Grey, you make some sense here. But in truth, all guns could be described as assault weapons. It only takes one bullet after all to take a life.
I brought up Chicago because of this very fact. No deflection whatsoever. Rahm Emanuel likes to say his city has the toughest gun laws in the country. Well, how does that square with the murder rate in his city? Not very good. The reason? Because a person bent on criminal intent does not care about what laws he is breaking and his behavior in that regard cannot be legislated by a bunch of politicians who want to pat themselves on the back for passing yet another gun law.
A criminal, in the case of the murder rate in Chicago as an example, does not fear the consequences of his actions, he is only concerned with retribution and settling some score. The aftermath is for others to worry about.
With this horrific tragedy in LV, this guy passed whatever legal background checks that were necessary in order to purchase his weapons. I don't know if he was crazy, he obviously knew what he was doing and how to carry it out, he mounted cameras outside his room door so he could see when
LE was coming. He had to have had some weapons training somewhere and/or knowledge of various weapons accessories. I just can't figure out with all the surveillance in a major hotel casino, no one said anything or noticed any abnormal behavior about the guy. But
LE has said up to this point in their investigation the killer did not fit into any profile that would lead to him being responsible for something like this tragedy. Maybe as time goes on, additional factors will become known to change that view beyond the conspiracy theorists.
But the bottom line is, just as with a thug in Chicago killing someone with a Saturday Night Special, this guy had a criminal and murderous intent when he aimed his weapon(s) out the window into that crowd. The countless number of illegal violations of the law, gun related or not, were no deterrent to the act he was hellbent on perpetrating.
And any new gun law legislation that get debated in the wake of this Vegas massacre and signed into law won't stop the criminal mind from inflicting whatever evil is in his heart.
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