LAT: "No one becomes a mass shooter without a mass-shooting gun"

[kpete]

[NCTraveler]

1. No one becomes a mass shooter without a gun. nt.

[stonecutter357]

2. K&R

[Hoyt]

3. And they are getting smaller and smaller.

[Tipperary]

4. Happy to make the 10th rec. so damn true.

[DownFromTheMountain]

5. How did the shooter afford the AK and ammo?

I'm curious about how this shooter could afford what I reckon must have been about 3 grand to get the rig he used..rifle and ammo..then there is the extended cache we've heard about...a high-school wash out; was he employed at all?

[MineralMan]

7. That's probably not the right question to ask.

His mother had recently died. Probably she had some financial resources that passed to the shooter. However he paid for the firearms, it was how he used them that is the problem, along with the fact that he was able to buy them at all.

[sfwriter]

9. He had $800,000 from his parents.

His former caretaker has filed a suit to claim it.

But, you know you can buy guns on credit. Some gun shops will sign you right up like the car dealership. If you expect to die in a suicidal blaze of glory, why the fuck care about credit.

[MineralMan]

6. Exactly! No military-style semi-auto rifles - fewer dead kids.

The equation is simple. We need to apply it to the situation.

[Pacifist Patriot]

8. I had to suppress a scream this morning in a conversation with three hunters at my work.

As you might guess, they are the low-information voter types and eat up propaganda and spin.

I got the "well people who want to commit mass murder can and will do it with a knife" if we ban guns capable of mass murder. Then two of the men proceeded to blend the China and Japan knife attacks and skew the facts to fit their narrative. Two completely different stories became a lone crazed knife-wielding attacker who managed to take out 29 people in some sort of public fit.

Completely ignorant of the facts that the 29 dead were in China and not Japan. Ten men with cleavers in a crowded train station perpetrated that attack, not a single individual. And the man who killed 19 in Japan broke into a residential care facility and stabbed people in the neck in their sleep.

<sigh>