totally agree audrey was really shocked when I heard that kinder eggs were illegal in America and this mad man could legally buy all the guns ammunition and armour he wanted

Criminals who break the law by killing people will not be stopped by laws against guns. This was a carefully planned and premeditated attack, and the killer would just as easily acquire illegal weapons in a similarly planned and premeditated fashion.

Regardless of whether he would have acquired the weapons anyway, the fact remains he should not have been able to get every weapon listed online.

@ Brian. I would say that you are half right, but my take on it would be that for as long as the US makes it hundreds of times cheaper to get access to weapons then it is to proper mental health services then this will continue to happen, gun, knife, stick or stone

@tracy – I very much doubt a former phd student would have ready connections to the criminal underworld required to purchase an illegal semi- automatic rifle, a gun completely unnecessary for home defence or hunting. And it’s quite probable that fatalities could at least be reduced if this type of weapon was not as available as it apparently is.

@ Tracy, you’re talking rubbish. Off you go and try and purchase that arsenal of guns and ammunition in Ireland or the UK. Let me know how you get on.

In excess of 500,000 legally held firearms in Switzerland yet it has a lower homicide rate than Ireland. The same is true of nations like Denmark and Norway.
The fact is the doctrine of prohibition, although popular, is ineffective, at best, as can be seen from the availability of illegal drugs in Ireland.

Those firearms held in Switzerland are of the hunting variety.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Switzerland

“Basically, the sale of automatic firearms, selective fire weapons and certain accessories such as sound suppressors (“silencers”) is forbidden (as is the sale of certain disabled automatic firearms which have been identified as easily restored to fully automatic capability). The purchase of such items is however legal with a special permit issued by cantonal police. The issuance of such a permit requires additional requirements to be met, e.g. the possession of a specific gun locker.”

This is clearly quite different to being able to purchase an AR15, body armour and tear gas canisters (what kind of hunting requires tear gas for God’s sake) over the internet.

Dont see a popcorn p0uch…..

190 million guns in circulation in the US. 10,000 gun related deaths a year. Legally entitled to own assault rifles. A weeney bit of a problem me thinks. It would seem that if your a bit down with yourself and society the thing to do is reach for your personal arsenal and obliterate as many of your peers as possible.

this is the outfit every1 will want for xmas

Media turning criminals into ”characters” is doing great damage in Ireland and elsewhere.

By credit card. Maybe we should outlaw credit cards

He used the majority of a government grant given to phd students for room, board and school essentials. I think it’s around 16-20,000 dollars.

Tracy please try real hard to understam

as I was saying,Tracy.glocks,semi auto’s,Uzi.. etc were not designed to shoot ducks and rabbits! there military weapons for killing people.I ask you,should these guns be available to public? y/n.

Bob you think what this guy has had bought us insane, you should take a look on YouTube at fpsRussia an American guy who puts on a Russian accent while testing out weapons he has bought in the US. In one episode he drove up to a McDonalds in an old cold war era tank, and has tested other heavy duty weaponry.

that quote sounds suspicously NRA-ish….

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Beccaria

Tell me, how many of these attacks have happened in Ireland or another major country where guns are illegal?

Meant this in an emphatic way.

Stupid phone… I meant empathetic