Pittsburgh area fitness center massacre Part 2

http://www.postgazette.com/

Today's Post-Gazette, with bios of the victims.

The story deserves a thread. Apologies for my role in getting the other one locked.

 

Truly a very sad story.
My thoughts are with the victims and their families.

As for the spineless coward that did the shooting, may he rot in hell.

 

Here are the stories about the three victims:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09218/988990-455.stm

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09218/988993-455.stm

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09218/988991-455.stm

 

Online gun dealer from Green Bay, who was linked to the VT and NIU shootings, also linked to this one:

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20090807/GPG0101/908070560/1978

"This tragedy underscores the need for people to protect themselves and not rely only on police."

Yes, because I should always bring my glock with me to spin class.

 

This passage stuck out to me:

Thompson said the company sold Sodini a Glock Magloader and a Glock Factory Magazine for $46 in April 2008. WXPI, Channel 11, in Pittsburgh first reported that a receipt of the purchase also included a 9 mm Glock pistol. Thompson said the company did not sell Sodini a gun.

And now I just realized that a Magloader is not necessarily a gun, so I guess Thompson wasn't lying about not selling him a gun.

Also, would he take pride in having sold the shooter a weapon if one of the intended victims had cut him down with a weapon purchased from TGSCOM? "There are a lot of bad people out there, and we sold 'em their guns," he might have said, "so you need to buy one from us, too."

I'll never understand the fascination with guns, notwithstanding the Second Amendment.

 

Biting humor (in a very good way).

 

You play a role in getting a thread locked? I'm shocked, shocked I say....... :

And it is too bad guns are legal because if they weren't this guy could have just used some sort of a pipe bomb made out of perfectly legal materials and killed a lot more people a helluva lot quicker....

Can we ever just hold a person who is a whackjob responsible for these incidents and stop blaming an object that can't hurt a soul unless some looney tune picks it up and fires it?

 

No, we can't.

And I don't quite have your talent for shitting all over threads, but I have my moments.

 

Just ban the guns, please.

Just do it.

 

Just read Dan Savage's piece on the "Pick Up Artist" culture and this dude:

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/08/06/george-sodini-had-steel-balls

Two passages that stood out to me:

 

That is creepy.

 

So the wackjob has bitterness toward women in his life and kills a bunch of women he doesn't know and have nothing to do with his issues?

Yeah, that really makes sense.

I feel so much for the victims' families.

Just ban the guns.

Please.