12 shot dead at in Aurora, Colorado

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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

The Aurora assailant purchased 4 guns and 6,000 rounds of ammo in a two-month period, including an assault rifle. Legally.

Though the US contains enough legal firearms for every citizen to have a gun, the percentage of Americans who own firearms is declining. It was one out of two in the 1970s and now it's about one in five, and this is after 30 years of declining regulations. It gets easier and easier to buy firearms, and yet fewer Americans are buying them. So the firearm industry depends on 20 percent of the nation to keep them profitable, as most of these gun owners own more than one firearm (quick poll of the DT gun owners- how many of you own more than one firearm? You can give props to the firearm industry for their excellent manipulation of your consumer habits. You did exactly what they want you to do.). So they're thrilled when someone like Holmes buys 4 weapons and thousands of rounds of ammo in a two-month period.

So the firearm industry gets White America worked up over omigawd the brown guy in the White House is going to take our guns away and gun owners obediently file out to buy more firearms, ammunition, whatever the gun industry tells them is going to be taken away from them. And there's not an iota of truth to any of the lies but gun owners are easily manipulated by fear.

And so people like Holmes can purchase 4 guns and 6000 rounds of ammunition in a two-month period, including an assault rifle and there was no way to flag the fact that a guy was accumulating a ridonkuolous amount of firepower or to stop him. And a six-year-old is dead and her mother lies paralyzed in a hospital, still unaware she will never see her child again. And that's just one of the victims.

The fact that the NRA has endorsed Romney, who has signed gun-control legislation (a ban on assault weapons), and not Obama, who has never signed gun-control legislation, nor has he made any effort to push legislation in the past 4 years, should make it really clear that it's not about "freedom" or "safety." It's about business. And corporations are people my friend. What's a six-year-old's life compared to the rights of industry?

It's always about business..I just can't understand why any normal citizen needs an assault weapon with a 30 round or more clip, a shotgun, a couple pistols...Isn't a pistol or two for protection enough?...In VA recently they lifted the one gun a month law, now you can buy as many as you want..
One gun a month wasn't enough!...wtf needs one gun a month let alone unlimited per month...I'm not opposed to people owning guns, just be reasonable..My son-in-law has 3 shotguns and a pistol..He and the two grandsons are hunters, and good ones i might add..I had an AK-47, .357 magnum and a .22 rifle...came by them from a friend and they were in storage for years, never used by me..except the .22...sold all three about 3 years ago to gun shop..all i have now is a hunting knife and a filet knife i use if i ever catch any big bass..