12 gauge pump legally bought a week before the act, ammo bought on the way that day. Had a machete and three incendiary dwvices...
Sad that these kind of things keep happening. Hate to bring politics in, but it appears that this shooter is not the typical conservative, gun hugger. It apears he may have even blasted the Repub. Party for posing gun control.
Maybe it's not about guns, or politics huh? Wonder if Mr. VP will come out and clarify that he meant double-barrel shotguns, only...
When the spree or mass-shooters have identifiable politics, they do seem to be leftist an alarming amount of time. What used to be inflammatory hyperbole used by us to incite anti-gunners and liberals is now looking more and more to be eerily true. Dorner, Holmes, Loughner all belonged to groups or campaigns, or wrote things that seem to be on the political Left side of things. No guns, but the guy who flew the plane into the IRS office had left a long Lefty manifesto behind. Even Harris or Klebold, I forget which one, had written Democratic Colorado representatives against their impending CCW bill. Which is usually a Leftist position to take.
Although as I’ve expounded on the Book of Faces, I now think the actual act of the school/mall/mass shooting, unless clearly identified as a particular terrorist cause,
is inherently Leftist/Socialist/Collectivist in nature.
If one thinks about the shooter’s motives, assuming it’s not a brain tumor or a simple case of being 100% bat-**** crazy,
they’re ALL angry about inequality of outcomes, not inequality of opportunity. Economic failure, academic failure, social failure, and they can’t handle it any more. And so they lash out to distribute their negative emotional liabilities onto others, and while they can’t gain happiness for themselves, they can also certainly try to confiscate and destroy the positive emotional assets of others.
If one takes the nominal Leftist call to “Soak the rich!” and substitutes “rich” for “happy”, “successful”, or “popular”, what do you get? The spree shooter or mass murderer.
