Gunman in wig kills student at Connecticut bookstore

Thursday 07th May, 01:33 PM JST

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smithinjapan at 12:08 AM JST - 8th May

NeilWarnock: Much as I dislike American non-gun control, this is more an issue of a psycho path killing another human being than it is about guns. If he really wanted a gun for what he intended to do (assuming he intended to kill this woman/someone), he could get one in a country where they're illegal. With less ease, true, but this isn't about that, I think.

Now, if the guy in question got into an argument with the woman, it became more intense, and he whipped out a gun and shot her, THEN you could argue gun control (or lack of it).
adaydream at 12:35 AM JST - 8th May

I'm not sure whether guns laws would do anything here, but I do know that crazies who are intent on killing will do so.

This is a horrible situation.

Prayers for comfort. < :-)
smithinjapan at 01:06 AM JST - 8th May

adaydream: "I'm not sure whether guns laws would do anything here, but I do know that crazies who are intent on killing will do so."

An update on other news sites confirms that the killing was not sudden or random, and the crazy in question had threatened the woman before. As such, I think gun control has nothing to do with this round. He could have approached her with another object and been just as lethal. Anyway, we agree... and even more importantly we agree that this is a horrible situation.

Apparently the man is targeting Jews and the community is essentially in lock down.
likeitis at 11:32 AM JST - 8th May

smithinjapan, I would still argue that without the gun, killing would have been considerably more difficult.

Sure, he could have attacked her with a knife, but if he had, other people in the store might have been able to interfere, because it takes more time to stab several times than shoot several times. The woman herself might have been able to put a door between him and herself. She might have even escaped without injury as he tried to reach over the counter to stab. She would have had time to dodge. Not much possibility for those when all one has to do is point and shoot, BLAM, BLAM, BLAM, in quick succession. A child could do it.

So we might say he could have waited in a strategic location at a strategic time instead. Sure. But this dude in the wig seems like a bit of a dunce. Increase the difficulty of doing the crime, and he might have either given up, or flubbed it to the point that woman would still be alive.

Gun gripes aside, sad case. For what its worth, I offer my condolences also.
smithinjapan at 12:44 PM JST - 8th May

likeitis: True, it would probably be more difficult than with a gun, but it was premeditated, and as such even in countries without the same ease to get the gun, he still could have gotten one (some places easier than others). That still makes this a 'gun problem', but not necessarily one that's limited to American gun control.

Don't get me wrong... you know I'm not defending American gun control; I just don't think that's the bigger issue here.
nandakandamanda at 12:48 PM JST - 8th May

Leaving 'his wig' means that...it was a male wig, or a female wig? Wigs are the work of the devil and should be banned.
teleprompter at 01:13 PM JST - 8th May

I have never owned a gun. But were I to return to live in a major metropolis in the Nifty Fifty I would purchase one, and precisely because Obama is our president.

Think:the US is a very divided nation (though still not as divided as the media and "liberals" want it ...).

What happens if our current president, a Chicago hack elevated by the MSM and transformed into something of a new age demi-god, were to be assassinated?

1/3 of registered Dems believe 9-11 was an inside job. Can you even imagine the chaos and the madness if Obama was killed?

I have three times had a gun pulled and aimed at me - the most terrifying when mistaken for a suspect (not "white" btw) in an armed robbery.

There are simply too many guns in the US for the gov't to even attempt a federal ban.
smithinjapan at 01:57 PM JST - 8th May

teleprompter: Kudos on a post that's a little more down to earth.

"I have three times had a gun pulled and aimed at me - the most terrifying when mistaken for a suspect (not "white" btw) in an armed robbery."

And yet you say if you go home you'll buy a gun... so some guy will mistake you for a criminal and pull a gun on you, you'll pull yours, bam bam you're both dead due to stupid error when if neither of you had guns you could have addressed the error and still been living. More down to earth, but still devoid of reason.

Anyway, this is not an issue of gun control.
teleprompter at 02:03 PM JST - 8th May

It's like talking with a child:

And yet you say if you go home you'll buy a gun... so some guy will mistake you for a criminal and pull a gun on you, you'll pull yours, bam bam you're both dead due to stupid error when if neither of you had guns you could have addressed the error and still been living.

Are all lefties so fragile?
Altria at 02:06 PM JST - 8th May

Tedious
Madverts at 06:08 PM JST - 8th May

"I have never owned a gun. But were I to return to live in a major metropolis in the Nifty Fifty I would purchase one, and precisely because Obama is our president."

Jesus. Even the JT support group for the radicals is clearly not helping this one get over the election thumping. I find that comment your scariest to date.
teleprompter at 06:50 PM JST - 8th May

Gun sales have skyrocketed since Obama took office.

Some here are too young to recall the Rodney King riots.

Or, relying exclusively on the lamestream media, maybe they missed the all the "tolerance" shown to "overpaid execs" at AIG, who saw themselves and their offspring targeted with death threats.

I feel sorry for the woman in the article. But it's generally not booksellers facing the threats these days.

Among my acquaintances back home (W coast, very "liberal" city, gun control high on "the agenda") is a jeweler, unfailingly "progressive" in his views, who says in his line of work the whole "get the rich" message the anti-capitalist, anti-business, anti-entrepreneur Obama gang is promoting has translated into a level of hostility he has never seen. He has been followed three times in the last six months and has colleagues who were recently robbed at gunpoint.
likeitis at 07:15 PM JST - 8th May

smithinjapan: Don't get me wrong... you know I'm not defending American gun control; I just don't think that's the bigger issue here.

Yes, the bigger issue is that such nutcases are loose in the world, sure. Trouble is, I have a great many ideas for keeping guns out the hands of nutcases. But as far as keeping nutcases off the streets before they commit murder, well, I am stumped.
likeitis at 07:19 PM JST - 8th May

teleprompter: I have three times had a gun pulled and aimed at me - the most terrifying when mistaken for a suspect (not "white" btw) in an armed robbery.

Naturally, it would never occur to you that you may have survived those three instances because you did not have a gun.
smithinjapan at 07:49 PM JST - 8th May

likeities: "Naturally, it would never occur to you that you may have survived those three instances because you did not have a gun."

That kind of thought wouldn't occur to him in a million years. In fact, the guy is clearly so out of touch that he probably thinks 'he would have survived WITH a gun' (forgetting he actually survived without having one). That's the kind of argument gun-nutters like him often have.

teleprompter: "Gun sales have skyrocketed since Obama took office."

So what are you trying to say, that others are as scared of 'that scawy old black guy Obama' as you are? Dude, the people aren't rushing to buy guns because 'Obama took office', they're rushing to buy them because Obama is going to change laws to make it harder to obtain the weapons, and geniuses like... damn... I forget her name... but the woman who wants a shot-gun for her 12-year old for Christmas as trying to make the deadline.

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