Coincidence?
“DEKALB, Ill. -AP- If there is such a thing as a profile of a mass murderer, Steven Kazmierczak didn't fit it: outstanding student, engaging, polite and industrious, with what looked like a bright future in the criminal justice field. And yet on Thursday, the 27-year-old Kazmierczak, armed with three handguns and a brand-new pump-action shotgun he had carried onto campus in a guitar case, stepped from behind a screen on the stage of a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University and opened fire on a geology class. He killed five students before committing suicide… Investigators learned that a week ago, on Feb. 9, Kazmierczak walked into a Champaign gun store and picked up two guns — the Remington shotgun and a Glock 9mm handgun. He bought the two other handguns at the same shop — a Hi-Point .380 on Dec. 30 and a Sig Sauer on Aug. 6… All four guns were bought legally from a federally licensed firearms dealer, said Thomas Ahern, a spokesman for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. At least one criminal background check was performed. Kazmierczak had no criminal record… A Green Bay, Wis.-based Internet gun dealer who sold a weapon to the Virginia Tech shooter last year said he also sold handgun accessories to Kazmierczak. "I'm still blown away by the coincidences," Eric Thompson said. "I'm shaking. I can't believe somebody would order from us again and do this." The rest of this article is at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080216/ap_on_re_us/niu_shooting_139Coincidence? Pulleeze… if Thompson managed a Chucky Cheese or the local bakery then perhaps I’d let him call this a “coincidence.” But, when the NRA and its sympathizers keep misapplying the 2nd Amendment to cover Demonic Urban Killers and reckless gun merchants like Thompson provide all the weapons these monsters ever need - how can we let them pretend the word “coincidence” fits these horrific tragedies?
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