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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,153 posts) Fri Oct 2, 2015, 04:00 PM Oct 2015

Another good guy with a gun until he wasn't.

http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2015/oct/02/sites-suggest-oregon-gunman-tracked-mass-shootings/?f=latest

A federal agency says investigators have recovered six weapons at an Oregon community college and seven at the apartment of the gunman who killed nine people.

ATF Assistant Special Agent in Charge Celinez Nunez said at a news conference Friday that all of the weapons were purchased legally, seven of them by the shooter or his family members in the last three years. She says investigators also found a flak jacket next to a rifle at the school, which contained steel plates.

The shooting Thursday at Umpqua Community College also wounded seven people. Officials identified the killer as Chris Harper Mercer. He died after a shootout with police.

He isn't believed to have a criminal history. Investigators believe he may have been a student there because a receipt found at the scene showed he purchased textbooks from the campus bookstore two days before the shooting.

Joins other former "good guys" like James Holmes, Seung Hui Cho and Jared Loughner.

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Another good guy with a gun until he wasn't. (Original Post) Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2015 OP

I'd distinguish Cho from the others Recursion Oct 2015 #1

Most of 'em are etherealtruth Oct 2015 #2

Did I miss the part about him being a "good guy"? B2G Oct 2015 #3

He must of been a good guy... Human101948 Oct 2015 #4

NRA and others moondust Oct 2015 #5

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

1. I'd distinguish Cho from the others

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 04:04 PM

Oct 2015

Cho IIRC had a mental health adjudication that should have made it into the state system and didn't.

But, in general, yeah: what's so scary about guys like this is they tend to go from 0 to 60 so quickly.

etherealtruth

(22,165 posts)

2. Most of 'em are

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 04:06 PM

Oct 2015

B2G

(9,766 posts)

3. Did I miss the part about him being a "good guy"?

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 04:07 PM

Oct 2015

Because I've read other articles that indicated he had a number of problems and was pretty antisocial.

Human101948

(3,457 posts)

4. He must of been a good guy...

Reply to B2G (Reply #3)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 04:13 PM

Oct 2015

He was able to get whatever guns he wanted.

moondust

(19,958 posts)

5. NRA and others

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 05:00 PM

Oct 2015

like to pretend there is a big, solid, black line separating "good guys" who should have guns from "bad guys" who shouldn't. Reality isn't like that.

Everybody starts out in life on the safe side. Some, though, seem to end up living pretty close to that line, and some days it may not take much to push them over to the other side either permanently or just for a day or an hour or a few minutes. Being on the safe side the day they buy some guns is not a reliable predictor of what side they'll be on at any given point in the future.

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