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Good. Glad to see they are letting reason take over.

Update:

"Sutherland Springs gunman targeted babies, others who screamed or cried"

http://www.fox26houston.com/news/suther ... d-or-cried

Still whining about legal carry I see. Sorry Mimi, the facts speak for themselves on that one.

Ruark wrote:This gem, from the CNN article above:

• "In some states, a background check can be run fairly quickly through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). However, Texas is not one of these states, so firearms dealers are required to contact the FBI directly for all firearm background checks."

Where in the world do they come up with this stuff?

Ruark wrote:They're here. Mark Kelly, Gabrielle Gifford's husband, on CNN with Anderson Cooper: "In Texas, you can buy a gun without a background check." And then, "In Texas, Arizona and some other states, you can get out of prison, walk straight to the nearest gun show and buy an arsenal of weapons and high capacity magazines without a background check." Cooper, coward that he is, didn't blink.

That doesn't surprise me because they have been pushing their "universal background check" garbage for a long while now. Despite the fact that the rifle was, by all accounts, purchased at an Academy.

Tying this to gun shows has always betrayed their ignorance / collective malevolence. Am I required to perform a background check on somebody before I sell them a gun? No. Yes, I am required to not knowingly sell a gun to a prohibited person. But more importantly, I want to make sure I am not. As a responsible gun owner, I sell to my fellow CHLers and friends or not at all. The vast majority of gun owners are like this.

Nobody is getting out of prison and stocking up at gun shows. The "loophole" bogeyman dressed up to further involve the government in our business needs to die on the vine. And I'm sick of these statists dancing in the blood of innocent people and screaming about it before the bodies have even cooled. Look how well NICS seems to be working. Who wouldn't want that for everyone?

AndyC wrote:People are saying the good guy didn't help as the shooter had already shot everyone in the church already anyway - grrr

Well heck, in that case, let's just not have the police respond to active shooters at all. Mouth breathing idiots.

Prohibited person so how did he get the rifle? Private purchase? Missed NICS check? Straw buyer? I'm sure more will come out.

I hate to think we should just come to expect this but it's not exactly uncommon.

Wow. RIP to the victims.

I'm tired of reading about this.