Las Vegas/Mandalay Bay mass shooting

“You’re part of a club, an unfortunate club, of people who know what it’s like to be shot at,” Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum said to the congressman.

Will that experience change how Scalise thinks or votes?

“I think it's fortified it,” Scalise said. “We shouldn't first be thinking of promoting our political agenda. And I think we see too much of that, where people say OK, now you have to have gun control.”

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Except machine guns are legal, as long as you pay a $200 tax for each one you own, submit to a background check by the ATF and get a state license for owning automatic weapons if you happen to live in a state which requires such a license, which many states do not. The ATF says that as of February 2015, there were more than 500,000 machine guns registered in the United States, of which nearly 9,000 can be found in Nevada alone.

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Other than his name (Stephen Paddock) his age (64) and the fact that he was a resident of Mesquite, NV, we don’t know anything at all. And this is the problem not just with mass shooters, but almost everyone who pulls out a gun, namely, there’s really no warning, no particular type of behavior which can alert us to the possibility that an individual is about ready to murder himself or someone else by using a gun. And while everyone goes on and on about expanding background checks, for example, to keep guns out of the “wrong hands,” the Las Vegas shooter seemingly had no significant or even insignificant connection to the cops at all.

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clu said:

that Gifford guy belongs to nobody you're a clown to include them. who knows what other bullshit you spread every day fuck just stfu. oh wait go back to @amway.right go get some proof and show us lmao

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clu said:

that Gifford guy belongs to nobody you're a clown to include them. who knows what other bullshit you spread every day fuck just stfu. oh wait go back to @amway.right go get some proof and show us lmao

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“Despite this, individuals are able to purchase bump fire stocks for less than $200 and easily convert a semi-automatic weapon into a firearm that can shoot between 400 and 800 rounds per minute and inflict absolute carnage,” Feinstein said in a statement. “A ban on bump fire stocks was included in my 2013 assault weapons bill, and I’m looking at how to best proceed with legislation to finally close this loophole … it should be our highest priority.”

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“We must stop this now,” Feinstein said in a statement. “The only reason to fire so many rounds so fast is to kill large numbers of people. No one should be able to easily and cheaply modify legal weapons into what are essentially machine guns.”

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California law bans assault weapons and high-capacity magazines (the National Rifle Association is challenging the assault weapons ban in court). Adding a “bump stock” to a semi-automatic rifle would qualify it as a machine gun, making it illegal in California, according to the state Department of Justice.

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