Once more, different narrative
Ok, we’ve gone from blaming guns, to NRA, to conservative radio, to 911 operators, to the economy. Now, ammo. If only ammunition was more expensive, people wouldn’t be committing these mass shootings:
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.
Ballistics reports showed Jiverly Wong fired 87 times from a 9mm Beretta and 11 times from a .45-caliber handgun. If he bought the ammunition online, he could have paid as little as $40 for the rounds he fired.
Has the AP paid attention to the ammo price situation? Why, yes, they have.
April 9th, 2009 at 10:14 am
*sigh*
And what if he’d driven his car into the building to kill people instead? Would we argue for a higher gas tax to prevent hit-and-runs by the poor?
April 9th, 2009 at 10:31 am
Yhey were just lucky he didn’t get a job in the kitchens…
He might have killed hundreds and STILL been at large.
Shooting is certainly not the most efficient, cheap or clever way to kill lots of people.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:02 am
An agenda can shoehorn all facts into a narrative to fit the agenda, and can even take nonfactual (fake but accurate) BS and make use of it.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:07 am
Well, I know that if I was planning to kill a bunch of innocent strangers who had never done me any harm and then kill myself, I would be worried about being able to pay my bills next month. I certainly wouldn’t resort to doing anything ILLEGAL to acquire the money to pay for the tools I chose to carry out my insidious and heinous act. I may be willing to break the law hundreds of times over to maim and murder, but I would never sink so low as to STEAL guns or ammunition. That’s someone’s property! Stealing is wrong!
April 9th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
You know, if only a drug habit wasn’t so affordable we probably wouldn’t have a problem with that either…..oh….
BTW he did use a car to block the other exit to the building.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Did i miss something there?
87 rounds of 9mm and 11 rounds of .45 for $40? $40?Really? Someone correct my math if it’s wrong, but that sounds like barely $20 worth at Walmart. Was this guy ordering ammo from Neiman Marcus or something?
April 9th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
damon,
$20 per 50 sounds about right. You want to show me the Walmart (not that I’m going ammo shopping there due to their support of Bloomberg’s gun control agenda) where I can even find a box of either on the shelf at all? Even if they sell it sub-$20, good luck finding it.
My local gun shops are sold out of .45ACP practice ammo and have been for two months. Prices average $22-25 per 50. Haven’t seen a box of premium hollowpoints in three months.
Those aren’t Neiman Marcus prices. That’s just current market.
April 9th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
98 shots from two handguns in 60 seconds? Who, I say, who is this “expert” who thinks this utterly mundane tally makes someone a “new Rambo?” What on earth does that mean, anyway?
That sort of characterization just encourages copycats.