This is the state of gun laws
God damn can this be true?
https://twitter.com/TonyNBC6/status/988214739611389952
Nashville mass killer used AR-15 seized by IL police after his arrest at White House while seeking to meet Trump. Father returned rifle and other guns to him before he killed in TN — and that’s not illegal. This is the state of gun laws in America 2018.
From the NBC News article:
Four people were killed and two others were injured when a semi-nude gunman opened fire at a Waffle House restaurant near Nashville, Tennessee, early Sunday, police said. The shooter remained at large Sunday afternoon, and authorities warned that he could still be armed.
Travis Reinking, 29, of Morton, Illinois, was being sought Sunday night on criminal homicide charges, police said. They said he was naked except for a green jacket when he got out of his car at about 3:23 a.m. (4:23 a.m. ET) Sunday and shot two people outside the restaurant with an AR-15 rifle, killing them both.
He then went inside the Waffle House and continued firing, killing two more people, police said. The victims were identified as: Taurean C. Sanderlin, 29, of Goodlettsville, an employee of the restaurant; Joe R. Perez, 20, of Nashville; DeEbony Groves, 21, of Gallatin, Tennessee; and Akilah Dasilva, 23, of Antioch, Tennessee; who was critically wounded and died at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
One more salient point: Travis Reinking is white. The victims were black. This was a white guy mass-murdering black people.
Don Aaron, a spokesman for Metro Nashville police, said federal and state authorities had run across Reinking before.
The Secret Service said Sunday afternoon that Reinking was arrested on July 7 and charged with unlawful entry “after crossing an exterior security barrier near the White House Complex.” The Secret Service’s Nashville Field Office and headquarters division were working closely with law enforcement involved in the shooting investigation, the statement added.
He had crossed a security barrier and he then refused to leave, so they arrested him.
After the incident, Illinois revoked Reinking’s license to carry firearms and seized four guns — including the AR-15 that was used in the Waffle House shooting — at the request of federal authorities, Aaron said at a news conference later Sunday.
But Illinois authorities then returned those firearms to Reinking’s father, who Aaron said admitted giving them back to his son.
So, yes, it’s true. This country is pathetic.
Perhaps then the father shares a portion of the guilt. Not legally, maybe, but certainly morally.
Am I the only one having a really hard time grouping the clauses in that sentence?
Well, Karellen, it could simply be that he did want to meet Trump, and didn’t have enough sense to realize he couldn’t bring his guns along.
Or he could think that Trump has failed in his promises…or something.
I don’t get the impression that he took guns with him when he tried to meet Trump.
From what I’ve read, this seems like a certainty. Apparently he sometimes took the guns away again when his son was behaving problematically (I forget the exact word he used, but it was something like that) then gave them back again. This is clearly someone he thought shouldn’t have guns – at least some of the time – but gave him them anyway.
You’re right, latsot, in that he didn’t have the gun at the White House; the Illinois police revoked his license and confiscated his guns after his arrest in D.C.
Karellen, I agree that that sentence is a confused jumble. It initially reads as though the killer was arrested and his gun seized at the WH after the shootings in Nashville.
AoS/K:
Most of the articles I’ve read are similarly ambiguous. This amazes me. It’s as though whether or not someone took rifles into the White House is a mere detail. And/or whether someone had guns who was patently unfit to have them. And/or that everyone is unfit to have guns unless they need them.
Speaking of guns, the NRA has just had it’s best single month for donations since 2003 thanks to a bunch of dead kids . So that’s….nice!
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43884698