself!?! I can't see that happening. But, hopefully, some commonsense regulations will be enacted before the next guy kills 100-plus.

 

It hasn't. That's NRA propaganda. All that is established is that there is an individual right to gun ownership. We have no idea how far it stretches. For all we know, one gun is protected, but two are not.

 

There are dozens and dozens of First Amendment cases and one Second Amendment case. (McDonald is just Heller applied to the states.)

There are going to be cases.

 

What the Federal government did with the Thompson machine gun establishes that the government can deny access to individual weapons which are too powerful and destructive to allow the general public to carry. The problem is that the gun industry has gotten so large and that there are so many weapons which might need to be banned that writing the legislation regarding what to ban is problematical, and so is the financial hit to the manufacturers.

 

Just want to preface that I'm not buying what's being sold in what I'm about to post, but it's being circulated among conspiracy theory moonbats so have at it. God bless these hucksters.

 

This is the type of thinking that will ensure no decisions get made about anything. Ever.

 

It doesn't establish that Constitutionally.

 

I don't think it's that hard. And my sympathy for the firearms industry's financial status is nil. Look, the basic role of the state is to protect its citizens from violence. If the firearms lobby is preventing that, eventually reaction will be severe, even draconian. It is in everyone's interest, especially gun owners themselves, to get in front with some of the proposals that have 80 percent support. Otherwise, gun owners, most of whom are not nuts (a new Harvard-Northeastern study found that three percent of the public owns 50 percent of the guns, a useful measure of gun nutdom) are going to find themselves as sanctioned and socially scorned as smokers are today.

 

Obviously not buying it either, but the inexplicability of this one seems particularly well suited for nutcases to run wild with these sort of theories.

The worst mass shooting in our entire history perpetrated by a man who 1) apparently had millions of dollars, yet a job history in no way consistent with his financial status; and 2) absolutely no hint of a rational motive. Jesus, what a combination.

The conspiracy theories will only be gaining traction if the FBI can't soon produce some sort of coherent explanation for why he'd do this.

 

This is our next Lee Harvey Oswald, if something doesn't break. It won't just attract the Alex Jones types.

 

This is a good one.