[lbo-talk] Jared Lee Loughner, the conservative/liberal axis and the mentally ill...

[Mark Bennett]

Also, please dispense with allegedly confused B.S.  I am very well
acquainted, professionally and socially, with a former AG  who argued death
penalty appeals for the State of California before the California Supreme
Court.  His greatest lament is that virtually every appellant who ended up
on the other side of the table had displayed multiple signs that he would
commit his ultimately atrocious crime before he did so.  I didn't really pay
much attention to him before I had to research a couple of LWOP cases for
habeas writs and found both the cases that he was referring to, and many
others that were far worse.  Many, if not most of these guys give numerous
warnings ahead of time that if they are not thwarted, they will do something
horrible.  Loughner is classic example. That this guy could just lay down
his money and buy a Glock 9 with no questions asked is ridiculous. The3 very
fact that is was a Glock, and not, say, a Sig Sauer, should have raised a
red flag - or so my contacts in the gun industry tell me.  There are hurdles
that can be passed: or has become a LBO a Second Amendment absolutist site
now?

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On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com>wrote:


> 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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