I've never heard anyone say this before...

...about ANYONE who did something like what the now-dead South Carolina serial killer did...

GAFFNEY, S.C. — The serial killer who terrorized a South Carolina community by shooting five people to death before police killed him Monday was a career criminal paroled just two months ago, authorities said.
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Burris had a long rap sheet filled with convictions for larceny, forgery and breaking and entering in states across the Southeast, including Florida, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland. He had been paroled from a North Carolina prison in April after serving nearly eight years for felony breaking and entering and larceny.
"Look at this," Lloyd said, waving a stapled copy of Burris' criminal record. "This is like 25 pages. At some point the criminal justice system is going to need to explain why this suspect was out on the street."

It's good to see a major South Carolina law enforcement official is going on record as saying that. If that's not one of the biggest white elephants in the room the anti-gunners don't want to talk about then I don't know what is. However. I don't know what the criminal justice system's explanation is going to be, but I don't see why it would be anything more substantive or more adequate than the explanations we have been getting for the last 30 years. Just yet more half-hearted rationalizations of the half-assed measures like background checks we've been getting. I see absolutely no explanation that would justify Patrick Burris being out on the street instead of locked up tighter than Dick's hatband. And if I were a relative of one of the victims I would be absolutely furious. It would seem that Mr. Burris is another one of the people with whom anti-gunners have no problem walking the streets as long as they allegedly can't get a gun. There are those who say that gun control advocates are mentally deficient, unstable or evil. Or some combination thereof. More and more I see exactly why they think that.