Yeah. His family was conservative and pro-2A. Whatever the narrative is here, it isn’t a left-wing thing. The way the right has a fetish for guns, no one is surprised.
Shrug… I always assume gun enthusiasts have a dozen or more. If you’re going to have one or two, you may as well have a dozen. You can only pop one at a time anyway.
I know many folks don’t like guns but since guns are allowed, it’s worth understanding that collecting them and learning about them is a hobby just like any other.
I’m not what you’d call an “enthusiast”, I just hunt. And between friends and relatives, you just kinda end up with extra shotguns and rifles. I give some to new hunters but it seems like the old relatives all get out of it and if they know you hunt, you end up with them
I read these stories about “lunatic gunman had a dozen firearms” and cue up look-away-meme.
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I dunno, a friend of mine has a couple mp5s and you can definitely akimbo them. It’s absurdly fun too
Worth keeping in mind the dude is 20 and lives with his parents. The vast majority of them probably aren’t his. The economy isn’t that good.
This is super, SUPER normal for this area. Seriously. This is like announcing the shooter had a dog and propane grill in the back yard.
This is super, SUPER normal for this area.
I mean, “more than a dozen” covers a lot of ground. Does that mean 15? Sure, that’s probably normal. 50? That’s weird.
Oh but you know NBC would say DOZENS! if there were 50.
Does that mean 15? Sure, that’s probably normal.
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Americans are weird.
To this American, yes, 15 is a weird number of guns to have. But some types of folk, especially in rural areas, are just different.
13-23 guns. If there were 24 or more they’d have said a couple dozen or dozens
50 is not weird, it’s just like any other hobby, and you can’t shoot really more than 1 at a time accurately anyways.
No, it’s weird.
I mean it’s really not. The is nothing wrong with liking mechanical things. Is it weird to have a collection of anything?
Propane?! Clearly they are a terrorist of some flavor
/s
Probably has a spare high capacity propane tank, too
A clear and present danger if I ever heard one
Taste the meat not the heat.
As part of their investigation into what could have motivated Thomas Crooks to carry out the shooting, the FBI accessed his cellphone — but a preliminary analysis found the information was not helpful for investigators, a senior U.S. law enforcement official said.
The thing is, we legitimately can’t believe them.
It may just be after the Vegas shooter they stopped saying they found motive if they’re not gonna release the motive.
Yeah, that Vegas shooting dropped out of the news quickly. So did that theater shooting in Colorado.
I feel like my worry is that they have some valid salient arguments and then put something like: this is the only way to get on the news/protest anymore or I have no idea what, something that doesn’t sound bad shit insane.
If someone wants a race war or something the news is all over it.
In 2016 the Trump campaign built a database profiling millions of voters in key battleground states – including the family of Trump’s would-be assassin Thomas Crooks.
It found that both the parents of Thomas Crooks were very likely to be gun owners and shared other gun-related lifestyle indicators.
They left out the part where his classmates used to refer to him as “the school shooter.”
Why are they still saying “suspected” shooter?
How much evidence does one need before they can definitely say something?
What other kinds of guns were found? I mean specifics. Handguns? Shotguns? Rifles?
Nerf guns
Wasn’t what I had in mind. Why did the Crooks choose the AR15?
My Googlefu says you can get a cheap rifle for $500, maybe because it’s the cheapest rifle with a magazine?
I don’t know I’m in the UK
It’s a very cheap rifle to build and cheap to buy as well. Poverty ponies is a thing.
Oh imagine the surprise! People with an unhealthy gun fetish have other mental issues, too!
Little bit of hunting experience here. Let’s say I’m hunting a deer.
If I miss no big deal. The problems begin when the shot hits the deer but doesn’t kill it. Their adrenaline sours the meat. And, one needs to chase it down to humanely kill it. No matter how hard I try I’ll eventually miss and maim a deer.
I do two things preventatively: First, I don’t take a shots without good chance of a one shot kill. Second, I’m always prepared ASAP to send the second round, and a third. My accuracy drops severely for the fourth in practice. So, I don’t shoot a fourth outside of practice.
This shooter couldn’t close the range for a better shot. He also wasn’t prepared for a miss. The second round should be down range almost immediately, even on a bolt action and especially on a wisely chosen bolt action. He was a smidgeon of humility away from a greatly increased chance of success.
And, one needs to chase it down to humanely kill it.
I hate to be the one to point this out buuut there’s an even more humane thing you could do. Y’know. Just saying.
Beats industrial farming
When you mow your grass does it try to run away because it’s scared of dying?
Let me clarify because apparently it wasn’t obvious. My stance is that industrial raised livestock often experience poor quality living conditions. Hunting offers a death far less insufferable than most deer would see otherwise, and a regulated harvest is critical in areas that deer’s natural predators have been extirpated like much of the populated US. Without this populations would bloom past the carrying capacity of the ecosystem leading to disease, famine, and increased death on both parties in auto accidents.
The people eating venison are swapping it in for a steak not a salad. People make jokes about vegans because of individuals who don’t acknowledge that animal welfare isn’t a binary matter but one on a spectrum. Painting it as a binary simply dissuades non vegans from taking any incremental step to increasing their welfare.
Better than starvation or jumping in front of cars.
That’s the guy’s house? Wow! Man I love my life in this tiny 2000sqft house. Like how do you end up doing dumb shit when you’re living the dream in a big ass garage shed like that?
He lived with his parents
My parents had a two bedroom for 6 people!
I’d be happy living with whoever if they let me have a big ass garage like that.
