Current Affairs The " another shooting in America " thread

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So sad, the garlic festival is a great regional event, such a senseless loss of life of those who were just enjoying a day out.
Officials and eyewitness accounts confirmed a shooting and multiple victims at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Christmas Hill Park on Sunday evening. Gilroy councilman Dion Bracco said there were three fatalities.

Joy Alexiou, a spokesperson with the Santa Clara Valley Health System, said 11 people with gunshot wounds are being treated at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose and St. Louise Regional Hospital in Gilroy. Alexiou said that additional victims who had non-shooting-related injuries were transported to Stanford Medical Center.

So sad this. I have been in that place quite a bit over the last few years as it was halfway between business locations and it is such a quaint cool little town or city. I have always found the people there to be very sound and hospitable.
 
Authorities say the ahooter bought the semiautomatic rifle used in the shooting legally in Nevada on July 9, less than three weeks before the shooting. The weapon looks like a military-style AK-47. With its standard clip and stocks, it’s considered an assault rifle that is banned under California law. It’s unclear if the shooter targeted specific people.

The Nevada gun shop, Big Mikes Guns and Ammo, said in a Facebook post Monday that the buyer ordered the gun online. “When I did see him, he was acting happy and showed no reasons for concern,” the seller wrote, adding that he was heartbroken over the attack. “I would never ever sell any firearm to anyone who acted wrong or looks associated with any bad group like white power. Everyone is my brother and sister and I am mourning for the families.”

California Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra said Monday the investigation might determine that the gunman broke a law by purchasing the weapon in Nevada and bringing it into the state. “That weapon could not be sold in California. That weapon cannot be imported into the state of California,” he said. “There is a very strong likelihood, as we develop the evidence, that the perpetrator in this particular case violated California law, on top of the crimes of homicide.”
 
Authorities say the ahooter bought the semiautomatic rifle used in the shooting legally in Nevada on July 9, less than three weeks before the shooting. The weapon looks like a military-style AK-47. With its standard clip and stocks, it’s considered an assault rifle that is banned under California law. It’s unclear if the shooter targeted specific people.

The Nevada gun shop, Big Mikes Guns and Ammo, said in a Facebook post Monday that the buyer ordered the gun online. “When I did see him, he was acting happy and showed no reasons for concern,” the seller wrote, adding that he was heartbroken over the attack. “I would never ever sell any firearm to anyone who acted wrong or looks associated with any bad group like white power. Everyone is my brother and sister and I am mourning for the families.”

California Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra said Monday the investigation might determine that the gunman broke a law by purchasing the weapon in Nevada and bringing it into the state. “That weapon could not be sold in California. That weapon cannot be imported into the state of California,” he said. “There is a very strong likelihood, as we develop the evidence, that the perpetrator in this particular case violated California law, on top of the crimes of homicide.”
I understand their point but talking about the legality of him having the weapon in California is ludicrous, when you consider that he used it in the state to murder.

Yes there'll be punishments in California if he'd been caught etc., however he wasn't and he went on to use the weapon there to commit mass murder.

Furthermore, it simply highlights the general imbalance of the system, alongside its ineptitude, where he legally could purchase the weapon in another state.

If you're inclined to act in such a way, then the potential punishment for travelling across a state border and purchasing a weapon isn't really going to faze you.

It's the same with the ol' open carry debate and what not: if you want to commit a crime, then perhaps people will travel to a state where it is easier to do so etc.

"This state will let me openly walk near a school with an AR-14 with x-amount of ammunition and these modifications, so I will travel there to be famous."
 
Man, if ONLY there was a common thread that these people adhere to. Like, if they all watch or listen to something that makes them this insane. Must be all those Washington Post and NY Times readers and the "HARD LEFT" again.

Thoughts/prayers
 
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