>LAST EDITED ON Dec-31-12
>AT 11:10?AM (MST)
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>LAST EDITED ON Dec-31-12
>AT 11:08?AM (MST)
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> "assult weapons are the top
>choice of todays mass shooter
>because they're made for the
>task and they're available".
>
>NOT TRUE
>
>Since the VA tech incident, there
>have been 24 ?Mass Shooting?
>incidents- Of these:
>6 - of them, the weapon
>of choice was an assault
>rifle. These 6 incidents resulted
>in 69 deaths or 11.5
>deaths per incident. (some of
>these incidents also included handguns,
>but for this exercise, the
>deaths were listed under assault
>rifles)
>
>18 - of them the weapon
>of choice was a handgun,
>or a collection of handguns,
>shotguns, 22 rifles. These incidents
>resulted in 155 deaths or
>8.6 deaths per incident.
>
>Full Auto Weapons are not illegal,
>neither are sawed off shotguns,
>they are Class 3 weapons.
>To own or manufacture them
>you have to pass ATF
>background checks, pay $200 bucks
>and register them with NFA.
>
>
>Let's call a spade a spade,
>Black rifles are the sacrifical
>lamb that some people are
>willing to put on the
>chopping block, mainly because, it'll
>make everyone have a warm
>fuzzy that they did something,
>plus they are not as
>popular as other rifle, handgun
>types, and alot of people
>don't have them so it
>is OK to ax them.
>
>Banning them will not do 1
>thing to curb the senseles
>BS going on. So they
>can't have one, they'll just
>use a handgun, so what.
>To think otherwise is pure
>stupidity.
>I highly doubt any of these
>whack jobs are going to
>say " Well I ain't
>got no AR or AK
>so my plans of shooting
>a bunch of people then
>offing myself are out the
>door now".
So basically you are saying that, had the shooters been packing semi auto assault rifles they could have done far more damage.
Yeah.....that's what we're saying. Simple math.