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To: MarkL

Excellent! Thank you!

Wish Lou had mentioned 2 things:

The Aurora shooter had an AR-15 NOT an AK-47.
MOST of the dead and wounded were hit with BUCKSHOT FROM THE Remington 870 Pump-action SHOTGUN!!!

(he switched to the AR only after he emptied the shotgun)


13 posted on 07/26/2012 9:23:50 PM PDT by G Larry (I'm under no obligation to be a passive victim!)
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To: G Larry

12 gauge Shotgun is by far the most deadly in mass shootings. Can’t find it now, but saw a SOF magazine with a breakdown of lethality in spree shootings by weapon type.

Assault rifle was near the bottom. Handguns were far worse, and you don’t want to be there when someone unleashes a shotgun.

just for perspective, in WWI the Germans actually called the doughboys use of pump 12 gauges firing buckshot “inhumane”. They filed a diplomatic protest which we promptly ignored.

But yes, trench warfare, mustard gas, belt fed machine guns in the Somme, the Paris gun, shelling verdun till it was moonscape, unrestricted sinking of passenger ships by Germans, British use of a starvation blockaid against civilians, our digging caverns beneath a enemy and detonating hundreds of tons of explosive beneath them,,,all ok.

But they were horrified by a winchester 97.


15 posted on 07/26/2012 9:46:41 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: G Larry

The AK 7.62 is a nasty, nasty, bullet. But this Pyscho used a AR7 223.
The gun that did the most damage was the shot gun.... Hell they tried to outlaw for war.... If you got the stomach google shot gun wound images and see what a mess a shot gun does to a human.


16 posted on 07/26/2012 10:12:44 PM PDT by baddog 219
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