Aguila Blanca
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The incident occurred on January 23. Does anyone have any updated information? I'd like to know whether or not the gun used was obtained [by the shooter] legally.
I think we can equally presume that the mother didn't give her son permission to take it to school for the purpose of killing other students. That leaves me with with a conundrum: Do I classify it as "obtained legally," or do I classify it as 'stolen"?
That's certainly the direction I'm leaning, and as fuzzy memories resurface I believe that's what I concluded in the case of a school shooting out west a year or two ago (I think on or adjacent to an Indian reservation).Tom Servo said:Ah. I didn't know the full context to the question. All I've been able to glean is that he got it "from a closet." Interestingly enough, the rallying cry from Shannon Watts' Twitter feed has been "how does a 12-year-old get a gun in America?"
So, my guess is nobody knows exactly how it was acquired. As you said, it's doubtful the rightful owner gave him permission to take it to school, so "stolen" would probably be the safe classification.
That's a given, but that's a separate column in the spreadsheet and that speaks to the question of whether or not "gun-free" zones do anything to protect us. As the numbers I cited above show, the answer is "No." The question of background checks and legal gun possession is a different question and a different issue. Related, but different.In The Ten Ring said:He violated the gun free zone law also.