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Edited by Frnksnbns:
3/28/2013 9:15:48 PM
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"More killers choose Bushmaster"
Here's the final score from the info released today concerning Adam Lanza from a great LA Times article:
154 shots of .223 fired from Bushmaster AR-15 at Sandy Hook Elementary from unspecified quantity of magazines.
Found on Lanza's person:
3x30 round magazines (all full) of .223 ammo
14 rounds in magazine left in Bushmaster
1 round in chamber of Bushmaster
Glock 10mm
Sig Sauer 9mm
12 gauge shotgun found in car
Found at home:
1,400+ rounds of ammo
gun safe was found *unlocked with no sign of being broken into*
Lanza's mom bought all "guns used in shootings"
various other weapons, destroyed hard drive
NRA "certificates" for both Adam and mom
[b]Holiday card from mom to Adam with a check to buy another gun[/b]
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The amazing thing is that he could have fired off at least 105 more .223 rounds and an untold number of pistol rounds before he killed himself.
I know that overall, assault rifles account for a very small number of total gun homicide deaths, but is that really an excuse to let this kind of stuff continue? I mean, it's ridiculous to allow people access to 30 round magazines, unlimited ammo, and military style rifles.
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16 RepliesEdited by FoMan123: 3/28/2013 9:43:13 PM[quote]I know that overall, assault rifles account for a very small number of total gun homicide deaths, but is that really an excuse to let this kind of stuff continue? [/quote]Amusing that you accuse Recon of making a straw man argument when you blatantly did the same thing right here. Nobody has said "we should continue to be allowed to have 30 round magazines, unlimited ammunition, and military-style rifles because assault rifles account for a very small number of total gun deaths." What people have said -- completely accurately -- is that these elements of firearms have nothing to do with the lethality of a gun or its desirability to criminals, and the proof of that is the nearly unanimous UNpopularity of assault-style rifles in gun crimes in the U.S. Please don't be a hypocrite. I think your opinion, like most people in favor of these silly gun control measures, rests on nothing more than your last sentence -- you think it's ridiculous, but you can't really say why.
