Sorry owners, I don’t feel badly for those who profit from guns.

Tactical in the name of your store and you are surprised one of your guns killed civilians? Fuck off, store owners. I hope the faces of those dead kids and adults haunt you to your dying day.

in a war zone. Screw em, is right.

"tactical" is bait for people who want to feel like they are Military, but have none of the training.

desperately trying to blame someone else

There are 18 people without that luxury today, that should still be here.

If only the people in that school had the luxury of feeling anything, period. The decision to carry and sell that weapon to an 18 year old had severe consequences.

I also found it interesting that this shop had only been open 4 years -- a fairly short time. A more experienced gun retailer may have performed a bit more diligence instead of just processing paperwork to make a sale.

give all the cash they collected from the assets to the families of the 17 dead.

Then the owners needs to turn themselves in as being complicit to the murder.

Cupid's bows and arrows?

Nope. They're just scared that they will be implicated in the horrific crime.

Don’t gun sales skyrocket after these murders?

YOU SOLD IT TO HIM !!!

The AR didn't "fall" off a shelf, they HANDED IT TO HIM.

It happens every time there's a mass shooting. There's a fear that assault weapons will be outlawed, so better grab one now.

Also, Smith & Wesson's parent company closed higher after the Florida shooting.

It's become predictable:

1. Horrifying mass murder using easily available assault weapon
2. Initial shock and horror, followed closely by
3. "Thoughts and prayers"
4. Calls for Congress/president to do something
5. GOP: "To soon to have this discussion"
6. Trump tweets: "It's the victims' fault. They should be suspicious of everyone."
7. Trump reads from the teleprompter something written for him which should sound presidential, but he delivers it so stiffly his animatronic doppelganger at Disney World could do it with more empathy.
8. Gun stores sell out on weapons and ammo
9. Gun manufacturers' stock prices go up
10. Ultimately nothing changes, and the NRA wins again.

Wash, rinse repeat.

...or has been treated for a mental health problem is going to answer "yes" to those questions when background checks are being run? Given that is seems to be generally regarded as a sign of weakness or deficiency to have emotional health problems, at least in the US, I would think it very likely for people to less than forthcoming when answering those particular questions.

MESSED UP EMOTIONALLY AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY on their assault-weapon-purchase-paperwork?!



shit be cray, as TheFerret would say

It happens

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210238351

they were selling? Kittens and puppies? Jelly Beans? They willingly sold WMD's to a young man. WTF did they think he was going to do with them?

They said distraught ?

They destroyed 17 families about to bury a child, a father, a brother, a sister, they plunged countless persons in a nightmare, many will never get over, will live or more like survive under meds, will need psychological assistance, some might ending committing suicide because they can't deal with the memories of this day, and so on...

But THEY are distraught ?

In a country where mass shooting are occurring at an alarming pace ?

They, as well as their siblings are complicit ! They are not selling toys or candies !

can actually be used to kill children

Most of us use these little gismos for less dramatic purposes. For example, when combined with a large capacity magazine, the semi-automatic features of this sleek modern gadget provide a convenient source of ballistic spray that can deployed effectively against the flies and mosquitoes that ruin so many summer cookouts. There is nothing more American than a Memorial Day or Fourth of July picnic in the park, and the AR-15 is the perfect tool for blowing insects way from food and family

And here I thought they were just used for igniting the summer BBQ!

Supplying terrorism, aiding and abetting, and accessory to murder.

Come on now. I think they closed to hide evidence.

They sold weapons of war. Killing machines. Surely they anticipated at least one person would be killed by a gun sold in their store.

Just my humble opinion, of course.

Of this maniac”... interesting framing there.

Sounds like they handed it right to him, as soon as they got their money for it of course.

They might as well have called the business Murder Weapon Emporium. Those people are responsible for god knows how many deaths; statistically speaking, several of their customers have already committed suicide.

Most people won’t just “find another way to do it,” except we have decades of research disproving the assertion.

And it probably hadn’t occurred to them that their livelihoods are based entirely on murder. Maybe peoplee, maybe animals. They, like some DUers, haven’t connected the dots between target practice and homicide. It’s got the word “practice” right in the name, and the practice isn’t about getting good enough to hit a paper target.

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That's the realization these gun sellers are facing...

They have participated in a farce...

Does it really not cross their minds that every time a gun is sold it may be used to take lives?