Nicole at the SeattleTimes, taking aim at gun laws.

It was inevitable, the blame game for the tragedy in Seattle that is. So far at least people aren't holding Kyle Huff blameless for his actions, but the anti-gunners are still hammering away at the guns being the bigger blame for all these deaths.

What killed those people was a 28-year-old man named Kyle Huff, who took advantage of American gun laws and packed his pickup with an arsenal of weapons that no person should ever want or need: An assault rifle. A handgun. A shotgun. A machete. Hundreds of rounds of ammunition.

What Nicole needs to explain is how does one take advantage of restrictive gun laws?

But what confounds me is why anyone should have such weapons, and so many.

Nicole is either an obvious victim of the shoddy education system in this country or she is part of that system of 'de-americanization'. The process of dumbing down americans in to thinking that gun rights never existed in the first place.
Let me spell it out for you Nicole. S-E-C-O-N-D A-M-E-N-D-M-E-N-T

On Saturday, Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske walked through that house before the bodies were removed. Afterward, he called Huff's shotgun "not for hunting purposes, but for hunting people."

The chief is obviously a product of that education system I was referring to earlier. Guns were never classified as either hunting weapons or killing weapons. They just were weapons. Tools to preserve liberty and freedom. The birthright of every American.

Kerlikowske said Monday. "Reasonable, common-sense gun laws are going to be an issue for a while.

Watch that 'common-sense' term become as widely used as 'judicial activism' was the last few years. What I want to know is whats 'common-sense' about leaving millions of american citizens defenseless? There is no such thing as 'common-sense' gun laws that leave people at the mercy of homicidal maniacs.

John Rosenthal has a plan. Last year, the Boston real-estate manager founded the American Hunters & Shooters Association (www.huntersandshooters.org), a nonprofit seeking "common sense gun-safety measures."

Rosenthal wants to represent the millions of American gun owners who act responsibly and expect the government to do the same, like restricting access to military-style weapons, and requiring training and permits, and tightening rules for gun-show sales.

John Rosenthal does not represent millions of american gun owners who act responsibly and expect the government to do the same. Rosenthal is a tool of the gun control lobby whose sole purpose is to abolish the second amendment.

Rosenthal said. "National gun policy has been to allow unrestricted access to all firearms, including assault weapons, which had been banned until last September."

Rosenthal seems to be purposefully ignoring the numerous gun control acts that the government has legislated, like the NFA of 1934, the FFA of 1938, or the GCA of 1968.
All of which, by supreme law of the land, are unconstitutional to begin with. But don't let real facts get in the way of Rosenthals false rhetoric, shall we?

Why would someone want to buy an assault rifle?

Pay attention Nicole, I'm sure this was bypassed in your education, but civilian owned weapons (that includes assault weapons) are necessary to preserve freedom and liberty. Unless thats something you'd like to go ahead and do away with?