I'm surprised that wasn't on the stupidest criminals list... :o)

>Funny you should mention nobody attempting to shootup a cop bar. There were two unlucky guys, several years ago, who thought they would just rob someone on a motel parking lot, in Jackson ,MS. Timing is everything, huh. It just so happened, there was a cop pistol shooting competition going on that weekend and the "victims" just happened to be a couple of competitors. . . Cops 2 Criminals 0....
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>>>>In his case, he was kicked out of college and told not to come back until he had a psychiatrist's evaluation. There were other warning signs too.
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>>>Such as, owning a 33-round magazine for a Glock pistol? :-/
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>>>The Canadian handgun magazine capacity limit is 10 rounds: http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cfp-pcaf/faq/index-eng.htm#a6
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>>As much as people get hung up on "assault weapons", magazine sizes etc. a gym bag with three glocks with 10 rounds each pretty much gets around that. And it takes about 2 seconds to swap a mag in a Glock even if you're not very good at it. It would also require confiscating all the high capacity mags currently out there and somehow preventing the taping together two mags for a quick flip as anybody who played run-through-the-jungle in the old days can tell you can pretty much compensate for limited capicity in the currently locked clip. (in a should weapon like an AK)
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>> Ammo restrictions are more feasible - especially teflon loads meant to pierce kevlar.
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>>Pre-emptive identification of the nut-cases (who are seldom shy about letting their freak flag fly) seems a more realistic approach than trying to child-proof the world keep everyone away from sharp objects.
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>>(also wouldn't hurt to have more good-guys prepared to intervene when a nut-job shows up assuming he's the only one armed and dangerous in the zone. Cops make a lot of enemies, but you don't see a lot of people going in to shoot up cop bars. I'd bet if that had been an NRA rally he would not have got that many shots off... or been taken alive.)