[Mikey_1962]

Drives me up the wall when I hear the LSM describe the AR15 as a High powered rifle arrrrrgggghhhh

[MrBambaLaMamba]

A massacre of children occurs in the middle of the area with most restrictive gun laws in the country and the communists demand more restrictive laws?

Assclowns All.

Better to build a wall around the entire northeast US to keep the crazy contained.

[El Cid]

I presume the implication was that the previous 'Assault Gun' bans were too loose - and, by golly, the next ban should ban everything over spit gun caliber...
I don't watch ABC, but I presume they must have been pitching some such drift...

[Sacajaweau]

Duh.....

[popdonnelly]

Wow, some segments of the news media are way off script. If they keep this up, they’ll be banned from the White House.

[ought-six]

The L.A. Times said the 1994 law, as written, would likely not have prevented the CT shooting. What they are, in fact, saying is that the 1994 law was NOT STRONG ENOUGH! They want a new bill that is stronger and more restrictive than the 1994 bill!

[jmcenanly]

Criminals, by definition, do not obey laws. He might, however, pay heed to the laws of probability.In a gun-free zone, a shooter would know that he would be the only one with a gun there. In an area where guns are allowed, he cannot be so certain.

[RWB Patriot]

Who wants to bet this will be taken more as a “The ban didn’t go far enough” rather than a “the ban was pointless”.

[plain talk]

... also the key thing our side must do is slow down the process. Obama wants to seize the hysteria and momentum and ram something through. Slow it down to take months or maybe years and let them talk themselves to death and burn out.

[Snowy]

I seem to remember that the early reports stated that the AR was found in the back seat of the car, implying that it was never used. What’s the story with that?

[Toespi]

I was under the impression that the Bushmaster was in the trunk of the shooters car, now it is the weapon used. Does anyone know when they changed the story? Was it the actual weapon used or has it become the weapon to justify the ban on assault guns?

[norton]

Lanza's primary weapon, the Bushmaster .223 rifle, is a type of AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, certain models of which were prohibited from being sold under the ban, but the Bushmaster model used by Lanza was not on that list.

So far I've seen nothing confirming that the Bushmaster was even carried into the school, it's variously been "in the trunk of his car", "also taken", or similar; did I miss something critical to this debate?

[Travis McGee]

[Sunshine Sister]

It’s my understanding that the rifle used in the mass shootings in CT was legal under the state’s gun ban law.

[Darren McCarty]

Doesn’t Connecticut have an AWB?

[xzins]

M-16s and AK-47s are assault weapons.

An AR15 is not.

There isn’t one army in the world that would even consider using it. There isn’t a police department in the entire nation that uses it.

It fires only one round at a time. The round is lethal, of course, but so is a .22 pistol when the target is a 5 year old.

[Lmo56]

A friend of mine owns a gun shop and is a gunsmith - so he has a lot of metal working tools. He also sells guns with the “bullet button” on them.

We were talking about the “bullet button” the other night and went to his shop where he fashioned a “bullet button extractor” in about an hour.

It clips to the rifle, is spring-loaded, and can be operated with one finger. When you want to change the clip, you pull the slide with one finger while holding the mag in order to release the mag, and then release the slide [the spring returns it to the original position.

If you have guerilla-taped the mag, you then flip it over and snap the new one into place.

Takes about 1/2 second longer than with a non bullet-buttoned gun [we tested it].

Basically no difference - costs about $15 in parts and an hour to make ...

[MacMattico]

More then 20 children could have been killed with a machete type knife at this very same school on this very same day. And no one would have had the ability to stop him until the police showed up. I'm also sick of hearing how a security guard could have prevented all of this. No, if you have one security guard he becomes target number one. Also, the shooter broke a window to get in, a “buzzer and sign in” system isn't going to stop anything, yet our local schools continue to do this and think all is fine. The day after the murders my husband brought my daughters sneakers to school, she had forgotten them. She's at a new school this year. He did not know the secretary that let him in, pushed the buzzer and said I have sneakers for so and so. Door pops open. Of course two feet away was the life size fire classroom escape window, not hard to get in and banning one type of gun will stop nothing.

[oyez]

If Lanza didn't have access to firearms he have found another deadly device to let loose.

[Gritty]

If the extreme of the total disarming of the civilian population works, how do you explain the 40,000+ murders a year in Mexico?

Almost "nobody" owns guns in Mexico (legally). Somehow, mass murder and mayhem of innocents are off the charts!