Monday, February 26, 2018

Mass Shootings Same Old Same Old in USA

So, read this little vignette and tell me which of the mass shootings you think it's describing. I know, I know, they all blur together and sound the same.





With one exception, they are all male and except for one Asian male, they are all white. Exceptions that prove the rule.
It's a white male thing, basically.


So here goes: Where and which shooting is this report describing? Extra points if you can name the year. 

He then drove to a hardware store, where he purchased a Universal M1 carbine, two additional ammunition magazines, and eight boxes of ammunition, telling the cashier he planned to hunt wild hogs.At a gun shop he purchased four more carbine magazines, six additional boxes of ammunition, and a can of gun cleaning solvent. At Sears he purchased a Sears Model 60 12 gauge semi-automatic shotgun before returning home.
Whitman sawed off the barrel and butt stock of the shotgun, then packed it into his footlocker, along with a Remington 700 6-mm bolt-action hunting rifle, a .35-caliber pump rifle, a .30-caliber carbine (M1), a 9-mm Luger pistol, a Galesi-Brescia .25-caliber pistol, a Smith & Wesson M19 .357 Magnum revolver, and more than 700 rounds of ammunition.

--Wikipedia

Fact is, this was 1966 and it was the University of Texas clock tower shooting where a man named Whitman shot random people, 15 in all, dead.

When it comes to mass shootings, there seems to be a theme: These guys buy guns fairly close to the time they use them.  And they definitely buy up lots of ammo. So a law making purchase of said armaments might help to prevent mass shooting, which is all we seem to care about lately with respect to gun deaths.

Little kids at home shooting their siblings, people shooting their wives at home, men shooting citizens during robberies don't seem to bother the public all that much. Americans are willing to live with that. This America, man.



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