Navy Yard shooting: What we know and don't know

[chaya]

The one question we all desperately want answered may have gone to the grave with Aaron Alexis: Why

Comments

[tadashee]

I don't understand the weapons thing though. You're just allowed to walk in with 3 guns?

Also he shot the tires in 2004, but he was allowed to buy more guns after that?

[hammersxstrings]

he also was arrested (or at least taken into custody) in 2010, from what i understood, for discharging a weapon when he was being evicted.

i mean, it is Texas, so...i've heard their gun laws aren't exactly strict...

[chaya]

He did not walk in. He drove in.

[tinylegacies]

But he walked in to the building past the armed guards. I assume that's what the commenter was referring to.

[skellington1]

Yeaaaah -- it says "The incident will certainly rev up the often explosive debate over gun control. But initial reports show Alexis obtained his primary weapon legally" but to me, the 'but' shouldn't be in that sentence. If someone has a history of firing weapons in anger and they can still own/obtain weapons legally, that is *exactly* the problem!

[teacoat]

I was going to say the exact same thing.

[layweed]

Haven't a lot of these incidents involved legally obtained weapons?

[skellington1]

Yup. Lots of 'em, iirc.

[moonshaz]

Most of 'em, if I'm not mistaken.

[rhysande]

Couldn't agree more.