Santa Monica College Shooting

[katmandu]

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[texanjoker]

Good job to the responding officers for going in and stopping this wacko!

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[gthaustex]

Good job to the responding officers for going in and stopping this wacko!

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Glad to see decisive action taken to end the threat. Who knows how many lives were saved through prompt action...

[Jumping Frog]

Once again, mass shooting is chosen for a No Guns zone.

[G26ster]

At the beginning, the gunman shot people in the house that burned, then fired at people in the streets, cars, and buses near the house, and ended up in the college library. Doesn't sound to me that the college was picked for any reason other than it was near all the other shooting. MHO.

[JALLEN]

At the beginning, the gunman shot people in the house that burned, then fired at people in the streets, cars, and buses near the house, and ended up in the college library. Doesn't sound to me that the college was picked for any reason other than it was near all the other shooting. MHO.

Santa Monica is about as close to a "gun free" zone as you can imagine. All of LA County is "no issue." They vote consistently for no-gun candidates so you have to conclude that most people support gun free living and do not own weapons themselves.

A criminal's odds of encountering a legal gun owner carrying, except at a gun store perhaps (if there are any in Santa Monica), are about the same as having Bigfoot and The Abominable Snowman both appear for dinner at your house tonight, dressed in identical pink tutu's.

[G26ster]

At the beginning, the gunman shot people in the house that burned, then fired at people in the streets, cars, and buses near the house, and ended up in the college library. Doesn't sound to me that the college was picked for any reason other than it was near all the other shooting. MHO.

Santa Monica is about as close to a "gun free" zone as you can imagine. All of LA County is "no issue." They vote consistently for no-gun candidates so you have to conclude that most people support gun free living and do not own weapons themselves.

A criminal's odds of encountering a legal gun owner carrying, except at a gun store perhaps (if there are any in Santa Monica), are about the same as having Bigfoot and The Abominable Snowman both appear for dinner at your house tonight, dressed in identical pink tutu's.

Your certainly correct about that. But I was addressing the fact that the reason for this shooting was that the college was a gun free zone, and that's why it some of it happened there. That would be like saying all the shootings in LA occur because the gunman new almost nobody was carrying, not because of gangs, robberies, revenge, or other violent crimes in general.

[TxA]

A criminal's odds of encountering a legal gun owner carrying, except at a gun store perhaps (if there are any in Santa Monica), are about the same as having Bigfoot and The Abominable Snowman both appear for dinner at your house tonight, dressed in identical pink tutu's.

I'm hearing the same tone here as the one in the new NY law discussion. Seems some decisions have consequences and the people suffer from them. As has well been said before, decisions have consequences, so choose wisely...

Prayers for all the families and others involved in this senseless crime...

[RottenApple]

Prayers for all the families and others involved in this senseless crime...

My prayer for these folks is that they pull their heads out of the sand, recognize that there are real dangers out there, that they are responsible for their own safety & well-being, and either start voting the liberal idiots out or move to more conservative areas where self-defense isn't a crime.

More than likely though they'll just blame these things on the evil conservative states/people who insist on owning firearms.

[fickman]

The gunman reportedly had known mental issues. Makes me wonder what meds he was on. . . and if we'll ever find out.

[Jumping Frog]

Santa Monica is about as close to a "gun free" zone as you can imagine.

That was my basic point.

[JALLEN]

At the beginning, the gunman shot people in the house that burned, then fired at people in the streets, cars, and buses near the house, and ended up in the college library. Doesn't sound to me that the college was picked for any reason other than it was near all the other shooting. MHO.

Santa Monica is about as close to a "gun free" zone as you can imagine. All of LA County is "no issue." They vote consistently for no-gun candidates so you have to conclude that most people support gun free living and do not own weapons themselves.

Your certainly correct about that. But I was addressing the fact that the reason for this shooting was that the college was a gun free zone, and that's why it some of it happened there. That would be like saying all the shootings in LA occur because the gunman new almost nobody was carrying, not because of gangs, robberies, revenge, or other violent crimes in general.

and I was pointing out that the college is not much more gun free than the entire community.

I doubt it was the "reason" but it certainly explains whey it developed over the time period, with as many victims as it did. We like to think that if that happened in our communities, one of the numerous CHL's would be able to put a stop to it relatively soon.

[Redneck_Buddha]

Fox news says four dead and one gravely wounded and not expected to survive. Apparently he had 1300 rounds of .44 and .223 combined and was shooting through the walls of a safe room with 14 people inside when he was thankfully snuffed.

R.I.P.

[johncanfield]

I read a bunch of reader comments in the Wall Street Journal on this story this morning and predictably the responses are extremely polarized. Basically the lefties want all weapons banned - that will solve the problem , and then there are the 2A supporters. It's practically a carbon copy for every shooting event.

[gthaustex]

I read a bunch of reader comments in the Wall Street Journal on this story this morning and predictably the responses are extremely polarized. Basically the lefties want all weapons banned - that will solve the problem , and then there are the 2A supporters. It's practically a carbon copy for every shooting event.

I'm actually surprised we haven't heard more of the ban all guns mantra up to this point. My guess is that there weren't any young kids involved, so not enough shock value...