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Mother of Thousand Oaks Shooting Victim: ‘I Want Gun Control’
https://www.thedailybeast.com ^ | 08 November 2018 | unknown

Posted on 11/08/2018 4:44:49 PM PST by BackRoads775

The mother of a man who survived the Las Vegas shooting but was killed in the Thousand Oaks shooting Wednesday night told local reporters that she wanted policy change over thoughts and prayers for her son's death. “My son was in Las Vegas with a lot of his friends and he came home. He didn’t come home last night, and I don’t want prayers. I don’t want thoughts,”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendmentrules; atheist; banglist; borderlineshooting; buymoreammo; guncontrol; guns; no; nra; shutup
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To: BackRoads775

No.


41 posted on 11/08/2018 5:12:49 PM PST by Simon Green ("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.”)
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To: Blue House Sue
That would mean profiling of those who meet the characteristics of past mass shooters.

It will mean people like this guy, who have had contacts with the police and mental health evaluations, but were never adjudicated mentally ill which would have flagged NICS, could possibly still find themselves on "no buy" lists.

And if you think Americans won't support this, think again.

42 posted on 11/08/2018 5:13:11 PM PST by Drew68 (Twitter @TheRealDrew68 https://twitter.com/TheRealDrew68)
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To: pangaea6
Or if you have had contact with some form of psychiatric Dr. or meds then you cant get a gun, legally.

That would be millions of people the vast majority of whom are no danger to anyone.

43 posted on 11/08/2018 5:13:42 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: BackRoads775

The only “gun control” that helps is more good citizens controlling their own guns so that mass shooters have to fear the pain and suffering of being shot up by others instead of just murdering a whole bunch of people leaving them to suffer and perhaps die while they end it quickly for themselves with a shot to the head.


44 posted on 11/08/2018 5:15:32 PM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: BackRoads775

Next thing you know she will want bomb control and fire control.

Oh wait; we already have that and it still happens. So much for laws against crime. It only keeps the normal and honest people honest.

The shooter used a legally bought handgun and an extended mag no legal in CA. Probably just a 13 rounder. It was a Glock 21. A .45 cal. Nice handgun but there are better shooting .45’s out there.


45 posted on 11/08/2018 5:17:34 PM PST by Boomer (Don't mistake my gentle nature for weakness.)
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To: BackRoads775

“My son was in Las Vegas with a lot of his friends and he came home. He didn’t come home last night, and I don’t want prayers. I don’t want thoughts,”

Wait a minute, I heard there were some people at this bar in California that had also been there at Mandalay Bay when that shooting happened. Thought it might be fake news. Is this woman’s son one of them? I am curious how a coincidence like this happens. Maybe she can explain.


46 posted on 11/08/2018 5:22:55 PM PST by MagnoliaB (You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime you might find, you get what you need.)
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To: BackRoads775

For every one of the victims in these horrible tragedies, there are a thousand others who successfully defended themselves against attempted murder, rape, or robbery thanks to their firearm.

But their stories don’t make the front page.


47 posted on 11/08/2018 5:23:57 PM PST by fruser1
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To: Trod Upon

As Thomas Jefferson said, “I much prefer dangerous freedom over safe slavery.”


48 posted on 11/08/2018 5:31:55 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Steely Tom

“She’ll be at the SOTU, guest of Kamala Harris.”

You can take that to the bank.


49 posted on 11/08/2018 5:32:31 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: BackRoads775

He used a handgun. Does the mom want to ban those now too? I guess the left is now admitting it.


50 posted on 11/08/2018 5:35:42 PM PST by guitar Josh
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To: BackRoads775

You got it lady. You live in California which has some of the very strictest gun control in the country.

As we saw once again, it doesn’t work.


51 posted on 11/08/2018 5:39:22 PM PST by FLT-bird
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To: BackRoads775

I want people to quit being so damned stupid, I ain’t getting that, and she ain’t getting my guns.


52 posted on 11/08/2018 5:43:55 PM PST by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: PAR35

The shooter was suppose to go crazy last Wednesday, before the mid terms.
Note to deep state, get better calanders.


53 posted on 11/08/2018 5:52:35 PM PST by hadaclueonce ( This time I am Deplorable)
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To: pax_et_bonum

Nope, no break.

I blame the Perp every time, not the Tool he chose to commit his Evil act.

The guy tossed in a couple of smoke grenades before he entered. He could just as well thrown in a couple of Molotov Cocktails and Burned 100 People to death instead of killing 12.


54 posted on 11/08/2018 5:59:04 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: BackRoads775
She doesn’t have to worry about it - the evil doer is dead as Julius Caesar - what gives?

Oh, right - we needed to hurry up and move into our period of civility. Today was so civil it kinda freaked me out a little

55 posted on 11/08/2018 6:01:25 PM PST by atc23 (Votante Blanco)
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To: hadaclueonce

I posted earlier today that it wouldn’t surprise me if Leftists were upset that the guy didn’t pull this off the day before the Election rather than the day after.

Great minds and all that Jazz...


56 posted on 11/08/2018 6:01:37 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: hadaclueonce

Since he’s a veteran, I though maybe he’d just kicked off his celebratory weekend a bit early.


57 posted on 11/08/2018 6:04:05 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Drew68
"A lot of people aren't going to like it but Americans are getting tired of seeing innocent people murdered by lunatics they've never met with an axe to grind"

There will always be innocent people murdered by lunatics and others. We cannot "stop violence." It will always be with us. Feminists invented the false concept of stopping all violence for the purpose of breaking more families (misogamy, hatred of marriage) and opposing U.S. freedoms.

Violence would be less common without the high rates of fatherlessness caused by them and their pollution of societal morality to replace it with false morality.


58 posted on 11/08/2018 6:05:58 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Kickass Conservative

The killer is responsible for killing, not the gun. I’m not disputing that.

I’m simply saying that because this mother lost her child less than twenty-four hours before to a shooter is a good reason for me to give her a pass for not liking guns right now.


59 posted on 11/08/2018 6:05:58 PM PST by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the SEALs of Extortion 17 - and God Bless The USA and President Trump.)
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To: BackRoads775

California has all kinds of gun control. Practically every gun control scheme liberals have ever come up with has been implemented in California.


60 posted on 11/08/2018 6:07:42 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Twitter is Trump's laser pointer and the DemocRats are all cats.)
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