The Question No One here Wants to Ask

[Gman]

"We need cooldown periods on all gun purchases to prevent this tragedy'"

Sure, they'll just wait for you to die before delivery.

[osok-308]

"We need cooldown periods on all gun purchases to prevent this tragedy'"

The kid made molotov cocktails as well. I'm pretty sure that he had decided a while ago that he was going to do this. From the way he prepared, it seems evident that no "cool down period" could have helped him. Thats what I'd tell people if they suggest that.

Also, i think that this case made it evident that an armed response in less than 90 seconds made all the difference.

[Kraven251]

"We need cooldown periods on all gun purchases to prevent this tragedy'"

except he bought the shotgun on Dec 6th

[ChuckNorris]

What bottes did he use to make the molotov cocktails?
I think we need to look at banning those . . . . and gasoline, . . . . . and rags.

[Skip]

Even in a prison, weapons can be had.

Yes, but not the force multipliers we need though. You aren't going to take down a dictatorship with a shiv.

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

It's part weapon and part will.

While we currently have the weapons and no will, take the weapons and there is no hope to ever find the will. The things that made Americans noble and courageous have been taken from us as a nation (while I believe some of us have held onto those things individually). There is no difference between the average modern American and the conquered oppressed peoples in history. These are people who vote away our freedom for the false promise of free healthcare, income equality, or just an Obamaphone.

[Caithford]

I just realized that there is really only one thing I REALLY enjoy doing that does not have an age limit or license required...and it is still free.

You win this thread.

[brutal]

I just realized that there is really only one thing I REALLY enjoy doing that does not have an age limit or license required...and it is still free.

You'll go blind doing that.

[Ranger353]

You'll go blind doing that.

YES! Sister Martha told me that in 6th grade when she caught me looking down her top :-)

[hollohas]

Short answer, no. I don't think the new laws had any affect.

Long answer, if he was concerned with round count, even after the new laws he could have chosen a long gun with higher capacity than a shotgun. Pure speculation on my part, but cost could have been a factor. There are some VERY cheap shotguns. Just writing that makes me cringe though because if investigators somehow find he bought it because it was cheap, then I'm sure it will be only hours before some Saturday Night Special V2.0 Shotgun ban will be introduced.