> Mark Bennett writes:
>
> The real scandal, that the Right has been at pains to whitewash,
>> is that a man as obviously unbalanced as Loughner could just walk
>> into a gun store, fork over his money, and walk around with a 9mm
>> Glock with two 30 round magazines.
>>
>
> I'm curious how (ok, also: why) a clerk is supposed to become the judge of
> this, savior of society. It's obvious to you that he was unbalanced --
> after he snapped, sure -- but beforehand? What about all the other clerks
> he encountered: the 7-11, the Wal*Mart, even his cab driver. What about the
> cop who pulled him over for running a red light and released him without a
> ticket? Hell, that's never happened to me!
>
> These people are supposed to recognize homicidal instability?
>
> Through a single interaction?
>
> Hmmm.
>
> I'll call this: buck passing.
>
> /jordan
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Buckpassing by whom? The retail clerk who sold Loughner the Glock? Of course not. But a culture that believes it is the inalienable right of any person to possess a fireman of the lethality of Glock 9 with 30 round mags is off its collective head. Far more off its its head than the authors of LPS, or, as Michael Savage has been raving for the past week, anyone who has experiment with Saliva.