Your argument isn’t valid. Why would the Vegas shooter take a high perch w/o a gun. Just fill a truck up with a bunch of gasoline drums and drive it into the crowd. I don’t recall suggesting that solution to all problems is more guns. That is just the arrogance of the anti-gun people putting words into the mouths of…

Here is the thing that you can’t seem to comprehend: You believe that there is one obvious problem, when there is clear evidence from research from a wide variety of sources that say the problem isn’t that simple. I don’t make up the research, I just quote it. You conveniently ignore basic issue like eliminating gun…

Wait - are we not drinking Coke Zero anymore? Shit.

Are you serious? Someone is going to recognize you by eye color and body shape? It isn’t like he went around wearing all black tactical assault gear all of the time and, as an atheist, he wasn’t a frequent visitor to the church. The preacher said that the shooter had been at some church functions before, but caused…

Odd, I don’t recall ‘directly suggesting’ that I knew more about gun laws than anyone else commenting here. Now that you mention it, it is possible that I do know more, but I certainly couldn’t make that claim without reading all of the responses here. Additionally, gun laws vary greatly from state to state, so my…

Look, you’re mad; I get it. You presented an argument that was proven to be flawed but it the mental model that you live with, so you can’t accept that. Instead, when anything challenges that model, you have to immediately devalue the opposing facts by questioning their validity and, if that doesn’t work, just flat…

I’m not sure if I really have the time to respond to all of this, so I will try to keep on the major points:

I take it you didn’t read the various news reports that stated he was wearing a “skull” face mask that made it impossible to identify him.

Gun and ammunition sales dropped significantly with Trump’s victory. So much so that it presented a burden to the manufacturers as most had predicted a Hillary win and continued strong sales. The gun ownership level is fairly stable, but carry permits have increased over the last several years as, thanks to the media,…

I take it that means that you can’t articulate an even remotely valid counterargument so you resort to childish responses.

Why would I ever bother articulating a response to your post to debate you on the issues where you’re insisting on drawing correlation between two random data points and insisting that, not only is there cause and effect, but it justifies the basis of enacting laws elsewhere?

Still in denial I see....

Well, I wouldn’t call your summation BS, but I wasn’t aware that you had made specific points that you wanted me to address. I’m not sure why you’re bring the NRA into this - I’m not a member. I guess that people assume that anyone that isn’t strictly opposed to gun ownership is some type of NRA worshiper or…

It is, minimally, misguided (albeit well-intentioned perhaps) to think that laws that work in one country will work and have the same effect in another. That, of course, ignores the fact that these gun restrictions used in other countries could be implement in the US anyway as they would be deemed unconstitutional.

Fuck - that teacher is harsh. I mean, I recognize it is his job to prepare kids for the real world and all, but dude - that’s keeping it a little too real.

Well, actually we got derailed when I responded to some comments that were posting, seeming to suggest that guns were the problem and that, somehow, we could get rid of them and all of our problems will be solved (I’m paraphrasing of course). My contention is that the issue isn’t cause by firearms but rather human…

I’m not sure what you think you know. I can tell you that you don’t know what you profess to know. I too have made homemade explosives (for research purposes and family entertainment value only - of course). With that said, no government agents have shown up to ask me any questions yet. I’ve also purchased cases (over…

Which gun owner told you that? Why do you think that all gun owners are the same? That is a horrible mentality and takes away any constructive dialog to be had. Be part of the solution, don’t flame the problem. This article has some very valid points in that there is 1) no uniform way of dealing with firearms in cases…

The last paragraph was just obvious common sense. It is disturbing that you think that it requires some reference or citation for validation. In terms of explosives being a rare form of attack because they are tracked, you’re seriously mistaken. Law enforcement agencies constantly thwart larger scale attacks in the US…

It’s interesting how you ignore the fact that the church shooter had the potential to shoot additional victims elsewhere, had he not been stopped outside of the church. We may have not even known who he was if he hadn’t been shot by the citizen. You also ignore all of the other self defense shootings in the US. I…