“I want an explanation on why someone can buy 6,000 rounds of ammunition on an Internet without any oversight whatsoever,” she said. “Why is there no basis of giving notice?
“If they’d given notice to the local police, maybe someone would have knocked on the door and found out what was going on,” she said. “We can find a way to come together. This is not rocket science to determine why you’re getting 6,000 rounds.”
Lets pretend that the police
had been notified of this mans ammo purchases, and lets pretend they
had knocked on the door to "find out what was going on."
What difference would it have made?
He had
no criminal record. There is
no law against buying ammo, either online or in person. He would have been under
no legal obligation to speak with the police at all, and I highly doubt that he would have confessed his intentions ahead of time. If we assume a rate of one casualty per bullet fired, then he bought 6,000 rounds and only used about 80 of them. The other 5,920 rounds are pretty much irrelevant. I personally have about 4,000 rounds of ammo in my safe, I dont see what the big deal is about 6K. I stock up when its on sale.
What I am interested in hearing....is in whether or not this mans friends, associates or family members had any concerns about his mental health, and what resources, if any, were available to address those concerns. Take his guns and ammo away, and he could have simply rented a Uhaul truck and filled it up with diesel fuel and ammonium nitrate (ala Timothy McVeigh) and killed a
lot more people for about the same $$ as he spent on his guns and ammo.
