The antis like to claim after a mass shooting that if one or more laws had been passed it would have stopped everything….but really this story being pushed by the antis is a better argument against them than for them.
Timothy Courtois, 49, pleaded not guilty during an arraignment at Springvale District Court early this afternoon. He appeared through a video feed from York County Jail.
He is being held on bail of $50,000 in cash or $150,000 in real estate. Bail conditions also say he may not use alcohol or illegal drugs and may not possess dangerous weapons including firearms.
State police said the FBI is involved in the investigation because Courtois said he planned to cross the state line and go to New Hampshire to shoot a former employer. The Bureau of Alchohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, also is investigating because one of the guns seized from Courtois’ home was a fully automatic rifle that is not legal for civilians to own, according to the state police.
Now those talking heads saying Colorado having some of the “Loosest gun laws in the country” are a bunch of pikers. Colorado has been corrupted by California refugees and they brought some of their bizarre ideas about guns with them. Now Maine is full of transplant Massholes, but they haven’t been able to do jack with the gun laws. Maine is VERY gun friendly.
Still this guy is likely going away for a LONG time. Also I suspect he’s a prohibited person anyway….but he’s gonna be one now.
Also I’m glad most of the nuts are crazy enough to get caught so easily. We got lots of good laws, we just need to enforce them. Still police aren’t everywhere, so carry your damn guns!
Talking news heads, presuming to be our betters, can’t be bothered to do elementary research? This is my shocked face.
I also love how the state with the “Loosest gun laws in the country” keeps changing to suit the anti’s needs.
It is just a 43 way tie for “loosest gun laws in the country”. They are being honest about it.
@Jack: And they never can seem to remember that the states with the “best common-sense gun regulation” (READ: most restrictive gun laws) are also the most violent and dangerous places to be a law-abiding citizen.
The one thing that worries me about the guy in Colorado is just how many “common-sense regulations” they can springboard off his actions. Semi-automatic rifle bans, semi-automatic pistol bans, high-capacity magazine bans (real ones this time, not the normal ones they call “high-capacity”, although those will be back on the block, too), non-single-shot shotgun bans, body armor bans, mental health evaluations for permitting purposes …. the list goes on. I’m just waiting for him to make a public statement (in court, probably) where he says the guns made him do it. That’d make it a slam-dunk for the antis, and set a new record on how many talking points they can “legitimately” invoke from a single event.
Fortunately for us, the anti-rights movement has lost so much momentum and credibility that even if he does claim that the “evil guns” made him do it, most of society will see him as the mentally-unstable person he is, and realize that maybe we shouldn’t put too much weight into his words. Allowing the crazy person to be the authority on anything is something only the anti-rights side has ever done, and conflating everyone else with that image has come back to bite them.
There is no doubt that the shooting in Aurora is a tragedy.
But, one question keeps coming to my mind. Other than being confined to a small area, how is the devastation any worse than the occasional weekend in Chicago?
Is it more salacious, and therefore more newsworthy, because THIS CRETIN is an educated white male? Why the national outcry for Aurora when Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, Newark…etc, go virtually unnoticed?
Will they ever blame the criminals, or will their tools always be the root of all evil?
Even the antis agree with that. Collin Goddard’s little propaganda piece “Living for 32” uses the talking point that 32 people were murdered in Virginia Tech, but averaging the “Gun Homicide” in America 32 people are killed every day across the country.
Of course they can’t capitalize on that because THOSE 32 deaths are mostly in the inner cities and they are at the hand of minorities, often involved in the drug trade. The “Spree Shooters” are often targeting innocent people generally in good neighborhoods doing pedestrian things, and because of the simple rules of what makes minorities minorities, these people are often white.
As we have seen from the dodging from Fast and Furious, “Progressives” don’t really care much about minorities who are killed.