Originally Posted by rum dick
It absolutely does. Personally, it matters to me as I have weapons, and I don't wish for ignorant laws to be put in place based on misinformation and fear. The media loves bringing the AR-15 "assault rifle" into the spotlight before the bodies are even cold. Damn right im going to correct it
1) he didn't use an assault rifle. The media loves saying this term. Hell, im pretty sure they made it up. Assault rifles have been banned in this country for YEARS. Pretty much why the assault weapons ban from 1993 - 2004 did absolutely nothing to curtail assault weapons...because there wasn't much of any - hence it expired without being renewed.
Simply put, an assault rifle is capable of selective fire ( semi auto, 3 round burst and/or full auto). An AR is not an assault rifle, nor was the weapon that the shooters used. Notice I said SHOOTERS, which ill get to in a minute.
Anyway, everyone of course thinks the AR is some big scary weapon, when believe it or not, it is actually relatively low powered. Yes, it is semi auto and you can shoot 1 round for every trigger pull, but thats the same thing you can do with many rifles and handguns these days - and many of those models are much higher powered than an AR. Many areas don't even allow the AR-15 for deer hunting or other game (only small game), because it would take several rounds to put down an animal humanely.
Now on to talk about what actually happened there. Of course this is only my opinion, but something smells very fishy as far as the timeline of events as well as how many rounds this guy supposedly fired. Im not much of a conspiracy guy at all and normally roll my eyes at the stuff, but this situation smells bad.
So let me see if i have this right: A shooter walks into the nightclub and shoots 103 people in under 7 minutes at 2 am. Most of the people hit were shot with multiple rounds, there were reports of several dozen rounds fired in the air and dozens of rounds missing....
Three hours LATER, he engages in a gunfight with 9 officers...this supposedly lasts nearly an hour...
so lets add this up: One shooter in under 7 minutes reloaded his weapon 30 times with 30 rd mags, fires 1000 rounds of .223, takes a 3 hour break, and then engages in a gun battle with police lasting nearly an hour, of which the swat team described as a "hail of bullets"?
Many people don't realize how heavy 30 magazines are fully loaded...plus you're carrying the weapon and any other "tools". I would venture to say that 30 mags alone were over 40 lbs, oh and i forgot this guy fired MORE rounds in the gun battle with police that lasted an hour. The numbers just don't add up. What was this guy doing, carrying a 40+ lb ammo can and reloading his weapon with one hand!? And there is no tactical vest that I know of that will comfortably fit 30 magazines plus everything else.
No no no, im not buying it. There were at least 2 shooters and quite possibly even 3, and they escaped. Why is the media and police not mentioning this? who knows, maybe they don't want to scare the public or scare them away.
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