Do you look at a bow and arrow or crossbow differently than a gun? How do you feel about Olympic shooting and archery competitions? Should we reward people with gold medals for their ability to shoot at targets in a competition environment?
This sounds reasonable.
This is something different entirely. Shooting does not necessarily take anymore lives than stabbing or cutting [you dinner] does.
I've taken part in recreational shooting. I've never killed anything with a gun, I've never been taught how to kill something with a gun while in possession of one, let alone really thought about it. A gun used for sport isn't much different from a soccer ball. A lot of the shooting that I did was actually with guns that had features to make them really bad a killing people.
You can hate anything, but that doesn't mean that other people have to give up those things.
If how other people feel about gun owners isn't relevant to you, then how you feel about gun owners isn't relevant to other people. Which is why it was meaningless to bring it up in the first place (let alone continuing to do so), like I said.
I don't want to provide a link to a marginal source, but I will provide this:
We don't have a lot of evidence yet but I don't see anything that a guy in his 60's, who has all the time in the world and bags of money, couldn't do alone. What's to plan? Rent a room for a few days, haul in your guns and ammo, shoot, commit suicide. The visit to the other music festival might have been a practice run for all we know.
You know hotels have baggage carts right? Suitcases have wheels? He was there for a few days, known to the hotel and staff and could come and go as he pleases. The room was comped from what I read. I'm sure they are pouring over the security cam footage and we'll know details soon enough. He may have had help but, so far, I haven't seen anything that absolutely needed 2 people to complete.
For whatever it's worth, the FBI and the Sheriff aren't really agreeing on what they are saying. The Sheriff says they think he had help, while the FBI says they are only working in facts, not in assumptions.
The weapons in question were not full auto, but semi-auto.
I'm pretty sure anyone could get the weapons and ammo up to their room using the luggage carts. He had over 3 days to do it, if he checked in on Thursday, as was reported.
10 trips, maybe? He could have even asked for help from staff, if it's not obvious what's inside the suitcases it doesn't make a difference. I've helped guests in our hotel with their luggage countless times, I've never looked inside.
The murder rate is a statistic that can be manipulated but it's pretty obvious that the sort of event that happened Sunday only ever seems to happen in the US, which is the only country where you can easily buy the sort of weapons used. Something needs to be done about it or they'll keep happening.
