I have noticed something odd this weekend [View all]

[Trunk Monkey]

Or at least it seems odd to me.

As soon as news started to get out about the shooting in Aurora I started seeing posts here calling for:

Closing the “Gun show Loophole” which would have had zero impact on this event (There is no “Gun show Loop hole in Colorado BTW)

Mandatory waiting periods, which would have had zero impact on this event

Ban on NFA weapons which would have had zero impact on this event.

Ban on standard capacity magazines which would have had very little impact on this event.

Limits on how many guns you can buy at one time, which would have had zero impact on this event.

Limits on the amount of ammunition you can purchase, which would have had zero impact on this event.

Calls for stricter gun laws (the shooter has zero criminal record how much stricter does the law need to be?)

I also noted that when these discrepancies were pointed out accusations of paranoia and calls of “No one want wants to ban your gun” (in the midst of several calls to ban my gun) were made.

I want to be very careful how I say this but it almost seems like people were waiting for a crisis to take advantage of.