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And How Many Bullets Do You Need?
American Thinker ^ | 04/20/2013 | Jim Yardley

Posted on 04/21/2013 6:42:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Last night, I watched the amateur home video of the shootout between Boston and Watertown police and the person referred to as "Suspect #1."

I learned that there were something on the order of 200 shots fired during that firefight.

Think about that for just a moment. It took a dozen or more cops, who are trained professionals, who practice on at least a weekly basis with their firearms, to fire 200 rounds before he finally died.

Yet our politicians (at least here in New York, and some in Washington -- as well as other places, I'm sure) are saying that the most anyone needs to have to protect himself from armed intruders is seven rounds in the magazine.

Only seven?!

Of course, it took trained police, who were not dealing with an unexpected attack, who were not roused from a peaceful slumber, who were not worried about their wives and kids, some 200 rounds to kill one dangerous man.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; bullets; guncontrol; secondamendment; youwillnotdisarmus
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To: SeekAndFind

A couple thousand per firearm, per year. Depends on what type of shooting I’m doing, how often i can make it to the range, and if i’m practicing for a competition.

Right now, prices are still outside of my budget and reloading components are scarce...

Not a happy camper.


61 posted on 04/21/2013 8:10:06 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: UCANSEE2

If those were not live rounds fired at the suspect/boat, I would suggest the volume of blank fire, or live fire off target, was “INTIMIDATION”, i.e. this is what you face if you resist.


62 posted on 04/21/2013 8:13:04 AM PDT by LZ_Bayonet ( I AM THE TEA PARTY LEADER !)
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To: Ajnin

The facts say otherwise.


63 posted on 04/21/2013 8:14:22 AM PDT by RKV (He who has the guns makes the rules)
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To: LibLieSlayer
The finest weapon in the world becomes nothing more than a hi-tech club when it fails to go bang.

I did jury duty on a murder trail many years ago. The 'hi-tech' club was used first. It was a Ruger in 9mm caliber. It left an imprint of the magazine on the victims skull. The impact released the full magazine, which was found at the scene. The perp then shot the victims once with the still chambered round. I said 'victims' because the bullet exited victim #1, who died, and struck victim #2 in his leg.

Finding witnesses was difficult, as all 100 or so patrons of the bar claimed to be in the phone booth at the time.

We the jury found him guilty of murder in the 2nd degree. He's a career criminal so is still in prison.

64 posted on 04/21/2013 8:15:40 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Don't assume Shahanshah Obama will allow another election.)
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To: LibLieSlayer
“A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.” — George Washington

Bogus and altered quote. Actual quote is from GW's first annual message to Congress, and referenced defense of the nation, not defense of the people against their own government.

"A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a Uniform and well digested plan is requisite: And their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories, as tend to render them independent others, for essential, particularly for military supplies."

http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents/union/state1.html

The cause of 2A is not well served by invented quotations.

65 posted on 04/21/2013 8:16:22 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: SeekAndFind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHPPYNYOy-I


66 posted on 04/21/2013 8:23:07 AM PDT by boknows
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To: SeekAndFind

If Joe Biden had been there, he’d have taken out that perp with a blast of his shotgun.


67 posted on 04/21/2013 8:28:58 AM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: mountainlion

You don’t know how many rounds you need until it’s over, and that’s assuming you have some left.


68 posted on 04/21/2013 8:29:41 AM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it)
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To: MV=PY

You don’t know how many rounds you need until it’s over, and that’s assuming you have some left.

Things could be over with your last round. Backup gun(s) would be a good idea. A gun could fail.


69 posted on 04/21/2013 8:36:09 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: null and void

Have you noticed the pictures are all Caucasian people?

If you look at the DOJ statistics they need to revise the pictures.


70 posted on 04/21/2013 8:36:49 AM PDT by OldMissileer
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To: OldMissileer
In all fairness, a couple of them could be Jews.
71 posted on 04/21/2013 8:39:08 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of oppression and Democrats use them. Gun confiscation enables tyranny.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The video feed from the scene of #2s capture shows the police firing uncontrollably with their supervisors yelling in the background to “cease fire, cease fire!”

The shots they fired were of apparently no effect and given that the suspect was in a readily observable small boat in a driveway.....amazingly so.......

The whole scenario makes the left’s gun control argument for “more than “XX” round magazines why would you need them???” look foolish.....

The police, at least in this particular spot looked very unprofessional.


72 posted on 04/21/2013 8:40:24 AM PDT by Forty-Niner (A Strong Man Armed who guards his home, lives in peace.)
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To: mountainlion
You don’t know how many rounds you need

I know I'll never need more than seven.

My betters told me so.

73 posted on 04/21/2013 8:40:36 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of oppression and Democrats use them. Gun confiscation enables tyranny.)
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To: csmusaret
And when they had the young one surrounded passed out in the boat just what were they shooting at, and why does the media call that an “exchange” of gunfire?

Any shots fired there were not intended to hit the terrorist. Whether he fired back or not is hard to tell from video and audio that has been made available to the public. Looking at where the boat was relative to LEOs, any one of them could have hit the terrorist in the boat without much effort.

It would have been logical to try to drain out his ammo supply and see if he was in any condition to be firing back by some well placed harassing fire.

74 posted on 04/21/2013 8:41:03 AM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: LibLieSlayer

Anyone know what the current US military bandoleer load is? a bandoleer is usually considered the typical load out for an individual soldier’s single day in combat....(could be multiple bandoleers in today’s rock n roll culture) In WWII the load out was 80 rounds...(ten 8 round en-bloc clips)


75 posted on 04/21/2013 8:48:32 AM PDT by Forty-Niner (A Strong Man Armed who guards his home, lives in peace.)
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To: mountainlion
"Things could be over with your last round. "

True. But I always try to plan for leftovers. ;-)

76 posted on 04/21/2013 8:50:40 AM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it)
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To: SeekAndFind

[[And How Many Bullets Do You Need?... It took a dozen or more cops, who are trained professionals, who practice on at least a weekly basis with their firearms, to fire 200 rounds before he finally died. ]]

Excellent aerticle- shoudl forward this to al lthsoe damn republicans that broguht the gun bill to the floor for a vote and tell them “You don’t get to tell us how many bullets we need- we get to decide that for ourselves as it’s an inalienable RIGHT to own firearms for self protection and if erven our trained officers are allowed, AND USE more than 7 rounds per clip and have to fire several hundred bullets at ONLY TWO PEOPLE- then you folksi n washington do NOT get to dictate to we citizens what we will need for self defense


77 posted on 04/21/2013 8:54:01 AM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: LibLieSlayer
More than a few bullet holes in that boat. Sorry


78 posted on 04/21/2013 9:10:49 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Free goodies for all -- Freedom for none.)
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To: null and void
http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk13/mr_speedvision/9CE06D06-B557-4323-A52A-EA8403448721-21611-0000062CCD5ED5D7.jpg
79 posted on 04/21/2013 9:15:04 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Free goodies for all -- Freedom for none.)
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To: null and void

80 posted on 04/21/2013 9:15:38 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Free goodies for all -- Freedom for none.)
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