Crazy Ed: "There's no excuse for any American to have a semi-automatic weapon"

Fox News Channel (no link) | 7/22/12 | Rendell

[pabianice]

Ed Rendell on Fox remarking on the Colorado shooting. The gunman had an "automatic assault weapon that fired a hundred rounds without reloading" and "he only stopped using it when it jammed" and "it was only the cowardice of Congress that allows these assault weapons to be available to the public."

Crazy Ed: just ranting the vote-losing idiocy that Liberals won't say for themselves before an election.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

Thanks, yes, shock absorbing technology has come a long way...hi tech or ‘Red Neck’ variety. And I understand that...though living in Ohio now, I was living in West Tennessee eighteen years ago, and it was a diehard variety.

[theBuckwheat]

A quick Wiki lookup can tell you in 0.6 seconds.

“In the months prior to the attacks, Harris and Klebold acquired two 9 mm firearms and two 12-gauge shotguns. A rifle and the two shotguns were bought by a friend named Robyn Anderson at the Tanner Gun Show in December 1998.[19] Through a friend named Robert Duran, Harris and Klebold later bought a handgun from an individual named Mark Manes for a sum of $500.

Using instructions acquired upon the Internet, Harris and Klebold constructed a total of 99 improvised explosive devices of various designs and sizes. They sawed the barrels and butts off their shotguns to make them easier to conceal.[4] The perpetrators committed numerous felony violations of state and federal law, including the National Firearms Act and the Gun Control Act of 1968, even before the massacre began.

During the shootings, Harris carried a 12-gauge Savage-Springfield 67H pump-action shotgun, which he discharged 25 times and a Hi-Point 995 Carbine 9 mm carbine with thirteen 10-round magazines, which was fired 96 times.
Klebold carried a 9 mm Intratec TEC-9 semi-automatic handgun manufactured by Navegar, Inc. with one 52-, one 32-, and one 28-round magazine and a 12 gauge Stevens 311D double-barreled sawed-off shotgun. Klebold’s primary weapon was the TEC-9 handgun, which was fired 55 times.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre

Exercise for the reader: which ones are so-called “assault weapons” according to the law? Extra points: how many firearms were modified to be illegal under existing law and making the possession of which a felony? Also: how many of the 99 improvised explosive devices were legal and how many were a felony to make, possess or use in a crime of violence?

[Misterioso]

I guess I missed your point. I thought the “few” weapons you referred to were the Glock, the Remington 870(?) and the AR-15 that were supposedly used in Aurora.

[theBuckwheat]

Of the weapons used in Aurora, only one was affected by the ban, and a “ban-compliant” version of the AR-15 would have had no features that would changed its lethality.

A ban on magazines above a certain a certain capacity might have reduced the number of rounds the murder was able to fire but only slightly.

In my opinion the gun-ban mindset is so pitiful because it willingly ignores that a ban on murder and assault had no effect. Politicians rail at this or that aspect of the Aurora massacre, but I haven’t seen a single liberal suggest we must now ban boobytrapping apartments in order to kill first responders and create a diversion.

Leftists have their own “assault weapon”— they are happy to use a horrible massacre of innocents to mount yet another assault on the Second Amendment.