Message #960

[kentay]

It does not matter what he did before he broke the law.  Look at Drew Peterson, this was a COP who killed two people or more.

Were any of the criminals law breakers before they first committed a crime?

You made my point he wasn't a law breaker and just maybe if it been harder than downloading a song he might at least not had 100 round clips and Assult weapon that jamed or their would have been hundreds shot and or killed because of your Attitude on background checks and tighter controls. kentay

With the ease of downloading a song, anyone with a computer and a credit card can order thousands of bullets and shotgun shells on the Internet, along with tear-gas canisters and speed loaders. They can get the same high-capacity ammunition clips that infantry soldiers use. They can even get bulletproof vests and SWAT helmets. All without fear of a single background check.

No one is paying attention to whether buyers have criminal histories or mental-health records. No one is monitoring bulk sales of ammunition to see who might be building an arsenal. Even after a young man in Colorado buys 6,000 rounds by mail order and uses them to commit mass murder, it is the rare politician who proposes to make the tools of terror slightly harder to obtain.