Clementine
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Does anyone know if the shooter bought his assault weapon(s) legally?
He did buy it legally. If the FBI had done a better job of investigating him in 2013, he would never have passed the background check. They didn't charge him for making threats to coworkers after claiming he was part of a terrorist group because he accused his coworkers of being Islamophobic. Political correctness often protects the wrong people and this is just one example.
Even if he hadn't gotten a gun, there were other ways, maybe easier ways, of killing a lot of people. He could have done it the same way Tim McVeigh did it. People like him are going to kill one way or the other.
The guy hated gays. His dad hated gays. An Imam at the local mosque hated gays and told people they needed to die.
This was a long time coming. Maybe the FBI could have stopped him from passing a background check but they didn't. That is not an argument against guns. It means that our own government drops the ball sometimes and it's on them. It's still no reason to take away people's means of defending themselves.
The guy could have killed more people if he had used a bomb or set fire to the building. It's bad enough as it is, but could have been a bigger tragedy.