WTF PRE-CRIME? ARRESTING PEOPLE BEFORE THEY COMMIT A CRIME?!?!?

[high risk]

I give it a 8/10 chance that he was going to kill someone, especially when you see an assault rifle as one of his purchases.

if you're serious.. wow

 

[high risk]

I thought it was the other way around? Waiting period on hand guns, not so much on rifles? I'm guessing that varies state by state though.

usually states with cooling periods or wait times are on handguns, not long guns.. was the AK-47 full auto? further, was it really an AK or is that just typical reporting fail?

i hate the "assault rifle" buzzword because it's meaningless marketingspeak.

there are basically only a few types of long rifles (leaving shotguns out here):

bolt action rifles (pull the trigger, one bullet comes out, clear the casing manually via a slide action)
semi-auto rifles (pull the trigger, one bullet comes out, do it again. this is 95% of what's out there)
full auto rifles (just what it sounds like, hold the trigger down and the gun will empty if you let it. these are illegal in most states, and very rare for the public)

 

[consigliere]

one word: TOTALITARIANISM

 

[Refrozen]

This bugs me a lot: Why do we care that it was an ASSAULT RIFLE OMG. Drug dealers are arrested with like semi-automatics and Uzis and shit all the time. I don't get what they're doing with them? Do they kill better than pistols?

 

[kblessinggr]

This bugs me a lot: Why do we care that it was an ASSAULT RIFLE OMG. Drug dealers are arrested with like semi-automatics and Uzis and shit all the time. I don't get what they're doing with them? Do they kill better than pistols?

You're more likely to hit *something* full spread with an assault rifle than with a handgun, especially if you suck at shooting to begin with.

 

[Supergeek]

"Assault rifle" is a vague term used for scaremongering.

 

[Garrett]

Do they kill better than pistols?

Fuck yea! From short-range. Pistols are fucking stupid

 

[r3p1v]

 

[acemenace]

Ruck better watch out.

 

[flysarescary]

In this type of case, the police can't win. People are now pissed that they arrested the man before he committed any crime, and people would be pissed if this man went on to kill half a dozen co-workers and while he gave off signals of distress beforehand.

Honestly, I think they did the right thing. I give it a 8/10 chance that he was going to kill someone, especially when you see an assault rifle as one of his purchases. I assume that the police will just detain him, and sign him up to a mental institution for a couple months.

lol assault rifle

 

[Aquasis]

Doesnt make sense to me, he was put on leave and he goes and drops some coin on guns, wouldnt he want to be saving his money?

 

[Fatbat]

one word: TOTALITARIANISM

And if he'd gone and killed all his former coworkers after they had reported him to the police as being mentally unstable, disgruntled and potentially dangerous?

 

[kblessinggr]

Doesnt make sense to me, he was put on leave and he goes and drops some coin on guns, wouldnt he want to be saving his money?

... see, he should have gone and bought the guns before he got to the point of being dismissed.

 

[SeaTownJosh]

ALEX JONES WAS RIGHT

If you went back 10 years ago and told people this they would call you a kook, a nut job, a crazy. Now floride heads just accept it.

 

[SeaTownJosh]

The Alex Jones twist in 3,2,1...

I think that they did what they should. They did not arrest this guy. They did not even take away his guns. All they wanted to do was have a mental evaluation on him.

Fuck i hate Cheese heads.

 

[FerrisHilton]

^Seriously man... implied facepalm

 

[Sharksfan]

Heckler & Koch .45-caliber universal self-loading handgun, a Walther .380-caliber handgun and an AK-47 assault rifle

Self loading handgun = every modern hand gun.

.380 handgun = smaller than most police issue pistols

AK-47 assault rifle = Fiction. There is no such thing as an "assault rifle" because there is no definition of "assault rifle" except what the news papers call "an assault rifle".

I am so fucking liberal and I STILL hate the news when it comes to guns. They have no clue.

 

[LMSInc.]

I'm surprised to see some of the reactions to this...

It seems as if quite a few people are surprised by purchases like this, especially of the 'assault rifle'.

Out here in Arizona, I see purchases like this all the time. It is completely normal for people to purchase more than 1 gun at a time.

And AK-47's are carried out here like shotguns are in the South... I have 2 friends that keep AK's behind their truck seat with a few hundred rounds, just in case...

Maybe it's just people that weren't brought up around guns....?

 

[LazyHippy]

Isn't that what all those guys are in gitmo for... cos they might do something?

 

[SeaTownJosh]

^Seriously man... implied facepalm

You have used that line before. Im not a drunk slut at a bar, new content noob!!!!!