Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Are we ready to be a nation again, rather than armed encampments within neighborhoods.

..."It was a trap set (click here) by Mr. Spengler, who laid in wait and shot first responders," Pickering told a news conference.
Separately, a police officer in Wisconsin and another in Texas were shot and killed on Monday, according to police and media reports.
The attacks on first responders came 10 days after one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history that left 20 students and six adults dead at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, and intensified the debate about gun control in the United States....
The nation needs to track down the place the guns were obtained, either legally or illegally. There needs to be an end to this violence. When people die due to gun violence there needs to be complete investigation as there is in Connecticut to track down the people involved in placing those weapons in the hands of killers. No more NRA nonsense in arming the nation to stop each other. This is crazy.

The sister of Spengler may have purchased the weapons for him even if he could not get them himself because he once killed and serviced his time. The entire dynamics in the country is wrong. Finding how these killers got their weapons and ending that access as well prosecuting all those along the way will provide a venue of control that will increase exponentially once it is a nation wide policy.

The way guns flow into and out of the USA is insane. We are creating more problems domestically and out southern border than we solve. One would think the states along the border with Mexico would have the toughest gun laws on the books, but, instead they permit liberal access. Jan Brewer can complain all she wants, but, the gun laws in Arizona enhance the problem and does not solve it.


Two firefighters were shot dead and two others remain hospitalized. (click here) One of the weapons recovered was a .233-caliber semiautomatic Bushmaster rifle with flash suppression, the same make and caliber gun used in the elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn.

Police Chief Gerald Pickering said Tuesday the remains were found in the charred house that 62-year-old William Spengler shared with his 67-year-old sister, Cheryl. A medical examiner will need to determine the identity.
The ex-con who lured firefighters to their deaths in a blaze of gunfire left a typewritten note saying he wanted to burn down the neighborhood and "do what I like doing best, killing people," police said Tuesday....

In Connecticut it was the shooters mother, in New York it was probably his sister. There is no other way to limiting access by shooter, except, to limit the guns on the street. 

Bushmaster. Interesting name. I doubt it indicates a sincere desire for hunting.