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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 997873" data-attributes="member: 14668">I can think of no rational gun laws, or method of enforcement of those laws, that would have materially effected the outcome of the Colorado massacre.By all accounts, the lunatic spent months meticulously planning and preparing his attack. He bought the guns well ahead of time... he passed a background check and had no criminal record....he obtained body armor and tear gas grenades.... and he booby-trapped his apartment with explosives to the point that it might take days for a robot to deactivate them all.Waiting periods... background checks... registrations... serial numbers on bullets...you could throw the entire cournicopea of feel- good nanny- state restrictions at this tragedy and not one of them would have (or did) make a damn bit of difference.The onlyway to have effected the outcome would have been for someone else with a gun to kill him first. And given the fact that he was wearing body armour and firing a rifle in a dark and crowded theater...the odds that someone with a legally concealed handgun could have taken him out are slim at best. However... the odds that an unarmed person could have done so are none I will take slim over none any day of the week.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 997873, member: 14668"] I can think of no rational gun laws, or method of enforcement of those laws, that would have materially effected the outcome of the Colorado massacre. By all accounts, the lunatic spent months meticulously planning and preparing his attack. He bought the guns well ahead of time... he passed a background check and had no criminal record....he obtained body armor and tear gas grenades.... and he booby-trapped his apartment with explosives to the point that it might take days for a robot to deactivate them all. Waiting periods... background checks... registrations... serial numbers on bullets...you could throw the entire cournicopea of feel- good nanny- state restrictions at this tragedy and not one of them would have (or did) make a damn bit of difference. The [I]only[/I]way to have effected the outcome would have been for someone else with a gun to kill him first. And given the fact that he was wearing body armour and firing a rifle in a dark and crowded theater...the odds that someone with a legally concealed handgun could have taken him out are slim at best. However... the odds that an [I]unarmed[/I] person could have done so are [I]none[/I] I will take slim over none any day of the week. [/QUOTE]

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