[Cooltouch]

Those same hunters, armed with bolt guns, one must presume, would be no match for an AR-15 or Mini-14, either. They're just as deadly, if not more so, than a lousy SKS.

Man, I hate this crap. The anti-gunners are gonna gin up their rhetoric for the next several months over those evil, dastardly pretender-to-be assault weapons. You just wait -- real soon now, some gun-grabbing glory mongering politician's gonna call a news conference to show what effect an SKS has on a watermelon and the MSM will go gaga.

Time for us to hang tough on this one.

[Smokin' Joe]

If more than one hunter had been armed at the time, it might have been a different story. IMHO, one man with a scoped 30.06 and three hundred yards separation can take the guy with the SKS, 99 times out of 100. his guy picked off the crew thwt cwme to help the first two he shot, and there was only one rifle among the hunters at the scene. He got the drop on them, and proceeded to massacre unarmed people.

[elcid1970]

Sir, I resemble that remark about the lousy SKS. Criticize the 7.62 x 39 round, but not the weapon. And remember that Ruger offers its classic Mini-14 in the same caliber as the SKS. In any case, it wasn't the gun, but the human slime clutching it, that caused this atrocity