State Police: All 26 Newtown victims shot with assault rifle

Connecticut Post ^ | January 24, 2013 | Neil Vigdor

[Uncle Chip]

Lt. J. Paul Vance, the face of an ongoing Connecticut State Police investigation into worst grade-school shooting in U.S. history, Thursday debunked media and Internet reports that Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza killed his victims with handguns and not the Bushmaster XM-15 E2S rifle that is now the focus of a proposed federal assault-weapons ban.

All 26 of Lanza's victims were shot with the .223-caliber semi-automatic rifle, said Vance, who bristled at claims to the contrary during an interview with Hearst Connecticut Newspapers.

"It's all these conspiracy theorists that are trying to mucky up the waters," said Vance, the longtime state police spokesman. Multiple Second Amendment and gun owner websites have attempted to cast doubts on whether the Bushmaster XM-15, a type of AR-15 rifle that is currently legal, was used in the Dec. 14 carnage done by Lanza.

Some have cited a Dec. 15 "Today" show video clip from the day after the shooting, in which NBC News Justice Department correspondent Pete Williams said that four handguns were recovered inside Sandy Hook Elementary School and that the Bushmaster rifle was found in the trunk of a car owned by Lanza's slain mother, Nancy Lanza.

"There's no doubt that the rifle was used solely to kill 26 people in that school," Vance said.

Twenty children ages 7 and under and six female educators were killed when Lanza forced his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School and sprayed the occupants with bullets before turning a gun on himself.

Vance said he made it abundantly clear during his media briefings since the tragedy that Lanza carried out the shooting with the Bushmaster.

"I personally articulated that probably a dozen times in Newtown," Vance said.

[justice14]

I agree.

[justice14]

—What amazes me is how consistently those who accept everything told to them about this massacre rush to label, condemn, and name-call those who do not. On the other side I see people posting links, explaining their views, and trying to show evidence for what they are finding to be suspicious - without namecalling and insults. —

Do some research. Each of their “claims” can be disproven in a matter of minutes. It just becomes a matter of who you believe. Like I said. You could show pics from the scene and they would find one body laying weird and trumpet that as proof. That is a sickness. Sorry. If you want to go about following that, go for it.

[little jeremiah]

You’re a leftist plant.

[Delta Dawn]

The title of this article could also be written:

All 26 Newtown victims shot by a mentally unstable person

I’m guessing that that may not fit somebody’s agenda.

[Jeff Winston]

You’re a leftist plant.

Um... no.

You're a loony.

[Boogieman]

You don’t need to be a hell of a shot to kill defenseless children with 3-11 shots each at point blank range.

[little jeremiah]

Yes indeed, everyone who doesn’t agree with you is a loony, kook, etc.

And that includes anyone who thinks there was massive election fraud or that 0moslem is not actually eligible to hold the office of President.

[Jeff Winston]

Yes indeed, everyone who doesn’t agree with you is a loony, kook, etc.

Only those who repeatedly maintain that stuff that's been debunked again and again and again is the gospel truth, and that stalk those who actually care about truth, rather than BS, across FR, falsely accusing us of being "trolls," "liberal plants," etc.

Although I must say, I regard it as a straight-out badge of honor to be stalked across FR by you, and one or two others. Thank you. Your actions affirm that I have made a positive difference.

[Jeff Winston]

I wouldn't go so far as to say this was a deliberate mission but I do think there are people in our Government ready to pounce on events like this to promote their agenda.

Now to this, Ron, I really couldn't agree more.

I would actually be surprised if there weren't people in our government who literally talked about such possible scenarios beforehand, and said, "Well, hang on. Let's just wait. Sooner or later we'll have some nutjob go off and shoot a whole bunch of people, so let's just get ready and wait for that, and when it happens, THEN we'll make our big push for gun control."

[little jeremiah]

I don’t stalk you, for one thing. My time is valuable and I would never heedlessly waste it by stalking anyone.

I am not making any position on this particular incident. I agree with Las Vegas Ron.

If by “those who repeatedly maintain that stuff that’s been debunked again and again and again is the gospel truth” you are referring to 0bastard’s eligibility issue, then you are definitely a troll.

[Jeff Winston]

All anyone has to do is go back and read past conversations to see that birther point after birther point was refuted, and yet you still keep repeating them.

[Jeff Winston]

Incidentally, if you agree with Las Vegas Ron on this particular incident, then on this, all three of us are in agreement.

[FreedomPoster]

I just posted a similar observation in another thread to Jim, right down to the Alex Jones comparison.

This stuff does not reflect well on FR.

[little jeremiah]

Using the “birther” term to denigrate those who don’t swallow the 0bama myth damns you right there.

Debunked?

Only in the minds of leftist idiots.

[Jeff Winston]

You started the conversation, unsolicited, by falsely accusing me of being a “leftist” and a “plant.”

You continued the conversation by falsely accusing me of being a “troll.” Now you’ve further insulted me by (falsely) calling me a “leftist idiot.”

And I can’t use the word “birthers” to refer to people who say Obama isn’t eligible by reason of his birth? Really?

Nice try. Thanks for further revealing the kind of person you are.

[ncpatriot]

I agree.
I listen to this guy on my XM radio at night - puts me to sleep.

he’s kinda replaced Coast to Coast

[iopscusa]

Jeff Winston’s BS has all the odour of lefty-fication. ....self righteous, fabulously cynical, verbose and ignorantly arrogant. Yep, he’s a well disguised troll.

[iopscusa]

You’re actually a lot worst than any conspiracy poster....you’re a BShit-ter Bully and a big bag full of BS. F-Off!

[Trailerpark Badass]

Apparently they are trying to trace them back to which magazine each came from.

How do you "trace" a cartridge case "back" to a magazine?

And what possible innvestigative purpose would that serve?

[Uncle Chip]

And what possible innvestigative purpose would that serve?

To give a whole bunch of state employees, who generally have nothing to do, something to do that will result in a 2000 page report, that no one will read, but will justify their paychecks.