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To: neverdem
Officials said Voong entered the civic association armed with two heavy caliber automatic pistols -- a 9 mm and a .45 caliber handgun. He carried a bag filled with high capacity magazines, a survival knife and a flashlight, according to police.

I see the press just couldn't help themselves with hyperbole and lies. Just what is a "heavy caliber"? Why would you bring a bag of "high capacity" magazines? He killed 14 people plus himself. With two pistols containing standard magazines, there was sufficient capacity with standard mags to do that. As for "automatic pistols"...I doubt it. Semi-automatic. The lying press is doing everything possible to help the anti-gun politicians set the stage for another gun ban.

18 posted on 04/03/2009 3:19:31 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin
Current rewrite removed the reference to heavy caliber - guess they've been reading FR!

Officials said Voong entered the civic association armed with two pistols -- a 9 mm and a .45 caliber handgun. He carried a bag filled with high capacity magazines, a survival knife and a flashlight, according to police.

85 posted on 04/03/2009 4:27:51 PM PDT by HiJinx (~ Support Our Troops ~ www.AmericaSupportsYou.mil ~)
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To: Myrddin
I noticed that, too, and thought, "Heavy caliber? Huh?"

The only way to stop these multiple shootings is for the press to stop ululating on the news about these things. The more hyperventilating coverage these things get, the more likely that some other basket case will want to "go out with a bang" and earn some fame as well.

154 posted on 04/03/2009 7:10:13 PM PDT by ponygirl
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To: Myrddin

Don’t spread this around, but I heard from a reliable source that inside that bag, he also had tax cuts for the rich.


172 posted on 04/03/2009 9:14:40 PM PDT by Sender (It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
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To: Myrddin
With two pistols containing standard magazines, there was sufficient capacity with standard mags to do that

According to the source the total number of dead and wounded was 39. In all likelihood he missed on occasion, so standard magazines wouldn't have been enough.

179 posted on 04/03/2009 10:38:46 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: Myrddin

I learned years ago that if you want to know what really happened you have to find out for yourself. The press pretty much NEVER gets things right, most reporters are incompetent plus everything gets filtered through a left wing editing process. I dropped my newspaper subscription long ago and I pay little attention to television news other than occasionally watching the local news or the national news on Fox.
Anyone who still trusts the press needs to take one story at random and thoroughly investigate in an attempt not to debunk but to VERIFY the story. The results are usually quite eye opening.


198 posted on 04/04/2009 5:48:32 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Change has come to America and all hope is gone.)
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