We've had what's wrong with the kids, now what's wrong with the seniors?

[BehindBlueI's]

So, a 72 year old takes a "small-bore shotgun" and bumps off a few others in his age bracket. Not to make light of the tragedy, but how many people shot does it take to be a "spree"?Florida gunman goes on deadly shooting spree before taking own life - CBS News

 

[Mgderf]

I'll say it again,


...and people want to know why I want to carry a gun.

 

[Dirtebiker]

Well, if two killed can be a few, then four shot can be a spree!

 

[SSGSAD]

I'll say it again,


...and people want to know why I want to carry a gun.

AT WORK !!!!!

 

[Mgderf]

AT WORK !!!!!

I do carry at work, but then, I work for myself. One of the few perks of self-employment.

 

[GunSlinger]

Seniors have very little if anything to lose. He's not going to care if he's sentenced to life in prison or given a death sentence...at 72 he already likely outlived the average life span.

Cross a senior and standby, you may be in for real trouble.

 

[Bandsaw]

Seniors have very little if anything to lose. He's not going to care if he's sentenced to life in prison or given a death sentence...at 72 he already likely outlived the average life span.

Cross a senior and standby, you may be in for real trouble.

Life's over at 72? You know a different breed of men than I do. I know a few who are old at 45, and others who are just hitting their stride at 70.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Seniors have very little if anything to lose. He's not going to care if he's sentenced to life in prison or given a death sentence...at 72 he already likely outlived the average life span.

Cross a senior and standby, you may be in for real trouble.

I'm figuring you may think a bit differently when you're 72. I'm not thinking many folks are wanting to spend their twilight years in prison.

 

[GunSlinger]

I'm figuring you may think a bit differently when you're 72. I'm not thinking many folks are wanting to spend their twilight years in prison.

To quote Roy Batty in the final scene of Blade Runner "I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe...Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion". "I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate". "All those... moments... will be lost in time, like tears... in the rain. Time... to die..."

BBI, I guess all I'm trying to say is this. If the offense is egregious enough, and the perp is truly a bane to human existence, and the time leading into the 'twilight' years has been well spent living life fully, then the senior may have no qualms spending what time they have left with restricted freedoms and three hots and a cot.

I would not screw around with a 'seasoned citizen'.

 

[Robin Hood]

Two things:
1. Average man's life span is about 76
2. Max Frost

 

[92ThoStro]

According to my criminal justice C101 textbook, a spree is killings that occur.in two or more locations with almost no time break between murders.

While mass murder is 4 or more at a single time in a single place.

And serial killers, kill people over time during 3 or more separate events.

It also says that firearms were used in 67.1% of all murders in 2009, and handguns outnumbered shotguns by 15:1 in rhose murders. And rifles used almost as often as shotguns. 13% for knives, and the remaining for poison, explosives, blunt objects, and beatings.

Right now I am taking cultural awareness in criminal justice. I get to learn about being sensitive and the problems with racial profiling, and what states have the most minorities. Woohoo!

 

[Redtbird]

I once read, "If a senior is too old to fight, he'll just shoot you!"

I'm 66. One of these days I hope to be a Senior!

 

[hopper68]

Was he forced to take early retirement??

 

[GunSlinger]

I once read, "If a senior is too old to fight, he'll just shoot you!"

I'm 66. One of these days I hope to be a Senior!

Truer words were never spoken!

 

[churchmouse]

I'm figuring you may think a bit differently when you're 72. I'm not thinking many folks are wanting to spend their twilight years in prison.

True^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I just want to see "72"

 

[littletommy]

I've had one of those really aggravating days, I'm on beer number 6......I would think that would be a beer drinking spree, and mass beer killing all rolled into one.

 

[Slawburger]

I've had one of those really aggravating days, I'm on beer number 6......I would think that would be a beer drinking spree, and mass beer killing all rolled into one.

If you have done it twice before in your life then you are a serial beer killer.

 

[churchmouse]

If you have done it twice before in your life then you are a serial beer killer.

I am....I am a serial beer killer. Cant be today....no Sunday beer..............

 

[Fullmag]

If you have done it twice before in your life then you are a serial beer killer.

Did I just become involved by being a witness to a beer killing? What is the statistics for that?

 

[eric001]

Maybe the guy just wanted to sidestep the whole Obamacare issue? Free medical care, no worries about retirement funds running out while bills pile up, and a chance to catch up on all that reading he never got around to doing--what a deal!!

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