Freedom isn't owning 25 rifles...

[kpete]

[niyad]

1. Exactly.

[Nullvalue]

2. Hand picked

Didn't the shooter choose that location to target POC and defenseless civilians, strictest laws on that side of the Mississippi

[riversedge]

5. I did not read that but if true, it is very calculated.

[thatdemguy]

8. He said it and more

He picked the zip code due to % of population that was black. He also stated he choose it due to very strict gun laws with limited mag capacities to limit his chance of people being able to fight back, and fight back effectively.

[maxsolomon]

9. There was still someone with a gun there - a retired cop, who was killed exchanging fire.

What are you asserting - he wouldn't have attacked but for NY's "strict" gun laws, because more shoppers would theoretically have been wearing a piece?

The "strict" laws that allowed an 18 year old who'd made threats of a school shooting to buy 3 firearms? Gun laws, even NY's, are stacked on the side of young, male, alienated rampage shooters.

Welcome to DU I guess.

[hunter]

10. People who've only seen gunfights on television don't know shit about gunfights.

I've seen too much of that shit in real life. It's not Hollywood.

Once the guns come out everything is FUBAR.

I don't trust most cops with guns, let alone random self-selected fools.

Gun fetishes are disgusting.

[Wounded Bear]

3. Indeed! nt

[MarineCombatEngineer]

4. Straight and to the point.

[sanatanadharma]

6. Perceived need of a gun for defense is ...

... proof one is not free, but rather determined by fear.

One gun maybe defense.
The second is "bloody" greed.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Open carry should work well

if they can determine the good guys from the bad guys before the shooting begins

[Harker]

11. If one wants a shooting gallery, one might go to a grocery store.

If one wants a gunfight, one might go to a crowded gun shop.

[SYFROYH]

12. Why not both?

I have multiple guns, and I have no fear when shopping at my grocery store.

[Rhiannon12866]

13. K&R!