DaButt
Thursday 13th January 2011 7:28pm [Edited]
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Quote: sootyj @ January 13 2011, 7:07 PM GMT
See dangers with guns.
1 Someone else shoots you.
2 You get depressed and shoot yourself
3 You get drunk and shoot yourself
The last 2 are statistically the more likely,
Not #3.
Quote: sootyj @ January 13 2011, 7:07 PM GMT
He may have been in a temporary state of distress, or reacting social/enviromental pressures.
Of course if he's mental no one can blame the right wing proparanoia machine,
He has a history of unstable behavior dating back to 2007, if not earlier. He was kicked out of school for acting erratically. He made death threats. He believed that he could alter reality by dreaming. He believed that the government was controlling people using grammar.
He was also a registered independent, his friends say he didn't listen to political radio or television and described him as liberal, anti-religion, anti-war and a pot smoker. Yeah, it sounds like the right-wing propaganda machine has a lot to fear ...
Quote: billwill @ January 13 2011, 7:15 PM GMT
Why is it that all arms manufacturers are not REQUIRED to fire a calibration round from each new gun and to record the details of the scratches etc with its serial number in a universal database and secondly perhaps all gun shops should also be required to do the same, when guns are sold second-hand.
It's been tried and found to be a waste of money and effort:
STATE POLICE CALL FOR SHUTTING DOWN
MARYLAND'S BALLISTIC "FINGERPRINTING" SYSTEM
The Maryland State Police Forensic Sciences Division has called for scrapping the state's ballistic imaging program, the Maryland Integrated Ballistics Identification System (MD-IBIS), stating it has found the system to be an ineffective tool for law enforcement.
The program has cost the taxpayers of Maryland more than $2.5 million, but has produced no results. "There have been no crime investigations that have been enhanced or expedited through the use of MD-IBIS," the report says. "The program simply has not met the expectations and does not aid in the Mission statement of the Department of State Police."
"This report proves what we have been saying all along," commented NRA-ILA Executive Director, Chris W. Cox. "Ballistic fingerprinting is not a useful law-enforcement tool and is simply another attempt by those who would take away our Second Amendment rights to interfere with the ownership of firearms by law-abiding people."
The new report provides detailed information on the failure of the system, including the system's failure on four blind proficiency tests to match test-fired cartridges from handguns sold in the state.
In the end, the Maryland State Police report provides three primary recommendations: 1) discontinue the program and moth-ball the equipment; 2) enact legislation repealing the current law to require collection of casings; and 3) transfer personnel and funds to the state DNA database program.
The report concludes that MD-IBIS "has not proven to be a time saving tool for the Firearms Examiner or an investigative enhancement to the criminal investigator. It has simply failed in the Mission and Vision concepts originally established for the Program."