Police Confiscated Weapon Later Used By Pentagon Shooter-Gun Politics or Moral Dilemma?

Is this even a big deal? Is it really a story at all?

What about the many weapons the police sold but were not used later in crimes? Well again it has nothing to do with the weapon. This is all a bunch of political hipe.

WASHINGTON Two guns used in high-profile shootings this year at the Pentagon and a Las Vegas courthouse both came from the same unlikely place: the police and court system of Memphis, Tenn.

Law enforcement officials told The Associated Press that both guns were once seized in criminal cases in Memphis. The officials described how the weapons made their separate ways from an evidence vault to gun dealers and to the shooters.

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Its as though these weapons have some sort of mystic karma becouse they were once used in a crime so the lawmen better destroy them.

As if its on par with letting a violent criminal out of jail to early or against the better judgment of case workers, only to have him act again.

Its (hypothetically) like selling Lizzy Bordens ax to a collector and then he goes off later. If only we had kept the ax in the museum the evil forces would have been kept at bay.

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Isn't it funny how they are seeming to imply that these inanimate objects somehow caused these shootings? Yes, I agree, totally a non-story, but in this age of gun control, seems right along with the agenda - or else, the writers had absolutely nothing else to do the day they wrote this.

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So if i buy a butchers knife from Wal-Mart and go stab 6 random people with it...should we start picketing Wal-Mart to stop carrying butcher knives?

Sometimes, freedom of speech goes too far. When speech is allowed to spread fear and stupidity, it should be squashed like a damn bug.

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Yes where is the moral dilemma here? Some sort of vague culpability?




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There was a day when something like this was seen for what it was. Any editor would have just killed the story. But no they are going to call the police a sort of gun runner.

I mean after all the effort that went into the guns for food ect and the public burning of large piles of guns ect. the libs were sure everybody had gotten the drift. But no. So they will rake these guys.