Of course, MSNBC didn’t find it newsworthy to mention his affiliation as a LEADER OF THIS GUN CONTROL GROUP in its story, instead preferring to simply use the “Former ATF Agent” tag.

Of course, MSNBC is part of the right-wing media cabal, no?

Put that in your Media Matters bias-pipe and smoke it (or however that metaphor should be written).

Some sort of argument could be made for “reasonable gun control,” if such had ever shown itself to actually work. Trouble is, it never has.

What it is, is COMMON MOTHERFUCKING SENSE.

You’re right. I’m not suggesting that, or stating that, or implying that.

I’m saying that the audience for rap and hip-hop is primarily white.

…with a primarily white audience…

The main lesson that should emerge from the Virginia Tech killings is that we need to work harder to identify and cope with dangerously unstable personalities.

It is a problem for Europeans as well as Americans, one for which there are no easy solutions–such as passing more gun control laws.

Guns don’t turn people into killers.

3 items that I’d like to respond to:

1 – No, we need hollow points for target practice and hunting.

Hollow Points are perfect for hunting, in they expand upon impact and ensure a quick kill. They are used everyday in deer hunting, etc, etc as they are considered a standard round. These aren’t armor piercing or military grade bullets.

2 – I think acquiring guns and ammunition should be more, not less, difficult than getting permission to own and operate a car – a lot more difficult. As in, proof of operating ability, registration, licensing, background checks, et.

I don’t recall the Constitutional right to operate a vehicle. I call B.S..

3 – I am weary, frustrated, and angry that Mike and others of his ilk think that guns — like drugs, prostitution, and check-cashing stores — just somehow magically pop up in African-American communities. As if African-Americans have some irresistible attraction for these activities! As if! The placement of gun dealers, dope peddlers, whore mongers, and money lenders is no coincidence, merely the evidence that mainstream America is serious about the destruction of African-American life, institutions, and communities. No ifs, ands, or buts about it!

No, [illegal] guns, drugs, prostitution, and other criminal activity pop-up in communities where criminals live or can operate with relative impunity. This isn’t an African-American vs Honky issue, as there are plenty of these activities taking place in neighborhoods with varying racial makeups. But, it is important that HipHop, which is primarily an African-American art, has a inordinate focus on violence, drugs, gangs, and treating women like “ho’s”. It certainly occurs in other forms of music, but it’s predominant in Hip-Hop, Gangsta Rap, etc, etc.

Just saying…

Translation? Anyone?

If hollowpoint ammunition is suitable only for killing, then why is that the ATF ONLY carries hollowpoints in their pistols, their submachineguns and their carbine rifles? Does the ATF want to only kill people?

Or maybe they carry hollowpoints for the same reason I carry hollowpoints: So that when I am lethally threatened, I stop the threat as fast as possible. That is logical.

You, on the other hand, are a hyper-emotional cry baby looking for any excuse to blame this on anyone or anything but the murderer.

I am a semiauto guy, but I have seen guys put dozens of rounds downrange with a revolver and a speedloader in seconds.

And everytime Ollie speaks on this all I can he is “baaaaa, baaaa,baaaa weapon of mass murder!”

If he had been forced into a hospital for his condition, that would have come up on the background check and he wouldn’t have been able to purchase the guns.

But I don’t see anybody blaming the magistrate who instead of getting him into a hospital told him to seek out-patient therapy. I don’t see anybody pinning any blame on those who didn’t file charges against Cho after two separate stalking incidents. I don’t see anybody blaming a system that doesn’t allow a school to be notified by the courts and psychiatric authorities that a student was in a mental facility.

Of course, Rich Lowry questioning why Va Tech allowed this guy to stay in school despite all that was known about him is out of bounds and beyond the pale.

No, its all the NRA’s fault.

Again, I will ask:

What law would have prevented this crime?

You keep going on and on like there is such a simple solution. You should have a simple answer.