Posted on 02/26/2018 1:34:23 PM PST by Kaslin
Talk about a facepalm moment. Is it the media’s stupidity or stacking sandbags because they know this National Rifle Association initiative could gain traction? You decide. The NRA wants more armed guards in schools. Teachers should be allowed to carry as well. After the tragic Sandy Hook shooting, the school board voted to approve this proposal. This is not an alien concept. A lot of schools have resource officers; Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the site of the most recent school shooting on February 14, had such officers. They failed to engage the shooter, Nikolas Cruz. Scores of teachers in Ohio are signing up for gun training courses to obtain their concealed carry permits. So, since the NRA is akin to ISIS in the minds of the liberal media, what do you do? Well, if you’re MSNBC, apparently it’s to make the argument that handguns aren’t effective in stopping shooters, who are armed with rifles, because the bullets from pistols are too slow. I will repeat that: handgun ammunition travels so slow that its ineffective at stopping someone armed with a rifle (via Daily Caller):
MSNBC anchors are claiming that teachers armed with handguns would be unable to stop a school shooter because rifles shoot “three times faster.”
Anchor Lawrence O’Donnell said on his show Thursday night that “a bullet fired from an AR-15 travels 3x faster than one from a handgun…and yet the president and the NRA think giving teachers guns will stop a school shooter.”
Lawrence: A bullet fired from an AR-15 travels 3x faster than one from a handgun.
And yet the president and the NRA think giving teachers guns will stop a school shooter https://t.co/heze69kRDU— MSNBC (@MSNBC) February 23, 2018
Yeah, there is a difference, but we’re talking tenths of a second here. Also, veteran J.R. Salzman seemed confused with this narrative: didn’t two Capitol Police officers stop a shooter from assassinating scores of Republicans in Alexandria as they were practicing for the annual congressional baseball game? Uh, yeah—they did. They confronted the shooter, they engaged him; he turned out to be a Bernie Sanders supporter, and they neutralized the threat. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) was almost killed in the attack.
Where did this BS narrative come from that you can’t stop a rifle with a handgun? When has that ever been a thing? Are people’s memories really so short they don’t remember Capital Police stopping a Bernie bro with an SKS shooting at congressman on a baseball field?— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) February 25, 2018
This is the reason why the media will always lose the Second Amendment fight. Millions of Americans own firearms. They know the caliber, they know its capabilities, and they also know what the proper terminology is (i.e. automatic vs. semiautomatic). I’m not talking super technical gunsmith jargon, just basic details about the gun. They know what they have and the media’s pervasive failure to learn what they’re talking about will never allow them to win over Americans they need to change the nature of gun politics. That’s because the alternative floated by the Left is straight up gun confiscation, evisceration of the Second Amendment, and the stripping of American civil rights. That’s also another reason why they’ll never win. We know their game. It’s this type of trash peddled by MSNBC that makes for great entertainment.
A big, slow .45 round will probably knock him on his @$$; a tiny fast .223 might leave him standing unless placement is perfect.
Are you trying to tell me the Matrix is fake???
A false utilitarian ideal.
http://www.saulmontes-bradley.com/the-gun-control-canard/
Great logical reference and great history posted by a great American.
poor odonnel has something growing inside his head, and it ain’t good.
I’m sorry but a .45 handgun round will stop the bad guy (within short ranges) better than a fast moving .223 any day of the week. .................................. Yrs ago I handled a case involving a shooting at a White Castle in Queens NY. The perp shot the victim 5x with a 1911 while the victim was waiting for his order. The victim lived!
Obviously someone dues not understand but hey lets use this to our advantage.
Lets are teachers with AR15s then. Just like they do in Israel.
My 80 year old father in law is quicker than Broward County Sheriffs.
I saw a post some where on Twat-er yesterday claim bullets went at the speed of 2,000 per hr!
Rabble rouser K. Major Prik!
This guy is even stupider than Beaver and Butthead. Does MSNBC go out of its way to hire morons?
and anyone that watches PMSNBC is also a idiot
How can anyone be this stupid?
On the other hand, Maxine Waters earned a BFA at UCLA. Geez......
I would be willing to test his theory. I’ll give him an AR and I’ll have my 1911.
Yeah, the bullets lose some punch in the traveling.
Better to do what they do in East St Louis,
and insert the bullets manually.
No, they line up around the block for applications!.................
If you are going to be dodging bullets, the caliber makes little difference at all. Better to get in all your dodging BEFORE the trigger is pulled.
Despite popular mythology to the contrary, NOBODY outruns the shot.
A .22LR slug, lodged in the right place in the human body, and probably has not exited, can maim, severely disable or even kill the target. A .45 merely makes a bigger hole, and usually the exit hole is larger than the entrance wound.
Well, here is the new teachers Pet. They’ll get 18 tries with each load. http://www.jgsales.com/-p-80090.html
Larry Larry Larry. A bullet from a handgun is faster than the BCSO. And a turtle is faster than you. What a moron.
They obviously never heard of Dirty Harry.
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