Twelve dead as trenchcoat-wearing gunman storms student night at country bar: Suspect kills himself after hurling smoke grenades onto dance floor and killing cop in California [More]First order of information gathering business: The Google News link for Borderline Bar and Grill can be accessed throughout the day and beyond for updates and breaking information.
My first impressions:
- The atrocity was committed in #1-with-gun-grabbers California. No "gun laws" will ever be considered enough, yet that's exactly what we're already hearing screams for.
- "May issue" generally means "won't issue," and in any case, the standard application prohibits concealed carry in "a place having a primary purpose of dispensing alcoholic beverages for on-site consumption."
- This is a country bar, like the Las Vegas killings were at a country event. Is it a mere coincidence that the "target demographic" has generally been predisposed toward a traditional American mindset?
- Seconds counted. The police were three minutes away.
- When we do get an ID on the perp, look for all his social media to go on lockdown beforehand or soon thereafter, meaning we will be dependent on what the "authorities" share with the DSM for all information.
UPDATES to follow:
- .45 handgun... at least no "AR-15," but handguns were the original goal, so look for a return to the roots. I won't be surprised to see a push to reclassify all semiauto handguns as "assault weapons," and the gun-grabbers have already telegraphed what they want to do then.
- Tattooed trenchcoat-wearing gunman ... Ian Long, 29,
- Coed.com helpfully (for Don Lemon) advises all he was "white," a courtesy that all too often seems unoffered in other cases.
- Former Marine with PTSD who was said to live with his mother...
- 5 Fast Facts
- Six off-duty, unarmed police officers from various agencies were at the bar when the shooting began...
- Another observation from looking at all the media profiles on the guy-- past practice says if he had been a "right wing extremist" we'd be having that rubbed in our faces by now. That everything I've been able to find is silent on his motivaters makes me wonder, since I find it hard to believe someone doesn't know what they were.
