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Islamic Terrorist Opens Fire on Florida Nightclub; 50 Killed, 53 Wounded

posted by takyon on Sunday June 12 2016, @06:00PM   

An Anonymous Coward writes:

A suspected Islamic terrorist opened fire at a gay nightclub in Florida, killing 50 people and wounding another 53 before he was killed by police. While authorities continue to investigate to determine whether this man had ties to ISIS, the terror organization has not been quiet in praising the attack. This comes three days after ISIS announced they would attack somewhere in Florida. Today's attack marks the largest act of terrorism on US soil since 9/11.

takyon: The gunman reportedly called 911 emergency services to pledge allegiance to ISIS. The President will hold a briefing momentarily. Compare this article to the original submission.

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Original Submission   Late submission by physicsmajor

• Re:Unfortunate, and Re:Unfortunate, and (Score: 2, Interesting) by nekomata on Monday June 13 2016, @02:05PM

  by nekomata (5432) on Monday June 13 2016, @02:05PM (#359358)

  Licensing. You have to register your weapons, you have to pass a test proving you know firearms safety and basic firearms law, and you can only buy ammunition that will work in a weapon you have registered.

  Sorry mate, not true. Getting a gun in Switzerland is absolutely freaking simple.

  1. Show you don't have any police record. Especially nothing drug or violence related (some other stuff might pass, idk)
  2. Take you clean police record and a form to the local police station
  3. They will, after some other checks (like if you have 100 speeding tickets or so) give you a WES (Waffen Erwerbs Schein, ~weapon purchase permit)

  With your WES you can now go and buy up to three guns. You however do not register the ownership of your gun! You only need to show you are allowed to buy it.

  No permit is needed for bolt-actions and the like (where you reload after every shot)
  Special permit is needed for: carrying (almost impossible to get), full-auto weapons (need to be a collector) and silencers (collector too? idk).

  So your assumtion that it has anything to do with HOW you get the guns here is wrong. I would personally assume it's a combination of culture and well-being. But I havn't given it that much tought since I can't compare the state here to the state in USA (never been there).

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• Re:Unfortunate, and (Score: 2) by gman003 on Monday June 13 2016, @06:44PM

  by gman003 (4155) on Monday June 13 2016, @06:44PM (#359510)

  I did not solely base my proposal on Swiss gun law. I used elements of it, such as the lack of/looser restrictions on certain types of weapon, as well as elements of Norwegian gun law and elements I thought would be necessary to adapt it to American culture and American legal doctrine.

  There is significant merit to the Swiss system (as evidenced by the facts), and I would be quite willing to incorporate more elements of it into this proposal. Or hell, even just adopting it outright would be better than the system we have now, even though it doesn't address problems like America's abnormally high gun-accident rate or gun-suicide rate.

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