Shooting at Batman premire – Aurora, Denvor, USA

Immediately after the Kennedy shooting, someone sent off for the same telescopic rifle which Oswald may have used.

That person gave his name andaddress as Lee H. Oslwald, Texas School Book Depository, Dallas, Texas.

The rifle arrived on time..excellent service

@sceptical guy wrote:

I’m sorry to say, I think the gun laws in this country are too tight. They haven’t stopped an unregulated proliferation of guns on the street.

Yes there are lots of unregulated guns on the streets but Michael Ryan (Hungerford massacre 1987) Derrick Bird, (Cumbria 2010) Thomas Hamilton (Dunblane 1996) were all licensed gun holders, deemed fit to have such weapons.

These crimes are the worst criminal acts involving firearms in the history of the United Kingdom.

Thankfully, they are rare but IMHO, the gun laws are not tight enough in this country. Sure, get the illegally held guns off the streets, but stop the nutters who legally own guns from killing ppl too.

@sceptical guy wrote:

well, I’m not in favour of liberal gun laws like the have in the USA, whre in some states you can easily buy a RPG7 grenade launcher…

but when the school killing happened in Dunblane, our boy was attending a primary school. After the terrible shock and upset – those poor children, their parents, what if ours had been there??!! – I had to ask myself what would have happened if some nut had wandered through my lad’s school rounding up kids for massacre – or just shooting at random like Columbine..telling the killer not to be a naughty boy, or asking whether he realised that what he was doing is illegal, wasn’t going to work.

And I wouldn’t feel too good saying that my boy’s face has been blown off but at least we have the best gun control laws in the world.

You can make all weapons illegal, but if someone wants one they can get one, and if you know how you can get a gun cheap or even for nothing. It’s young adolescent kids who get them. Knowing that they’re illegal, it’s big kudos to tell your mates you have a ‘shooter’, and even bigger to start waving it around. The Columbine killers were kids, after all.

So tight gun control laws yes please,

but laws which recognise social realities. Unless someone arranges a situation where kids at least are protected against a Dunblane or Columbine killer, then I can only conclude that a responsible trained person with a gun should be located in vulnerable places. It would be formally correct, but in the real world irresponsible to say otherwise.

Not me. As I said, I wd probably shoot my own bol lox off as I fumbled for the gun.

But unhappily, very unhappily, a better response than the one taken by the govenrment – effectively nobody should have a gun except the State and killers – is needed.

If an effective alternative can be found – I’ll go for it.

My point is, it’s those that own guns legally in this country who carried out the three worst shooting sprees in our history.

So surely we have to review who we allow to legally hold guns?

The shootings carried out by “kids” with illegally hold guns – well there is a law that deals with them.

The law on assessing the mental capability of someone to legally hold a gun needs to be reviewed in this country, as well as the law allowing them to keep them at home, and the amount of ammunition they are allowed to have at any one time.

As for the USA, well guns are so easy to come by in that country it’s incrediable. Their constitution states they have the “right to bear arms.” Enough said.