The Olando shooter was investigated by the FBI and STILL got a concealed gun permit in FL

[jpak]

and was able to buy 2 handguns and his Holy Not-An-Assault rifle - from ongoing news conference.

Way to go NRA

Congrats Trump

yup

[RockaFowler]

1. And he worked for a Jupiter Security Firm

So I have no doubt he would be able to get a weapon anytime he wanted

He's worked there since 2007

[TeddyR]

2. I think that everyone being investigated

By the FBI should lose their right to vote. So Hillary is out. Due process be damned.

[Duckhunter935]

3. He was investigated and no evidence found

Innocent until proven guilty, interesting concept.

[redstateblues]

4. Un fucking believable

[AllTooEasy]

15. Why? He was never charged, let alone convicted.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

5. Hillary Clinton is being investigated by the FBI. Should she be allowed to buy a gun?

Although it should be pointed out -- the job she is applying for will allow her to have all the guns.

[Agnosticsherbet]

6. He was never charged. Innocent until proven guilty

I the cornerstone of justice.

[tenderfoot]

7. He got a permit because of liberal political correctness and their denial of Muslim extremism!

[jpak]

8. and Diversity!!11111

[busterbrown]

13. Spot on....n/t

May I add that so many in our country were hoping this attack was planned and carried out with
direct assistance from isis leaders in the Mid-East...

This way the NRA and their lovers could easily promote that every Household needs an AR15 ....

[Eleanors38]

18. Actually, promoting an AR ban will better further one in "every household."

[Quackers]

17. Your comment makes me see red!

Quite literally, there's red words everywhere!

[ck4829]

9. Too busy going out of their way to not see Dylann Roof as a terrorist?

[brentspeak]

10. As well as a history of domestic violence

Had Florida LE been allowed and required to conduct personal interviews with friends/family/neighbors concerning the hidden history of prospective permit holders, that information would have come out.

In the sane gun states, that would have been enough to (properly) deny him a permit. Then he would have had to try to his luck obtaining his weapons on the black market. Any attempt at doing so might have (not guaranteed, but might have) ended up in total failure, resulting in him getting caught by LE before this massacre took place.

[Eleanors38]

19. "...hidden history of prospective permit holders." Old Southern post Civil War gun laws...

didn't need all that subtlety. They just allowed local Sheriffs to find the "history," or said it outright. So, what are your standards of history?

[brentspeak]

22. How about the standards

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that say that someone who boasts about "wanting to kill people all the time" shouldn't be allowed to legally purchase a firearm?

Or are you so absolutely captured by NRA-type propaganda that you consider such a thing to be an "infringement" on a likely killer's Constitutional rights?

[Eleanors38]

23. You seem obsessed with the NRA. But I would not want someone who...

"wants to kill peopl all the time" to have a gun. That is why we have civil commitments and orders which legally prevent people who are mental incompetents from obtaining guns. It's called due process, as in the 5th Amendment. The 5th isn't propaganda, is it? My reading of that Amendment shows it not to be an "NRA TalkingPoint.©"

[SecularMotion]

11. And he was accused of domestic abuse

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/ex-wife-of-suspected-orlando-shooter-he-beat-me/2016/06/12/8a1963b4-30b8-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html

[busterbrown]

14. Unbelievable..Just Unbelievable. n/t

[Eleanors38]

21. Too bad nothing cam of the accusations. IIRC, Florida doesn't require a spouse to fike

charges, but can bring a charge based on other evidence.

[Lance Bass esquire]

12. Newsweek story on this

http://www.newsweek.com/gun-control-and-no-fly-list-all-you-need-know-403821

[ileus]

16. We like to bury hour head in the sand, and ignore reality...

[Nevernose]

20. He was in a well-regulated militia!

What else was the government supposed to do? Appoint people who aren't right wing hacks to SCOTUS and make laws & judicial decisions that are for the benefit of all Americans and not just the weapons corporation and their bribes to politicians? That's just crazy!