I just have to shake my head at things like this:
An Arizona prosecutor said the man arrested in the three-time shooting of a Democratic National Committee office in suburban Phoenix had more than 120 guns and over 250,000 rounds of ammunition in his home, leading law enforcement to believe he may have been planning a mass casualty event.
How it the world can someone extrapolate from the given data to the stated conclusion? How many guns and rounds of ammo can someone utilize in “a mass casualty event”?
I could see two or maybe three guns. And what, perhaps 300 rounds of ammunition? If you are shooting a rifle quickly, you should let the barrel cool down. Do this every minute or so. So, switch guns for a minute and then continue with first gun. A third gun in case one of your guns gets a jam. After a couple hundred rounds your kill zone is almost for certain going to be empty.
My assertion is that most gun owners can supply the needs of a near maximal “mass causality event”. And they would not have to buy more than one or two extra boxes of ammo to do it.
120 guns and 250,000 rounds of ammunition is evidence of something much different than a “mass casualty event.” It could be any number of things. However, the prosecutor’s hypothesis doesn’t even get on the bottom of that very long list.
The only thing the prosecutor has done with this claim is provide proof she is unable to think clearly.
The prosecutor is thinking perfectly clearly. Your error is in assuming that her motive is to prosecute criminals.
Her true motive is to disarm Americans so that the left can enact their other plans without armed people contesting them.
While that may be true, the defense can easily discredit her before the jury and the public.
True.
But to me, it seems somewhere in between.
We think in terms of logic and evidence needed to convict.
When the prosecutor is using her communist emotional indoctrination and thinking everyone thinks like she does?
(And many in the judge and jury panel will be under the same syndrome.)
We understand you could make the same headline by raiding Jerry Miculek’s summer home.
But not the communist toward an enemy. It’s a crime. Even if it is all in their head.
It gives them an excuse to give you 5 years in the gulag for spitting on the sidewalk.
I forget how many guns the Vegas shooter snuck into his hotel room but it was a lot. The numbers in this case are over the top unless he was planning on arming a militia. Which raises the question of why would he move early. Crazy?
I think it’s obvious that he was planning a mass casualty event. He had weapons for his three platoons of infantry. Each member would have the standard combat load of 210 rounds (25200 rounds). It was going to be a 10 day operation, with each infantry member resupplied with ammo each day.
We’re lucky to have diligent prosecutors and law enforcement to thwart these kind of attacks.
I wonder if the prosecutor played too many video games as a kid, and never grew up enough to realize that video games aren’t reality. (If they were, Minecraft’s “Steve” character is the physically strongest humanoid in the known universe. Ask me why.)
Early first-person shooter (FPS) games let you amass quite the arsenal. Doom had 7 weapons — Doom II had 8; they added another shotgun — ranging in size from a pistol to the hefty BFG, which you never put down once you picked them up; the weapons alone likely would weigh 150-200 pounds, and the ammo for them (if you picked up the backpack and doubled the amount you could carry) would weigh as much again. And that says nothing about the size and encumbrance of carrying 7-8 guns.
The Turok franchise, likewise, has a lot of weapons (the first game had 14, the second had 26, the third got wonky because each character got a different set) which, again, you don’t ever put down once you pick them up. Some of them are pretty big. So call it 400-600 pounds of weaponry, plus ammo.
(I actually appreciate the Halo franchise for this: you can carry two weapons and a handful of grenades. If you want to pick something up, you have to drop something you have. It’s both more realistic AND makes you think tactically AND develop proficiency in a variety of weaponry, since you don’t know what will be available at any given point.)
If the prosecutor is using early FPS game logic, he/she might actually believe a single person can carry 120 firearms and 250,000 rounds of ammo, and still run, jump, duck, swim, and shoot effectively.
Personally, I’m not worried about the middle-aged man who owns 120 guns and 250,000 rounds of ammunition, collected over many years. If he wanted to start trouble, he would have done it a LONG time ago.
I always remember an anti-gun person automatically assumes every round of ammunition one possesses equates to one dead person. They can’t fathom things like practice or recreational shooting. Guns kills and therefore the amount of ammunition equates to death. A quarter-million rounds to them is a weapon of mass destruction waiting to be used on the order of a nuclear bomb.
Demonizing this man and his collection is simply SOP for prosecutors and the media these days as part of the lefts never ending war on the Second Amendment. Facts and reality be damned.