Thursday, April 09, 2009

These people are quite predictable...

...yes, they are...

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — The man who gunned down 13 people at an upstate New York immigration center fired 98 shots from two handguns in a little more than a minute, police said Wednesday, a gunslinging feat one expert said would make him a "new Rambo."
Gun control advocates said if a man who complained about not getting enough in unemployment benefits could afford enough ammunition to repeatedly practice shooting and go into his killing zone with a satchel of bullets around his neck, new ways are needed to stem gun violence, including raising the price of ammunition.

I'm betting, once again, we're not getting the whole story here. Did anyone look at the way this guy was actually spending that money -- i.e., making efforts to pay his bills on time and such? WAS he spending that money on bills, or all on ammunition? Anyone who knows anything about what's been going on knows that ammo isn't exactly cheap these days. And at the ranges at which this monster was preying on his victims, what he did was not as big of a feat as the gun-grabbers would like to make it out to be. (It certainly would have been a big deal if he'd had people shooting back at him, though...) I know that gun-control advocates have a vested interest in obscuring many of the facts in events like this, but it's a damn shame that we don't have a news media that takes a critical look at this sort of thing. It's almost as if they're in the tank for the gun-grabbers, too, although there was this...
Dan Kash, the owner of LAX Firing Range in Inglewood, Calif., was dubious that Wong fired that many rounds in the time police say he did.
"He'd have to be super-proficient because he's walking and shooting, and shooting probably moving targets," Kash said. "Either it took a lot longer than what cops are saying, or this guy is more than just the average Joe. Unless the guy is some type of super gunslinger, no, he's not going to be able to do that."
I am not sure why the cops would lie about it, or just pull a figure out of their collective ass, but it seems that's exactly what they did. No matter what the truth might be, though, it still would have been interesting to see what would have happened had some of his victims been able to shoot back.