A common sight in Israel
Mark
Posted on 07/26/2012 11:27:45 AM PDT by GilGil
Suicide technically does no count since it is not a massacre.
Hey, you know of a sure-fire way of cutting down or even eliminating those mass shootings?
GET RID OF THE *&^&%# “GUN FREE” ZONES!!!
(sorry to be yelling like that, but seeing the Leftist idiocy from the past few days has gotten me cranky)
Somehow I doubt that the issue controlling loss of life in a well armed environment is less depended upon the desires of a psychopath(who in the Colorado case did not expect to get away with it) than their practical ability to carry out the killing.
Simply put In a well armed environment they tend not to get off too many shots before they themselves are taken out. Hence the murder doesn’t rise to the level of mass murder or world wide news. It ends up being a simple shooting that the media tends to mention once locally then bury.
I’ve heard of a massacre at Verdun. Everybody had guns there!
The city is a militarized zone and nothing is done whatsoever to empower the individual to defend himself.
How can anyone say that nothing is being done in Chicago to empower the individual. I just saw Rahm Emmanuel on TV the other day, pleading with the gang bangers not to kill each other where there are children around. He asked them to go to the alleys to kill each other. Of course, he came off as a whiny bitch, but I suppose that was to be expected. If it saves a single life...
Mark
A common sight in Israel
Mark
shopping in texas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmTvAZvJ5Mc
Any google search only yields hundreds of versions of "Batman massacre suspect tried to join gun club."
Actually, I do know of a gun fight at a gun club.
In the 1980s, there was and likely still is a Rod and Gun Club at Panzer Kaserne, in Stuttgart, Germany. They also have a small arms range, used by the club, subdivided by dirt berms. A rather pleasant place.
Club membership is not limited to US soldiers, and there are local Germans who pay a small fortune to have and use a licensed gun which after joining the club, they may use at the range.
In any event, there were several “revolverhelden” (German for gunslingers), practicing their quick draws with wired trigger revolvers, in which they tried to fan off five rounds as quickly as possible at targets.
Well, one small group got into an argument with another small group, and they started to shoot at each other. Well, sort of. Both groups hid behind heavy cover and would just stick their hand around either the side or the top and shoot in the general direction of the others.
After several hundred rounds fired, and nobody with so much as a scratch, somebody in authority arrived and told them to cut it out. Then arrested everyone. It being Germany, probably for “Having a gunfight without a license”.
Massacre at a gun club? Well, there was the time this rabbit wandered onto the range ... mama mia!
I saw the remains of a crow that perched atop a target at 200 yards.
Mass murder was stopped at a California Gun shop in Santa Clara in 1999. The MSM mostly spiked the story:
http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23436
Shooting Range Shootout Ends Drama
Updated 11:05 AM ET July 7, 1999
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Reuters) - A shootout at a California shooting range ended a bizarre
hostage drama during which three gun store employees found themselves staring down the
barrel of one of their own rented rifles, police said Tuesday.
Sgt. Anton Morec of the Santa Clara Police Department said the aspiring gunman, 21-year-old
Richard Gable Stevens, was subdued after tense moments Monday evening at a shooting
range and gun store in this town 30 miles (48 km) south of San Francisco.
“He intended to go out in a blaze of glory,” Morec said, noting Stevens had accumulated more
than 100 rounds of ammunition for his rented 9mm semi-automatic weapon.
“It certainly looks like he intended to take a lot more people out.”
Morec said Stevens arrived at the National Shooting Club Monday evening and rented the rifle
for target practice. The club allows people to rent a range of weapons for use on its own
shooting range.
After several minutes on the range, however, Stevens returned to the club’s gun store and shot
at the ceiling. He then herded three store employees out the door into an alley, saying he
intended to kill them, Morec said.
Unknown to Stevens, one store employee was carrying a .45 caliber handgun concealed
beneath his shirt. When Stevens looked away, the employee fired, hitting Stevens several
times in the chest and bringing him to the ground.
The employee kept his gun trained on Stevens until police arrived, Morec said. When Stevens
refused to comply with police demands that he show his hands, he was shot again with several
rounds of rubber bullets.
Morec said Stevens was taken to a hospital where he was listed in critical condition from the
initial gun wounds. Criminal charges against him were pending.
Police investigating the case believed the quick action by the gun club employee may have
headed off a massacre.
“He was full of rage, and felt he was getting no respect,” Morec said. A suicide note found in
Stevens’ vehicle and addressed to his parents indicated he may have planned to go on a much
broader shooting spree, Morec said.
“Now you’ll spend the rest of your lives fighting lawsuits from my victims’ relatives and die with
only dimes perhaps,” Morec quoted the note as saying.
It says Texas but it could be Arizona.
It's for the good of the species too!
It's doubly foolish to do that when, in fact, you've called for help and they are on the way ~ arriving only 15 seconds after you fired your weapon.
Not that anybody you or I know would be foolish ~ but you just never know what's going to happen.
I used to carry around a sharp stainless steel nail on my keychain. Cut holes in my pants pockets but it was there at the ready on those times when I had to hit the mean streets of some strange city at 2AM.
Your best protection, though, is to be wary and stay away from people you don't know, particularly when visibility is limited.
Prisons are for punishment - not rehabilitation.
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