Boulder shooting: Gunman kills at least 6, including police officer, at King Soopers

[Steeleballz 7,550]

Just now, Boiler said:

I have been through the process 3 times in Colorado and simply not true, you need to pass a background check.

 

No way legally to acquire a gun in Colorado otherwise.

 

  Obviously not that hard to do then, based on the number of people who end up being diagnosed with mental health issues after the fact. 

[Boiler 46,336]

2 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

  Obviously not that hard to do then, based on the number of people who end up being diagnosed with mental health issues after the fact. 

To some extent mental health is subjective, however a long criminal record is not. And seems this goes back before he would have been of age to buy a weapon.

[yuna628 9,752]

The weapon was purchased legally within 6 days of the shooting. It had been modified, I assume illegally (no honest idea here?) with an arm brace. He had numerous other legally purchased weapons in his home.

 

Relatives say they saw him 'playing' with weapons a few days before, and were concerned knowing his mental health history.

Edited March 23, 2021 by yuna628

[Boiler 46,336]

Biden has called for a ban on Assault Weapons and Large Capacity magazines.

 

The former are effectively already banned nationally and the latter are banned in Colorado and have been for some years.

[Dashinka 24,941]

48 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

   Why would they label it a hate crime? He didn't target specific victims based on race, religion or gender. 

 

   Yes, he did get the gun legally, like most people with mental health issues seem to be able to do.

 

  And yet he did.

Hmm, I have not seen that reported yet.  Source?  As to the hate crime thing, it seems similar to the recent Atlanta case where almost half the victims were not Asian, the common theme being mentally unhealthy people.

[Dashinka 24,941]

45 minutes ago, Boiler said:

I have been through the process 3 times in Colorado and simply not true, you need to pass a background check.

 

No way legally to acquire a gun in Colorado otherwise.

So perhaps the focus should be on avoiding errors first, otherwise what is the point?

Why avoid the errors when new laws can be passed also full of errors?

[Boiler 46,336]

32 minutes ago, Dashinka said:

Why avoid the errors when new laws can be passed also full of errors?

You mean do something effective? Do you realise what you are asking?

 

 

 

[Dashinka 24,941]

Just now, Boiler said:

You mean do something effective? Do you realise what you are asking?

 

 

 

Nothing from DC certainly.

[Boiler 46,336]

Seems he was known to the FBI, so how this happened gets stranger and stranger.

[Crtcl Rice Theory 2,432]

2 hours ago, Boiler said:

Seems he was known to the FBI, so how this happened gets stranger and stranger.

I couldn't find where he was known to the fbi, where did you find that?

[Boiler 46,336]

One of the local news channels mentioned it, do not remember which one, maybe 7?

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

5 hours ago, yuna628 said:

Relatives say they saw him 'playing' with weapons a few days before, and were concerned knowing his mental health history.

So the relatives were "concerned" and didn't say or do anything. All the while the FBI had him on their radar and didn't do anything either.

 

But yet for some reason we need even more gun control to do something about this? I just looked and Colorado is a red flag law state so potentially the family and friends could have done something 

Edited March 23, 2021 by Cyberfx1024

[Boiler 46,336]

His brother said he was paranoid, they know he had bought this gun and did nothing. Also homophobic.

 

Judging by the pictures of the victims it does seem it was racially motivated, all the victims seems to be of one race. Which ticks the box for hate crime. More so than Atlanta.

[Crtcl Rice Theory 2,432]

28 minutes ago, Boiler said:

One of the local news channels mentioned it, do not remember which one, maybe 7?

Interesting a fact like that has escaped the Denver Post and National media.

[Boiler 46,336]

I have CNN on and their coverage is somewhat different, actually I think the current comments contradict their earlier coverage.

 

They had an expert who said he had a high powered rifle that fired bullets at 2,000ft per minute, about 20mph?

 

From local coverage he had a Ruger in 5.56.

 

Makes me wonder why all were killed? No injuries, That is a pretty small bullet and even with a bigger round all killed?. Did he finish them off?