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ABC News: ‘Unlikely’ Assault Weapons Ban Would Have Stopped Sandy Hook
breitbart.com ^ | 12/19/12 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 12/19/2012 3:45:49 PM PST by ColdOne

Today, ABC News finally reported the blindingly obvious fact that Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s beloved assault weapons ban – a piece of legislation now favored by President Obama – would not have prevented the Sandy Hook shootings. Here’s what they said:

Could a Ban Have Prevented the Connecticut Shootings?

It's impossible to say for sure, but it seems unlikely that if the law were still in place, as it was written, it could have done much to prevent Friday's tragedy. Lanza's primary weapon, the Bushmaster .223 rifle, is a type of AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, certain models of which were prohibited from being sold under the ban, but the Bushmaster model used by Lanza was not on that list.

Additionally, the language in the law was loose enough that a gun enthusiast who was interested in adding a type of AR-15 to their collection could have purchased one legally.

In fact, ABC News even admitted that the assault weapons ban passed by Congress in 1994 didn’t work in the first place:

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: 2012; ar15; awb; banglist; bushmaster; gunfreezone; lanza; newtown; sandyhook
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To: ColdOne
If Lanza didn't have access to firearms he have found another deadly device to let loose.
61 posted on 12/20/2012 12:33:12 AM PST by oyez (Hell must be a Gun Free Zone.)
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To: Yo-Yo

States Rights Issue? Not if it Violates the Federal Constitution.

By your logic, a State could invalidate Free Speech. How about California outlawing Free Republic, you up for that?

Shall not be infringed, NOT “may” not be infringed by a Blue State run by Commie Bastards.

And yes, I am fully aware that the United States of America is currently run by Commie Bastards.


62 posted on 12/20/2012 1:08:39 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (They Live, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses...)
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To: sirchtruth
Stop making stupidass comments and answer the question, if the guy had a knife how many would have died?

If he locked himself in a classroom he could have killed quite a few. That dude in China stabbed over twenty kids. Don't know if any died though.

A gallon of gas and a lighter and you can kill a bunch of people. Mass murderers will find a way.

63 posted on 12/20/2012 5:27:53 AM PST by USAF80
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To: ColdOne
If the extreme of the total disarming of the civilian population works, how do you explain the 40,000+ murders a year in Mexico?

Almost "nobody" owns guns in Mexico (legally). Somehow, mass murder and mayhem of innocents are off the charts!

64 posted on 12/20/2012 8:22:09 AM PST by Gritty (If any of the Western world is to survive, it has to find a way to turn around, to go back-Mk Steyn)
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To: sirchtruth

Crickets?


65 posted on 12/20/2012 8:46:58 AM PST by Eaker (Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” — Robert A. Heinlein.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

did you see Gretchen Carlson again harping on about guns?

As a mother do we want to see men in the schools with guns, er guns have bene around for hundreds of years with kids.Or having teachers with guns.

Maybe if she stopped drying her boy at aged 7 and giving him a bath and have him grow up a little and stop moaing about easy bake overns for her boy then perharps the kid will be ready for the world .

The other guy came up with a great response, he mentioned out in WA where the shooter shot two people , gun jammed and a shopper wiht a gun pointed it at the shooter and then the shooter quickly shot himself.


66 posted on 12/20/2012 8:53:01 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: manc

Even Megyn Kelly, who I used to adore, is going off the deep end with this gun control nonsense. I get how she is reacting emotionally to this since she has children but good God its a shame seeing some on Fox News going off the deep end like that and sounding like leftists


67 posted on 12/20/2012 10:41:20 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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