Thinking about the Batman shootings, I can see a need for self-defence and even recreational shooting, but who really needs an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, two Glock handguns, a 12-gauge shotgun and 6,000 rounds of bullets for personal use?

Given strict gun laws will never be passed, why not do something like limit gun ownership in the home to a single gun per person with limited rounds and any more (like the above) require them to be kept at official gun clubs or require special permits like farmers, red-necks, etc.

If we're all going to kill eachother anyway, let's us have rocket launchers and missiles, oh and a few holy grenades would be cool to

I'm pretty sure it's not legal to toss a smoke bomb into a theatre, but he did. I doubt he legally obtained all of the explosives he used to booby trap his apartment.

There are a lot of limitations depending on the state and city, but it doesn't really matter. A guy like this is going to get his hands on illegal things. Strict gun laws protect against accidents and "crimes of passion," but crazy people will always find a way to do crazy things.

Doesn't look like that's working. It certainly didn't here.

From the news here, it seems that what kept it down was his weapon malfunctioning

You can't assume there's some ideal law or set of laws that could compensate or neutralize the fact that Americans are just crazy fucked up gun and violence lovers.

I agree. It's a cultural thing, and laws aren't going to change that. In cities you have gangs, and in the rural areas you have rednecks. And the nice thing is for the most part they are just shooting each other.

Not much skill involved in flailing around a flail. Or hitting someone from the back with an axe.

I have several guns. I take them to the local range and put rounds through them, on occasion. It's fun, if you're into that.

I go through somewhere in the neighborhood of one thousand rounds of .45 ACP in a year. That encompasses going to the range a little less than once a month and putting one hundred rounds through each time. That's not much, really. I may go through approximately five hundred rounds of .22 LR, and fifty .30-30 in the same period, depending on the weather, moon phase, etc.

If you want to live somewhere where there are no guns, feel free to do so.

Tell that to the scofflaw criminals, then go bury your head back in the sand.

Zero phucks given

I think it's amazing that the old man didn't kill anyone at that range. Unless he wasn't try to actually hit anyone.

It looks to me like he did intend to shoot them, but wasn't necessarily going for a kill shot, and even if he was he was more than likely on autopilot and his targets were moving (and at close range good luck trying to follow them in 3-dimensional space unless you have been trained to do it). It looks like a small caliber gun (I didn't do any research beyond watching the YouTube clip), and even after both being shot they seem plenty capable of moving fast (albiet, they would have had a good dose of adrenaline pumping through them at the time). There are a lot of places that you can be shot and not die for a long period of time or at all given rudimentary treatment. I don't think it's overly surprising that they both survived. Since they didn't shoot back I am assuming they were either bluffing and/or didn't have loaded guns or were too afraid of the consequences if they did.